XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Epic Games, Unity, and others are facilitating the rise of serious gaming technologies. Additionally, motion capture (mocap) systems from Sony and Vicon will deepen realism for content creators developing characters.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell. YouTube star Vsauce3 (aka Jake Roper). A special announcement from Ricoh.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell. YouTube star Vsauce3 (aka Jake Roper). A special announcement from Ricoh.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has just released RIGEL, a professional solution to do motion capture using off-the-shelf hardware. And it will also be awesome for its players. Register now.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. For the Matrix trilogy it was important the use of computer vision, immersive photography, volumetric capture , the first markerless motion capture, to create frame by frame models of the performances… and today all these techniques are prolific in virtual reality and mixed reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 3, 2023

Flipside XR, a virtual reality (VR) production company, announced on Thursday that it had launched its novel studio app. Its Flipside Studio solution will empower content creators to create engaging videos via real-time motion capture (mocap) and production tools.

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Peter Graham

JULY 30, 2019

There are a number of videogame engines designed to help facilitate virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) development. While you may not really pay attention (or care) about some of the logos at the start of titles, one that crops up quite a lot is Unity. As with any release of this kind Unity 2019.2

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?).

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

It addressed how a company can leverage haptic technology across all their virtual training scenarios thanks to Interhaptics and Innoactive technologies. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. It was also very highly recommended by the users. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

“When is this mixed reality future going to happen? The glove is capable of intricate motion capture, including for use in XR applications. Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. StretchSense.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

As extended reality experiences continue to gain popularity in virtually every industry, solutions are constantly emerging to help developers and companies design their own immersive experiences. They can help record and edit motion captured for games, entertainment experiences, and other software solutions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Latest Manus News Spectre XR The Spectre XR company focuses on the development and design of VR games and apps, as well as fully immersive AR and Mixed Reality experiences for a host of business needs. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. Make Hollywood-quality animations at low-budget prices with this motion capture suit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Ultraleap Gemini hand-tracking platform works in both Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions, allowing for more immersive, interactive, and realistic experiences. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. What can make it become the mirror of the real world.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Virtual reality, in other words, and/or maybe “mixed reality,” which combines our real world with virtual artifacts. Jaron Lanier demo’d the first real VR headset and motion capture wearable, the EyePhone and DataGlove, more than thirty years ago. I can see your eyes rolling already.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 12, 2020

The startup’s Persona product which launched last year bundles both its software and motion capture hardware rig. Cubic Motion’s technology has been used in recent blockbuster gaming titles like Sony Interactive Entertainment’s God of War and Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Some of the features that Apple is touting include better motion capture, improvements to camera access, and additional locations for Location Anchors. Unity AR Foundation is a helpful framework for cross-platform augmented reality app development.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In July we reported news that Kickstarter project Veeso was aiming to be the first to market with a mobile VR headset that tracks your face’s movement; a system that uses head-mounted infrared cameras to track both your eyes and mouth for a greater sense of presence in virtual reality.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. Mr. Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 20- Renji Bijoy. 23- Kathryn Yu.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

Kindly view the music video with a smartphone or virtual reality (VR) headset. XR Today: We’ve seen artists like Fatboy Slim, VNCCII, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and others connect to their audiences using gaming engines like Unreal and Unity. XR Today: How does it feel to create this video for Avenged Sevenfold?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I’m currently doing my honours, researching the feasibility of VR and haptics for midwifery training, using Deakin’s upcoming Virtual Reality Lab. I’ll also be building fun demos for their CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) throughout the year.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

You can learn more about Go VR’s work, which includes virtual walkthroughs for architects, on their website: worldwithoutarchitect.com. Hand Capture. A new motion capture and animation plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016, Hand Capture lets you “capture hand and finger movement in real time directly inside MotionBuilder.”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A little while ago, I had the opportunity to try haptic gloves, and I put them on and I was able to reach out in virtual reality and grab an object and feel that object in my hand. So they thought, "Well, we could also do these trainings in virtual reality, rather than on this dummy line." It was an amazing experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A little while ago, I had the opportunity to try haptic gloves, and I put them on and I was able to reach out in virtual reality and grab an object and feel that object in my hand. So they thought, "Well, we could also do these trainings in virtual reality, rather than on this dummy line." It was an amazing experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A little while ago, I had the opportunity to try haptic gloves, and I put them on and I was able to reach out in virtual reality and grab an object and feel that object in my hand. So they thought, "Well, we could also do these trainings in virtual reality, rather than on this dummy line." It was an amazing experience.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. I think that cubes are never enough… cubes are love, cubes are life. Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it. Learn more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jack Daniel’s opened its virtual doors to the public by commemorating urban art and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in late September. Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2016

But this year marks the debut of a brand new fright, The Repository , which combines live actors, physical props, fully detailed sets, a 10-minute virtual reality experience built by VRStudios, and a final physical challenge. All four team members appear in the experience, each team member represented as a floating, glowing mask.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $7,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $5,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $2,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. Prize: $1,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. Prize: $500, Unity Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Flipside Studio XR now features motion capture export , letting you record the animations to move CGI characters just by using your XR rig, exporting them and then using them wherever you want, like to move your game characters in Unity. News from partners (and friends). Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This ecosystem encompasses real-time 3D (RT3D), XR, and simulation technologies to support businesses in emerging augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications. Participating companies include Meta, Siemens, Audi, ESA, Snap, Niantic, Unity, and Pico.

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