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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Snap & Epic Games

AR Insider

Sketchfab is integrated into Epic’s popular Unreal Engine game and special effects paltform, and notably, all of its competitors, starting with Unity, Snap’s Lens Studio, Facebook’s Spark AR, and even Tilt Brush. Even the New York Times is writing about the metaverse this week. And now, so is Epic. And now, so is Epic.

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Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth

Road to VR

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market. See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech.

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Bloomberg: Apple Building Headset Versions Of FaceTime, Maps & More

Upload VR

Over the weekend The New York Times also reported Apple is enlisting Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to create immersive VR content, such as a version of Prehistoric Planet. Developers will also apparently get access to a Mac based headset simulator so they can develop before having the device in-hand.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.27): Vive inside-out Tracker announced, Pico’s launch in the US delayed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale.

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Building Character: Didimo Expands Popul8 Gen AI Partnerships

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Furthemore, the platform is compatible with most gaming engines, including Unity, Unreal Engine, and others. Imagine [developers] want to create the diversity of a city like New York. It also uses batch content creation and editing to permit users to command hundreds of characters for immersive spaces.

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Looking Glass Factory CEO Discusses 3D Spatial Monitors and the Accessiblity of AR wearables, VR Headsets

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Recently, XR Today caught up with Shawn Frayne, CEO and Co-Founder of Looking Glass Factory , a Brooklyn, New York, based XR device start-up developing a portfolio of 3D spatial displays that allow individuals or groups of users to view and collaborate on 3D content visualisations without needing to put on AR smart glasses or a VR/MR headset.