XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro. We’ve accumulated substantial UX expertise, ensuring an optimized experience for virtual environments.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Alternatively, companies looking to provide their customers with more fully immersive experiences can build applications for the Oculus VR headset. As Meta continues to expand its investment into the Metaverse , we’re likely to see a host of new ecommerce and retail brands taking advantage of the environment to build new digital experiences.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Supporting Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, VRChat currently offers over 200 user-created worlds, everything from simple environments to some of the most complex creations currently in social VR. VRChat , a social VR platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore VR worlds, have announced a $1.2 million seed investment round.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

” The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity, and support for Unreal Engine is on the way. Available now with support for Unity, the Steam Audio SDK will also soon support Unreal Engine. Realistic sound is an important but often underappreciated aspect of the immersion equation in VR.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. In that moment, I regret not having visited it before. SyncReality’s Vision. it is a bit clunky, but it works.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Earlier this year Oculus CTO John Carmack revealed a new video playback technique designed to bring high-resolution video to mobile headsets like Oculus Go. But then along came a new method for playing back 360 video content on Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Anyway, it is like if Oculus had partnered with Google here in the Wes t, so I envision that great things could come out from this collaboration; A partnership between HTC and HP. While the Cosmos XR was at the AR voice (because it lets you do passthrough-AR), the teased Vive Proton was listed in the Augmented Virtuality section.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

There are lots of tests that must be done on VRChat to see what is feasible because in VRChat you can develop using Unity, but you can’t write C# scripts and this kills completely lots of possibilities for us developers. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen? You should see it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. Environments invite sandbox-style madness; at one point in the trailer a bowling game is abandoned as two groups of friends instead start to hurl balls at each other. VRChat also aims to offer deeper user customization with integration with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. but I thought it could be interesting to write some short first impressions about it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Every year I like to play the guessing game for the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect making my list of predictions… which are not always correct, but they are good because they entice all the community people to play this game with me and to tell how they would love to see XR evolving. Fingers crossed for this.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor. A custom tool built in Unity spawns several rooms side by side in an orthographic view, showing how a certain level in Laser Dance would look in different room layouts. Luckily the answer to that is: probably not.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. Lee Vermeulen is breaking new ground with his experimental AR prototypes. .

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. Once the base becomes big enough, the platform becomes extremely interesting for marketers and advertisers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. When creating the new “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” title, Respawn wanted to reboot an entire franchise for access in the Oculus VR platform.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Virtual meeting. Unity 3D user interface for Sinespace.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

You can imagine the potential of such a tool when combined with a mixed reality headset (you could change some furniture in your house, or re-create a virtual environment that has the same shape as your room). If you are looking for a job and you are compatible with one of these figures… send us your curriculum.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap also supports a vast developer community, with access to various tools capable of integrating with Unity technology for spatial sound. There’s a “Soundfield Audio” solution for Unity users which allows for the creation of powerful AR experiences within the Magic Leap headset, equipped with spatial sound technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

The system is used for tracking movements inside virtual reality environments, and provides freedom of movement inside virtual reality environments, whether users are walking, running, crouching, turning and gesturing. At Miami University , the platform is used to create shared virtual spaces.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

AltspaceVR allows people to host and attend live shows, meetups, and classes from anywhere around the world in virtual reality although not the most suitable tool for business and virtual reality collaboration. You can spawn up to five virtual screens from your computer whether in private mode alone or when sharing them with a team.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. They used elements from the Unity asset store to accelerate the process, which is also why everyone is a cat girl in Wonderland, for our visit there.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. They used elements from the Unity asset store to accelerate the process, which is also why everyone is a cat girl in Wonderland, for our visit there.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments. This is obviously the big one for virtual worlds. Creativity. Discoverability. Commerce.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. VSDK is a free, augmented/virtual reality software development kit that helps developers rapidly achieve results,” said Dr. Michael Jenkins, Senior Scientist at Charles River Analytics in a statement.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

Virtual Reality has the potential to transform collaboration in a host of different ways, providing employees with the opportunity to represent themselves in a digital space and connect with others using hyper-realistic avatars. VR solutions can make workplaces feel less isolating, improving unity and presence in a distributed workplace.

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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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It follows, then, that for people to want to engage with each other in virtual environments, we need to foster that sense of social presence, which means getting your avatars right. For game and app developers this is a huge time saver as it plugs into the Unity engine and lets players craft their own characters.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lenovo was presenting its technology on the booth with the Oculus Rift S (developed in partnership with Oculus), the system running educational content using CAD designs. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix. The VR Classroom 2 platform looking beyond just mobileVR towards the high end of PC VR.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. Suddenly you're in that environment, you are interacting with that environment, and there are definitely a lot of oohs and ahhs.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. Suddenly you're in that environment, you are interacting with that environment, and there are definitely a lot of oohs and ahhs.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further?

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