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. ” Lessons Learnt: Developing Across Devices During its tenure, Skonec has developed XR applications for many years across various headset/end devices such as Samsung Gear VR, console VR, and PCVR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

With currently 26 labs operating in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, VR First is bringing the number to 40 labs by the end of year. While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

After raising $480,000 in funds through Kickstarter and an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures, FOVE later participated in the River accelerator program early last year alongside a number of other “frontier technology” startups.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. I’m curious to see how this will turn out to be.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK.

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