VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

Taking much of what they learned and built already with Tango since 2014, Google’s ARCore doesn’t require any additional hardware and works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal. And if you own a Pixel or Samsung S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above, ARCore is ready to run on your device starting today.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2025

Conversely, REMOSHOTs content creation platform leverages the famed Unity and Unreal Engine frameworks to deliver RT3D XR solutions for firms such as the National Medical Center, the National Fire Agency, and the National Police Agency.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 3, 2018

New SDKs are also available for Android, iOS, Unity, Unreal Engine. Video: Along with the update, Google has extended ARCore support to new devices from Huawei, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Vivo, and Xiaomi. Available as of Friday on Google Play, version 1.4

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2025

Developers do need to request a Horizon OS specific Headset Cameras permission, but otherwise Quest's passthrough camera access leverages Android's existing Camera2 API to also return the headset pose, obtained with OpenXR, and this is what developers of custom engines, or source code for Unreal or Godot, use for it.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Unreal 4.18, pulled from Oculus’ GitHub mirror. You cannot rely on Google Play Services (e.g. Google Firebase, Google Cloud Messaging, etc), or third-party libraries that depend on Google Play Services (e.g. with Oculus Utils 1.24.1 or later (required for many new features described [herein]).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Both headsets support the Oculus Mobile SDK, the software which currently allows developers to build apps for Samsung’s Gear VR headset (which runs Oculus’ software and store). In order to support those other headsets, developers will need to build using the Mi VR SDK (which supports Unity and Unreal).

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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

MAY 25, 2018

Earlier this year NextVR also demonstrated upcoming support for 6DOF video and impressive higher resolution content which takes better advantage of higher resolution displays in headsets like the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro. 6DOF content is also expected this year.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2017

” At NEXT they hinted they might be releasing a special toolset for Unreal programmers, so keep an eye out for announcements later this year. After taking off my shoes and lying down on a hospital cot, Separate Silences Co-Creator Maria Engermann tucked me in and placed a Samsung Gear VR on my head. Separate Silences.

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Charlie Fink

APRIL 7, 2022

Is the Metaverse trending downward?

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. image courtesy VR First.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. LET’S SPECULATE ON Q1 HEADSET SALES.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

When it comes to developing virtual reality (VR) videogames there are two primary engines studios use, either Epic Games’ Unreal Engine or Unity by Unity Technologies. will end support for Samsung Gear VR and Google VR, while OpenVR compatibility will be phased out. As the company previously announced Unity 2019.3

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

This Is Our Future” is not a live action VR film, but instead was built in Unreal, letting you trigger action within the experience, playing with your perception of space, scale and volume. You can see MPC’s VR experience for The Nature Conservatory on Samsung Gear VR, YouTube and Facebook 360.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

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. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. 6G is coming to 2028–2030.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Gunjack and Gunjack 2: End of Shift are fast-paced, space shooters set in the science fiction universe of EVE Online®, built from the ground up for mobile VR using Unreal Engine 4. “With broader availability, bundles and price cuts, we look forward to introducing many new players to the Gunjack series this holiday season.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. According to a recent report, the successor of the first Vision Pro may come in 2026 and have a price comprised between $1500 and $2500.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. We also got hyped for an experimental input device which promised to bring electromagnetic field powered positional input tracking to Samsung Gear VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Representatives for Google VR, Intel, and others already voiced their support of Khronos’ work by that point, but Epic’s Unreal Engine allowed Khronos to focus on a potential wider adoption of the standard. A couple months later, that standard now has a name as Khronos unveils the OpenXR working group at GDC 2017.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week, XR is taking us everywhere, from the surface of Mars, to ritzy Audi showrooms, to the svelte form of Bobby, a teddy bear 3D-scanned in real-time by Samsung’s new feature on the Note 10. Samsung showed off their new Note 10 with full 3D capture, rigging and animation capabilities: check out my LinkedIn post.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week, XR is taking us everywhere, from the surface of Mars, to ritzy Audi showrooms, to the svelte form of Bobby, a teddy bear 3D-scanned in real-time by Samsung’s new feature on the Note 10. Samsung showed off their new Note 10 with full 3D capture, rigging and animation capabilities: check out my LinkedIn post.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

Fove raised $480,000 on Kickstarter (along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures) in summer 2015 to manufacture their eye-tracking headset, a technology that’s useful for a number of important applications such as foveated rendering, avatar eye-mapping, simulated depth-of field, and eye-based user interfaces.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. Additionally, Unreal Engine is one of the premier VR development ecosystems and new advancements on the technology side of the company will likely be announced as well.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

The market is evolving rapidly, with new solutions from world-leading companies like Apple and Samsung appearing alongside niche solutions from newer companies like BigScreen Beyond and MeganeX. Options like Meta Quest for Business , and the PICO Business device manager are excellent for maintaining control over your technology.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Another takeaway is that it sounds like the game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine that are used for creating these types of interactive narratives still have a lot of work yet to be done before everyone will be able to easily create their own type of experience that mimics Sequenced’s sophisticated triggering system.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The San Francisco-based company has since secured over $11m across 3 funding rounds with investors including Samsung Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, and Foxconn Technology Group. The company has since released their SDK which allows developers to integrate Fove support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week, XR is taking us everywhere, from the surface of Mars, to ritzy Audi showrooms, to the svelte form of Bobby, a teddy bear 3D-scanned in real-time by Samsung's new feature on the Note 10. Samsung showed off their new Note 10 with full 3D capture, rigging and animation capabilities: check out my LinkedIn post.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. Experiments in Social VR. Room 134, North Hall, Who?:

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. The ARCore SDK is currently available for Android, Android NDK, Unity for Android, iOS, and Unity for iOS, Unreal, and iOS.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

Speaking with Alvin and an Unreal developer (that has used the Pro since various days) after my quick tests, they told me that probably I haven’t been excited by it because I just used it some minutes and because I haven’t tried demos that highlight all the pro-features that I’ve discussed above.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Performance and the Content Creation Software Similar to the rumored Samsung XR headset , the Sony XR headset will feature the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip. Siemens even announced earlier this year that this software will deliver a brand-new Unreal Engine-based solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Renato Andrade, Senior XR Product Designer, Samsung R&D Institute (SIDIA) , posted his thoughts on the changes, gaining him over 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn. This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2025

As the XR shark tank grows with AndriodXR, Samsung’s Moohan, and other competitive players entering the immersive space race, the Quest innovator and the general XR industry are looking to retain their foothold on the lucrative market. It’s another major month for Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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