Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

If you’re unfamiliar with visual scripting environments, such as Unreal Engine’s ‘Blueprints’ for example, it’s a way to visually represent objects, actions, properties etc. This new feature, is called LogiX.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, for virtual reality to truly thrive as part of the everyday tech stack, we need more than just ergonomic, high-performance headsets. There’s plenty of great software available for developers who want to build impressive virtual worlds, like the Unity and Unreal kits. We need incredible content.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Most worlds on it today are made inside VR, using the Touch controllers to manipulate primitive 3D shapes and rig up interactions using a spatial visual scripting system. While this allows anyone with just a Quest to build virtual worlds, the results have been widely and harshly criticized for their simplistic cartoonish appearance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 11, 2017

Unity is used by a majority of VR developers and its toolset is an important part of creating interactive software for millions of creators building across a wide range of devices. Its competitor, Unreal from Epic Games, is often the go-to toolset for large teams working with big budget titles.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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ARPost

MARCH 23, 2023

Even more exciting, the virtual world could be constantly extended. Attendees were also treated to other immersive and engaging virtual music experiences. Each of these emerging French artists performed in different virtual worlds. In this world, all share resources and cohabitate in symbiosis.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

NVIDIA has been one of the first companies that understood the potential of enterprise engineering and design collaboration in XR with its Holodeck software, whose trailer videos are still among the best to show the capabilities of XR collaborative environments. It’s just that Omniverse is rarely explained in the right way.

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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. These collaborations are also a result of the need to create an open and interoperable metaverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 4, 2023

This Monday, Luma AI debuted a plugin for NVIDIA NeRF, a volumetric capture and immersive content creation suite which enables developers to run their designs on Unreal Engine 5 as a real-time render. The update allows Unreal developers to run Luma AI volumetric renderings locally.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

The virtual, 3D Invader world changes in sync with the natural environment, allowing players to complete missions in both the virtual world and the natural world’s AR view.

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Building the Metaverse

JUNE 14, 2023

A few days ago, my team won grant prize the LA AI Virtual Worlds hackathon during the a16z Tech Week by creating a roleplaying game in one day. A big part of that is generative AI — as well as the work we’re doing at Beamable to enable you to get the servers set up for entire worlds setup on “day zero.”

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

The character was the your head, while your actual body was in the virtual world, immersing you in Turtles’ iconic New York City world. A combination of software was used to execute the endeavor, including Adobe Character Animator, Unreal Engine, and NewTeK NDI.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

“This survey only further exemplifies that the current state of VR is very business-focused,” said Rolf Illenberger, managing director of VRdirect , a company that provides enterprise software solutions for the metaverse and virtual reality. And virtual reality continues to be a technology in search of a problem to solve.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Best Interaction Software. The Nextant Awards are separate from the Auggies and are presented by the Virtual World Society at AWE. Announcements. Nextant Awards.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world. Plus, the gloves are compatible with various software platforms, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Haptic and metaverse gloves can be fantastic for business settings, too.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?). The result is UltimateXR for Unity. Customizable Hands.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 10, 2023

What would happen if this thinking were applied to metaverse-style virtual worlds? Crucible, a metaverse company that creates tools for game developers, recently launched its Emergence software development kit (SDK) for Unreal Engine, for instance). What would be built?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

And he loves VR, he loves experimenting and he also loves opensource and free software. He has this idea of making the world better, of letting people live freely and exchanging their expertise. Well, this is a window towards a magical virtual world… it is a way to break the physical limits of his house in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. And even if you buy all the pieces, you have still to assemble them overcoming all the hardware and software technical problems. Assembling an AR glass is not an easy task.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4. Most of this is often discussed in light of its Unreal engine being used to create virtual worlds….much

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software?— ?Maya 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software?—? Unity Website Unreal // Unity’s higher fidelity sibling Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. Free for students!!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

.” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity. “We want you to make all your VR and AR with Unity,” he said, promising renewed investment in the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Rec Room is one of the most popular virtual worlds, and it is growing very fast. More info (SideQuest from the Quest?—?Reddit

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! At the most fundamental level, the metaverse will be built by software engineers. This is simply because the idea and concepts are still emerging.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

Carmack stated: VR is held back more by software than hardware. This initiative will be a drag on software development at Meta. The Horizon framework is also used to power Meta’s Worlds metaverse platform. Meta aims to create socially connected virtual worlds accessible from headsets, phones, and desktops.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’re excited about the depth and richness that the resulting characters bring to the game for our players” Popul8 the Virtual World with Didimo Solutions like Didimo’s Popul8 platform have grown in popularity over the last few years due to increasingly demanding production pipelines for gaming and real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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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. We don’t really have any software to show on it. Read on for the full interview.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Design — Explore early lessons of VR game design with our Oculus Studios team and top developers such as High Voltage Software, Tripwire Interactive, OZWE Games, and more. The event is offering 5 tracks offering a wide range of topics from technical to the practicalities of VR as a business.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

“We’re releasing Meta Horizon OS, our operating system that powers the Meta Quest virtual and mixed reality headsets,” noted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg , who also added: In every era of computing, there are always open and closed models. Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Defining Google ARCore Google ARCore is a software development kit (SDK) for Android’s operating system (OS). The ARCore SDK is currently available for Android, Android NDK, Unity for Android, iOS, and Unity for iOS, Unreal, and iOS. It’s the Google version of the “ARKit” experience from Apple.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

XLA Metasites recently received around $100 million USD in initial funding to develop virtual worlds with interactive, engaging content, according to a press release. Users can also analyse text semantically, create 3D scenes, and deploy content or connect to XLA’s ecosystem using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. VR, as we all know, is a medium; it is a virtual world , a container in which we can see and experience. What is it?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Additionally, the platform allows business leaders to integrate third party technologies into their ecosystem, when developing unique worlds. Virbela Virtual world platform, Virbela, was created to help bring people together in a virtual landscape, where they can meet, learn, work, and train in unison.

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