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Veteran VR Studio nDreams Announces Layoffs Amid “challenging VR games market”

Road to VR

In 2023, Stockholm, Sweden-based gaming group Aonic acquired nDreams for $110 million. Layoffs spanning 2023 and 2024 included a number of top publishers and studios, such as Embracer Group, Unity, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive and Riot Games.

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Ready Player Me, Hiber Partner for Avatar Integration

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Ready Player Me’s highly-bespoke, Unity and Unreal Engine-compatible avatars facilitate rapid creations with a large catalogue of customisation options and features. #create #customise #avatar #metaverse #hiberworld #readyplayerme pic.twitter.com/T661VD6UoV. HiberWorld (@HiberWorld) September 14, 2022. Comments on Partnership.

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Tobii Leads Charge in Eye Tracking, Attention Computing

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Danderyd Municipality, Sweden-based firm has led markets since 2001, offering headset manufacturers, and software developers top-tier solutions for doing so. They can also access the digital ecosystem through our XR Unity SDK and Developer Zone. XR Today: How will your technologies deepen immersion for future metaverse users?

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HoloLens 2 Sales Expanding to 15 More Countries, ‘Development Edition’ Launches in the US

Road to VR

Now Microsoft is expanding the regions where it will sell HoloLens 2 to 15 new countries: Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. 3-month Unity Pro license. ” Image courtesy Microsoft. Value (MSRP; in $USD). HoloLens 2 device.

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11 Mind-Bending Puzzle Games

Leapmotion

Kaiyuan Ping is a 19-year-old indie developer and Sword Art Online fan who got hooked on virtual reality after seeing demos like ElementL: Ghost Story at Unity 2015. Rayhands creator Peter Thor ( @peterthor_se ) lives in Sweden with his wife and two kids. In this VR puzzle game, you rotate a shape to fit into a grid of cubes.

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Custom Home Mapper lets you map your house and play VR games in it!

The Ghost Howls

I have made things in Unity ever since, now with 4 published titles: Custom Home Mapper (on Sidequest and Itch), as well as Space pilot Alliance , Pocket Racer , and RamCastle on App Lab. Unity is the game engine, Photon handles the networking and Dissonance is amazing for VOIP. Hello Ryan, can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. It stands for effortless. Affordable.

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