ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

CX and the Metaverse: The Changing Face of Customer Service in a Virtual World. Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine. In this article, we introduce you to Victoria VR, a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users, and powered by Unreal Engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. In the real world, sound follows the inverse square law – getting quieter as the source gets farther away.

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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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ARPost

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Extended Reality, also called XR, refers to all real-and-virtual world environments that are generated by computer graphics. Blender, Unity, and Unreal Engine are just a few of the 3D software solutions you might want to learn as they are very useful in the design of Augmented and Virtual reality environments.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets. The demo was shot against a green screen so that it could be composited together with the virtual world, offering a mixed reality view for the audience. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

After Fortnite started the trend of virtual concerts in virtual worlds, always more platforms started implementing them. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. See Unity running on Quest. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

In these virtual world environments, people are often more comfortable talking to virtual agents,” said Gelfenbeyn. “In Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity. They call this model “Bring Your Own Avatar.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

Since it is my last post about AWE, let me cast a ray of visibility on some companies I have met there, but about which I do have not enough material to write a full article: Gamedriver : an interesting solution to create automated tests for your XR application in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Explaining the incredible immersion that a solid virtual reality experience provides is difficult to put into words, but showing someone playing or allowing a person to play themselves is the quickest path to amazement. There are also additional guides for those wanting to integrate mixed reality support into Unity , Unreal , and native.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

Players can easily switch between the World Dimension and Invaders Dimension via a portal. 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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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. It’s also likely that businesses will expand their use of XR tech and the metaverse.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Parisi is considered by many to be one of the early pioneers of VR thanks to his work on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the internet, with Mark Pesce back in 1994. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Sweeney, whose company makes the Unreal Engine toolset used in creating some of the biggest budget 3D projects, outlined in a blog post this week why he saw this as a huge moment for immersive computing: Apple’s debut of VR support for Mac and AR support for iOS are true game-changers.

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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. What is a Virtual Reality Camera?

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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. The result is UltimateXR for Unity. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Who knows….

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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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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.) And it’s not just Unreal and Unity. With the basic Unreal and Unity plans available for free, is it even worth it for developers to try to add these AI features to OpenSim?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

AugmentedReality #xr #vr #wearable #unity #spatialcomputing pic.twitter.com/h2KAkgXWQq — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) February 15, 2019. With this easy trick, on the lenses you are able to see both the real and the virtual world. Furthermore, the position of the real and virtual hands were not exactly identical.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Rather than a complete shutdown, Vega positioned this move as a strategic pivot, stating the business would continue under a new virtual world platform based on O3DE technology. Discovery Grid’s transition marks one of the first major moves by an established virtual world from OpenSimulator to the newer O3DE platform.

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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. Patrick O’Shaughnessy presented the Auggie for Best Developer Tool to Unity , a cross-platform tool that hosts many XR experiences. Announcements. Best Developer Tool.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. Unfortunately, NeRFs are difficult to train and limited in enabling navigation in virtual worlds. We’ve already mentioned Unity and Unreal, for instance.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It’s a pretty basic addition, allowing developers to bring video content into virtual worlds, though it does sport some interesting extras, like support for 360 degree video playback, and applying video as textures that wrap around surfaces like spheres as well as flat walls. version of the engine, released recently.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Unity // Most people's intro to game dev! Unity Website Unreal // Unity’s higher fidelity sibling Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. That being said these programs can be used for so much more, take a look! Build 2D, 3D and VR games and apps at speed.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

More recently, Google introduced Geospatial Creator , which allows AR content creators to develop real-world models for XR experiences and AR for physical locations. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” operating system or later.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Ready Player Me will “build avatar content creation tools to enable developers, brands and individual artists to create and sell avatar customization assets that work across thousands of virtual worlds,” wrote Ready Player Me Co-Founder and CEO Timmu Tõke in an emailed answer to UploadVR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The question is how are we going to register (the real and virtual world) and how we can verify the applications, the applications we trust and that we want to be part of, that will respect our privacy. Basically, it is like the internet moves to the world and that’s a big deal and will require a lot of people working together.

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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. Reddit Post).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

The news comes as global entities prepare to design, test, and deploy the Metaverse, a merger of the Internet with spatial computing features and incorporating rising technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), digital twins, real-time 3D content, and others.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 12, 2020

Source Designing Memorable Virtual Experiences. As companies and brands are seeking to translate physical experiences such as town halls, conferences and art shows into the virtual world, what opportunities does the digital space offer to touch, move and inspire? Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

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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