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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

NVIDIA is offering early access to a version of Unity with the company’s VRWorks features integrated into the engine for enhanced VR performance. At GDC 2016, Unity announced they would be adding support for VRWorks , Nvidia’s SDK for optimisation of VR using the company’s GPUs. Developers can apply for early access here.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Where Normal VR stands out, however, is that their remote team doesn’t use virtual conference rooms or presentation spaces to meet. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes. Image Credit: Normal VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. We can see two other users around the table, and then we see the view transitioning seamlessly between the passthrough view of the real world and the virtual world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 11, 2017

Unity rolled out a major update to its development platform bringing with it a number of improvements across the board. VR SLI provides increased performance for virtual reality apps where two GPUs can be assigned a specific eye to dramatically accelerate stereo rendering.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

Unity to Integrate Vagon’s RT3D Streaming Service This week, Unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, announced a new partnership with Vagon, experts in 3D content streaming. This technology could play a crucial role in the widespread adoption of XR devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning. Remaking the (Virtual) World. These entities leveraged real-time 3D (RT3D) content, with Unity leading the industry as a RT3D content creation platform.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. That is, until you remember that the metaverse isn’t just a collection of virtual worlds – it also means augmenting the physical world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

Croquet Corporation announced on Thursday last week it had launched its Croquet for Unity solution. The new JavaScript multiplayer framework integrates with Unity to provide a novel approach for developers. With it, people can create Unity-based immersive experiences without writing or maintaining multiplayer code.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity. Anything supported by the Unity XR platform should be supported by this.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. According to Neurable, this works using machine learning to interpret “your brain activity in real time to afford virtual powers of telekinesis.”

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ARPost

MARCH 28, 2023

Then, it changed lanes to offer virtual worlds for consumer social uses. A Look at the Toolkit The new “ Spatial Creator Toolkit ” is a Unity-powered interface that allows users to create custom avatars, items, and “quests.” The toolkit also features advanced tools for linking virtual worlds together.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Unity is hoping that, one day, something will do the same for VR. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said as much to UploadVR in an interview at this week’s Vision Summit. Carte Blanche, meanwhile, largely remains under wraps but looks to be a simplified way of quickly assembling virtual worlds that anyone can get to grips with.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. “That is in the works, I’ve seen it,” he said.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2022

From simulation and modeling to game development, world-building, and even Imagineering, Orlando houses not only the talent, but also the business-friendly climate incentives that are needed to develop the metaverse,” Hackl said in a press release shared with ARPost. It was a free event that was simultaneously streamed on YouTube.

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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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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2022

You may have seen them in the news last month for offering a payment card and loyalty program that unlocks virtual rewards for physical purchases. The company’s principal virtual world, Aftermath Islands, is still in development. Peace & Unity” Exhibition in Spatial’s Peace Pavilion NFT Environment.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Unity’s impressive demonstration of its Editor VR software was the highlight of yesterday’s Unite conference keynote. Though extensive in the tools it provides, it also represents a more accessible, user-friendly development engine that we might all be using one day to create virtual worlds.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. Let’s jump in.

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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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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Full body avatars will become available so you can look like a real digital person using the Unity Avatar SDK. For those that have purchased land through Somnium Space’s previous Initial Land Offering’s (ILO) the Builder tool will be enhanced to purchase or create new assets.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

During this panel too, Reyes spoke of blockchain technologies as the link not just between virtual worlds, but between virtual worlds and the physical world to create true interoperability across immersive platforms. How are we going to transport attributes from the physical world to the digital world?”. “To

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2021

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser. Soon, developers on Quest will be able to add the same kind of feature to their games.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022?

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ARPost

AUGUST 15, 2022

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. Esri , the world’s largest GIS software firm, recently released version 1.0 Back in June, the company launched ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity. of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

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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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Life at the Feeding Edge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Following on from that is this one that shows further things that can be done with the very same assets that made a sequential video, but now split into a presentation layout using virtual space. Plus a little bit about how dynamic virtual worlds can be. This virtual world concept for presentations is not a new one.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device. With this high resolution there is a seamless transfer between the real world and the virtual world,” said Jan Pflueger, Coordination Augmented & Virtual Reality at Audi, in an official release.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Rec Room built a world using generative AI tools called Fractura. Last year Rec Room added direct integration with Unity, called Rec Room Studio , letting creators build higher quality worlds in the Unity editor instead of being limited to the ingame shape-based creation tools.

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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. This is cool because it will help spread the word about VR and virtual worlds. See Unity running on Quest. News worth a mention.

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Upload VR

JULY 30, 2024

The feature realistically simulates how sound propagates through the geometry of the virtual world to your ear. How the Meta XR Audio SDK's Acoustic Ray Tracing sees a scene in Unity. Meta's XR Audio SDK now has Acoustic Ray Tracing in its most significant update yet. Valve's Steam Audio has had audio ray tracing since 2018.

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2022

The NVIDIA Omniverse platform’s latest version will have upgraded core technologies and connections to commonly used metaverse building tools like Unity, Autodesk, Blender, SimScale, Siemens JT, and many others. NVIDIA Omniverse Extensions.

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Next Reality VR

AUGUST 26, 2016

As a result, they've created an "Interaction Engine" for Unity, the primary platform for developing virtual and mixed reality experiences, to try and take gesture interaction to the next level. Leap Motion explains: The Interaction Engine is a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics.

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