AR Insider

AUGUST 27, 2021

To synthesize these dynamics, we’ve examined conference panel discussions on geospatial AR in parts I , II , and III of this series. Meanwhile cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), game engines (Unity and Unreal) and AR platforms ( Niantic Lightship ) are increasingly focused on location data.

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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.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2024

Rock Paper Reality’s pilot AR service aims to recreate the 1900 Exposition Universelle country pavilions and unrealized Eiffel Tower modifications as immersive assets that teach tourists in an evolving digital manner. The device was first announced at the 2021 I/O conference and underwent several years of development.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Think of this as more of a mini VR developer conference than a consumer-focused show, though. Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. Unity Development for VR, with Corey Johnson from Unity. 11:15 am, 12th October.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but that both the new 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro will be VR-ready out of the box. image courtesy TIME.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2018

Essentially, Adobe is taking one step further into a world still largely dominated by 3D game engines such as Unreal and Unity, which could foretell and interesting forward march from 2D creation to a decidedly more 3D-focused business. “We’ll have much more to share at the Adobe MAX Creativity Conference later this fall.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2017

Showcased at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, ARKit is a new core technology for iOS 11, due to launch this Fall, soon to enable augmented reality features on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

XLA announced on Tuesday that it had launched its Metasites modular 3D internet framework, with subsequent demos taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023. 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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 5, 2017

At a press conference today Apple unveiled its first AR implementation coming to the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system, iOS 11. The platform will support Unity and Unreal engines. It wasn’t a matter of if Apple would get involved with augmented reality so much as when. That day is today.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2017

On top of announcing a new and more affordable standalone headse t at Oculus’ annual developer conference, the Facebook owned company also teased a massive update to the Oculus Rift platform. Developers can even debug their VR apps while inside them, using Visual Studio, Unity, and Unreal. Dubbed Rift Core 2.0,

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. 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. They’re planning support for other engines like Unity, too.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The announcement coincides with the company’s first public technology demonstration which happened this week at Slush 2017, the annual Helsinki-based startup conference. ” Varjo prototypes are also being shipped with both Unreal and Unity plugins to enable content creation. image courtesy Varjo.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

platform at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023. also facilitates work with Unity-based architecture via a sample client. Unity Plugin , which seamlessly integrates Unity XR API and others on CloudXR. NVIDIA announced on Thursday the release of its CloudXR 4.0 Some of the top takeaways for CloudXR 4.0

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

” Magic Leap’s big announcement wasn’t to do with AI, but it will still be thrilling to developers: an Unreal Engine plugin is coming in August. A new maps SDK compatible with Unity is also coming to 8th Wall. ” The panel also addressed AI, an overarching theme of the conference.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch tomorrow, December 15th. of their game development engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

RT3D developmental engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse also leverage genAI to optimize developmental workflows, notably for budding XR content creators. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023, NVIDIA introduced the CloudXR 4.0 However, genAI is not just applicable to an immersive product vendor.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook F8, the company’s annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. The SDK plugin is said to be compatible with multiple game engines including Unity and Unreal, and even native engines. Today’s big VR announce from the social platform giant?

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

That’s the idea behind the company’s VRWorks Audio SDK , which was released today during the GTC 2017 conference; it’s part of the company’s VRWorks suite of tools to enhance VR applications on Nvidia GPUs. SEE ALSO Latest Unity Beta Gets NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Now Apple has thrown us a bone, and during their World Wide Developer Conference last week gave us Apple silo folk some good news. ARKit supports iOS 11 (coming this fall) and Unity, Unreal, Scenekit, and if you have an iPhone 5s or higher—you can get in on the action (plus a public beta is coming in June).

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

The post also recommends specific versions of development tools that devs will want to use to access such features: We recommend developing for Oculus Go and Gear VR with the following tools: Unity 5.6.5p2 or 2017.4.2 Unreal 4.18, pulled from Oculus’ GitHub mirror. with Oculus Utils 1.24.1

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JUNE 5, 2017

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is here, and today’s keynote saw a number of VR-specific announcements including Apple’s first VR-ready computers to go along with the launch of the company’s newest macOS High Sierra.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 23, 2022

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced synthetics in Sagemaker Ground Truth, a new feature for creating a virtually unlimited number of images of a given object in different positions and under different lighting conditions, as well as different proportions and other variations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Epic Games: Reality Scan In 2021, Epic Games acquired photogrammetry solutions provider Capturing Reality, with plans to integrate the firm’s digital twin production tools into the Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. In 2021, Epic Games acquired photogrammetry solutions provider Capturing Reality, with plans to integrate the firm’s digital twin production tools into the Unreal Engine.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

At Apple’s WWDC conference today a number of features tangentially related to AR were announced, but the company may be waiting for the headset reveal to show its full AR/VR strategy. In a newsletter published over the weekend Gurman wrote: Apple’s headset initiative isn’t simply the device and its operating system.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members. VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. Learn more and try it for free. .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. VIVE is one of the biggest names in virtual reality and they are usually a major player at the annual Game Developers Conference.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. There will be also a way to enjoy the conference in Horizon Worlds.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

During Apple’s June developer conference, we finally got a glimpse of what we’ve all been patiently waiting for—Apple embracing VR. View your 360° video projects in realtime on a HTC Vive.

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JUNE 21, 2018

Earlier this month at Apple’s annual WWDC conference, the company introduced their latest operating system, macOS Mojave (10.14). These changes will be immediately available to native VR app developers on Mojave, and are likely to eventually see support in development tools like Unity and Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. Top news of the week. Image by OceanX). Other relevant news.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

With the solution, users can leverage the following tools: FreeD plug-and-play capabilities for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months.

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JULY 1, 2017

At the ‘VR with Metal 2’ session during Apple’s WWDC 2017 conference last month, Apple GPU Software Team member Rav Dhiraj detailed the new features in Metal 2 for VR. ” SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS. Single-pass Stereo.

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