XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

In the last few years, we’ve seen virtual reality transform from a novel concept connected to the gaming and entertainment space to a crucial corporate tool. Around the world, technologies in the extended reality landscape have gained increasing attention from virtually every industry.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

NextVR , a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, have finally launched their app for the Vive via Viveport after being available for several years on other platforms. The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. 6DOF content is also expected this year.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

What’s more, the company is also responsible for one of the most powerful and affordable VR headsets available – the Oculus Quest. For many developers, not just in the gaming space, but throughout the world, Unity stands as one of the most powerful environments for development.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the world reeling from COVID-19, changes to consumer experience across numerous industries, from live sports and entertainment to education, are inevitable. Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive , an act that has caused outrage in the VR community. And are Oculus really doing anything wrong anyway? Who’s behind it?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. Without previous notice, Facebook has started rolling out a new version of Oculus Venues, for now available only to selected beta users. First of all, it has been made by the mothership Sony Corporation , and not by Sony Interactive Entertainment, that manages the PlayStation.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

Unlike full-body motion tracking systems like Perception Neuron, Rokoko and Xsens, AXIS is for real-time gaming and entertainment use. To make it accessible to game developers and content creators, Refract’s software suite is compatible with platforms like OpenVR, OpenXR, Unity and Unreal engines, and existing VR systems and applications.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 23, 2017

While Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Presence Capital contends that its was the first VC fund to focus on VR/AR. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Image by Respawn Entertainment).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. But the tracking volume is still limited compared to other VR experiences made using graphic engines like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.), State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

The idea came to co-founders Tim Ruse (who’s now the CEO) and Scott Vandonkelaar (CTO) when the two first saw the Oculus Rift while working together at web agency Roadhouse Digital. A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. The capabilities for professional and entertainment use are immense. meters i.e. 26,910 sq.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. News worth a mention. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” HOLLYWOOD HEARTS VR: STX ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES SURREAL. FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M FOR VR GAME IN 2017. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M REAL-TIME FACES: PINSCREEN’S STEALTH $1.8M.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I haven’t seen my hometown in almost a year but even the pull of nostalgia isn’t enough to keep me entertained forever. When asked about support for other platforms, such as the Oculus Rift, Podwal stated that the team was actively looking into ports but had nothing to announce.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Thus, AR manufacturers sell their development products by passing the cost onto the end user, while VR development is subsidized by all – Oculus shipped ‘devkits’ for $349.99, HTC Vive PRE program shipped over 10,000 units for free, OSVR is very cheap, and makers like Deepoon go for as low as $249.99.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

At Oculus Studio they made an animated movie… but it is still on where you look and choreography on where you look… I think it’s elaborated and I think it’s better if the story is what your experience was. This will make possible for the viewer to enter inside the scenes , to be inside the movies and move inside it.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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