The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 30, 2017

Recently I got the chance to visit the Art Of VR event at Sotheby's NY. A public, two-day event, The Art of VR festival showcased just a sample of many of the VR and augmented reality experiences currently unavailable in VR App stores. You may seen Marina's work previously at Bay Area Art and VR events.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Elsewhere, HTC released the Vive XR Elite face tracker , Sony announced a new enterprise headset and we learned more about the Xreal Air 2 Ultra. Population: One Launches Event Series 1 Population: One , the free-to-play battle royale shooter, just received its first content update in 2024. Genotype briefly teased an upcoming patch.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

For now it counts Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA as foudning memebers, with general members including Epic Games, Unity, Foundry, Ikea, SideFX, and Cesium. Notably missing in the Metaverse Standards Forum was support from Apple and Pixar themselves.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The event will showcase the future of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), blockchain, the internet of things (IoT), and the Metaverse with a series of keynote speeches, workshops, product demos, and many others.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Event organizers have also planned to stream a number of GDC 2020 developer talks as well as the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards via Twitch during the March 16 – 20 conference time slot. For this reason, we fully intend to host a GDC event later in the summer.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The situation has now changed and the sales that will happen in the next weeks will tell us if that was the case, or it is just that this console is too expensive for taking off (and in this case, Sony should consider offering a discount). People can just build worlds, but not organize events anymore. All without leaving your editor.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Tethered VR will stay as a niche Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) Tethered VR has been superseded by standalone VR: there are many more standalone VR users than PC VR ones. When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The VRARA is hosting its Immerse Global Summit (IGS) Europe event in Savoy Palace At Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, between September 28-30. This event edition also marks the VRARA’s return to in-person exhibitions within the EU. We have so much planned for the Immerse Global Summit Europe on Sept 28-30!

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Due to the response from the Hollywood and Silicon Valley communities, this year’s event will require double the sound stage capacity to hold our group and the demonstrations,” said Jim Chabin, President of the Advanced Imaging and VR Societies, in a statement. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Plus, if you are in Karlsruhe, I’ll be attending the LEARNTEC event and I’ll be there on Thursday morning… if you’re there, we can meet! That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Top news of the week. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

But is still very sad : Altspace was the home of some of the more passionate VR communities , which were still holding many events there. In total, I counted something like 32 games, which is ok to start with, but then Sony should be fast in collecting more content to not make the PSVR2 players get bored fast for the lack of playable games.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Nathan Pettyjohn, Founder and CEO of the Immerse Growth Network and Founder and President of the VR/AR Association (VRARA) , discussed with XR Today the Immerse Global Summit 2022 Europe , an industry-leading event set to take place in Madeira Island, Portugal, which will allow tech firms to showcase their efforts to reach such a milestone.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Microsoft’s technology could easily be the basis behind a number of mixed-reality and unique event experiences in the entertainment world going forward.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

The ongoing SIGGRAPH 2022 event will take place in the Canadian coastal city from 8 to 11 August, celebrating the top firms in animation, creative content, art and design, gaming, and immersive solutions worldwide.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The company has worked with Disney, Warner Bros, Apple TV, Netflix, Wells Fargo, Sony Pictures, Walmart, and many others. We set out to honor the mission and spirit of AB+L’s live events while giving visitors an out-of-this-world experience that would be impossible to do in real life.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

event last year how these could lead to next-generation metaverse infrastructure. The deal, announced at the Connect 2022 event in October last year, will facilitate access to key Office programmes while using Meta’s flagship mixed reality (MR) headset. Microsoft explained at the Immerse Global Summit’s Metaverse 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. I’m pretty sure that Sony is waiting the next few months to make some moves, there’s still the Black Friday and the Christmas Holiday that have to happen, but at the moment I do not see this device as disruptive to our ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

More info (My summary of the event) More info (HTC’s 2-minutes video of the event) More info (HTC’s vision of the office of the future) More info (Actual prototype of the office of the future) More info (Qualcomm teasing new XR2 standalone headsets). Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. News worth a mention.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In its recent Facebook Connect event (which the echoAR team covered here ) Facebook made a number announcements that cement its place as a leader in the AR/VR space. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

NVIDIA has had its annual GTC event, and while there it hasn’t announced new graphics cards, it has anyway provided some interesting pieces of news. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. Other relevant news. Image by NVIDIA). HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th.

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MAY 15, 2023

The press kit for the event can be found here. Previous AWE Asia conferences have featured sessions from senior leadership at organizations such as #Intel, #Qualcomm, #Microsoft, #HTC, #Lenovo, #IEEE, #Sony, #Niantic, #Walmart, #Oppo, #Unity, #Baidu, and #PTC. AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015.

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APRIL 19, 2023

The latter allows members to participate in hackathons, open-source tools, plugfests, and other events. Some of the top members of the Forum include IKEA, Alibaba, rooom , Adobe, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony, Unity, and many others.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

It will also host events that explore use cases in artificial intelligence, along with how Alliance members will use open technologies according to best practices. Unity has also begun exploring the full capabilities of artificial intelligence with its generative AI (GenAI) solutions, Unity Muse and Unity Sentis.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It is also organizing the LEAP Developer Days, a big event for ML developers, that will be held on May 19–22nd inside Magic Leap headquarters in Plantation, Florida. Both Sony and Microsoft have not given clear plans on their VR offerings for their next-gen consoles , the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, but we have some interesting hints.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned medical institution, joined the event to reveal how it leveraged Microsoft’s MR tools by combining them with its educational software platform. IGS and the Future of XR Training. ” The IGS 2022 Miami took place from 5 to 7 December at Miami Beach’s iconic Fontainebleau Hotel.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

XR Today spoke to Brian Vogelsang, AR Product Leader at Qualcomm , on the sidelines of the event about ongoing updates with its latest product release, the Snapdragon AR2 platform. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

. “This was a tough call to make — F8 is an incredibly important event for Facebook and it’s one of our favorite ways to celebrate all of you from around the world — but we need to prioritize the health and safety of our developer partners, employees and everyone who helps put F8 on.

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JUNE 21, 2022

For example, Unity runs its humanities fundraiser and awards showcase. During its WWDC event, Apple did not unveil an AR headset, despite consent rumours. Additionally, last month LG ordered numerous XR components to develop displays in a bid to create a supply deal with Apple, replacing current display providers Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. There will be events that will be held in both platforms together, and there will be portals to move from one platform to the other one.

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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.

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JUNE 13, 2017

The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. Things are changing though.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Sony – Playstation VR. The complete list of judges can be found here. Nominees for VR Headset of the Year. HTC – Vive. Oculus – Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. If you want my help in organizing your VR event, please reach out to me … Waiting to meet you in VR, let’s talk about some news…. More info (Valve Index availability) More info (Facebook and Sony pulling out from GDC). It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

The typical summer week has passed by, with some interesting XR news, but mostly no amazing event to talk about. And I’m not so sure that there will be the build-once-run-everywhere mechanism because every headset has its own Unity plugin with some features that are very vendor-specific. Some news on content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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