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Creator of Indie Breakout ‘Braid’ Building Roomscale VR Game With ‘no concessions for stationary play’

Road to VR

Before Fez (2012) , before Limbo (2010) , and before Minecraft (2009) , Braid (2008) was one of the breakout successes in the formative years of indie game development and distribution. No C# Unity programmers please (unless you just happen to know C# and are better in a systems language than you are in C#).

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Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off

Road to VR

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion released its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered markerless hand-tracking. ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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AWE Asia-2023 Conference in Singapore from August 30-31

XROM

Asia is a core part of XR hardware supply chains, but Asia is also a growing hub for financing XR projects, an engine for consumer demand, and a home to creative enterprise applications of XR," said Gavin Newton-Tanzer, President of AWE Asia. Begun in 2010, Augmented World Expo has become the top global conference for everything XR.

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XR Technology at AWE and the Auggies: Exclusive Content From Ori Inbar

ARPost

The Auggie Awards started in 2010. We’ve given out around 150 Auggies, so you can see that the kind of people that won in 2010 and 2020 are very different,” Inbar said in a phone interview. “ Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. A History of the Auggies According to Orin Inbar.

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Gemba, a corporate VR training platform used by Coca-Cola and Pfizer, raises $18M

TechCrunch VR

“A Gemba masterclass is entirely interactive — it’s 3D, immersive, and we use the same software that 90% of video games are created in ( Unity ),” Gemba CEO Nathan Robinson told TechCrunch. And then there’s VRAI, which recently raised a modest $3.2

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

ARPost

The Auggie Awards have been recognizing XR since 2010.” Best Societal Impact Unity VP of Education and Social Impact Jessica Lindl said that “the world is a better place with more creatives in it,” as she prepared to award another of the evening’s most anticipated Auggies. I do want to thank everyone here, but Ori, also to you.

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