Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. At the time I was exploring Evolver , which in the end was bought by Autodesk in 2011. However there was a bit of a leaning curve.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Portal Stories: VR is a free Portal 2 (2011) “mini story” recently released for the HTC Vive. After taking in the surroundings, I quickly became acquainted with the two tools I was holding. In my left hand was the Aperture Science Apparatus Retrieval Tool which functions much like the gravity gun in Half-Life 2 (2004).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So this was before Oculus. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So this was before Oculus. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. Alan: Hi, it's Alan Smithson here. Affordable.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Room 2011, West Hall. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. With its Editor VR tool now available in an early incarnation, 2017 is going to be a massive year for Unity and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? And in 2011-2012 we did about 10 to 12,000 high-res images a year, and I would say maybe 1,500 of them were 3D. We're building a guide right now to XR collaboration tools.

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