AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

Data Dive: VR Finishes Q2 Strong. These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today. Regardless, we’ve taken this opportunity to revisit our ongoing analysis and market sizing of VR advertising in general.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

Ever since Oct 2013 when we initiated Project Dexmo, we haven’t stop improving it: In June 2014 we came up with the design of “switching force feedback”, proved the concept and filed a US patent for it. In Oct 2014 we launched and then canceled the KS project. We built some Unity plugins that is somewhat similar to the Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last month’s data show even a slight growth of connected headsets. My team is looking for freelancers for developing an XR experience : we’re looking for 2D artists, 3D artists, Unity developers, sound designers, and UX designers. The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx. Register now.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2017

Google Expeditions was born out of a hackathon soon after the Google Carboard launched back at Google I/O 2014, and it’s since been shared with over 2 million students who have gone on virtual field trips. SEE ALSO For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

The acquisition of North, together with the AR platform built with Google ARCore could make Google jump back on the AR glasses train, realizing that vision that it teased in 2014 with the Google Glasses. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app?

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

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. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program. With competition like Move.ai

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility. VR is just at the beginning, remember that we are still in the early days.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. Just a simple tweak to an outgoing packet of tracking data is causing real social consequences. In order to do that, you’ve got to solve intensely rigorous protocol for the safety and privacy of data.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Rokoko was founded in March 2014 and since then they’ve charged forward with a goal to make a suit that was easy for animators themselves to operate without help. The sensors in the Smartsuit send a constant stream of data and you therefore never lose data and have much less “mocap cleanup” to do afterwards.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I work in the XR field since 2014 , and I’ve been able to follow almost all of its hype cycle. He makes the miracle of transforming your data into his money (Image by Tweaknology). If you follow the story described above, you can see that the hype for VR in 2014 was caused by Facebook buying Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

But it is still a niche : as Mathew Olson from The Information highlights, “[PwC data] translates to a projected $6.9 And here we are, almost two years later, that we have done together massive virtual events like SXSW 2021 or the concert of Jean-Michel Jarre for which I have been even mentioned by Unity itself on its website.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

” And at the time — that was at 2013, 2014 — there was no scalable way to do that. You need to provide your data and all of that.” You could upload your data, you could add your AR content. You just use your existing data. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. I fully agree on that.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

” And at the time — that was at 2013, 2014 — there was no scalable way to do that. You need to provide your data and all of that.” You could upload your data, you could add your AR content. You just use your existing data. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. I fully agree on that.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

And at the time -- that was at 2013, 2014 -- there was no scalable way to do that. You need to provide your data and all of that." You could upload your data, you could add your AR content. You just use your existing data. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. I fully agree on that. I mean, give you an example.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

Early Unity experiment using a button menu. It is also worth noting that the Leap provides pretty consistent data for hand rotation under normal circumstances. 2013/2014 13″ Macbook Pros. Our initial implementation was heading down the path of a multi-leveled menu navigation. Try our Planet Editor Demo. Windows 64-bit.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From 2014 semi-finalist Felix Herbst ( Prefrontal Cortex ), Iterazer is a tool to play with complexity and create intricate sculptures of light and geometry in 3D space. We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor. Requires: Windows, Mac. Iterazer VR. “Our team (HisarCS.)

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. You can get some projections, you can get some mental tools through which to analyze the future, and you can learn some good attitude with which to tackle whatever future evolution may happen.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2021

Some weeks ago, I’ve launched on App Lab “The Unity Cube” , a VR experience for Quest, with just… a cube and nothing more. The genesis of The Unity Cube. This is the typical reaction of the VR user when he/she discovers The Unity Cube. The reasons for the cube. But “Why submitting just a cube?”,

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Grab hold of your digi-cycle to ride through the grid, solve firewall puzzles with hand gestures and data orbs, and take down dangerous viruses with your antiviral powers. In 2014, a friend of mine told me I should try a global game jam…. You are the Courier, a digital “paperboy” who delivers content to its destination.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014. The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. What data will be able to gather Galea? Neurable, NextMind)?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. And so what we’re doing is consulting on how can they build the team without building a huge team, or whether you need a 3D model or maybe you need a Unity expert. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. And so what we’re doing is consulting on how can they build the team without building a huge team, or whether you need a 3D model or maybe you need a Unity expert. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You've been doing this a while longer than myself, but I've been in early VR since 2014. And so what we're doing is consulting on how can they build the team without building a huge team, or whether you need a 3D model or maybe you need a Unity expert. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. John: [laughs].

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

He's been focused on growing and supporting the virtual reality industry since early 2014 at UploadVR, where he established coworking spaces in L.A. It's been sort of, like you're saying, since early 2014, with this third wave of VR kicking off. Taylor is a serial founder in the media and immersive technology space.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Alan: I started in VR in 2014, but one of the things that stuck with me I was listening to– actually it was Kent Bye’s Voices of VR podcast. So how can we we use overlaying data on the real world and light, and then solving that need for physical items.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Alan: I started in VR in 2014, but one of the things that stuck with me I was listening to– actually it was Kent Bye’s Voices of VR podcast. So how can we we use overlaying data on the real world and light, and then solving that need for physical items.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Alan: I started in VR in 2014, but one of the things that stuck with me I was listening to-- actually it was Kent Bye's Voices of VR podcast. So how can we we use overlaying data on the real world and light, and then solving that need for physical items.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

For manufacturers, eye tracking will also mean gathering more data about the users, and I think we should all talk about this topic. I remember when I started with VR in 2014: many companies didn’t even know what VR was, and they had no idea about why they should implement it. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I entered VR in 2014 after having tried an Oculus Rift DK2 : it was the startup Oculus that made me love virtual reality. The data collection from XR headsets to offer targeted ads has to continue somehow. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. It is for me instead a very difficult decision to stand.

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