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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub. They’re easier to project.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Gaming is critical but is more hits driven and ephemeral, so owning the key games seems less important than simply making sure they exist on our platform. Further into the email, Zuckerberg says that he was “supportive of acquiring Unity,” one of the leading game engines for both non-VR and VR gaming content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

If you design games to be played on the tray table of a plane, you are also creating experiences for people with mobility issues who might not be able to jump around like in a normal BeatSaber session. My team at Shopify started on VR stuff back in 2015 but we’ve been really focused on augmented reality shopping as of late.

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JULY 18, 2023

It's completely different to the basic audio panning used in most non-VR games. Oculus launched an Audio SDK in 2015 using a HRTF, and over the years it saw several improvements including near-field HRTF, volumetric sources, dynamic room modeling, and even geometry-based sound propagation.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2016

VR escape room games are one of the emerging genres that are particularly well-suited for the affordances of VR, and Schell Games’ I Expect You to Die sets the standard for creating this type of puzzle game. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes. Donate to the Voices of VR Podcast Patreon.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

Part 2: Flight In the last post , I covered the creation of the monarch butterfly avatar that players will embody in this VR game/simulation. In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. 2015 Sep;92(3):033004. Epub 2015 Sep 4. PMID: 26465553.

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MAY 2, 2017

Plenty of news came out of Unity’s Vision Summit keynote talk yesterday, including a look at a hugely ambitious new first-person shooter (FPS) for VR headsets, Seeking Dawn. This game may have seemingly come out of nowhere, but developer Multiverse already has a few sneak peaks online.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Feelreal had its first taste of notoriety back at GDC 2015 when the company debuted its public prototype, a sort of smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that provided users with a number of scents through a clip-in cartridge system as well as hot and cool wind, water mist, and haptic vibrations. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The report, titled “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: 2016 Mobile and VR Games Year in Review,” is a compilation of information Super Data and Unity Technologies, though we clarified with Unity that they did not contribute to the estimates for VR headset data in the report. The report estimates 4.5

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

In addition to the cash, winners will be awarded, “high-end hardware products such as the newest MSI GP62M VR gaming laptop, Aegis gaming desktop, Intel X99 motherboard, and GeForce GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC graphics card, as well as software license of Unity Plus as sponsored by Unity.” Video Output: HDMI 1.4

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

The pandemic accelerated the adoption of XR in consumer gaming and remote collaboration. AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015. "AWE Asia's approach in 2023 is interdisciplinary, sharing updates from XR insiders as well as conversations about novel applications of XR in key industries.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2017

Back in 2015, Disney developed AR technology that could bring coloring books to life through live texturing , the process of capturing a 2D drawing to create a 3D augmented-reality image in real-time. AR Museum, which was built with the Unity 5.5 game engine and using Vuforia 6.2.6

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Along with the closure, the company also says they’re earmarking $50 million to invest in non-gaming experiential VR content, and in doing so reveals a major reason why the company opted to shutter the studio. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

This also means app developers can create cooperative games that involve people outside the headset like VR party game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015). Unity and Unreal support. Google Cast-support is also coming to Daydream devices so people outside of VR can see what you’re doing. image courtesy Google.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

So I guess what I was thinking of was a form of AR where people could actually walk through the animations, ” Benzing told me as she explained how she crossed the wire from traditional theater to immersive technology, way back in 2015. We’re working with Unity on this project. So there are game-like elements, but it is not a game. ”.

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JULY 23, 2017

That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Presence Capital has invested in Baobab Studios, Bigscreen, Harmonix, Nomadic, Meta, Resolution Games, Scope AR, Strivr, TheWaveVR, and Visbit. Six of its investments are in game companies. “A Mahajan said the average investment size is around $200,000.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I have been working in the immersive space since 2015 and my personal vision is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Organisations such as the VR/AR Association have responded to the demands of a rapidly changing tech sector since 2015 by providing a platform capable of facilitating such transformative development.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I founded biometric data based AI start-up Looxid Labs in 2015. . Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . VR will be a game changer for brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Enjoy his interesting words! What is Looxid Labs?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

It seems that the new players have found some other interesting games to play (or that are busy modding). 80% of Quest users don’t care about playing games on SteamVR and are only interested in playing on a standalone device. The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I am very passionate about mixed reality and I am incredibly happy of having developed a Unity plugin to let every developer create AR/MR apps on the Vive Focus Plus (you can find it on GitHub !), with which we of NTW have created the first mixed reality fitness game, HitMotion: Reloaded.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2022

My name is Ryan and I’m a creative person who became interested in VR back in 2015. I have made things in Unity ever since, now with 4 published titles: Custom Home Mapper (on Sidequest and Itch), as well as Space pilot Alliance , Pocket Racer , and RamCastle on App Lab. What kind of games/experiences would you like to play?”

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MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” Right now, the most common use case for networked 3D experiences is online video games.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

According to Laverde, this began in 2015. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. It also hinted at some developments to come in the future. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking. Keep Coming Back.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. Table of Contents.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

We’re counting down to the release of Sony’s VR headset on October 13th by highlighting one game a day for its anticipated release. Headmaster is one of the games we’ve been seeing time again on PlayStation VR, having been revealed all the way back in the days that the headset was called Project Morpheus. Is there a story mode?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The exhibit is rooted in her 2015 album Vulnicura – a dizzying dive into the depths of post-breakup despair. Steel Wool Studios , based in Oakland, CA and founded by former Lucasfilm, Telltale Games, and Pixar creatives, received $5M in Series A funding entirely from HTC. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Star Wars Battlefront is easily one of the best looking games ever made. That’s thanks in no small part to the proprietary Frostbite game engine, created originally by Battlefield developer DICE, and eventually sucked up as part of an EA acquisition of the company.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rather than creating a traditional dissection lab to teach anatomy, her organisation considered spatial computing products readily available in 2015. She concluded: “It’s not going to be only for gaming or entertainment.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

Fove raised $480,000 on Kickstarter (along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures) in summer 2015 to manufacture their eye-tracking headset, a technology that’s useful for a number of important applications such as foveated rendering, avatar eye-mapping, simulated depth-of field, and eye-based user interfaces.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards shares a quality with many people in the game industry: She didn’t set out to work in games. Reflecting on her career and her time at the IGDA, she says that like many, she ended up in games after finishing a so-called “normal career.”. The common denominator is that we love games, and we have since we were kids.”.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. Sarah Northway is working on her own VR game she’s not ready to talk about yet. ” Moore recalls thinking.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the HTC Vive’s roomscale virtual experience, you should check the Microsoft, Game Stop, or Micro Center location closest to you!

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. So it was in 2015 I/ITSEC, I believe, maybe -14. Definitely look forward to our discussion. Alan: I'm really excited. It's a big hub.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. So it was in 2015 I/ITSEC, I believe, maybe -14. Definitely look forward to our discussion. Alan: I'm really excited. It's a big hub.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 6, 2015. OTOY added support for rendering stereo cube maps in the Octane renderer.

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