AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. At the precipice of 2020, that leaves the question of where we are now? But there are also confidence signals.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Join pick a side and join the battle for control of previous Exotic Matter in this modern revival of the 2013 location-based AR game. Thankfully, however, the data Niantic collected from Ingress’s short-lived years wasn’t wasted as it’s now being used for Niantic’s upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite AR game.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

DAQRI, the Los Angeles-based AR headset company, is now shipping its Daqri Smart Glasses to professionals. Much like Microsoft’s HoloLens, Daqri’s Smart Glasses are targeting professionals in industries like manufacturing, field services, maintenance and repair, inspections, construction, etc. OTA Updates.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. Each year, Greenlight Insights compiles and qualifies data from private and public sources across North America, Europe, and Asia in order to assess the global venture funding landscape surrounding the VR/AR industry.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Ushering in that segment was the announcement that the company had hired Tony Parisi as its Head of AR/VR Strategy. “We’re not just going to be using VR and AR to make games, we’re going to tell stories and create worlds.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates during their event Unite LA today. Unity's experimental EditorVR build will be available on December 15th. An experimental EditorVR build will be available by the end of 2016! billion new unique devices seen by Unity in Q3.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

Get a glimpse into the gameplay in Ghostbusters: Dimension, created with Unity 3D. Unity, the largest global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games and experiences, today announced a new and truly unique virtual reality (VR) experience "Ghostbusters: Dimension" has been built using the Unity Technologies platform.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

As 2016 started I was in a job I hated but thanks to CatsAndVR.com I was able to get a job in VR that allows me to travel, be plugged in, and also follow my passion. Since the end of 2016 falls on Caturday, I am closing 2016 out with a post. Since the end of 2016 falls on Caturday, I am closing 2016 out with a post.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros.

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AR Insider

JULY 12, 2021

This VR surgical training platform has been helping residents and introducing surgeons to new techniques since 2016. 8th Wall Creating Global Network For AR Creatives & Brands. 8th Wall provides a platform for doing AR with any smartphone with a camera and browser. You’re got AR. More from AR Insider….

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Following the Unity Training Day on Halloween, October 31st, Unity launched pretty awesome features during the opening keynote for Unite Los Angeles 2016 conference. Unity also revealed the new version of its EditorVR authoring tool and confirmed it will be available on December 15th.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Construct Studio also developed The Price of Freedom VR (2016). Downloaded just over 85,000 times, in 2017 it was nominated for the ‘Best Narrative VR’ and ‘Narrative Achievement Award’ at Unity VR/AR Vision Summit and was featured at the Sundance Film Festival by HTC. ” Image courtesy Construct Studio.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

Google prides itself on its stewardship of Android, the largest mobile platform in the world with over 80 percent of the mobile market share in 2016, according to research and advisory firm Gartner. Environmental understanding: It’s common for AR objects to be placed on a floor or a table. Nougat and above.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

A German student is combining AR technology with an 80’s ultrasound to display scanner data in real-time. But based on the video provided, it appears the talented little tinkerer taped a standard AR QR code to the top of the transducer which he then used to track the handheld, while displaying virtual data directly beside it.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Despite confidence signals, consumer traction lags far behind the high-flying expectations of 2016-2017’s hype cycle. Apple’s AR Fate. AR Wins with Training Wheels.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. Since they are a startup and have never released a product before, it’s understandable to be cautious about the project. AR + Hand-tracking. Cas & Chary Present.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

During the opening presentation at today’s Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google’s high-end Android VR platform. Photo courtesy Unity Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. These things are barely making it to the shelf.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. You can join us on the showfloor or follow @LeapMotion to experience the future of VR/AR. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets. Unity Module for user interface input.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2016

He showed off some code sample of sample of how to integrate Watson with Unity with IBM’s Watson Developer Cloud API, and gave a number of different use cases for how to integrate machine learning into VR experiences. Here’s some of the Unity code that calls the Tradeoff Analytics API as a part of the Watson Developer Cloud.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. Image courtesy Leap Motion. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

We go hands-on with the latest build at GDC , which retains most of the core mechanics found in the impressive pre-alpha demo from 2016. Light and shadow plays a bigger role in the stealth system, and there are more objects to pick up and interact with. Google highlights 4 ARCore apps. Image courtesy TendAR. There is a new “which box?”

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ARVR

JUNE 20, 2020

Many museums around the world are already taking advantage of its potential, such as the Louvre Museum. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’m not as important as other people you interviewed … I am just like a kid in the candy shop trying to eat some of the candies, enjoying AR and VR while I also have a daily job. In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." For now, however, basic examples are already operational via mobile AR, created and viewable using the Styly platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

We all know that in AR and VR we don’t have the perfect device yet, so we have always to make compromises when choosing what device to use in our projects and DreamGlass is no exception. It is a solid plastic device with 90° FOV (far more than a lot of AR headsets out there), 2.5K Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android.

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Voices of VR

AUGUST 12, 2019

Estella Tse discovered Tilt Brush at the Unity Vision AR/VR Summit in February 2016 where she met the developers, and became a beta tester where.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). We are going on the road of courage chasing the light under drastic change and innovation together with the peers of the times!

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

The Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), the premier event for creators of immersive VR (and AR) experiences, today announced dates and location for its second edition – its first standalone event. VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

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JULY 19, 2017

“It has matured to the point where everybody knows what AR and VR is,” said VR Village Chair Denise Quesnel. Here are some of the notable experience presentations, panels and talks that will be at the event. VR/AR & OPTICS. Magic Bench: A Multi-User, Multi-Sensory AR Platform. AR Mail From Harbin.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

During the last few years, web developers have tried to integrate virtual reality experiences on websites, starting in 2016 with the first WebVR API, but leaving aside the important segment of augmented reality, which is why WebXR was born. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

We’ll undoubtedly hear about some exciting things on the way for those gaming platforms, but the picture is unclear about just how significant AR and VR will figure into what gets announced next week. No clarity in what to expect for VR and AR isn’t because of a lack of interest or investment. Things are changing though.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It comes out from the passion of someone that has just discovered how immersive realities are beautiful, or maybe from the mind of a student that has just finished the university and wants to find a dream job in AR or VR. Immotionar and the first contact with AR and VR. Some people even ask if I can become their mentor.

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JUNE 8, 2017

We’ll undoubtedly hear about some exciting things on the way for those gaming platforms, but the picture is unclear about just how significant AR and VR will figure into what gets announced next week. No clarity in what to expect for VR and AR isn’t because of a lack of interest or investment. Things are changing though.

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