Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here’s how the alliance describes their new OpenUSD inititive: Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers robust interoperability across tools, data, and workflows. OpenUSD is based on years of research and application in Pixar filmmaking.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). 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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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight Insights’ annual year-end analysis of individual venture capital deals dating back to 2011.

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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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VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

A German student is combining AR technology with an 80’s ultrasound to display scanner data in real-time. That was until Skobov discovered its potential and merged the obsolete machine with augmented reality to display scanner data on a virtual screen. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

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. Ingress, at the time was considered merely a ‘proof of concept’, quietly fell to the wayside.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

Shipments begin a little later than the original estimation of October 2016. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK. According to a blog from the company, the first development kits will be going out to a “small number” of partners, while remaining customers will be notified on a one-by-one basis.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. 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. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. billion in 2020.

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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. Nougat and above. .” ” The company hasn’t said specifically when the end of preview access will occur however.

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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. The Google Maps team has built an SDK that allows Google Maps geodata to be used in the Unity game engine. Image courtesy Google.

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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. We’re working with Unity on this project. We’ve got these 3D pixels that the dancers are comprised of, and those are super fun to work with and throw into Unity and put these super amazing shaders on them. ”.

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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. Large amounts of data for viewing scenes can also exceed the limits of rendering.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. I was playing it on a hotel TV hooked up to a laptop and I think I was connecting to a data center in San Jose which was about 50 miles away, which is definitely on the low end if they are rolling it out across the entire United States.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

Despite confidence signals, consumer traction lags far behind the high-flying expectations of 2016-2017’s hype cycle. That’s everything from retailers to brands to entertainment companies using AR tools like Unity, 8th Wall and Adobe Aero. That leaves the question of what 2020 will bear. VR’s Steady Gains.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

When I attended the Experiential Technology Conference in May 2016, I heard from a number of commercial off-the-shelf brain-control interface manufacturers that their systems would not natively work with VR headsets because there are some critical portions on the head that are occluded by VR headset straps. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

First of all, there are going to be a number of different privacy issues, like the biometric data that could be collected from virtual reality technologies including eye tracking, attention, heart rate, emotional states, body language, and even EMG muscle data or EEG brainwaves. — Andy Durdin (@adurdin) May 24, 2016.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 17, 2017

In the industry, this type of game is still considered blue-sky thinking—experiences tend to be segmented into AR or VR—but students vying for Full Sail’s Simulation and Visualization bachelor degree, launched in 2016, are encouraged to think big. Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We

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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." You know, that film came out in 2016," he said. "I I started making it in 2013.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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. million VR headsets in 2016. I’m not one of those journalists.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Digital lightfields are a cutting-edge technology that can render photorealistic VR scenes, and Otoy has been a pioneer of the rendering and compression techniques to deal with the massive amounts of data required to create them.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. And if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, it can already offer foveated rendering out of the box! Isn’t it a cool device?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And until I would say 2016 around, not that much happened. But in 2016 we just thought, "Nah, come on, we can do it better." We started at engineering and figured out that the problems we have there, like big data, industrial consuming, and interaction with XR data in overall. So that's how it started in 2015.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And until I would say 2016 around, not that much happened. But in 2016 we just thought, "Nah, come on, we can do it better." We started at engineering and figured out that the problems we have there, like big data, industrial consuming, and interaction with XR data in overall. So that's how it started in 2015.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The Qualcomm design is essentially a reference design and promotes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor as a solution for other companies to make their own wireless HMD, and the specifications will be released in Q4 of 2016. Alcatel is releasing their product first in China at the end of this year and the U.S. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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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…). The fun thing is that since it is a publication very focused on the Chinese market, outside China almost no one knows them.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

In Feb 2016 our force feedback unit was successfully batch manufactured and then assembled into Dexmo. In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of. We built some Unity plugins that is somewhat similar to the Vive. We filed several patents to protect the IP as well.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

A presentation by Hypergrid Business editor Maria Korolov about the current state of the OpenSim metaverse, with additional data about virtual reality headset market growth. The video below was produced by Metaworld Broadcasting for Avacon: Evaluating VR Platforms: OpenSimulator, Unity 3D, WebGl and Other Applications.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It must be put on the Focus so that the headset can get the data of the two controllers. It works even when the controllers cross each other and thanks to some black magic by HTC (that involves IMU data for sure), the controllers are tracked even when they are slightly behind the head.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

TH: What we do on the data side is a fairly complex manner but still simple enough to enter the broadcast pipeline where latency is the key. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences. TH: In our core, we’re a data company. VRW: What engine are you using to create the experiences?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I think we start with, what's a "polygon" and why is that important to be able to push so much data? And what Unreal Engine 5 is about is you will be able to use the data that you actually have available, without preparing it. We call this process data prep. But you mentioned GIS data and CAD data and Lidar data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I think we start with, what's a "polygon" and why is that important to be able to push so much data? And what Unreal Engine 5 is about is you will be able to use the data that you actually have available, without preparing it. We call this process data prep. But you mentioned GIS data and CAD data and Lidar data.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If words like open source, GitHub, GNU, firmware, C#, or Unity don’t mean you anything, then you better stay away from this headset and buy a Rift or Vive. Een video die is geplaatst door Robbert Brus (@vrbites) op 27 Sep 2016 om 5:25 PDT. After filling in the necessary data it is time to setup steam. The experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

With HTC Vive the sensor window has been part of their design language since the first Vive SteamVR kit in 2016, this was continued with Vive Pro, Vive Trackers, and Vive Pro 2. For example, the calibration data of a single sensor is this one: model Points [ -0.00322245085, -0.0423639342, 0.110276416 ]. Image by Rob Cole).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I think we start with, what's a "polygon" and why is that important to be able to push so much data? And what Unreal Engine 5 is about is you will be able to use the data that you actually have available, without preparing it. We call this process data prep. But you mentioned GIS data and CAD data and Lidar data.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2020

Because VR teleportation is so 2016. The company will also be providing their own Unity Software Development Kit, allowing developers access to the raw data from both the sensors as well as the haptic feedback motors. VR has come a long way over since launch of the Oculus DK1.

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