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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

The Ghost Howls

If we exclude the 3D memory thing, all the rest are use cases that we can date to 2016 maybe. 2016 or 2023? Among the examples, I’ve said Disney… and in fact, Disney has been the first announced content partner. The headset is strongly focused on 2D media consumption: watching movies, series, and sports shows.

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

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The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity.

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‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Acquires WebAR Company 8th Wall

Road to VR

million in funding since its founding in 2016, according to Crunchbase. While Niantic’s Lightship SDK is designed to integrate with the popular game engine Unity—and ultimately produce standalone app-based experiences—the company’s acquisition of 8th Wall expands its toolset to cover web-based AR content as well.

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Unity Planning To Release In-VR Authoring Tool Next Month

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We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. An experimental EditorVR build will be available by the end of 2016! Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. Update: Unity is aiming the VR editor to launch in December.

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‘Tilt Brush’ Toolkit Turns Artists Into Animators With Unity Integration

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Back in October 2016 the search engine giant open sourced the Tilt Brush Toolkit, a set of scripts that allows developers to utilize.tilt files (your saved creations) in various ways, bringing them into other applications. Tagged with: Editor VR , tilt brush , Tilt Brush Toolkit , unity.

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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

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Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016.

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STYLY makes creation and distribution of cross-platform XR content easy

The Ghost Howls

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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