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GDC 2017: Khronos Group Unveils VR/AR Standard OpenXR

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In December of last year, Khronos group made headlines for adding Epic Games to the list of companies in support of their pursuit of an API standard for virtual and augmented reality. A couple months later, that standard now has a name as Khronos unveils the OpenXR working group at GDC 2017.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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Fantastic Contraption’s developers are part of an exclusive group of VR creators who have successfully generated in excess of $1 million. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. It was a moment that changed their lives.

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Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality

Road to VR

Throughout the past year, we’ve loved working in virtual reality — from in – house projects to our work with Google Daydream for IO 2016. As far as production software, we were torn between our familiarity with Unity and the rendering potential of Unreal. VR motion controllers. Defining Goals.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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Reporting issues cause stats drop this month

Hypergrid Business

InWorldz is a closed commercial grid, meaning that users cannot teleport to other grids, go shopping on other grids, attend events there, join hypergrid groups, or send messages to friends on other grids. There are 9,104 products are listed on the market, groups into 17,429 variations. Kitely Market now reaches 185 grids.

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Valve Index: A good fit?

The Ghost Howls

June 28 th was a key date this year for a group of Virtual Reality enthusiasts who received on launch day, the first delivery of the new “ Valve Index ” PCVR system. As a member of this small group, who against the odds had managed to secure a pre-order on May 1st , mine arrived at 12.31

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