Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. billion in 2016 alone. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. He’s not creating Google VR.

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MARCH 5, 2017

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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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. ” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

We go hands-on with Budget Cuts, Google presents ARCore and Maps API-enabled apps, Squanch Games’ Daydream exclusive title announced, and Magic Leap talks about developing games for a spatial computing platform. Google highlights 4 ARCore apps. Google Maps API for game development. Image courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced Daydream VR platform , an initiative that’s poised to bring low latency VR to a number of select Android smartphones later this fall, wasn’t exactly what the Internet was expecting when it heard about Google wanting to make its own VR headset. Watch Google I/O 2016 Livestream.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Earlier this week Unity’s Editor VR platform evolved from a novel new way of making videogames into potentially the most forward-thinking VR development platform, and its all to do with Tools. According to VP of Unity Labs Sylvio Drouin, that’s a very real possibility. But Tvori could be just the start. Interactivity.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Google Daydream is supposed to launch Fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps to the Google Play store until 2017. See Also: Google Daydream SDK Launches Out of Beta, Adds Unity Integration.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Using OpenStreetMap alongside Google Maps, the app revealed a secret digital battlefield that existed over the real-world, allowing a small, but dedicated community of players to duke it out in digital turf wars. Ingress Prime is available now on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Image Credit: Niantic .

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Google Daydream VR platform is set to launch in fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps. Google Play store is limiting access until some point in 2017. ” Google Pixel XL phone is manufactured by HTC. Everyone else will be allowed to publish apps “early next year.”

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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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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia. And I was playing Doom 2016 and was just like clicking the trigger, and then a half second later it was firing a shot. There were so many problems with it.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap.

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JUNE 22, 2016

VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Potential speakers may submit detailed technical and business-centric talks today through July 8, 2016. To register or submit your speaking abstract by July 8, visit: vrdconf.com.

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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. And so on… Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence, has left Google to speak out about the dangers of AI. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller.

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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. Impressive. “ [My story] goes way back to theater if we want to go that far, ” Benzing told me over our Google Hangouts call. “ We’re working with Unity on this project. But that wasn’t her first rodeo by a long shot.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Professionals and storytellers from across the volumetric video industry, including Pixar, Dreamworks, Autodesk, Google, Netflix, and YouTube, founded the company in 2016. It will do so to develop next-generation tools across its HoloSuite solution and other capture-agnostic platforms to produce and export content from all providers.

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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. Visual search a la Google Lens will be opportune as it inherits the high-intent dynamics that make search a valuable ad medium. That leaves the question of what 2020 will bear. Enterprise AR is a Mixed Bag.

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company launched in 2015 and released its first product in 2016 – focusing on spatial analytic services. Full general admission is available for $599, with access to all keynote talks and panel discussions.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Google today released a new spatial audio software development kit called ‘Resonance Audio’, a cross-platform tool based on technology from their existing VR Audio SDK. Google’s existing VR SDK audio engine already supported multiple platforms, but with platform-specific documentation on how to implement the features.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). When talking about Mobile AR potentialities, people still refer to Pokemon Go, that is an application that came out in 2016, and for which AR was just a little detail (the success of the app was given by geolocation and the Pokemon brand).

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

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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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?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Following this 2016 World Tour , Kaleidoscope also organized a Summer Showcase, hitting six cities, one of which we hosted with Kaleidoscope here in Los Angeles. The full list of 2016 DevLab creators include: Aaron Bradbury. The team plans to expand DevLab next year and will open up submissions for the next class of creators.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

A system that took much of what had been achieved with mobileVR in 2016 and packaged it into a reliable and compelling solution for the education sector, becoming a world leader deserving much more recognition. And part of the RiVR Link (“ classroom in a Box ”) offering a turnkey VR solution, and Google Expeditions platforms.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. We leave you with a video of Tim Sweeney’s speech during VRX 2016: The post VRX 2017 Conference Brings an All Star Cast appeared first on VR World. Maureen Fan, CEO, Baobab Studios.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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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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JULY 19, 2017

Created on a paper napkin in 2016, HOLO-DOODLE combines cutting-edge technology, and some of the best creative minds in the VR world to create an intimate, social hangout for users who assume the body of a pink robot. The Making of Google Earth VR. Holo-Doodle. Realities Of VR Production.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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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