Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin. The post Unity Native Support for Google Daydream VR Coming in Summer, Plugin Out Now appeared first on Road to VR.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. months away!

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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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VRScout

JULY 5, 2016

The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation. Narrated by Murray himself, #FeelWimbledon was created by UK virtual reality studio, Hammerhead VR.

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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 28, 2016

2016 has been a landmark year for VR and 360° video. Moses Sumney – Music from Every Angle for the 2016 Honda Civic (Original song: “Everlasting Sigh”). And Google couldn’t have picked a more fitting source text; “Bohemian Rhapsody” is purportedly the first promotional music video ever created.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Representatives for Google VR, Intel, and others already voiced their support of Khronos’ work by that point, but Epic’s Unreal Engine allowed Khronos to focus on a potential wider adoption of the standard. A handful of games have been released utilizing the standard since it was made available back in February of 2016.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Following Parisi’s introduction, Google took to the stage to reconfirm today’s news that its Daydream platform would be launching on Nov. 10, and that native Unity support would arrive in the next iteration of the engine, 5.6.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

“When you change the way you see the world, you change the world you see, and this is what has happened with the HoloLens,” said Satya Nadella as he kicked off the much-anticipated launch, over 3 years after the device was first launched in 2016. Let’s be honest, 2016 seems like a very long time ago now.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. In 2016 Ubisoft quickly emerged as one of the premier publishers of virtual reality games.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Gaming On-Demand Google's Stadia streaming gaming service may not exist in 2023 - it proved to be a great idea, backed by solid technology, that just didn't catch on with consumers. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Toward the end of their on-stage demo at Unite 2016 on Tuesday, Unity Labs’ Amir Ebrahimi and Timoni West debuted this addition to the platform, which is due to release before the end of the year. Dourin thinks it will give them a leg up over the competition: Unreal Engine 4’s own in-VR editor.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Another takeaway is that it sounds like the game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine that are used for creating these types of interactive narratives still have a lot of work yet to be done before everyone will be able to easily create their own type of experience that mimics Sequenced’s sophisticated triggering system.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

PanguVR started in March 2016 and now has a team of 30+ people all focusing on VR rendering technology , namely the ability to automatically convert exterior and interior scenes from 3D format to real VR. But perhaps we will come back to it since there are many innovations appearing in AR such as those seen in the new Google Pixel 3.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

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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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Gloebits had 200 people using the currency as of the end of 2016, and has more than doubled since then to 471. The following 11 grids were suspended this month: Bess Research , HyperWild , KoolPheller Estates , Montefiorino , Open Dream , Osirus , Regno Di Camlaan , Second World , Unreal , Virtual Final World , and Watcher’s World.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

In 2016, the world-class graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia developed Nvidia Ansel, a screenshot software for taking in-game screenshots, most notably 360 panoramas, even if your games aren't in VR. It is the sequel to 2014's Watch Dogs and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in November 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I’d always used the wide facial interface on the Vive as I’d tried the narrow interface before without any success when I got my first Vive in early 2016. the advantage of using a 2080Ti GPU): I’m just marvelling at the clarity, small details and unreal sense of presence.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The 2016 OpenSim Community Conference was responsible for about a quarter of the increase, but many other grids also saw gains. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it. December Region Counts on the Top 40 Grids.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

On the web, if you create a website, you can go to Google and you get a tag, and you can put ads and you can make a living out of it. So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. But that’s actually not what happens right now in VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

On the web, if you create a website, you can go to Google and you get a tag, and you can put ads and you can make a living out of it. So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. But that’s actually not what happens right now in VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it. You are talking about a game engine that makes video games on phones and computers, that's worth 40 billion dollars.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it. You are talking about a game engine that makes video games on phones and computers, that's worth 40 billion dollars.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

WebVR — which Google has also officially embraced — can offer immersive room-scale VR software through a web browser without downloads or installs. The graphics quality is a long shot from what you can build in systems like Unreal Engine , but it’s still powerful. festival in Berlin.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it. You are talking about a game engine that makes video games on phones and computers, that's worth 40 billion dollars.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2016

At XBiz Miami 2016 , a business to business convention for the adult industry, VR was one of the hottest topics that leaked its way into every conversation. In the same report, it also claims that 3 out of 4 headset owners own a mobile VR viewer such as the Google Cardboard or Samsung GearVR. According to VirtualPorn360.com,

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

diagonal, which feels so 2016. Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I think it can become just the nth XR project that Google will abandon. Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You look back when commercial VR launched in 2016, and you needed a $1,500 graphics card… combine that with a computer… then the headset; you’re at three grand before you even start. When it comes to capabilities, it’s already there. There’s no reason not to dive in, in my opinion.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You look back when commercial VR launched in 2016, and you needed a $1,500 graphics card… combine that with a computer… then the headset; you’re at three grand before you even start. When it comes to capabilities, it’s already there. There’s no reason not to dive in, in my opinion.

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