VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

A regular at Shackspace in Stuttgart, Germany, Skobov came across the obscure hardware after a fellow hacker happened upon the device while diving through public dumpsters in search of low-tech hidden treasures.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. The reaction from our community was incredible: The Orion beta makes it feel like new hardware. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets. Unity Module for user interface input.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. Updated Tracking. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Improved Developer Tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

Today, there are countless solutions out there, from software development platforms, from hardware ecosystems built for flexibility, ideal for game creators. The Valve Index kit is one of the most powerful tools for gaming developers interested in leveraging both the hardware and software aspects of extended reality. The Sandbox.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Though well loved, Apple’s computer lineup got somewhat left in the dust at the launch of the Rift and Vive, both of which had hardware requirements that exceeded what Apple had on offer. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. To that end, the company largely steered clear of talking about VR publicly.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

As soon as the platform was revealed, a few new sessions at Google I/O 2016 popped up that you won’t want to miss. Watch Google I/O 2016 Livestream. Lessons Learned from VR Prototyping (Livestreamed). When: May 19, 10:00 am – 11:00 am PST ( click for your local time ).

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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…). Also, Mobile Phone manufacturers like Vivo and OPPO have rumored plans to release VR hardware in the future.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

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. That includes hardware and software, such as AR glasses and visualization support for industrial assembly and maintenance. billion in 2020.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Manus VR is one such company who’ve moved from crude looking , Gear VR based early designs through to slick looking functional iterations, as shows at March’s GDC running on desktop PC hardware alongside the HTC Vive. Early Manus Glove Prototypes. Manus VR brought along their latest gloves to the show along with an early.

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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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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

Gaming is likely to be the bridge to that change — the content that offers a reason to buy it and helps put immersive hardware in millions of homes. For many in 2016, the hardware that delivers the most immersive experiences was too expensive and the software too shallow for many to justify the purchase just yet.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Speaking with Eurogamer this week , Valve head Gabe Newell confirmed that development of the three VR games was ongoing in both the company’s own Source 2 engine and Unity. “One of the questions you might be asking is ‘Why in the world would you be making hardware?’ ” said Newell. ” said Newell.

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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. It consists of a room in which you can interact with some objects.

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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. When talking about the hurdles of making a VR game that could run on all platforms, she declared that “The number of polygons we could display on our high-end hardware was about 26 times greater than the number we could display on our low-end”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Where the first Connect back in 2014 was about introducing creators to early VR design and development concepts and pre-release hardware, this year’s conference looks to have gone and grown up, indicating the move from enthusiasts nice to a rapidly evolving industry. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC.

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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. The hardware is not there. million VR headsets in 2016.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way. But Jules says that they’re working on a much faster techniques.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. Although Spaces is currently limited to only a few activities, and it’s only compatible with the Oculus Rift VR hardware, expect to see more virtual amusements as well as accessible hardware… eventually.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

They clearly stated that the HDK is designed for developers and semi-professionals who like to hack hardware and software. 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. Time to discuss the hardware. The experience.

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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

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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces. 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.

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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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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

How can I build in Unity with the 1.3 With just one simple Unity patch, you’ll be ready to tackle the brave new world of consumer VR. Using our latest Unity Core Assets , just download Unity 5.3.4p1 and install the OVRPlugin for Unity 1.3.0. Updated April 5, 2016). But not today! Not at all!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

NVIDIA is offering early access to a version of Unity with the company’s VRWorks features integrated into the engine for enhanced VR performance. As developers explore the limitless potential of VR, performance and efficiency continue to be an essential focus of hardware and software. Developers can apply for early access here.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). The device is still too expensive and too limited both in hardware and in available content for the general consumer. With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

Key components of VRWorks are being adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 to provide developers an easy path to taking advantage of the SDK in their games and applications. In 2016, NVIDIA announced Audio API as a part of VRworks like this: “Audio can have a huge impact on presence in VR.

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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." So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something= Florian: Yeah. Alan: So did you make that hardware yourself, or did you have it made? Alan: All right.

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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." So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something=. So we've found out in-- also in early 2016 that the biggest issues are performance we solves with ISAR.

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Upload VR

JUNE 23, 2022

Valve employees hinting toward the Future of VR hardware. For those who do not know, Steam VR has used the same method to allow players to play flat screen games in VR since the HTC Vive released in 2016. It ran on Unity. Well again: they do have plans for that. But I think as an upgrade path. Was slow and ugly.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Vive Focus Plus seems almost identical to a Vive Focus, but I can tell you that I can spot some little differences, due to the fact that now there is additional hardware onboard (Image by HTC). The Vive Focus Plus will be sold in the West as an enterprise headset and it will have enterprise features (e.g.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. January 2016. February 2016. March 2016. April 2016.

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