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. The post From Orion to Mobile VR: Leap Motion in 2016 appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. Libreri met with Vince Baertsoen, the head of R&D at The Mill, last year in Germany at FMX 2016. Tagged with: blackbird , chevrolet , epic , GDC , the mill , Unreal engine.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9 Today, the consortium has announced the launch of the 1.0

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. Additionally, Unreal Engine is one of the premier VR development ecosystems and new advancements on the technology side of the company will likely be announced as well. What Else to Expect.

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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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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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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Alongside platforms like Google VR and Unreal Engine, it gives developers a springboard into creating immersive experiences, which many believe will be the future of how we will interact with many services — both leisurely and utilitarian ones — in the future. Read more here.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. Oculus would do best if they tried to bring users into their store by supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift and any other PC hardware that comes out.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

Enea developing in virtual reality using Unreal Engine VR editor. He actually used the Unreal VR editor a lot and most of the scenes he has made have been developed or at least refined with this tool. Notice the fact that they are a not-for-sale sample… in that house there is a lot of experimental hardware!

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

AR gaming, on the other hand, arguably hasn’t had a big hit since Pokemon Go in 2016, but with a range of new headsets on their way, 2024 could see a resurgence in the use of reality-blending technology to create innovative games and experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2016

They clearly stated that the HDK is designed for developers and semi-professionals who like to hack hardware and software. Een video die is geplaatst door Robbert Brus (@vrbites) op 27 Sep 2016 om 5:25 PDT. Time to discuss the hardware. To connect all the hardware, you need at least two USB 2.0 ports and a free HDMI 1.3

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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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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. The VR industry’s growth is still limited very much by hardware. product Cortana in China. What does PanguVR do? What is it?

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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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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

How about Unreal Engine? Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 Updated April 5, 2016). Using our latest Unity Core Assets , just download Unity 5.3.4p1 and install the OVRPlugin for Unity 1.3.0. If you’re updating a project from the 0.8 SDK, you’ll also want to check out Oculus’ migration guide. Not at all!

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. CES 2016: Consumer VR Wars.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Back in 2016, a group of Japanese developers were working on a project with a local fashion designer who wanted to do a fashion show in an underwater environment. When do you think web-based XR content can reach the same high level of standalone content made with Unreal or Unity? What is STYLY’s backstory? You work with WebXR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As developers explore the limitless potential of VR, performance and efficiency continue to be an essential focus of hardware and software. At GDC 2016, Unity announced they would be adding support for VRWorks , Nvidia’s SDK for optimisation of VR using the company’s GPUs.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2016

Powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, the game looks beautiful with that original Kickstarter concept production design now shining through in sumptuous looking, real-time rendered environments. Road to VR will of course be on the show floor at E3 2016 to bring you the latest VR news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

The first demos were even from 2014, this is from 2016 and already used the Rift CV1. When in 2016 a mentor in the European Innovation Academy accelerator suggested me to do marketing for our startup by opening a blog to show that I was an expert in VR, I did it. The first SkarredGhost logo. If in doubt, choose Unity.

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APRIL 5, 2017

The first time I tried a Tactical Haptics virtual reality controller was at GDC 2016. Previously, only one controller at a time could contain all the haptic hardware this studio is packing in to its devices. The focus lately has been getting both controllers ready to go and perfecting Unity and Unreal Engine integrations.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Or Unreal if that’s your language. I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. There was a lot of hardware work. You were really there building hardware and using very low frame, low-resolution headsets.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. ARtillery Intelligence predicts $14B of consumer AR revenues by 2021, with only around $2B of that from hardware sales. In one scenario this may be some kind of AR browser, equivalent to today’s web browsers, like WebXR running on Chrome.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon. Others, like Apple, will probably never join and develop their own standards.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

Originally announced in the spring of 2016, BMW has been using VR to cut costs and expedite development. WILL WE HEAR FROM FACEBOOK’S SECRET HARDWARE TEAM SOON? BMW has also baked in the ability for team members to interact together in the same virtual environment, no matter where they are in the world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

But the lenses are so 2016. Speaking with Alvin and an Unreal developer (that has used the Pro since various days) after my quick tests, they told me that probably I haven’t been excited by it because I just used it some minutes and because I haven’t tried demos that highlight all the pro-features that I’ve discussed above.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. But we were in the summer of 2016, we were looking at a demo and the demo was shown with the Hololens first gen device. Niko: Absolutely, yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. But we were in the summer of 2016, we were looking at a demo and the demo was shown with the Hololens first gen device. Niko: Absolutely, yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. But we were in the summer of 2016, we were looking at a demo and the demo was shown with the Hololens first gen device. Niko: Absolutely, yes.

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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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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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