Road to VR

JULY 1, 2017

With Apple’s increasing interest in VR on Mac , the company is adding essential features to its new Metal 2 graphics API to support high performance VR on MacOS. ” SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS. Single-pass Stereo.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and over time has become supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players—but notably, not Apple. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. Here’s how Neurable describes it : Neurable is debuting Awakening , a VR game preview made in partnership with eStudiofuture , at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017. They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A WebVR Community Group to decide on WebVR standards was formed by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech players, with Apple recently joining the community in July this year. “With most major browsers implementing WebVR and Apple signaling some interest, the standards side looks really positive.”

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 6, 2017

Roundup of VR & AR Announcements from WWDC 1) Apple announces VR Ready Computers Thanks to Apple updating Metal, their graphics API, to Metal 2, in their new macOS called macOS High Sierra, VR is coming to Mac. 4) Apple announces ARKit Apple announced its augmented reality platform, ARKit for iPhone and iPad.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 6, 2017

After #AWE2017 we are back to work to solve the last bugs and yes, we will use #ARkit for the iOS version of DIAMONST AR RPG #wwdc2017 pic.twitter.com/RkkvF3bOAX — ZenkoGames (@_ZenkoGames_) June 6, 2017. Could DIAMONST by Zenko Games be the killer app to showcase Apple's AR Kit?

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Apple’s ARKit has been out for developers since it was announced last month. Apple, with a single flip of the wrist, has however started down the path of farming AR applications for whatever device it has planned next. Using 3D animations from 4DViews , China-based developer 应高选 created this with his iPhone 6s and Unity.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR. APPLE TAKES A (VERY SOLID) SWING AT AUGMENTED REALITY. However… we’re still waiting for those apple AR glasses.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is here, and today’s keynote saw a number of VR-specific announcements including Apple’s first VR-ready computers to go along with the launch of the company’s newest macOS High Sierra. image courtesy Apple. A public beta is coming in June.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook said last year that “AR will change everything” and make the iPhone “even more essential,” while Microsoft has been revamping its computing around VR and AR, or what it calls “mixed reality.” billion in revenue in 2017, is seizing on the opportunity to provide the tools. “We

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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. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Despite confidence signals, consumer traction lags far behind the high-flying expectations of 2016-2017’s hype cycle. Apple’s AR Fate. Apple’s Quick Look is evolving in the same direction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

We also examine his company’s Nex Playground mocap gaming solutions, its Unity-based motion developer kit (MDK), and its partnership with Sky Live. David Lee : Our journey began in 2017 after we wanted to create motion capture using phone cameras. This took place around the release of Apple’s A12 Bionic chip.

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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. Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 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. Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. Header Image Credit: Apple. AR at Work.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Apple glasses. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We entered so the “winter of VR”, which happened between 2017 and the first part of 2019, that is the period when virtual reality was considered “dead”, and it was very hard to survive in the ecosystem. It is a good time to be in the field, which is repaying us for the very dark years of the winter of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

With the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ). With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? You can try it here (Image by MetaVRse).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

But actually, there have been many failures, mistakes, critics, things that made me sad , and some of them are known, others a bit less.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Following this period of Metaverse criticism, firms such as Apple avoided the terminology for their own MR device, and Meta barely referred to its Horizon service during Connect 2023. It appears that outside of Apple’s spatial computing vision, the XR market is riding on the success of the industrial Metaverse.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It offers a full-fledge Unity SDK to develop games and support virtual reality. Apple is also betting big on an augmented reality headset that could become the company’s staple, displacing the iPhone in the next decade. Somnium Space?—?It It is best to think of real estate from this vendor as a metaverse inside a metaverse.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

.” According to the company, Xenoma’s Software Development kit (SDK) enables development of apps using Java SDK, Visual C# and Unity Engine. The goal is to bring the clothing to market in time for Mixed Reality devices, all of which are coming in the fourth quarter of 2017.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

I lived a similar situation in the years 2017-2018 , that is the Winter of VR, the period that you may remember the most for being the “VR is dead” era. The rumors of an Apple XR headset are making everyone excited. The amazing Unity Cube. VRChat, Engage, Rec Room, Tripp, Resolution Games, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. The time has come and finally Apple will implement a depth back camera in its upcoming iPad Pro. It is another step towards the creation of a great AR ecosystem for Apple. Stay safe, stay at home and enjoy your time with VR!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

The news comes as the US Government cracks down on Big Tech companies such as Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Apple, among others. The enterprise, led by embattled Chief Executive and Founder Mark Zuckerberg , also faced issues with advert revenues after Apple changed its data collection policies. billion USD deal.

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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. APPLE HIRES AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERT FROM NASA. THE STREAMING SERVICES BATTLE IT OUT IN VR: CRACKLE ANNOUNCES THEIR PLANS. JOHN LEGEND & BAOBAB STUDIOS TEAM UP FOR VR FILM.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

FOR VR GAME IN 2017. We’ll have to wait until the end of 2017 to experience its first game, which is expected to be released on multiple platforms. eSports is an enormous business, worth almost $900M now and expected to be a billion dollar industry by 2017. FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M MOVIN’ $10.3M IN FUNDING.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. Types of AR Following are the types of AR.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Follow this event on social media: Silicon Valley VR Expo (SVVR) Date: March 29-31, 2017 Venue: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Follow this event on social media: Or visit SVVR's update feed. FIVARS is a presentation of VRTO – Toronto’s virtual reality meetup group and think tank.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. It’s time to upgrade this old system (Image by Sony). Blurring of the line between AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. That was a year ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. That was a year ago.

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