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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The 2017 video from Normal VR started with an adorable, yellow, blob-like virtual avatar daintily standing in the middle of a real, physical office. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes.

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MAY 1, 2017

Google has announced that its augmented reality platform Tango will be getting native integrated support for Unity later this year. Google’s Nathan Martz, Photo Courtesy Unity. Google’s Nathan Martz, Photo Courtesy Unity. SEE ALSO Asus 'ZenFone AR' Google Tango, Daydream VR Phone Launched, Specs Revealed.

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JUNE 30, 2021

This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. The setting.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Many companies are making waves across the gaming industry at GDC this week and Unity has certainly contributed to a few headlines. At GDC, Wowza Media Systems announced a collection of development tools for Unity software and one of them is a plugin that allows for a connection to Wowza’s GoCoder.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Watch YouTube with friends, mix your favorite music, or go head-to-head in a variety of classic board games. Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. Never Board is a board game lover’s dream. Try the in-game tutorial. NEVER BOARD. Not sure where to start?

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

As CEO of Unity Technologies, John Riccitiello leads one of the most important companies in VR’s future, but he doesn’t expect the industry to see “explosive growth” next year. “Watch for big / massive games in 3 to 5 years.” “Watch for big / massive games in 3 to 5 years.”

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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. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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MARCH 4, 2022

I have made things in Unity ever since, now with 4 published titles: Custom Home Mapper (on Sidequest and Itch), as well as Space pilot Alliance , Pocket Racer , and RamCastle on App Lab. What kind of games/experiences would you like to play?” Hello Ryan, can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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AUGUST 13, 2017

Colaianni told me, “the outstanding nomination process for the VR Awards 2017 is anything to go by, future years will continue to build upon the astounding work our nominees have been producing.” Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training.

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MARCH 1, 2017

When we last heard from OTOY , the company revealed it was bringing light field baking and more to its Unity integration. On display at Unity’s booth is the first light field video created in OTOY’s Octane renderer using the engine. Items captured could be turned into a Unity asset to be brought into VR or MR experiences.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Home A Drone will allow players to fight off invading swarms of enemies by placing structures that automatically target and shoot at whatever approaches, similar to other tower defense-style games like Defense Grid 2. Image courtesy Construct Studio. Home A Drone is headed to Steam and Viveport this Thursday, September 19th, priced at $10.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. In June 2017, Apple launched its own AR development kit, ARKit , while launching iOS11. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Apple ARKit.

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MARCH 14, 2017

VR game development on the Unity platform just received a massive productivity boost. The announcement was in response to Unity Technologies’ latest update to the platform, released on March 11 th, 2017. Unity launched the first publicly available experimental build of EditorVR for Unity, on December 15, 2016.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

VRChat will be releasing on Steam in Early Access on February 1st 2017. On top of casual hangouts, users will be able to play community-built games. Environments invite sandbox-style madness; at one point in the trailer a bowling game is abandoned as two groups of friends instead start to hurl balls at each other.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

And while developers can play with that version of the engine and its XR tools, the engine’s creator (Epic Games), doesn’t recommend the early access version of Unreal Engine 5 for anything more than experiments at this point. OpenXR has seen a slow but steady adoption since reaching version ‘1.0’ That makes Unreal Engine 4.27

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Google VR (@googlevr) January 19, 2017. A Unity SDK has been added to the Github that will allow you to take your sketches into projects being developed with the engine. There are also examples of what’s possible with the SDK, including a simple racing game and even a full first-person exploration piece with teleportation.

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JULY 31, 2017

It became active during the next portion of the demo meant to show the potential of the system in a game environment. 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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JUNE 19, 2017

Unity’s Vision Summit keynote was home to a lot of news, but a certain game definitely stood out. Here at E3 2017 we got a chance to play some two-player co-op through a mission and based on that impression, this visually stunning title could use some work. You can read more about our time at E3 at our news hub.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. “We’re not just going to be using VR and AR to make games, we’re going to tell stories and create worlds. “We want you to make all your VR and AR with Unity,” he said, promising renewed investment in the industry. .”

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MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate.

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MAY 10, 2017

Even their website and trailer (below) for 2017’s expo imbue a heroic theme, building buzz for the event with high energy. Individuals from companies such as HTC Vive, NVIDIA, Osterhout, Unity, castAR, Qualcomm, Leap Motion, Meta, Verizon, Dell, Oculus, and more will be among the over 300 featured speakers in attendance.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

In the summer of 2017, the company announced it was shuttering the social VR platform due to lack of funds. MRTK was a Microsoft-driven project that provided a set of components and features, used to accelerate cross-platform XR app development in the Unity game engine. Sinclair says the project is remaining open source.

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APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The VR revolution is taking place just a little behind another major leap for the games industry; streaming. At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. This isn’t the only avenue of VR streaming being explored right now.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a solo indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel as a side project, the game impressively holds the highest user rating among all Quest apps with more than 100 reviews, according to our latest ranking.

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MAY 1, 2017

Brandon Bray, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, took the stage at Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit 2017 to show a little more of what Microsoft has planned for the VR side of things when the first Windows Holographic headsets come later this year. image courtesy Unity Technologies.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

So Happy Caturday, Happy NYE, and Happy 2017 to all of you. Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates in 2016.The The dev team I work with uses Unity as our bread and butter. There is a reason it is the game engine helping to push VR into a consumer product. Here we go. link] Number Two.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this.

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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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JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. Since its release back in 2017 the game has attracted a sizable community of players thanks in large part to its $0.00 As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

There seems to be a trend in VR gaming towards using the immersive properties of the medium to induce relaxation and facilitate something of a meditative, Zen-like state. By using augmented reality (AR), the app turns your home or office environment into a magical garden full of fun and games. Quite a lot, as it turns out.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Ubisoft only had one new VR game to showcase at its E3 conference this year, but it has another to talk about off-stage, and it comes with a new engine. Set for release on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in spring 2018, the game is an arcade shooter in which players use jet packs in 1-vs-1 and 2-vs-2 multiplayer battles.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. Vandonkelaar said it takes between seven and nine months to create a game.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The headset, which uses a unique projection display method, is heavily focused on tabletop gaming applications. Starting at $300, Tilt Five is an AR headset which hopes to revolutionize tabletop gaming by fusing board games and traditional gaming into a shareable and even networked experience. Image courtesy Tilt Five.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Room 2011, West Hall.

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JULY 18, 2017

This past week, Unity Technologies unveiled key components of its advertising strategy , notably including the “Virtual Room,” a customizable mini app for brands to create their own integrated experiences. The user chooses to follow Alice through the looking glass.”.

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APRIL 5, 2017

The immersion of VR and its application in areas ranging from games and entertainment to education and enterprise positions it as the next mass adopted medium. 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Creating Experiences for the Hololens with Unity hosted by Kat Harris and Adam Tuliper of Microsoft. Will there be more wizard games?

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