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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. Microsoft says it’s shutting down AltspaceVR on March 10th, 2023, and shifting its focus “to support immersive experiences powered by Microsoft Mesh,” the company says in a statement.

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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 think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite. 10, and that native Unity support would arrive in the next iteration of the engine, 5.6.

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JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. A gargantuan selection of user-created avatars and environments, allowing players to immerse themselves in brand new scenarios as entirely different people. Think of it as cosplay in VR. price tag and easy accessibility.

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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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MARCH 3, 2020

Since 2017, we’ve been able to see significant growth in the adoption of AR and VR across different industries. One of the most inspiring and innovative AR and VR communities is AR VR Women – the platform that unites women from the immersive technology industry. Source: eMarketer. million people in 2019. View this post on Instagram.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Cunningham currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the VR/AR Association (VRARA) and is the former Head of Government and Aerospace Business for Unity Technologies. While there from 2013 to 2017, he was the Managing Director and Vice President, Global Sales.

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MAY 24, 2022

Back in December of last year, it was noted that enterprises were purchasing headsets and immersive technology gear at an incredible rate, a trend that will continue for years to come. Founded in 2017, Vrgineers offers virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) pilot training systems for businesses and the military. ft) cable, DisplayPort 1.4,

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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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MAY 26, 2017

Google’s overarching mission is to organize all of the world’s information, and so it’s a natural fit for the company to be one of the leading innovators for using VR for immersive education. SEE ALSO For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

This started of as a pet project so I could learn and immerse my self in the world of Virtual Reality. 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.

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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. Subscribe on iTunes.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

I just hack mockups in Unity to [.]. The post Gamescom 2017 – Observations appeared first on Immersive Authority. I visited Gamescom, the largest game expo in Europe. I’m no gamer so playing games doesn’t interest me.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I’ve heard yet. Riggs says that they’ve been collaborating with Abbey Road Studios in order to figure out the future of music, which Riggs believes that is going to be both immersive and interactive.

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APRIL 1, 2023

Using powerful modelling software and immersive hardware, many businesses are already experimenting with holographic experiences for training, entertainment, and marketing. So, which companies are leading the way to a new era of holographic content?

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MARCH 12, 2018

On the other hand, VR cuts you off from your visual surroundings to completely immerse you in an app or film. billion in revenue in 2017, is seizing on the opportunity to provide the tools. “We Unity, which allows developers to create highly customizable experiences for VR and AR, leads the pack. “It’s not as bulky.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Jim Chabin, President of the Advanced Imaging and VR Societies, explained that the latest edition of the conference has expanded to match the explosive growth of immersive technologies as a whole. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. — guyal of crypto (@cryptoguyal) August 3, 2017.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

In addition to building immersive training solutions for enterprise clients, 3lb Games makes fun and moving VR games like Slime Rancher and Vault of Stars. In 2017, the company released Space Dragon for PCVR. We’re definitely going to add this to every game we produce … if we’re able to put this out as a Unity asset, we will.

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JUNE 30, 2021

It is true that the Unity Asset Store is your friend, but as our creative artist Lapo Germasi says “ If you want to make a good job, there is no asset that you download and you just use as is. Tutorial on how to easily make a cross-platform application in Unity.

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JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Based in Prague, the Czech Republic, the group brings to SIGGRAPH 2017 their new Digital Playgroundz augmented reality platform for large-scale applications.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

HoloLamp debuted its augmented reality projector system this week at CES 2017, the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. HoloLamp brings its animated images to life with a projector, video cameras, and the popular Unity gaming software.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

This time last year, Meta promised that the Metaverse would launch immersive remote communication into the mainstream. At the start of 2023, many Metaverse vendors promoted how immersive worlds could completely change how the world works and lives. Will 2024 be the year for the industrial Metaverse? Is the Metaverse dead?

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JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. Marcus Kühne, Strategy Lead, Immersive Techologies, AUDI. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Jumanji: The VR Adventure is an official VR experience created by Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and Madison Wells Media Immersive (formerly Reality One). Here, Twitch streamer XatomUK shows what the endgame looks like. We haven’t played the game, so we can’t be sure.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

2017 has been an absolutely enormous year for augmented reality. The industry has seen the release of not one, but two powerful AR platforms , support from a wide variety of developers, and some of the coolest immersive experiences of the year. So you think the technology would be slowing down as we start to wrap up this year, right?

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JUNE 9, 2017

Zero Days VR is one of the most powerful VR documentaries that I’ve seen so far since it uses the unique affordances of VR to visualize what’s at stake for weaponizing security vulnerabilities, and it uses these volumetric affordances to innovate what’s possible in immersive storytelling. Support Voices of VR.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

I virtually know Alan since some years, and I have always admired his ability to combine his entrepreneurial skills with his passion for immersive realities so that to be successful by doing the things that he loves the most. Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS , along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR as part of its ecosystem. With the new Vega GPU, iMac Pro lets you do more than just immerse yourself in VR worlds.

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MAY 2, 2017

Plenty of news came out of Unity’s Vision Summit keynote talk yesterday, including a look at a hugely ambitious new first-person shooter (FPS) for VR headsets, Seeking Dawn. “We know we can make a conventional game in VR more immersive, but can we make it as fun?” It’s also set to feature co-op multiplayer.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

However, after pursuing VC funding, the company struggled before shutting down in 2017 due to leadership changes pushed through by investors. Especially when it comes to immersive technology, driving mass-adoption with content is the first and largest hurdle for any newcomer to the industry. Image Credit: Tilt Five.

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MARCH 1, 2017

VR video games are some of the most immersive, visceral experiences to date. Travelling to fantastic worlds, going brain-to-rotting-noggin’ with zombie hordes and throwing coffee mugs at floating sentient CRTs has never felt so real.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Immersive computing is poised to change the way people see the world and interact with each other. 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. Tagged with: e3 , E3 2017 , Scorpio Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. America’s largest employer recently spent $2.7B

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JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. At the XR Access Symposium, Hyman moderated a breakout session focused on public policy.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Benzing then moved on to create Hilda , which “ had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon, ” and Diptych , which “ had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera (2018), ” as is stated on her personal blog. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The entire short film, embedded below, was created in Unity and is driven by a synthwave soundtrack scored by Emmy award winning composer RAD LAZER (aka Rafter Roberts). UploadVR: Why did you choose to make this entirely in Unity? Unity changed that. Again this is another strength that Unity brought to the project.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Founded in 1993, Immersion Corp. Immersion Corp. Immersion Corp was demonstrating TouchSense Force at SVVR 2017 this week where they were showing an animation of a robotic glove enclosing the hand of a VR user ( definitely not inspired by Iron Man’s suit-up scenes ), which had a lot of intricate detail and moving parts.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC held its VIVE™ Developer Conference 2017 (VDC2017), where it announced VIVE WAVE™ ( www.vive.com/cn/vive-wave-en ), a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and high-performance device optimization for third-party partners.

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