Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from the second day of our GDC 2018 coverage. We go hands-on with Budget Cuts, Google presents ARCore and Maps API-enabled apps, Squanch Games’ Daydream exclusive title announced, and Magic Leap talks about developing games for a spatial computing platform. Google Maps API for game development.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

VR games need to achieve high, stable performance to look good and play comfortably. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. The video is focused toward novice VR developers who are working in Unity.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

Thanks in large part to the growing demand for social and mobile gaming, in-game advertising is on a monumental rise. Using the companies custom Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, game developers can easily drag-and-drop ad-ready billboards, posters, and signs into everything from simple 2D games to complex VR and AR experiences.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Unity makes things easier for us, so whenever we use some Unity class that clearly needs a permission, Unity adds this permission automatically to the manifest. Thanks, Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is a fairly substantial change from how local multiplayer works on Quest 2—or doesn’t work—as games typically require some shared room marker that is used to calibrate the relative positions of players within a pre-defined space. Meta ( vis-a-vis Facebook) has been talking about colocation on Quest for a while now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 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. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The advent of the VR art game Tilt Brush enabled users to paint in 3D space using virtual reality. Moreover, VR games , such as The VR Museum of Fine Art , have allowed visitors to interact with timeless masterpieces on a freer and more personal level. According to Sabby, she first learned about VR in 2018. “

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2020

Best Game or Toy. Notable past winners include 8th Wall Web (Best Developer Tool, 2019), The NYT apps (Best Consumer App, 2019), Ikea Place (Best Consumer App, 2018), Gravity Sketch (Best Creating and Authoring Tool, 2018), Vive Pro (Best Headworn Device, 2018), Varjo (Startup to Watch, 2018) and Unity (Best Developer Tool, 2018).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The post View Conference 2018: Baobab Studios talks about the development of “Crow: The Legend” appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Header image by Baobab Studio).

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

This kind of feedback can be interesting for instance during action games: when you are shot, you can get vibrations in the exact point of your body where you have been shot… and if you just got headshot, well, then you have to feel something on your head. Space Junkies is a great VR action game. Space Junkies is like that.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest. It’s strange that two games decided to launch on the same date, so there is a chance this is a magical date.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Upload VR is hosting a new Showcase of VR games on December, 6th 2023. Let’s see if this will prove to be true.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product 'Magic Leap One', Shipping Starts in 2018.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A man in Mexico City turns his first tattoo into a trigger for a prototype AR game. . Recently, one designer took the idea a step further with an interactive AR tattoo based on one of gaming’s most beloved franchises. — Olo Sabandija (@olomerol) November 19, 2018.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 26, 2018

GDC 2018 was definitely not my first rodeo at a major gaming event and I have seen my fair share of the gaming dog and pony show. During the Unity GDC party, Electronauts Audio Engineer showed the party potential of the VR software while mixed along side a scratch DJ.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

Inspired by cult 1970’s science-fiction and devoid from the motion sickness that has plagued other zero-G virtual reality games, Downward Spiral: Prologue is the prologue to the ambitious saga Downward Spiral. The team develops innovative VR games and groundbreaking VR technology built specifically for developers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2018

Electronauts , the upcoming co-op music making game from Survios, is confirmed to be launching with support for mixed reality video through LIV, a tool for compositing yourself into VR for video streaming and capture. Liv also supports many Unity-based VR titles without direct integration from developers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I loved the news of this launch because the first alpha of Flipside was launched in 2018 for PCVR. They took five years to arrive at the first full version… this is a big sign of commitment The cyberpunk game adventure Low Fi is launching this year for PSVR 2. I’m pretty excited about that!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2018

VRTK is a toolkit aimed at making things easier for VR Unity developers : it offers out-of-the-box functionalities (like locomotion, objects interactions, etc…) to developers, together with cross-platform support. — VRTK (@VR_Toolkit) April 26, 2018. — VRTK (@VR_Toolkit) April 26, 2018. VRTK is alive again!

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Then production hit a lull for around two months as we waited to hear back from Oculus,” wrote Brenda Chen, a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad Sponsorship Recipient and the director of adventure game Chrysalis. Oculus will announce the grant winners of the 2018 Launch Pad program in late Q4 2018.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At HaptX, our team is celebrating a milestone-filled 2018. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Our team took over the Ready Player One livestream on Twitch at the 2018 South by Southwest Conference. Our 2019 game plan.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company behind some of the greatest games ever made— Half-Life , Portal , Counter Strike , Team Fortress , to name a few—is far from done with VR. 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.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Sinespace was built using the Unity game engine allowing for an easily customizable as well as upgradable experience. Sinespace is compatible with a majority of 3D models and game design tools. Could Sinespace’s Unity-built foundation give it the customization and accessibility it needs to wow users?

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AR Insider

AUGUST 22, 2019

Starting with ad revenue, it will grow from $453 million in 2018 to $8.8 Beyond search, other channels will develop as vehicles for AR advertising, such as gaming and email. AR email will be a bit of a wild card but gaming is already proving out. Drilling Down: AR Advertising & Commerce. Alternate Channels.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

Part 2: Flight In the last post , I covered the creation of the monarch butterfly avatar that players will embody in this VR game/simulation. In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Published 2018 Nov 6. and other butterflies? PMID: 9317473.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When I wrote my post about CES 2018 , I briefly talked about a headset called LooxidVR, able to “read the emotions” of the user by employing a combination of EEG sensors and eye tracking. Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The company is livestreaming its keynote today, which will feature a number Magic Leap partners including speakers from Weta Workshop, AT&T, Unity, Epic Games, and ILMxLAB. Timoni West – Director, XR Research, Unity Technologies. Nick Whiting – Technical Director / Studio Head, Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

I made this meme in Word in 5 minutes, and it started spreading like fire. Internet is beautiful. Alone I wouldn’t have been able to do anything… even if some of you may think that it is all a merit of mine, I want to underline that this is not true.

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