Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. 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. Profile often [ video guide ].

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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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MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. “It starts to take off 12 and 24 months from now.”

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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. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). So, are you ready?

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Starting in 2018, the company showed off an arena-scale multiplayer prototype based on VR shooter Dead & Buried, which we hoped would eventually lead to the company opening up colocation services for the Quest platform. Meta ( vis-a-vis Facebook) has been talking about colocation on Quest for a while now.

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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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JUNE 8, 2017

The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. Things are changing though. Tagged with: e3 , E3 2017 , Scorpio Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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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. Developer Neat Corporation has resurfaced with stealth action game Budget Cuts , due for release on May 16th for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The Google Maps team has built an SDK that allows Google Maps geodata to be used in the Unity game engine.

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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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Peter Graham

JANUARY 25, 2020

Videogame engine Unity has supported the XR industry from the early days of virtual reality (VR) through to the current crop of augmented reality (AR) hardware. This week has seen Unity update its XR platform, removing support for some devices whilst reaffirming official functionality for the latest headsets. . Affecting Unity 2019.3

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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

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. So, here you are what I did today.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

A leading Unity 3d game development services provider explained that gaming is the biggest driver of VR and it will certainly continue in the near future. between 2018 and 2025, as stated in a Valuation report. If you’re wondering what the Oculus Rift is, it’s a solid step into VR gaming and its immersive nature.

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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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MARCH 17, 2023

Back in 2018, as part of the IBC Masterclass on VR technology, Rob Koenen shared his vision of the future of virtual reality. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

That’s why we decided to port it to other devices, especially the Oculus Quest that is selling so well among consumers in the last months. 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.

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JUNE 12, 2017

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. It looks just a little like Oculus and Ready At Dawn’s Lone Echo, which is releasing next month. This new project is being developed by Ubisoft Montepellier.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 30, 2020

ARtillery projects it to grow from $829 million in 2018 to $4.26 This category is best exemplified by its market-sare leader, Unity. Oculus pricing ) will lower enterprise VR adoption barriers. That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. The company said at the time that high res content would become available in early 2018, so we’re hoping to see it crop up sooner rather than later. SEE ALSO NextVR Partners With Oculus to Bring Live Events to 'Oculus Venues'.

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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. We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

How has VR performed in 2018? Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Virtual Reality in 2018 has not performed that awesomely good : in my opinion, it has just laid the foundations for the success that will come in the upcoming years. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets. PC VR headsets.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. Shifting to enterprise VR, ARtillery Intelligence sees that growing from $829 million in 2018 to $4.26 Over time, revenue-per-user metrics can then improve, and around we go. We’re certainly not there yet with this virtuous cycle in VR.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. Shifting to enterprise VR, ARtillery Intelligence sees that growing from $829 million in 2018 to $4.26 Over time, revenue-per-user metrics can then improve, and around we go. We’re certainly not there yet with this virtuous cycle in VR.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. So when I finally got an Oculus Rift DK2, I jumped in and started going to every meetup that was happening in New York. ”. We’re working with Unity on this project. I started off training in theater all over the world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Some weeks ago, I’ve got to know a crazy demo for Oculus Rift called Eyeballs VR Demo, who lets you detach your eyes inside VR. — Jack Brookes (@jackbrookes) July 14, 2018. and it was clearly made with Unity (I can recognize the Unity standard shader from a mile). The environment was lovely.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface. VRScout (@VRScout) December 6, 2018.

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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 currently available on PC via download or a web client, all OpenVR compatible headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Microsoft Mixed Reality, with plans for iOS and Android releases in the near future.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Here’s the full press release for VRLA 2018 ( Road to VR readers can save 15% on passes, details here ): Announcing VRLA 2018 Keynotes & Expo Highlights. Passes are available now and start at just $30, and for the first time ever attendees can register in VR via the official Payscout VRLA Registration 2018 app.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One of these social VR worlds available now is Somnium Space which launched in 2018, offering a persistent world as well as an economy. Full body avatars will become available so you can look like a real digital person using the Unity Avatar SDK. Today, Somnium Space has officially announced the upcoming launch of v2.0

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2018

Liv also supports many Unity-based VR titles without direct integration from developers. Below you can see the Electronauts Liv integration in action and see how players will be able to spin some sick beats in VR: Electronauts is the next VR experience to come from Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018).

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Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

Featuring a soundtrack by lead singer and composer Ville Valo, of gothic rock band HIM, 3rd Eye Studios Downward Spiral : Prologue launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is now available on the Oculus store for Oculus Rift and Steam for HTC Vive. The VR technology will be launched in 2018. CatsAndVR.com/blog.

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JUNE 19, 2017

I am standing in a virtual living room rendered via Unity. My experience in that Unity-based living room and other demos, using what Varjo is calling the “20/20” prototype, shows that they are working in the right direction. They retrofitted an Oculus Rift with an extra layer of lenses inside the unit.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. 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). Leap Motion.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Until 2018 it was mostly focused on PC VR, a market it has mostly abandoned. And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms.

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