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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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

JANUARY 29, 2018

In order to support those other headsets, developers will need to build using the Mi VR SDK (which supports Unity and Unreal). ” – – — – – The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone is expected to become available around the same time as the Oculus Go headset, which is planned for “early 2018” and priced at $200.

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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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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2018

— MIRO (@MobileHackerz) September 29, 2018. unity????????????? — pansan (@pansan1029) September 29, 2018. The self-critical creator original wanted to build the experience in the Unity game engine and include touch sensor technology for better synchronization. VR????????????????????????????VR??????????????????????

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from the second day of our GDC 2018 coverage. Planned for Q2 2018 is the Google Maps API-enabled The Walking Dead: Our World , and TendAR is a game arriving in July, involving a virtual fish that responds to facial expressions. Hands-on with ‘Budget Cuts’. Image courtesy Neat Corp. Image courtesy Google.

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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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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2020

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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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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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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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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The AR Show

JANUARY 21, 2020

Timoni West, the Director of XR Research at Unity, joined the podcast in 2019 to share her perspective on tackling the future of human-computer interaction. One of her team’s first tools, EditorXR, which is a tool for editing Unity projects directly in virtual reality, won San Francisco Design Week’s first-ever Virtual Tech award in 2018.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

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. funding round back in 2018. Image Credit: Admix.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to Sabby, she first learned about VR in 2018. “ I learned about VR in 2018 and experienced it on the Google Cardboard mobile viewer, ” she told me via email. To launch her art onto virtual platforms, she relies on Blender and Unity. How Sabby Life Got Her Start. She uses various VR art apps, one of which is Tilt Brush.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. Facebook says developers can still use Oculus Integration v18.0

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

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. Lucas Rizzotto is an independent developer behind a handful of immersive applications including Where Thoughts Go , which was awarded ‘Best Experience’ in the 2018 Unity Awards.

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The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. Now, I need some rest… The post Gamescom 2018 Day 2: NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti video, Ubisoft believes in VR and much more appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The company says its Beta Prototypes will be shipping to new and existing partners during Q1 2018. Urho Konttori, CEO and founder of Varjo Technologies says the company plans on launching “a profoundly revolutionary VR/XR headset by the end of 2018.”. image courtesy Varjo. The post Varjo Secures $6.7M

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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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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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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. A new generation of HaptX Gloves.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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. Unity Integrations allow users to connect Unity services to popular tools like Discord, Slack, and Jira. The solution also integrates with Unity, Unreal, and even the iOS environment in some cases.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

— Olo Sabandija (@olomerol) November 19, 2018. I basically learned the basics of Unity by watching more than 20 YouTube videos,” said Sabandija, adding , “I’d work about 6 to 8 hours a day for almost a month to build my Sonic scene.”. Here's a direct from the screen version of my AR tat pic.twitter.com/CuIYaDZT6m.

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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. That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. Drilling Down on Enterprise VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! Anyway, someone in the comments explained that the 2007 one was a provisional patent, which has basically been rewritten in the current form in 2018. 2018 is 5 years ago, which is coherent with the 7-years timespan rumored for this device. in the reviews!

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

With that backdrop, the latest examples are rolled up in a new report from Unity. This also involved more than $10 million in savings in 2018. See the full report from Unity, including more data points and case studies. We’ve seen plenty of proof points so far, but ongoing evidence is needed to reinforce that ROI story.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

While Wright left Vuforia in 2018, it remains PTC’s main enterprise augmented reality arm. See Also: Croquet for Unity: A New Era for Multiplayer Development With “No Netcode” Solution In 2021, Campfire came out of stealth and started working with companies offering software, a headset, and a console that generated the virtual model.

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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 sounds a little like Unity’s Editor VR, though without full details we can’t say that for certain. That title is Space Junkies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2018

At GDC 2018 Magic Leap has announced the release of the Lumin SDK , that is the tools that we should use to develop for this AR glass. I first tried looking the FOV of the Unity Camera: when you run the program into the emulator, it immediately becomes 80 , so I thought that the FOV of ML would be 80 degrees.

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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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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. I understand the fun of doing stuff with passthrough: when the Vive Focus came out, I did some stuff like that, too.

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