2019, Augmented Reality, Unity and Unreal

Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment.

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Blippar Plans US Expansion Amid Rising Profits

ARPost

MAY 16, 2022

A recent CB Insights report ranked them among the tech companies making the metaverse a reality. We have tripled revenues for the last three years since 2019. We think about the competition set for Zappar as being heavy creators like Unity and then the social media AR companies like Meta Spark or Snapchat,” said Galaria.

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Ambitious XR Headset From Walker Industries in Crowdfunding Stage

ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview. It’s headed by a 16-year-old futurist, inventor, and self-proclaimed “Kid Tony Stark.”

Industry

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Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR

TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Qualcomm today launched a new developer platform for building head-worn augmented reality experiences: the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform. This is in addition to Qualcomm’s acquisition of Wikitude in 2019, another move that helped it jumpstart its AR efforts. Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile U.S.

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Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

Apple also introduced Reality Composer and RealityKit to make it easier for developers to build augmented reality apps. This would break the illusion of augmented reality by showing conflicting depth cues. Today during the opening keynote of WWDC in San Jose, Apple revealed ARKit 3. AR Coaching UI. RealityKit.

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Psychic VR Lab: STYLY, NEWVIEW Awards and VR’s Future Potential

Peter Graham

MARCH 14, 2020

It’s why Japanese studio Psychic VR Lab created STYLY, an online, browser-based solution for those creators looking to delve into this immersive space without having to go down the Unity/Unreal Engine route. STYLY is a platform designed for artistic expression rather than making videogames.

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How Modding Communities Are Paving The Way For User-Generated VR & AR Content

VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

As the VAR (virtual and augmented reality) industry grows—searching for a grassroots approach to consumer adoption, modders are sitting comfortably on a gold mine of innovation and creative solutions. . VentureBeat reported that PUBG Mobile, a popular mobile version of the original PC release, surpassed $1bn in revenue in 2019.

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Cool AR apps to try with Apple’s new phones

Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Apple has lagged behind in the virtual and augmented reality race so far. Its latest phones — iPhone X , iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus — support its new augmented reality platform ARKit. And according to IDC , augmented reality market will account for 10 percent of the 81.2 million units sold by 2019.

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7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2019, the company started a new initiative to bring “Lean Six Sigma” processes to the entire Aptiv supply chain. Unity and the University of Miami. The University of Miami built their state-of-the-art “XR Garage” program for students to help them learn how to create real-time 3D, virtual, and augmented reality content.

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MetaVRse is the XR engine for enterprise

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

The demand for easy-to-use 3D creation tools is growing rapidly as demonstrated by a report by Hired that showed demand for VR/AR engineers grew by 1400% in 2019. MetaVRse One App: Our unique One App solution unlocks Augmented Reality by installing a small utility application (16mb). MetaVRse logo (Image by MetaVRse).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

At the same time, Next Reality has spotted that nReal has slightly changed the name of its company from Hangzhou Tairuo to Shenzhen Tairuo, and has now a new parent company called Beijing Unicorn Technology. According to the new research by Digi-Capital, in 2019 there have been $4.1B Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Before 2019, headsets were largely tethered to PCs, and Qualcomm helped to ‘cut the cord’ and enable the next evolution of standalone devices. These are AR smart glasses that are tethered to smartphones, which debuted in 2019. We saw an opportunity to create a new category between the two with devices featuring AR viewers.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Lone Echo 2 has been the “Duke Nukem Forever” of VR, and it has been constantly delayed from the expected 2019 release period. It got popular during CES 2019, and then, even if it had not new PR stunts, it kept working under the hood on its products and now it is ready to release its devkit and its SDK.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I didn’t know that the name of that thing was “augmented reality”, but it impressed me a lot. So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

This seems to confirm that we’ll see in the future (maybe 2019) a new tethered headset, as I had already suggested in a previous post of mine. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. So Oculus is investing just as much in PC as ever. I like the new Rift Core 2.0

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Kelly Peng reveals Kura 150° FOV AR glasses expected price and release date

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. The official computational unit runs Android.

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Looking through the Jio Glass

ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different?

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The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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Training Examples Unreal Virtual Reality

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. It’s amazing.”

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. It’s amazing.”

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

Training

Training Examples Unreal Virtual Reality

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. Today's guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It's a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. That's really the heart of it.

AR

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community. link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

Tips

Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR?

Tips

Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises

Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. The startup was rescued from bankruptcy by existing backer Candy Ventures in 2019. 1- Ambarish Mitra. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5

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Virtual Reality Pulse

Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

Blippar Plans US Expansion Amid Rising Profits

Trending Sources

Ambitious XR Headset From Walker Industries in Crowdfunding Stage

Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR

Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

Psychic VR Lab: STYLY, NEWVIEW Awards and VR’s Future Potential

How Modding Communities Are Paving The Way For User-Generated VR & AR Content

Cool AR apps to try with Apple’s new phones

7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

MetaVRse is the XR engine for enterprise

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

Kelly Peng reveals Kura 150° FOV AR glasses expected price and release date

Looking through the Jio Glass

The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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