2019, Hardware, Microsoft and Unreal

Varjo Hardware to Be Used in Astronaut Training

ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Unreal worked with the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to create an AR experience based around Apollo 11. NASA, Boeing, and Varjo. Connie Miller with Varjo headset.

Training

Training Hardware Unreal Industry

OpenXR Update to Optimise Major XR Headsets

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

Unity

Unity Groups Unreal Industry

Khronos’ OpenXR 1.0 Specification Establishes Unifying XR Ecosystem

Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

This makes it far easier for software developers or hardware manufacturers who support the ecosystem to build products that work across devices, allowing for less fragmentation and therefore less confusion for consumers looking to invest in XR technology. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9

Groups

Groups Unreal Microsoft Hardware

The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M I really hope so. Great post.

Hand tracking

Hand tracking AR Augmented Reality Oculus

Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

Sony

Sony Unreal Gaming Entertainment

All you need to know on HoloLens 2

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today, at MWC 2019, Alex Kipman went on stage together with Satya Nadella and Julia White to announce the new HoloLens 2. They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. Woman wearing a HoloLens2 device (Image by Microsoft).

Microsoft

Microsoft Eye Tracking Leap Motion Unreal

Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In Q1 2019, Magic Leap will let all developers develop immersive applications using a modified version of Javascript , called Magicscript. Coming later on in 2019… this could really add intriguing possibility to augmented and mixed reality applications. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely.

Magic Leap

Magic Leap Augmented Reality AR Florida

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

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. 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. Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

AR

AR Magic Leap Oculus Virtual Reality

The Best Virtual Reality Accessories for Deeper Immersion

XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Combining 360-degree capture with solutions for spatial sound and integrations with tools like Unity, Unreal, and other engines, VR cameras are highly flexible. Some companies, like Meta, are even investing in combining haptic solutions with electromyography hardware capable of detecting minute muscle movements.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Immersion Haptic Tools

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. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? 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.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Wearables Hardware AR

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

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. 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.

AR

AR China Augmented Reality Technology

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

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. In the New Year, in 2019 — and most recently — we’ve put a lot of effort in letting you publish and export out. To be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware.

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

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

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. In the New Year, in 2019 — and most recently — we’ve put a lot of effort in letting you publish and export out. To be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware.

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

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

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. In the New Year, in 2019 -- and most recently -- we've put a lot of effort in letting you publish and export out. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Paul: Yeah.

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

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

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality India Asia

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Varjo Hardware to Be Used in Astronaut Training

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