AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. According to Sensor Tower, TikTok was the second most-downloaded app in 2019, after WhatsApp. million players were reported to have tuned in.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Industry-caliber VR/XR specialists Varjo today announced their latest hardware release, the Varjo VR-1. Varjo is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in VR fidelity,” spoke Timoni West, Director of XR Research at Unity Technologies. Mixed Reality: Upgradeable with Varjo’s Mixed Reality Add-on, available in 2019.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2020

Best Input and Output Hardware. Best Campaign. Best Consumer App. Best Creator and Authoring Tool. Best Developer Tool. Best Enterprise Solution. Best Game or Toy. Best Headworn Device. Best Interaction Software Tool. Biggest Societal Impact. Best Indie Creator(s). Best Use of AI. Best in Location-Based Entertainment.

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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. The website for the Vector Gear agrees, “ the hardware is stuck on the prototyping stage.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. In late 2019, they expanded to Korea – a market more similar to the US and Europe – where they again experienced huge success.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration. The new stereo-foveated rendering improves eye-tracking features, and the feature is widespread – already finding a home on Unity, Unreal, and NVIDIA Omniverse.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Axon Park has partnered with VR First , an organization which maintains a network of international VR lab-enabled universities and science parks; the partnership will provide needs-based scholarships to get students either low-cost or free access to VR hardware and resources through their partner network of 850 universities.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The VR industry has skyrocketed immensely, with immersive headset shipments spiking 92 percent in 2019 and 70 percent in 2020. Additional businesses like Epic Games, Unity, Autodesk, Adobe, NVIDIA, and many others have pivoted to the Metaverse to reach these goals. percent year-on-year, with augmented reality (AR) peaking 94.1

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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

Those are further subdivided by hardware, software and other revenue sources. That includes things that consumers pay for, currently dominated by hardware. As that hardware base grows, it becomes a larger addressable market which attracts and incentivizes content creators. Hardware: Tip of the Spear. Virtuous Cycle.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Those are further subdivided by hardware, software and other revenue sources. That includes things that consumers pay for, currently dominated by hardware. As that hardware base grows, it becomes a larger addressable market which attracts and incentivizes content creators. Hardware: Tip of the Spear. Virtuous Cycle.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2020

The ideal industry solution would be hardware and cloud agnostic, but would also have security measures for the posting of proprietary information. Because clients wanted hardware and cloud agnostic solutions, ThinkReality focused on software tools first. See Also: XR Technology for Industry According to Unity’s Andre Gauthier.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. In late 2019, they expanded to Korea – a market more similar to the US and Europe – where they again experienced huge success.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. billion in 2019 to $1.88 It includes some of its data and takeaways. billion in 2020. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The only supported hardware for the platform is currently Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 smart glasses (paired with a Motorola phone), but it will expand to include hardware from Oppo and Xiaomi in the first half of 2022. Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile U.S. Image Credits: Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

My early start with MR As you may know, I got started with passthrough mixed reality in 2019, far before Quest enabled the use of passthrough. I was using the Vive Focus Plus, and I hacked one of its SDK samples to transform it into a mixed-reality device. Besides, at that time, AI was already there, but not growing as fast as today.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Nintendo basically has a singular MO, and it does it well: create broadly accessible hardware to serve as a vehicle for its exclusive swath of family friendly games. Well, it was a pretty awesome experiment when it was first released in 2019. But what about Nintendo Labo VR for Switch?

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

Powered by a built-in NUC 8 VR NUC8i7HVK computer, the Pro allows users to upload 3D content onto the hardware directly and select what they wish to view via a fold-out 7-inch touchscreen display. Whereas the Looking Glass is just a display, the Looking Glass Pro operates independently as a standalone device.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 3, 2020

For those that find smooth locomotion in virtual reality (VR) uncomfortable 3dRudder offers one of the few consumer-level hardware solutions to help alleviate the problem. Compatible with a range of headsets and videogames, towards the end of 2019 3dRudder added compatibility for Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. EUR/$199.00

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

’ Garr offers a service that helps other developers produce and develop their own projects in environments such as Unity, which is something that Oculus gives steady training for during their program. The next boot camp will take place in late June 2019. Screenshot of VR adventure title ‘Chrysalis.’

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Yes, it is a sign that Facebook is all in for XR , as someone made me notice, but hiring 10,000 people and losing billions every year in R&D and hardware sold under cost wasn’t already a clear sign of it? Lone Echo 2 has been the “Duke Nukem Forever” of VR, and it has been constantly delayed from the expected 2019 release period.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Searching for this week's VR games and hardware news? Here's a few more VR updates: Death Horizon: Reloaded Gets Mixed Reality Update Death Horizon: Reloaded , the 2019 VR FPS from Horizon Lab, just received mixed reality support in its latest update. The Events At Unity Farm is now available on Viveport.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware. This is a piece of great news.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

Modding is the act of modifying hardware, software, or virtually anything else to perform a function not originally conceived or intended by the designer. VentureBeat reported that PUBG Mobile, a popular mobile version of the original PC release, surpassed $1bn in revenue in 2019. Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ).

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. Although they haven’t deployed on Magic Leap yet, they’re hopeful that because every platform out there is investing in enabling Unity compatibility which enables them to develop cross-platform more easily. Thanks @ObjectTheory for letting me play with your @magicleap !

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Plus it’s even weirder that HTC needed 2 years to bring it to the market (it was announced in 2019). And the number is also that big because Facebook had no hardware department, so it had to create everything from scratch (i.e. This comes as no surprise since the hardware is always built in this kind of iteration cycles.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Today we are approaching CES 2019 and I have had the enormous pleasure of talking with Brian Chae, the CEO of Looxid Labs about his headset and the importance of Brain Computer Interfaces. 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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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020. The company also plans to release an Unreal Engine 4 plugin later this year as well as expanding compatibility for more motion capture hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO? Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. I’m currently hooked on AstroBot and Moss , having just finished Déraciné. What is Meleap?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

For this, it has just started Access Hardware, a program that gives for free Magic Leap glasses plus dedicated support to all developers that are planning to do interesting applications using the Magic Leap 1, especially in the enterprise sector. New SteamVR devkit aims at making custom hardware easier. These news make me happy .

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

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. “One of the questions you might be asking is ‘Why in the world would you be making hardware?’ ” said Newell. ” said Newell.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Google I/O 2019 has just finished and has all been about new augmented reality features. Just a quick rewind for everyone: ARCore is Google’s answer to Apple ARKit, a framework that lets people enjoy augmented reality from their smart p hones without using external hardware or markers. Isn’t it cool? ARCore Scene Viewer.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). They are willing to pay for content, just like they were willing to pay for prototype unproven hardware and generally, they have higher purchasing power than the average person.”. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. VR Ads: Glass Half Empty.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

AugmentedReality #xr #vr #wearable #unity #spatialcomputing pic.twitter.com/h2KAkgXWQq — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) February 15, 2019. Noah has been active in the augmented reality and open hardware communities for over a decade. BuildYourNorthstar pic.twitter.com/PBK2KymwF7 — Andrew Serff (@andrewserff) June 2, 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. The device will be available next year only in the US, then at the end of the year in other countries (like the UK), making me think that a more global rollout may happen in 2025.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. Compare that number with another survey conducted in February 2019, the percentage of adults who own a smartphone jumped to 81%. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Starting on 4th September and running for 14 weeks until 11th December 2019, the course is designed for expert-level developers used to Unity (or other engines) who want to learn Unreal Engine 4 of VR. Classes take place two times per week with the curriculum being project-based.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. If we want to be super-bullish and think that Quest hardware sales make up 50% of total extra-ad earnings by Facebook, Quest has sold 340,000 units in Q3. Are you ready?

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