XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Virtual reality accessories are transforming the immersive technology landscape. As VR headsets are growing more advanced, the “add-ons” available to personalize and enhance virtual experiences are also evolving. So, what types of virtual reality accessories should companies and consumers explore this year?

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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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. It’s headed by a 16-year-old futurist, inventor, and self-proclaimed “Kid Tony Stark.”

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. ” While Google Stadia was the big talk of the week, Eric had a chance to learn more about Unity and Unreal offerings, both of which unveiled a number of new features for developers, as well as their expansion into spaces beyond gaming.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 14, 2020

Making any sort of virtual reality (VR) content isn’t a simple process, from a piece of art using Tilt Brush or Quill to an actual videogame and all the complicated elements that process involves. STYLY is a platform designed for artistic expression rather than making videogames.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. This is in addition to Qualcomm’s acquisition of Wikitude in 2019, another move that helped it jumpstart its AR efforts.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Unfortunately we didn’t learn more about Oculus Quest’s launch date at GDC 2019 this week, although Oculus did reveal a few more titles coming to the standalone 6DOF headset at launch this Spring. As a 2017 title, it still hold up today, something we can’t say about all games from the first consumer wave of game design.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc…. According to the new research by Digi-Capital, in 2019 there have been $4.1B Merging Realities event is back!

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Although the Feelreal scent mask for virtual reality isn’t a nicotine vaping system or e-cigarette, it does vaporize aromatic liquids for user inhalation, which according to the company puts it in same FDA certification bracket as those devices. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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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. According to Aptiv, even people who had never touched a virtual reality headset before were still able to take part in the training. HTV VIVE, Unreal, and Nowa Era. Meta Oculus and Aptiv.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9 OpenXR specification.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. 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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NVidia VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Its specialty research unit, Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality (ZHVR) Group , has recently partnered with the team behind Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to develop a real-time demo for one of its most stunning projects — Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. This allows us to create high-quality visuals faster than before.”.

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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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NVidia VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Its specialty research unit, Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality (ZHVR) Group , has recently partnered with the team behind Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to develop a real-time demo for one of its most stunning projects — Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. This allows us to create high-quality visuals faster than before.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2019

It is an incredibly polished experience, developed with Unreal Engine. Wolves in the Walls has been selected as one of the best experiences at Sundance festival 2019, and for sure for a good reason. She’s amazing… maybe it’s me that I am a bad person… Two things have literaly amazed me of the whole experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Well, it is not a problem of virtual reality, but of the whole tech sector , that has seen its investments decreasing a lot in 2020. SuperData has forecasted an XR market in 2020 that will be similar to the one of 2019, with no actual growth. Unreal Engine 4.25 It will be a complicated year but united we will win.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. 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

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Today it can work with Unity, C++ and C#, but will soon have support for Unreal, Babylon, and React Native. 5G coupled with edge computing will help unlock this capability.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

.” Apple software and services could gain $9 billion in revenue by 2020 as a result of operations related to augmented reality because there will be about 3.6 billion Android phones with augmented reality capability according to a report by augmented and virtual reality research firm ARtillry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“We’re always striving to maximize our users’ immersion in virtual worlds by creating experiences that behave like users expect—experiences where you don’t have to think about what you’re doing; you just do it,” says Software Engineering Manager Ed Foley. Our 2019 game plan. One emerging application for our technology is telerobotics.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

This is very intriguing: Oculus has just finished announcing its full line of first generation Virtual Reality headsets (Go, Rift, Quest) and now it has to start talking about its next generation. At the same time, it has already officially stated that it is working on augmented reality glasses. Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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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. Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. MetaVRse logo (Image by MetaVRse).

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SpringboardVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Providing VR Operators with the MixCast™ VR Marketing System VR ARCADE PLAYERS CAN CREATE, CAPTURE AND SHARE THEIR FAVORITE IN-GAME MOMENTS IN MIXED REALITY WITH THEIR SOCIAL COMMUNITIES! February 7, 2019 ?—?Blueprint Blueprint Reality Inc. Vancouver, BC?—?February

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XROM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology Madras launched the country’s first Consortium for Virtual Reality called ‘ Consortium for VR/AR/MR Engineering Mission in India ’. Pls find below the III cohort of Awesome, Augmented Reality , Virtual Reality Startups from India building great, products, services & solutions.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.” Note that I’m not talking about the confusion that comes from what the industry is struggling to call next-generation augmented reality.

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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. MagicScript. Object Recognition. Location based entertainment.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

We’re continuing to actively participate in all the [OpenXR] working group online and in-person meetings, and of course, continuing work to add support for OpenXR to Unreal Engine 4.” ” Taking over as Chair of the OpenXR working group is Brent Insko, Lead Software Architect at Intel’s Virtual Reality Group.

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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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ARPost

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a joint panel with Spree Interactive on games and social experiences, Chicken Waffle CEO Finn Staber dropped a slew of announcements, including an indie creators fund, the game “Baby Hands” (which won the Auggie for “Best in Show” in 2019) coming to PSVR this Thanksgiving, and the launch of XR Swim.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. Hugo Barra, Vice President of Virtual Reality at Oculus announced a permanent price cut of the Rift and Touch bundle to $399.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

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. The AR Content Chicken & Egg Building augmented reality or mixed reality content is hard. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. Or Unreal if that’s your language. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR.

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