VRScout

JUNE 9, 2020

Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with. Those interested can apply here. .

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Unity’s Latest Trends Report Declares 2020 will be a Breakthrough Year for XR. The perception of gimmickry has given way to real business value,” says Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Facebook’s Director of Enterprise AR/VR, adding that 2020 is going to be a critical, if not glamorous, time for enterprise VR. Look no further!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Until recently, Rune Skovbo Johansen worked at Unity as a senior software engineer, working on Eye of the Temple as an indie developer in his spare time. The demo is still available for free on Steam too, supporting SteamVR headsets including Valve Index, HTC Vive, Windows MR, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest via Link.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the most popular companies in the virtual reality space today, HTC VIVE specialises in delivering high-quality immersive experiences to enterprises and everyday users alike. Already, various leading companies have begun implementing HTC VIVE technology into their educational environments. That’s where Unity comes in.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. In August 2020, Charles Rivers Analytics received a MegaGrant from Epic Games, allowing the SDK to become fully integrated into the company’s game developing eco-system. It currently supports the following devices and XR systems: SteamVR: HTC Vive and Windows MR headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 25, 2016

How Unity is preparing for the mobile VR revolution The gaming landscape looked quite different when TechRadar spoke to John Riccitiello, CEO at game engine Unity, back in June 2015. That hasn’t caused Unity to shy away from VR though, quite the opposite. billion PCs).

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. If you followed Facebook’s GDS, whether with Facebook, with us, or with someone else, you may be wondering why HTC has elected to live stream content. HTC and VIVE elected to have their content live-streamed so that they can field live questions from their digital audience.

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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. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. percent YoY for 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

As I’ve written in the VR predictions for 2020 , I guess that the device will be discontinued this year. And this may be the reason for the removal: from my experience as a consultant, there is still space for 3DOF headsets in 2020 (for marketing, education, etc…), so there are companies interested in buying big batches of 3DOF viewers.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. Mikey Trujillo – Project Manager at Marvel Entertainment, LLC. ICHVR 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. In 2020 this trend will continue, and the more content will get released, the more people will start entering VR. The reasons?

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ARPost

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Organized by Vulcan Productions and Kaleidoscope, Impact Reality Summit will have its first edition on January 9 and 10, 2020, at Vulcan Technologies headquarters in Seattle, WA. The team of curators consists of top-level decision-makers from Vulcan Productions, Kaleidoscope, and Unity. An XR Event for a Sustainable Future.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2021

That was March of 2020. His experience hosting events in AltspaceVR and some talent with Unity were really valuable to Render, “Without him, we wouldn’t be where we are today.”. Render and Reichle both saw an opportunity to host comedy shows in VR, something no one was doing at the time. Image Credit: Failed to Render.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

January saw HTC Vive hold its first developer jam in five years, created in collaboration with Admix, Corsair and VRFocus. Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! The Pico SDK can be easily accessed from the Pico website : it is available for Unity, UE4 and also for the native Android platform. User Interface. Price and availability.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Shipping is expected for fall 2020. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). What will happen next? Top news of the week. Image by HP). HP launches Reverb G2 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

First introduced during CES 2020 back in January, the announcement this week will see Manus Polygon made available to companies looking for a full-body solution this summer, no matter the use case. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. Sebastian Ang, in a recent cool video of his, has made a review of the Pimax Artisan , the newest Pimax headset announced at CES 2020.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Trailer Revealed, Release Date Set for March 2020. While the studio’s prior VR projects were based on Unity, Valve confirmed today that Half-Life: Alyx is built on the company’s own Source 2 engine. More of Today’s Half-Life: Alyx News.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

A patent filed by Valve in 2020 and granted some days ago shows the work that Valve is doing towards wireless/standalone headsets. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Last week, HTC Vive has announced the Vive Facial Tracker, a sensor to track your facial expressions while you are in VR. As long as it works….

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards. You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

Again, I could go on in this list for a lot of time.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). In my opinion, Apple will wait until the technology will be ready for some kind of mainstream adoption: the launch will probably be from 2020 on. See you in 2020! But I don’t expect any launch. Surprises.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Matt Wilburn, the company’s chief operating officer, said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat that Morph 3D has created the Ready Room, a VR space where you can customize your own VR character using an HTC Vive VR headset. I tried out the demo of the Ready Room using an HTC Vive. The artists and Morph 3D share revenues.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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ARVR

JUNE 20, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 In partnership with HTC Vive Arts, Emissive Studio has created the experience Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass , the first VR experience presented by the Louvre museum, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019. RealMax experience at CES 2020. It feels like a devkit also in this sense.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). I have also tried Firefox Reality (there is a build from December 2020), and I have verified that the headset is WebXR compatible. Production quality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. In May of 2017, Unity CEO John Riccitiello forecasted two things : That harsh times with people saying that VR is a fad would have come. It’s 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. We now know that it will surely run on Quest, that you won’t have lightsabers but blasters, and that it is still in track for a 2020 release.

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