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“It’s Time to Go Spatial”: Get Hyped for AWE USA 2020

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Because ARPost is a proud AWE USA 2020 media partner, readers can get 20% off of their ticket price by entering the promo code ARPOST20. See Also: Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience? creative director BC Biermann. How to Get Tickets. There’s still time to purchase tickets, which are available through AWE’s website.

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Microsoft’s VR Maker Tool ‘SharePoint Spaces’ to Launch in First Half of 2020

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Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Epic Games, Unity & Microsoft Have Cancelled Their Attendance at GDC 2020

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It’s a day of tech company cancellations following on from Facebook just confirming F8 2020 will no longer be taking place. Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Microsoft’s Game Stack team have all issued statements announcing their withdrawals from March’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020. .

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Varjo Hardware to Be Used in Astronaut Training

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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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‘Halo’ and ‘Alien: Isolation’ VR Modder Joins Microsoft’s 343 Industries

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Back in early 2020, Fannon attracted attention from the Halo studio in a profile piece , which may have been instrumental in his hiring. This obviously wouldn’t be possible to do on the original games themselves, so I used what I was learning to start working on a makeshift Halo VR world-viewer, built with Unreal Engine 4.

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Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year

Road to VR

Facebook, Microsoft, Valve, Unreal Engine, and others have been making progress toward supporting OpenXR in their platforms and now Unity says it’s moving to do the same. Earlier this year the standard took a huge step forward by announcing the start of certifications for compliant implementations. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

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And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. The finalists for the VR Awards 2020 have been revealed!

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