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Unreal Engine 5: A Tutorial for VR Designers 

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Unreal Engine, one of the leading creation tools in the digital development market, has its own selection of valuable VR modes and technologies specifically suited to virtual reality. The latest version of Unreal Engine, UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) shipped in April 2022 this year, after an initial period of early access in 2021.

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This VR Tool Knows What You’re Thinking Before You Do

VRScout

For example, Kellogg’s turned to VR and eye-tracking to put themselves in the shoes of consumers in an effort to develop new ways to better market their Pop-Tart Bites. The VR tool is designed to work within Unreal Engine and has multi-user capabilities intended for collaboration. Image Credit: Theia Interactive.

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HTC Launches Aftermarket Face & Eye-trackers for Vive Focus 3

Road to VR

HTC today announced it’s releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. ” The unit, which attaches to the headset’s USB-C port, is built around a mono tracking camera clocked at 60Hz. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. billion AR-compatible devices at the end of 2021 , with the 2nd and 3rd places occupied by Facebook’s Spark AR (1.6 billion) and ARkit (1.25

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Xtal Virtual Reality Headset Review: High-Quality Immersive Tech

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

According to IDC’s March 2022 quarterly report , headset shipments grew by a staggering 92 percent in 2021, with several players vying for the top spot. XTAL won the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award in 2020 and was also among the finalists for VR Awards 2021. Precise eye-tracking. 8K resolution and user comfort.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. And it is not stopping here: OpenXR has just added new extensions for hands and eye tracking , and a company like UltraLeap has just released a beta implementation for its hands’ tracker. But I want to be positive about this… go OpenXR! .

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.22): Samsung AR glasses leaked, Kura price revealed, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Image by Epic Games, from The SportsRush).

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