ARPost

MAY 21, 2021

The Bitmoji software that Snapchat users can use to represent themselves on the site or play games with is now accessible to game developers using Unity. Bitmoji X Unity Games. The glasses are currently in the hands of “a select group of global creators.”. Spectacles.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Meta is funding a group of Godot veterans to improve the engine's support for OpenXR and Quest feature extensions, as well as to build high-quality samples and documentation. If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tony Parisi from Unity was also there. This morning, Eloi Gerard , the great marketing guy that is the admin of the XR Story group on WeChat, came to take me up at my Airbnb house. The post AWE 2021: my first impressions about AWE and hands-on with Ray-Ban Stories! It was literally insane! Hands-on Ray-Ban Stories.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Despite being among the early supporters of the OpenXR consortium—the industry group building the open standard for XR devices—Sony so far seems to have avoided making a specific commitment to implement OpenXR on PSVR or its next-gen headset. OpenXR is an open standard developed under the Khronos Group. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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JULY 14, 2022

After a long time with my lovely Unity 2019.4 LTS, I have decided it was time to switch to something new, not to miss the new features that Unity has implemented these years. I have so started using Unity 2021.3 Let’s see how to build a Unity 2021 application with OpenXR. It is a Unity 2019.4

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ARPost

AUGUST 28, 2021

The Orlando Tech Council is a tech-focused group within the larger OEP. See Also: 2021 VR/AR Association Global Summit: Metaverse, Convergence, and Adoption. Every time I went to a conference, there were people from this group called the VR/AR Association. The tech community here is rather diverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022? ImmersedVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the rules for everything, and the situation is so confusing and so rapidly evolving that any prediction for 2021 is completely unreliable, too. 2021 won’t be the year of VR. Well, let’s be honest, this won’t happen in 2021, either.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. billion AR-compatible devices at the end of 2021 , with the 2nd and 3rd places occupied by Facebook’s Spark AR (1.6 billion).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In 2021, the program marked over 80 billion euros provided in funding over seven years. Since 2021 the fund has delivered up to £16 million into creating immersive experiences. Unity runs a yearly Humanity Grant programme promoting XR projects that change the world for the better. Funding Opportunities for VR Developers.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Donations were going toward the so-called "Freedom Convoy," a group of Canadian truck drivers and their supporters who have taken an extreme step to protest the new COVID-19 regulations imposed by the Canadian government for travelers across the border. Families and children have also joined the protest group in Ottawa.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

A new maps SDK compatible with Unity is also coming to 8th Wall. Further, 8th Wall’s “Metaversal Deployment” announced at AWE 2021 is now compatible with mixed reality via Quest 2 , Quest Pro , “and probably all future MR headsets.” The updated ARDK will enter a beta phase later this month.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. Our friends at ARtillery predict that AR advertising will pass the $2B mark in 2021, driven primarily by social networks. It’s not a casual group; these folks are oriented toward action. Four Myths About AR Advertising.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The seed round was led by KB Partners and TitletownTech, with participation from Greycroft, Verizon Ventures, Haslam Sports Group, 49ers Enterprises, and SC Holdings, and “additional strategic celebrity investors.”. NVIDIA researchers won Best in Show award at SIGGRAPH 2021 for their real-time digital avatar technology.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the first to enter this business is the Metaverse Group, which operates a virtual world called Decentraland. Late last year, a report surfaced that the parent company of the Metaverse Group announced that “a site in the heart of Decentraland’s Fashion Street district” has been sold for a record $2.5 16, 2021, brought $13,703.49.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). 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. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

Music has been one of the most impacted sectors by the COVID : most probably there won’t be real concerts until 2021 and that’s a real problem for all artists that want to express themselves. Because of the coronavirus, many physical events have been canceled and so people and companies are finding new ways to organize gatherings.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

billion USD in 2021. The accreditation allowed ARuVR to become the first AR/VR firm to achieve this status, paving the way for public sector groups to digitally transform via immersive technologies. . AR/VR Market Figures and Forecasts . According to a report from Allied Market Research, the global AR and VR industry reached 27.6

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The CEO of the leading virtual reality (VR) firm first caught the ire of the FTC when Meta attempted to purchase immersive fitness application developers Within for $440 million in 2021. The shake-up refocused the group considerably, leading up to the release of the Meta Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. Some info on content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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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. Unity 3D is probably the most common software used for developing VR/AR applications?—?you Not all members have VR headsets in your group?

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ARVR

APRIL 21, 2021

PBR is used in real-time applications like Unity and Unreal game-engines as well as the web. link] The most friendly real-time PBR file format is glTF or GLB and is supported by The Khronos group, a non-profit consortium of companies from HP, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, and more. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many individuals and groups are making Metaverse laws, best practices, and legal standards to regulate and standardize the growing Web3 landscape. The FTC first felt concerned over the investment in 2021 when Meta announced the $400 million purchase. Similar to the rise of social and user-driven Web 2.0,

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ARVR

APRIL 16, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Powerful, User-Friendly 3D CMS Our end-to-end cloud-based content management system makes it easy to keep track of all your 3D assets in one convenient place. Tagging and grouping empower anyone to search your product catalog, ensuring every department can find the approved 3D asset they need.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

Some of the largest takeaways from the report found that the augmented reality (AR) market had taken over 55 percent of global markets in 2021. However, virtual reality (VR) was set to grow from 2022 to 2030, with software making significant gains in the same period. It also estimates that the sector will reach around $345.9

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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…). Pictures from FBEC 2021 (Image from VRTUOLUO) Who will be the most important speakers? Why and how has it started?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Herdina previously worked at Clay AIR, a hand-tracking and spatial mapping technology firm Qualcomm acquired in 2021. The firm is also part of the Khronos Group, that champions openXR standards and practices. What’s Next?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

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. Multiple connectivity options such as VirtualLink (5m / 16.40

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

The Quest 2 is expected to have 8–9M units sold in 2021 (and this is compatible with the estimated sales data we have now), while the new device should sell 18–20M units in 2022. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity?

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2021

Last year, many game development groups held events independently. This year, Facebook (who held their own showcase event last year ) partnered with Unity and Intel to offer a larger, joint showing in advance of the more complete Game Developers Conference, which will take place in July. Major Announcements From Unity.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 WebXR Device API Introduced in 2018, it is an API that implements the core of the WebXR feature set, manages the selection of output devices, renders the 3D scene on the chosen device at the appropriate frame rate, and handles the controller's input. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. If we look at the above graph, the moment when there is the true spike of XR technologies is around 2020/2021 , but this year we should start seeing some acceleration. It’s 2019.

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Road to VR

APRIL 14, 2022

Image courtesy Khronos Group. in 2019, and picked up significant steam in 2021 with official support on SteamVR , Meta going “all in” on OpenXR, “production-ready” OpenXR support in Unreal Engine , and more. OpenXR has seen a slow but steady adoption since reaching version ‘1.0’

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Irreverent documentarian Penny Lane aims to enlighten by training her keen eye on the modern Satanic Temple in this challenging 2019 film, which follows the group's political battles. Hip-hop star Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson makes his directorial debut with a 2021 documentary that'll make you want to get up and dance.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Following this announcement, we partnered with Unity and Audi and for a US roadshow that brought us from Los Angeles to San Francisco. 2021 has been a super intense year for us – in a positive way. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. We’ve won the SXSW Pitch incl. Can you tell us more about it?

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