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

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Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. Image courtesy Khronos Group. Technical Product Manager of AR/VR at Unity.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

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After a year that turned our lives upside down, the world is slowly going back to normal – proven, among others, by a large number of XR events in 2021. XR Events in 2021 – Celebrating the Industry that Made Lockdown Bearable. Our Top Recommendations: Must Attend XR Events in 2021. AWE Asia 2021. Where: Online.

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Meta Is Funding Godot Veterans To Improve The Engine's OpenXR & Quest Features Support

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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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HTC Brings OpenXR Public Beta to Vive Focus 3

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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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STYLY makes creation and distribution of cross-platform XR content easy

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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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Sony is an Official Supporter of OpenXR But Hasn’t Committed to a PSVR Implementation

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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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Teens slow to adopt VR and more bad news for the metaverse

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And, last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Disney shut down its metaverse team and the Truth in Advertising nonprofit advocacy group reported that Walmart had shut down its Roblox virtual experience. In 2021 and 2022, Reality Labs — its metaverse division — reported a total loss of nearly $24 billion.

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