XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The firm plans to ship the G2 product in Q3 2023. The G1 device comes with a rich software development kit (SDK), enabling clients to integrate the HaptX brand of realistic feedback into custom immersive applications using Unreal Engine and Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Googles solutions allow developers to quickly optimize their augmented reality experiences for android devices, with a convenient Software Development Kit (SDK). Unity Software company, Unity, provides developers and innovators in the creative world with tools capable of building a wide variety of different ads and marketing campaigns.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

My only fear is that they are promising a bit too much and so they will have to compromise on something when reality will hit (e.g. The new Unity Personal will also remove the famous Unity splash screen Successful games using Unity Pro or Enterprise can choose if paying per install or by a 2.5% of our revenues with Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Latest Manus News Spectre XR The Spectre XR company focuses on the development and design of VR games and apps, as well as fully immersive AR and Mixed Reality experiences for a host of business needs. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. First of all, the labs are dedicated only to devs who are already developing applications for the Vision Pro , which is a very expensive headset.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We never made contact, but occasionally we shook hands virtually or gave high-fives,” reports CNET journalist Scott Stein on the multiuser haptics demo he tried last month at CES, wearing HaptX Gloves DK2. The prototype is built with Unity, integrating ArcGIS Maps SDK and the HaptX SDK. Interested in downloading the HaptX SDK?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

Additionally, Nreal also has its own augmented reality lab environment, where business leaders can develop their own immersive experiences. Khora Virtual Reality production company Khora produces extended reality experiences custom-made to suit the needs of evolving brands.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets. Currently, the company is investing in a variety of tools to unlock the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

RT3D developmental engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse also leverage genAI to optimize developmental workflows, notably for budding XR content creators. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023, NVIDIA introduced the CloudXR 4.0 However, genAI is not just applicable to an immersive product vendor.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

But now it’s 2023, and where does the firm’s Metaverse stand? The gaming industry has a loyal user base already familiar with virtual spaces, 3D environments, and interactive experiences – so the transition to spatial computing is natural.

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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. In July, the FTC voted 3-2 , allowing staff to issue a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that suspended the Within purchase.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Ultraleap Gemini hand-tracking platform works in both Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions, allowing for more immersive, interactive, and realistic experiences. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Steam VR stats have been pretty negative in September The Steam hardware survey for September 2023 was very negative for VR. The company is also going to increase the price of Unreal Engine , but this doesn’t apply to people creating games, but only to developers developing other types of content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

More info (Before Your Eyes VR) More info (Rec Room) More info (Aces Of Thunder) More info (Firmament) More info (Stellaris) More info (Guardians: Frontline) More info (Bigscreen) More info (Across The Valley) More info (Peaky Blinders) More info (Peridot) Other news This is one of the coolest pieces of AR content of this week Learn more Unity Creator (..)

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

Design Apple just went full Ready Player One pic.twitter.com/hh4XWaFgxR — Nathie (@NathieVR) June 5, 2023 On the front side, the headset looks pretty cool, like a pair of elegant ski goggles. 2016 or 2023? And well… if I look at these points, I can’t say I was entirely satisfied with what I’ve heard today.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

A friend of mine hadn’t managed to read beyond the 2023 predictions because what he had read was already too much for him. The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality. But at least you know now what you are going to expect in the future, and you can be prepared.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Vrgineers , the team behind enterprise-focused wide-FOV VR headsets, announced at CES 2023 this week that it’s releasing a wireless version of its latest XTAL VR headset. A prototype of the belt-worn transmitter is available at CES 2023, which is said to weigh 920 grams. Two fast-switching 4K LCD displays for virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.” Note that I’m not talking about the confusion that comes from what the industry is struggling to call next-generation augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

The Tracker is one of the most successful products sold by HTC: it is mostly used by the VRChat community people to have full-body VR in their favorite social space, or by VR arcades to be able to track props in virtual reality. HTC is currently the market leader, and its Trackers have arrived at their 3rd edition.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 3, 2023

Flipside XR, a virtual reality (VR) production company, announced on Thursday that it had launched its novel studio app. People can integrate virtual sets with numerous environments, lighting, characters, cameras, and assets. Download the app in @MetaQuest and #Rift Stores today!

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Many would not have gotten greenlit in the mainstream game publishing business — but in a shared space of creativity, new types of virtual worlds flourish. Popular games on Roblox in January 2023. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 By then, compute at the start of 2023 compute will seem like a rounding error again. Adopt Me!”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Then we have a new report from The Verge that says that the upcoming Apple visor is coming with an M2 chip (we knew that); Kuo saying that Apple will release its visor in January 2023 (we knew that); Apple AR glasses (not the headset, but the glasses) have now entered the design development stage and should release in 2024 (again, we knew).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. But then you look at Unreal. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. But then you look at Unreal. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. But then you look at Unreal. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Virtual Reality is in a moment where there is a lot of confusion, and things are evolving so fast that it is difficult to keep pace with them. Unity and Qualcomm now have GPU profilers for Quest so you can better tune apps to the headset pic.twitter.com/hYeD7TPCfl — Russell Holly (@russellholly) September 25, 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I entered VR in 2014 after having tried an Oculus Rift DK2 : it was the startup Oculus that made me love virtual reality. The price was steep for many small companies that just wanted to buy a Quest for $300 and enjoy the advantages of virtual reality. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform.

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