XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2024

Unity Introduces Matthew Bromberg as New CEO/Director On May 15, 2024, Unity will have Matthew Bromberg as its new Chief Executive Officer, President, and Unity Board of Directors member. Previously, they held interim leadership roles following the resignation of Unity’s previous Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2024

How will its vision fare in an increasingly competitive 2024 market? ” Microsoft has announced that it will release new avatars for its Teams application in January 2024. However, the new year is upon us, as is Microsoft’s industrial Metaverse roadmap, with the first of its products coming this month.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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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. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Immersed is a reliable company, but it never shipped a headset, so I’ll feel more confident when the first people receive their units. Let’s see what happens… some people are afraid this may become a DecaGear 2, but personally, I think that Immersed can deliver.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technology’s similarity to pre-existing systems enables the easy integration of XR within a range of business environments, such as construction and healthcare, helping drive the adoption of immersive solutions and devices. The Unity integration also enables the OEP to integrate other related solutions into the product.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Anyone with a Quest 2/3/Pro can download it now and play the new immersive escape room, which warps a mysterious cabinet and a host of cryptic puzzles items into your room. MR mini-games seen in Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023) and Stranger Things VR (2024) are fine freebies, but nothing to write home about.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. Moreover, Michael Guerin said that over the next few years, immersive and spatial storytelling experiences would become “much more prevalent in the next three to five years.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2024

Microsoft is planning for device-wide general availability in 2024. Moreover, at the event, Microsoft announced that it would introduce new avatars to its popular Teams application, with the avatars reaching general availability in January 2024. The call hit all the expected notes, such as genAI.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 29, 2024

Strategic Innovation and Expansion Plan The firm is undergoing a 2024-2026 “Strategic Plan” emphasizing innovation and global expansion in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions to accompany its landmark 20-year accomplishment. Cunningham is also a former Head of Government and Aerospace Business for Unity Technologies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today, Microsoft is making its long—awaited Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform available for enterprise end users. According to Microsoft, the immersive Mesh meeting spaces foster various enterprise use cases such as employee onboarding, town halls, brainstorming sessions, team socials, and networking events.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Namely, within the XR space, the firm works on many related immersive technologies to boost Meta’s hardware and software offerings, from AI to avatars. It is a space early in its development yet key in providing advanced levels of immersion, input, and feedback during enterprise operations such as training sessions.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

Immersive technologies are no longer reserved for the gaming and entertainment industries. Cameras, room conferencing kits, and immersive displays have all become increasingly common. VR solutions can make workplaces feel less isolating, improving unity and presence in a distributed workplace.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info Discover the UX details of Half-Life: Alyx Road To VR’s Ben Lang has examined some of the UX details that make Half-Life: Alyx appear so polished and so immersive and wrote a very interesting article describing them all. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Will 2024 be the year for the industrial Metaverse? This time last year, Meta promised that the Metaverse would launch immersive remote communication into the mainstream. At the start of 2023, many Metaverse vendors promoted how immersive worlds could completely change how the world works and lives. Is the Metaverse dead?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2023

This week, Osso VR, an immersive training platform for healthcare professionals, is introducing hand-tracking input options into its leading VR learning platform. The news of Osso VR’s inclusion of hand-tracking input comes as the immersive industry shifts gears to support body-tracking input over controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

However, the Vision Pro is more than just a headset for immersive entertainment. However, it’s worth noting that “compatible” apps won’t necessarily provide the same intuitive and immersive experience as solutions built for the Apple Vision Pro. Just don’t expect a very “immersive” experience.”

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Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

Here's what you may have missed: It's been a busy week across the board as 2024 settles in. Right as CES 2024 got underway, Apple told the world to " get ready " after confirming the Apple Vision Pro release date. Awards , five VR games have been nominated for the "Immersive Reality Technical Achievement" award.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro headset is getting ready for its 2024 debut, and XR developers are already leveraging the device’s SDK to create a range of immersive productivity tools. Emiliano Tomasoni, CMO of Wildix, noted that the current immersive application developments “could prove extremely attractive to businesses.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

a frontline AR work solution that displays immersive instructional assets. Taqtile also officially announced its support for Microsoft’s Unity-based MRTK3 to expand its Manifest application’s functionality earlier this year. The aim is to prepare for a growing number of OpenXR devices in 2024. Manifest version 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro. I sincerely hope so.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

a frontline AR work solution that displays immersive instructional assets. Taqtile also officially announced its support for Microsoft’s Unity-based MRTK3 to expand its Manifest application’s functionality earlier this year. The aim is to prepare for a growing number of OpenXR devices in 2024. Manifest version 3.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

@MarkGurman breaks it down in this week’s Power On [link] — Bloomberg (@business) November 19, 2023 Despite this, Apple remains on schedule to release its long-awaited premium headset as executives from the company previously confirmed it would be released in 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What is Microsoft Mesh , and what can it do to transform the future of immersive collaboration? At Microsoft Ignite 2023 , the tech giant reinvigorated excitement around the Mesh platform with new feature updates and the promise of general availability in January 2024. So, what is Microsoft Mesh exactly, and what can it do?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

More on Apple Vision Pro Apple is planning to debut its costly and enterprise-grade device in 2024. While production challenges may push that date back, the firm is working hard to debut a robust immersive framework that supports various use cases.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This month could just prove that immersive business solutions will start seeing greater media hype in the next few months leading into 2024, CES, and beyond. As 2024 continues to build up as perhaps another foundational year for XR, November is seeing major organisations unveil the last major updates of the year.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024. However, genAI is not just applicable to an immersive product vendor.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

billion by 2024. The multi-dimensional campaign included a Unity-built AR portal that let users enter an immersive Irish-themed (and beer-themed) world, and an AR coin-toss drinking game. This includes paid/sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.”. billion this year and $8.02

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Covering all forms of immersive tech, from virtual to augmented, and mixed reality, XR is a key component in how the relationship between humans and computers is evolving. Currently, the XR market is expected to accelerate towards a value of around $300 billion by 2024 alone, and it isn’t just consumers and gamers who are set to benefit.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Costing roughly $3499 and debuting in early 2024, the Vision Pro is promising to bring spatial computing and AR workspaces to the mainstream. An infinite digital canvas is how Apple sees its immersive product. Windows represents the 2D user interface, enabling users to navigate and access 3D immersive applications.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Shipping is expected to happen in Q2 2024. The price for the treadmill and the accompanying Pico headset is $2,595.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If Apple successfully leverages its product ecosystem alongside its new MR headset, the firm could be in a unique position to offer an immersive device with a launch-ready lineup of compatible and familiar software and hardware – that users may already own – that could push usability and adoption rates. XR Comes to iOS!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Historically, the way in which brands and marketing teams connect with audiences relies heavily on emerging technology, from the Internet to immersive solutions. Many brands leverage AR today to promote products to customers using interactive branded immersive content for smartphone applications like Instagram.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

This week, AR instructional solutions provider Taqtile announced official support for Microsoft’s Unity-based Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) in a move to broaden the usability of its Manifest application ready for a “growing number” of OpenXR devices in 2024.

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