Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More info Other relevant news (Image by Upload) Upload VR Summer Showcase brought news about many games As usual, Upload VR had its Summer Showcase, in which it announced many pieces of news about many VR games. More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Over the years there have been a lot of pieces of entertainment content, whether it be the mesmerizing tunes of Daft Punk , the dystopian world of Blade Runner , or the retro-futuristic landscapes of countless video games, that all seem to grow out of this idea of an eye-catching future that is still faced with horrible problems.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED. in funding.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. VR Video Editing in Final Cut Pro X. .” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Following the Unity Training Day on Halloween, October 31st, Unity launched pretty awesome features during the opening keynote for Unite Los Angeles 2016 conference. ” The biggest news was the new partnership with Facebook, which officially launched the new downloadable PC gaming distribution platform called Gameroom. .

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

To make the upcoming Android ‘O’ OS more VR-friendly, Google is integrating some things you might think are pretty basic, but in the end are intended to give VR users the tools they need to manage the ‘always in VR’ nature of standalone headsets. Unity and Unreal support. Daydream Home. image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

This startup makes a nice multiplayer full-body VR game called Hide and Freeze VR , described this way: “Players take turns in playing hider or seeker. If you get frozen you are still part of the game as you can still observe and call out to other hiders to unfreeze you.”. Me and Simon of One Bonsai. I like this modding.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Design — Explore early lessons of VR game design with our Oculus Studios team and top developers such as High Voltage Software, Tripwire Interactive, OZWE Games, and more. Learn about breakthroughs for FPS in VR, how to design games with hand presence for Touch, and best practices for cross-platform compatibility.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

There are two ends of the spectrum from audio production ranging from pure live capture and pure audio production, which happens to mirror the differences between passive 360 video capture and interative, real-time CGI games.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way. They also hope to eventually be able to directly deliver their physically correct renders directly to the web using WebGL.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Releasing a simple 360 video as a marketing ploy is old news these days, so it’s refreshing when companies embrace VR to enhance their experiential brand activations in unique ways. RIDE A VIRTUAL WATERSLIDE WITHOUT GETTING WET AT TOPSHOP.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An interesting VR game appears on Roblox. Someone is making a VR game in Roblox, and it looks pretty cool. It is mostly used by teens and kids to create games and applications that get later shared (and played) together with their peers. All of this would be amazing… but for now we have only a VR shooter game prototype.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Blortasia is his second public VR art piece, arriving a few months after the pre-rendered 3D 360 video Zen Parade for Gear VR. Enter Blortasia. To learn more about the nuts and bolts of the experience, I spoke with Kevin Mack about how it was made.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

You attach them to your device and then it becomes as it has always had integrated audio (Image by Bionik Gaming). Obscuring completely your visuals while you are playing an action game means that you don’t see anything and so the enemies are going to kill your for sure. Unity Development.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For a little multiplayer game for Gen-Z, you can try Roblox. We have built great experiences on top of VRChat, which is an amazing platform, has a lot of daily users, and has good building tools, so we could just happily rely on it. For instance, if you want to build a social VR place, probably you can do that in VRChat.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although its well-known applications lie in gaming and entertainment , its potential isn’t limited to these industries. Over the years, they considered 360 video marketing, VR entertainment booths, and training simulations before settling on XR tools to aid with research. Drew MacNeil, co-founder of XpertVR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Later on, we invented 360 videos, that is a sphere around the user where it is projected everything that a user can see from his position : he can rotate his head and still see coherent visuals. Also Youtube offers the ability to load ambisonic sounds together with 360 videos. A real ambisonics microphone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 Daniel: I think you may well. Alan: Yeah. They make Eve Online.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 Daniel: I think you may well. Alan: Yeah. They make Eve Online.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 Daniel: I think you may well. Alan: Yeah. They make Eve Online.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Before starting: if you like this kind of posts, you can subscribe to my newsletter to receive them directly in your email!).

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VeeR VR

JUNE 13, 2018

In fact, with just some simple and intuitive modification in the animation production procedure, you'd be able to change the virtual camera into a 360-degree one and shoot panoramas or 360 videos of 3D scenes you built within your favorite modelling tool, providing your viewers with exponentially better sense of space, exploration, and free-will.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games. It was one of the 2017 games of the year.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games. It was one of the 2017 games of the year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

But in contrast, it is boldly presented, as the video is a partnership with Lytro , and uses their lightfield camera for VR to capture the singer and the church he later stands in. “To get to really great VR, you need a whole new set of tools and technology to make the content,” said Jason Rosenthal, the CEO of Lytro.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games. It was one of the 2017 games of the year.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? But for everybody that’s listening, that’s new to 360, we don’t look at our resolutions the same as a flat normal camera.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? But for everybody that’s listening, that’s new to 360, we don’t look at our resolutions the same as a flat normal camera.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? But for everybody that's listening, that's new to 360, we don't look at our resolutions the same as a flat normal camera. Is that correct?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

But also, beyond that, it allows a user — as we know, the full VR technology is extremely effective at doing — it allows the user to feel completely immersed in the experience, and it allows them to drive it as well, in the way that it’s built is the same as the way that you build VR video games. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies. We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

But also, beyond that, it allows a user — as we know, the full VR technology is extremely effective at doing — it allows the user to feel completely immersed in the experience, and it allows them to drive it as well, in the way that it’s built is the same as the way that you build VR video games. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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