XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. Attendees will have a chance to experiment with some of the latest tools and wearables on the market, as well as explore learning opportunities.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Meta has also released a small demo of a fitness game to prove how it works well. More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others. He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We We are] creating a digital twin of the [Earth’s climate system].

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This, together with 5G and Wi-fi 6, could help the spread of cloud rendering; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta. The demo is amazing, I hear. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This means that, even with many limitations, you’ll be able to create WebAR experiences from within Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

And also some people of my family are now enjoying it since it is a great tool to escape the isolation we are forced into. Some of them talk about tools to organize virtual events or virtual meetings, and that can be very useful for your professional lives. I really wish everyone could have a headset at home nowadays.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. Other relevant news. Image by Meta). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. Being a developer, of course one of the first things that I did was digging into the bHaptics SDK, that you can find on the Unity asset store or on Unreal Engine Marketplace. Price and availability.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Facebook encourages people to create new worlds inside Horizon using the World Creation tools , that let people create easily new experiences for Horizon from inside virtual reality in an easy way and without knowing how to code (there is a visual scripting system). In the demos, Facebook has showcased a plane game call Wing Strikers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

If you are a Unity/UE developer, you may have issues with Quest developing at this moment after the update , because when you build the app, you may see only one controller, or the controllers behaving in a weird way. Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. News worth a mention.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

And when you have finished it, you have immediately 5 demos of games that are waiting for you. And when you turn it on the first time, you have immediately five free demos that you can play from the first instants , that show you how gaming in VR can be great. When I demo the Quest to people, everyone loves it. User Experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

So we would require many public demos about it… but well, there is a pandemic and so people can go out less, and even if they go out, it’s not safe wearing the headset that others have worn in a demo booth. But we all know that this is not enough: VR must be tried to be understood (and sold).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

But more recently, tools have helped dematerialize the experience and make it more easy to conduct your campaign online. Generative AI tools have also helped dungeon masters create imagery to share with their groups. Realtime ray tracing was a demo in 2018 that required a $60,000 PC. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. But there is significant double imaging when you rotate your head - so much so that "wow, it's really blurry when you move your head" was the first reaction of the only person I've demoed Vision Pro to so far.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” But I think we’ve kind of — in the last two years — put a lot of POCs, a lot of effort, into building these demos and proofs of concepts, developing these trials. Amazon Sumerian. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content? The tools are here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” But I think we’ve kind of — in the last two years — put a lot of POCs, a lot of effort, into building these demos and proofs of concepts, developing these trials. Amazon Sumerian. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content? The tools are here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Alan: So one of the things that you guys just released is a video showing the new PlayStation 5 running the Unreal Engine, and the demo was -- and I'll quote -- there's billions of polygons running. You put new tools in place. It's not science fiction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Alan: So one of the things that you guys just released is a video showing the new PlayStation 5 running the Unreal Engine, and the demo was -- and I'll quote -- there's billions of polygons running. You put new tools in place. It's not science fiction.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But I think we've kind of -- in the last two years -- put a lot of POCs, a lot of effort, into building these demos and proofs of concepts, developing these trials. Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And my co-founder and CTO, Cedric, had been a 3D programmer in the gaming industry for 15 years, was hired by Mozilla to make one of the very first demos of WebGL for the launch of Firefox 4. And it, over the last, I guess 24 months, it seems like you’ve morphed into a more business tool applications. Alban: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Alan: So one of the things that you guys just released is a video showing the new PlayStation 5 running the Unreal Engine, and the demo was -- and I'll quote -- there's billions of polygons running. You put new tools in place. It's not science fiction.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And my co-founder and CTO, Cedric, had been a 3D programmer in the gaming industry for 15 years, was hired by Mozilla to make one of the very first demos of WebGL for the launch of Firefox 4. And it, over the last, I guess 24 months, it seems like you've morphed into a more business tool applications. Alban: Yes. I mean, it depends.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And my co-founder and CTO, Cedric, had been a 3D programmer in the gaming industry for 15 years, was hired by Mozilla to make one of the very first demos of WebGL for the launch of Firefox 4. And it, over the last, I guess 24 months, it seems like you’ve morphed into a more business tool applications. Alban: Yes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This is a very welcome feature for demos. I always refused to have an Alexa in my house because I know that what I say may randomly be sent to some Amazon offices in India where a person listens to my worlds and checks if the AI has detected well what I’ve said, with a clear violation of my privacy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

With all sorts of amazing future tech demos, PTC’s Executive VP of AR Products Mike Campbell understands how businesses might want to implement the most far-out features of XR technology right away. And it’s a collection of all of these tools that are serving this customer. ” They say, “OK, that’s great.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

With all sorts of amazing future tech demos, PTC’s Executive VP of AR Products Mike Campbell understands how businesses might want to implement the most far-out features of XR technology right away. And it’s a collection of all of these tools that are serving this customer. ” They say, “OK, that’s great.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

With all sorts of amazing future tech demos, PTC's Executive VP of AR Products Mike Campbell understands how businesses might want to implement the most far-out features of XR technology right away. And it's a collection of all of these tools that are serving this customer. There was kind of like a coffee machine, I think was the demo.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Would that be possible?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Would that be possible?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I got invited to this DJ at it with my emulator board, and it was Robert Scoble and I; we both went into the little tent, and there was this guy showing these VR demos. I thought, “that’s a nice marketing tool.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I got invited to this DJ at it with my emulator board, and it was Robert Scoble and I; we both went into the little tent, and there was this guy showing these VR demos. I thought, “that’s a nice marketing tool.”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Would that be possible?

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