Amazon, Entertainment, Software and Unreal

Achieving Marketing Success with AR

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

AR software development kit (SDK) providers like Apple, Xreal, Niantic, 8 th Wall, Unreal, and Unity give developers the tools to make and distribute custom AR content that naturally drives retention and engagement with new interactive experiences to “wow” potential buyers. However, the XR space is still emerging.

AR

AR Unreal Education Unity

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

Sony

Sony Magic Leap Gaming Unreal

Xreal Supports Apple MacBooks: Shape of XR Competition to Come

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 6, 2023

Xreal has a storied history of developing immersive media solutions, with the firm’s Air and Light products being commonly touted as entertainment solutions. The firm has also produced tools for enjoying immersive entertainment on the go in collaboration with Nio.

Apple

Apple Immersion AR Hardware

The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5%

Unity

Unity Machine Learning Eye Tracking Hand tracking

Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

Gaming

Gaming Unreal Data Machine Learning

Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

Gaming

Gaming Unreal Data Machine Learning

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But apart from the hardware, what Apple is doing on the software side may also be intriguing: a new job listing from the company has been published to look for an “AR/VR Frameworks Engineer” that should have the role of “developing an entirely new application paradigm”. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience. Learn more.

Survey

Survey Apple AR Samsung

From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

Simulation

Simulation Gaming Training Virtual Reality

From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

Simulation

Simulation Gaming Training Virtual Reality

Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. He’s someone who has worked on games early in his career at Lucas Arts and has always been tied to the entertainment industry. Max Preussner was a senior software engineer for Epic Games.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Industry New York City Gaming

Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Game’s Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

Unreal

Unreal Data Machine Learning Tools

The XR Week Peek (2021.11.15): Vive Focus 3 aims at LBEVR market, Niantic and Qualcomm launch AR SDKs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

AR

AR Unity Virtual Reality Google

From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

Simulation

Simulation Gaming Training Virtual Reality

Composability is the Most Powerful Creative Force in the Universe

Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

with media, with software, with art, with experiences, and with how we project our identity into digital space. Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we Chris Dixon wrote that composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance.

Technology

Technology Software Gaming Unity

Oculus Quest vs HTC Vive Focus Plus

The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

Furthermore, that genius of Carmack has found a way to correct via software the chromatic aberration of the lenses (through what is shown on the display), so while the central part of the vision is great on both devices, on the periphery of the lenses, you have less perceived distortions on Quest. This is not present on the Focus.

HTC

HTC Oculus China Controllers

All you need to know on Oculus Connect 6: the most important news in one single article!

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is a software solution that lets you connect your Oculus Quest to the PC so that you can “transform” your Oculus Quest into a PC VR headset.

Oculus

Oculus Hand tracking Video AR

Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

AR

AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality

Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

AR

AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality

XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Because if you’re working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you’ve got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. But once the WebXR 2.0

Industry

Industry Augmented Reality AR Technology

Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

AR

AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality

XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast's Kent Bye - Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Because if you're working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you've got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

Industry

Industry Augmented Reality AR Technology

XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Because if you’re working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you’ve got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. But once the WebXR 2.0

Industry

Industry Augmented Reality AR Technology

Virtual Reality Pulse

Achieving Marketing Success with AR

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Game’s Marc Petit

The XR Week Peek (2021.11.15): Vive Focus 3 aims at LBEVR market, Niantic and Qualcomm launch AR SDKs, and more!

From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

Composability is the Most Powerful Creative Force in the Universe

Oculus Quest vs HTC Vive Focus Plus

All you need to know on Oculus Connect 6: the most important news in one single article!

Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast's Kent Bye - Part 1

XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

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