AR Insider

JULY 21, 2020

Though the company has risen to prominence with its breakout hit, Pokemon Go, the larger play may be its location-based AR gaming platform: The Real World Platform. Examples include Unity, Adobe Aero and 8th Wall. The Pokémon Go creator has turned its AR architecture into a platform on which others can build apps and games.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Additional businesses like Epic Games, Unity, Autodesk, Adobe, NVIDIA, and many others have pivoted to the Metaverse to reach these goals. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88 percent YoY for 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

More info (Getting started with VR) More info (Best 5 Quest games to start with). I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. More info (Somnium Space headset details) More info (The first game built on top of Somnium Space).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Every year I like to play the speculation game about what to expect from there… and every year I predict a lot of things wrong (like that year that I said that the Quest Link was not going to happen… shame on me). Tomorrow is the day the Meta Connect starts! This is a tradition I can’t skip this year, too.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

the GPU power of the previous model , and the comparison of the various games in their before vs. after versions is impressive. Finally with this chipset, games don’t appear just as flat colors anymore, but some real-time lighting becomes possible. Meta has also revealed that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is coming to Quest in December.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Android is a semi-open software platform. And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and AR commerce enablement (full list of inclusions here ). Software revenue will grow in share as it builds on that installed base. It’s already being seen in the sub-sector’s leader, Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! New Oculus Avatars are currently supported only in three games: Epic Roller Coasters, PokerStarsVR, and Topgolf with Pro Putt.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This will include software that helps brands build AR lenses for marketing campagins. The biggest projected revenue sources in enterprise AR software will be ARaaS for media, retail, commerce and gaming. Game engines like Unity have been doing this for a while with creation tools for 3D worlds. billion by 2023.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon is a global, remotely-operated gaming studio staffed by some of the world’s top video game industry executives. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

But since smartphone-based AR provides greater scale today, we’re focusing this analysis on software-based models in consumer mobile AR. Moving on to the second business model, in-app purchases (IAP) are fitting for lots of AR experiences, especially gaming. We’ll separately tackle other subsectors like industrial. billion by 2023.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. Spatial Computing Trends: Dedicated Software and Tools Just as vendors are producing more advanced hardware for the spatial computing landscape, the software used to power these systems is evolving, too.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. Spatial Computing Trends: Dedicated Software and Tools Just as vendors are producing more advanced hardware for the spatial computing landscape, the software used to power these systems is evolving, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Quest has an enormous catalog of games with which a startup can’t compete, but Lynx could start dominating a particular niche for which this headset may be optimal. DLCs and IAPs are two new ways that indie developers that are on App Lab can use to monetize their games. could add DLCs with new training levels to earn some money.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

This is why all the most hardcore PCVR fans have insta-bought it: it could give games like Half-Life: Alyx a next-level visual realism. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. making real objects occlude the virtual ones).

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is the biggest tracking area among the standalone headsets on the market, and while it is totally useless at home, having such a big area is important in entertainment locations because it lets players move around a big space to play their games. This could offer multiplayer colocated games with the same quality of PCVR games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. So, we can expect a beta 120Hz mode coming in March-April.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

Two years ago, when I went to the Gamescom with Max , I had the possibility of trying a haptic suit by Korean company bHaptics and I appreciated the more realism it could give to VR games. It puts you immediately in the part inside shooter games, and I think that mixed reality videos of FPS games in VR come out great with it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

GDC (Game Developers Conference) March 20-24, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference is definitely a worthwhile event to attend for content creators and entertainment brands, but anyone with a love of XR can get involved. Here are some top options worth adding to the calendar this year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Game developers are also preparing for it: popular games like SuperHot, Red Matter , and Arizona Sunshine will publish new updates to take in count the new horsepower of the Quest 2. One of these data is very interesting: 15% of the game players have played it in VR. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity.

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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! 2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. Could this be an unintentional tradeoff of the darkened glass frontplate, or is it solvable with software tweaks?

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Benzing then moved on to create Hilda , which “ had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon, ” and Diptych , which “ had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera (2018), ” as is stated on her personal blog. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. An amazing hedgehog by charly-1.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

“A Gemba masterclass is entirely interactive — it’s 3D, immersive, and we use the same software that 90% of video games are created in ( Unity ),” Gemba CEO Nathan Robinson told TechCrunch. “From inception to completion, this process has taken more than five years,” Robinson said.

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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. Finding some games to play. Doesn’t work with any games.”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Image by Epic Games). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Image by Epic Games). Apple glasses are coming.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It can be readily recognized by the software with very little processing overhead. Types of AR Following are the types of AR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

NVIDIA announced on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 it had expanded its CloudXR software developer kit (SDK) to deliver more scalable, customisable extended reality (XR) experiences for enterprises and developers. This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

I think this will be fixed in a future software update ; Because of low computational power of mobile devices, the quality of the graphical elements shown in the various applications is far from realistic. But that 10% of the time may be frustrating in some games. You must learn how to play games without falling in the dead zones.

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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.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. Or they can also oversee that separately, if they have internal software development skills and a team. Alan: I'm really excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. Or they can also oversee that separately, if they have internal software development skills and a team. Alan: I'm really excited.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. Eventually, I even got to make a massively multiplayer mobile game based on Star Trek that a few million people played.

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