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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon has basically sent many brick and mortar traditions out to the retirement home. Due to the pushes by Amazon, even ancient traditions like going to the store on Black Friday have gone the way of Denver the Last Dinosaur. Well, Amazon is finally placing its hat into the kooky world of VR and AR with its new development platform.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Wondering what Amazon’s videogame development engine, Lumberyard, can do for VR? Lumberyard might not be the most prominent engine in the industry right now, but Amazon is trying to build momentum, especially on the VR side. Tagged with: Amazon , development , lumberyard. The company has some new examples for you today.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

Those unfamiliar with immersive technology have often perceived VR as some form of modern black magic that only highly-trained developers can properly harness. But today you no longer need to be a Unity professional or 3D designer to get into this sacred industry. Image Credit: Amazon. Sumerian by Amazon.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Unity (Nasdaq: U) for 3D Modeling and Animation Tools. A very important part in the adoption of immersive technologies will be played by infrastructure. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) for Servers. Snap’s augmented reality filters likely place it as one of the leading companies in the AR industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Beyond Sports develops real-world data for 3D animations, and its technologies will seamlessly integrate with Sony’s growing portfolio of immersive solutions. Players can use the novel tools to buy and sell in-game content and identify metadata, ownership, and other key details for immersive content. it announced this week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

is a firm focusing on immersive training for enterprise end-users. to collaborate with Chevron Technology Ventures as we continue to advance our cutting-edge immersive training solutions for the energy sector. provide enterprise clients with immersive training solutions ready for AR and VR distribution. This Tuesday, Motive.io

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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. At Ignite, Microsoft announced plans to introduce new avatars and immersive spaces to its popular Teams application, widely used for workplace communications.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This year, in 2023, MWC will provide attendees with a great place to learn about 5G, 6G, IoT, and immersive tech. Laval Virtual April 12-16th, 2023 Hosted in Laval, France, the Laval Virtual Event is a conference fully dedicated to exploring the opportunities in immersive technologies, including augmented and virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I virtually know Alan since some years, and I have always admired his ability to combine his entrepreneurial skills with his passion for immersive realities so that to be successful by doing the things that he loves the most. Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more. It’s time for another roundup of amazing XR news.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

Free roam VR is the only truly immersive VR because users walk through mixed reality environments using their natural locomotion and touch. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. This is now only possible wearing a backpack PC and VR headset in special locations like Sandbox VR, Zero Latency, and Dreamscape.

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AR Insider

JULY 24, 2020

To make sense of all of this, Shape Immersive ran a series of virtual events over the past few months. Unity’s Tony Parisi reiterates that this capability is here today… we just need to make it scalable. But what about the ability for Walmart and Amazon to capture and distribute 3D models for millions of SKUs?

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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. This year, leading names like Deborah Oyeyinka from Unity Technologies , and Kristofor Mellroth of Xbox are set to attend.

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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

JUNE 16, 2020

Among these technologies, immersive realities will play a very important part, and HTC wants so to start offering services in that sense. So, I made a prototype with Unity and the Cosmos XR where I can actually take out a PC from an Amazon page and try it on my desk.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That would be great for immersion, of course. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Mindport is a very interesting plugin on the Unity Asset Store that lets you create your VR experiences in Unity in an easy way. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry. There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more.

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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.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 4, 2022

Today, we might log into Amazon, Facebook, or Slack for shopping, socializing, or working online. Tomorrow we will instead head for one of a new generation of metaverse services where we can do all of those things in a way that's far more immersive, interactive, and experiential.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. I have detailed it in this post , and it was very cool because it let you create WebVR experiences directly from the tool that we develop always use, that is Unity. This means that, even with many limitations, you’ll be able to create WebAR experiences from within Unity.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

AWE 2023 achieved this by inviting an esteemed lineup of XR firms, thought leaders, and end users, uniting the immersive technology industry at the event’s Vienna, Austria location. Before deploying a workplace immersive solution, an IT team must ensure various workplace considerations that may create hurdles and pain points.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon. I write about AR and VR on the web because of my big passion, and also because I like to inform all you my readers about the immersive landscape.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. Marcus Kühne, Strategy Lead, Immersive Techologies, AUDI. Stephanie Llamas, Head of Immersive Technology Insights, SuperData Research. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives. Visualization : Fundamentally, XR displays allow users to visualize digital twins in immersive environments.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

For this reason, I gained a good expertise in immersive collaboration tools, and one of the VR platforms that I love the most in this sense is Mozilla Hubs. Mozilla Hubs is an immersive meeting tool that lets you meet online with other people, and speak with them. Why not a Unity exporter?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. More info (Kipman resigning from Microsoft / Road To VR) More info (Kipman resigning from Microsoft / Upload VR). Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone. This is for sure going to be something interesting to read.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. VR is about immersion. They do NOT do immersion, or, if they do, they don’t do it well. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

VR video games are some of the most immersive, visceral experiences to date. Right now your Amazon shopping experience involves looking at a lot of low-resolution JPEGs of products. But games are just the start of where VR and AR are heading, and honestly, most likely will not be either platform’s primary function in the future.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The left side of the Quest shows one of the straps used to tighten it on the head, and under it a 3.5mm jack to attach your favorite headphones for improved audio immersion. The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. Left side of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I also doubt that a startup can carry many innovations, given the high costs of R&D in immersive technologies, but I would be happy to be surprised! Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Vuforia won’t drop Unity support. There is not enough market yet.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Alan recently discussed immersive learning with his partner in life and business, Julie Smithson, on her sister podcast, XR for Learning. In all of my episodes, I talk about the way that we need to change the way that we learn and we teach, to adapt to the immersive technologies that are being implemented in enterprise and business today.

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