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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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! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Demand for Augmented Reality solutions is increasing at an incredible rate in today’s landscape. IEEE VR + 3D User Interfaces March 25-29th, Shanghai 2023 marks the 30 th anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User interfaces. There’s also a dedicated community space for networking. 3.

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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. 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

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. All together will let you stream a very complex virtual reality application from an edge server to a standalone VR headset via 5G. Valve releases Half-Life: Alyx Steam Workshop Tools.

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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. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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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. 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. This is so cool! Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

The demand for easy-to-use 3D creation tools is growing rapidly as demonstrated by a report by Hired that showed demand for VR/AR engineers grew by 1400% in 2019. With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? What features are supported?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

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. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

One job listing talks about creating “a 3D mixed-reality world” and “build tools and frameworks to enable connected experiences in a 3D mixed-reality world”. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. This video about a “virtual reality viewer” from 1830 has been one of the viral content of the week.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. It will transform the PC software into just a lightweight runtime to: Make the Quest work with the Link on SteamVR Use old content bought on the Rift Store Make developers debug the apps they are making in Unity.

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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. HTC Vive XR Suite is a broad solution for offering tools that let people interact remotely with other people to perform various tasks, using whatever device they want. Vive XR Suite.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 4, 2022

Today, we might log into Amazon, Facebook, or Slack for shopping, socializing, or working online. Many metaverse experiences will be created by designers using low-code or no-code worldbuilding solutions, such as Roblox or Somnium Space, as well as tools like Unity which require some understanding of coding to get the most out of.

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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. News worth a mention. Image by Meta). Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

There are some moments in which looking in front of me with this device, I have the impression that what I see is real, and I lose totally myself in virtual reality for some seconds: this tells you how much the visuals of Pico Neo 3 are good. Focus on the lens of the headset. It is possible!). Price and availability.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc… ?—?Engineering

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Virtual events and meetings are the topic of the moment. As a consultant, I am receiving many requests for remote collaboration tools now during the lockdown, and with my partners Massimiliano Ariani and SIDI , I am also hosting some workshops in VR. Not just your room, but your custom Hubs infrastructure.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

It uses eye tracking in various fields and has released a product for Virtual Reality called aGlass. The aGlass consists in two circular add-ons that you insert on the lens of your headsets, and then after having attached some USB connectors here and there, offers you awesome eye tracking for your virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. And now we launched last year. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. And now we launched last year. Alan: Amazing.

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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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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. At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.”

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. These numbers are impressive for a VR company, and show how a virtual reality company can be successful now. Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room). Rec Room is now worth $3.5B.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. And now we launched last year. Alan: Amazing.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g. making real objects occlude the virtual ones). Giving great tools to creators is important to create a new ecosystem: see what has happened after creators had the opportunity of creating AR filters.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. The result is a compelling, interactive title, built specifically for multiplayer gaming experiences.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. Types of AR Following are the types of AR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. 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

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. 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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

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. After more than 2 years of wait, the Lynx R1, the French mixed reality headset, may be close to shipping to its backers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. Unity raises a massive $181 million round to grow its ambitions. March 2016.

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