Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Mindesk , a startup developing a platform for real-time CAD collaboration in AR/VR, today announced a $900,000 seed round from HTC Vive, Barcamper Ventures, A11 Venture and Invitalia Ventures. Last November the company participated in Autodesk University, where they unveiled an integration with Unreal Editor in partnership with Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Is it for a future AR/VR headset? There are two things you must be aware of: Apple is surely making various prototypes , so we don’t know what Jon has actually seen. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. Immotionar and the first contact with AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Today I feature a great interview with one of the most important people in the AR space: Alan Smithson. 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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Nunez added: So, for example, a lot of manufacturers, and other architecture companies can digitally represent the content, most have CAD data models of some type, and they will represent them on a 2D screen. Also, in augmented reality, you can actually train someone while they’re doing the work.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

Twinmotion Programs Come to Varjo Devices The virtual production of Turandot is a highly artistic example of using Varjo for architecture and design. The complete exhibit also uses AR technology and virtual production to replicate activities like surfing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The event’s theme of DISTORTION aims to disrupt conventional approaches to music, namely with fresh innovative solutions such as virtual, augmented, and immersive reality (VR/AR/MR), artificial intelligence (AI), the blockchain, and Generative AI (GenAI). Firms entering the competition can register at [link].

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

The latest VR job listings from Apple are not the first time the company has been spotted looking for hires with experience with virtual reality, but activity has certainly picked up of late, with seven new VR-related job listings in just over three weeks. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the leading vendors in the extended reality ecosystem, producing solutions targeted at the Arts and Entertainment market. Creal Exploring the possibilities of the AR and mixed reality landscape, Creal develops light-field display technology, to combine digital assets and content with the real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. There are enough indie games on the Oculus Store, so Oculus is now planning to fund bigger games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Ultraleap Gemini hand-tracking platform works in both Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions, allowing for more immersive, interactive, and realistic experiences. The solutions are scalable, composable and modular, so they can be integrated into an existing XR architecture, or used on a standalone basis.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

And yes, he told me that at the end of the day, the result is quite similar to Virtual Desktop , because what the company does is streaming the rendered scene from a computer to an AR or VR headset. Those little white cylinders are the special antennas developed by XCOM Labs.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 14, 2018

StarVR One features key technology innovations critical to redefine what’s possible in virtual reality. With our StarVR One headset we are conquering the VR final frontier – the enterprise.” This breakthrough architecture covers nearly 100 percent of natural human vision.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. Anyway, if you are in China and you want to look ??, More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Input Have fun with them.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. It is 6DOF and lets you enjoy both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

The Pro Tracker can even examine surfaces alongside physical human movement. Latest Manus News Spectre XR The Spectre XR company focuses on the development and design of VR games and apps, as well as fully immersive AR and Mixed Reality experiences for a host of business needs.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! For the past 3 years I’ve been working on various AR/VR projects like Pumori.io Triton AR headset (Image by Graham Atlee).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

And if this CES has been a bit of a disappointment in general, this holds even more for AR and VR, for which we have no crucial announcement. It is a perfect recreation of visual reality, and of course, it solves all the issues that current AR/VR headsets may have (like the vergence-accommodation problem). Senseglove Nova.

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Illustration from Meta SpaceGlasses Can the OSVR project be used not just for virtual reality but also for augmented reality? What are these services that OSVR provides? There are many different services, but some of them are: Discovery. Next time you think about our AR software architecture, think OSVR.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Four days ago, I blogged about a widely-circulated report by an Apple industry pundit , speculating that the computer maker was making significant cuts to the number of Apple Vision Pro (AVP) units it was planning to ship this year, and stating that demand for the brand new, high-end VR/AR headset had “fallen sharply beyond expectations.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The device also features an RGB camera, so that to provide color passthrough AR. Doing its keynote on video, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new RTX4080 and RTX4090 graphics cards, which are based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. As usual, they are “the best cards ever released”.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Nick Whiting.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Now Holodeck is being substituted by NVIDIA Omniverse , NVIDIA’s platform for 3D design collaboration and world simulation, but the vision is always the same: working with other people to build and interact with AR and VR scenes. An architecture project made with Omniverse (Image by NVIDIA). Video courtesy NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Let me briefly describe them all, and let me tell you why they are so important! We all know that the new Ampere architecture gives NVIDIA GPUs much more horsepower, especially for what concerns AI and ray tracing. Cloud XR is NVIDIA’s solution to provide AR and VR cloud rendering. NVIDIA RTX A6000 (Image by NVIDIA).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. ” Taking over as Chair of the OpenXR working group is Brent Insko, Lead Software Architect at Intel’s Virtual Reality Group.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Who will profit?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that. Since so many players are supported at the same time, you can hear the audio of the dozens of people that are around you, exactly like in the physical world. Engage around 50.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. Hold on a sec. Am I wrong?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Varjo is redefining reality by jump starting a new era in computing. Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. And then there were quite a lot of restrictions, and still are.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Varjo is redefining reality by jump starting a new era in computing. Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. And then there were quite a lot of restrictions, and still are.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. Hold on a sec. Am I wrong?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Varjo is redefining reality by jump starting a new era in computing. Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. And then there were quite a lot of restrictions, and still are.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) aims to create an open and universal standard for the discovery, configuration, and operation of VR/AR devices. Current Status OSVR is integrated Unity, Unreal Engine, and Monogame Future Plans A plugin for OpenVR (Valve) is in beta and should be completed soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I’d also throw out there, that there’s supposed AR frames.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that's doing design and 3D objects, it's almost like a no-brainer, whether it's in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I'd also throw out there, that there's supposed AR frames. Kent: Yeah. Alan: Yeah.

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