VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

However, when it comes to delivering truly high quality augmented experiences, the current options available to consumers and even developers are expensive and few. The result is a augmented reality experience featuring 720p resolution (2k depending on the fps), 60 fps capabilities, AAA graphics and an over 100-degree field of view.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? Detection of available virtual reality devices. ? Other Extended Reality (XR) Toolkits ?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 14, 2023

The augmented reality (AR) gaming market has seen new contenders rise as technological platforms offer new possibilities for the sector. One such entrant, Mirrorscape, has leveraged Qualcomm Technologies’ AR2 smart glasses system to develop its ARcana gaming platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. AIXR Insights Live: Marketing in VR Games. When: October 19.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has told in the past that this is a headset more consumer-oriented , but Sebastian Ang of Mixed Reality TV has reported that, according to a reliable source, the price will be 899. Augmented Reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

XR has rapidly emerged as one of the most powerful new trends in the gaming landscape. Attracting players all over the world to a new kind of immersive experience, XR allows game developers to connect with users on a different level. Already the, virtual reality in gaming market is expected to grow to a value of $53.44

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

They took five years to arrive at the first full version… this is a big sign of commitment The cyberpunk game adventure Low Fi is launching this year for PSVR 2. Instead, the studio behind the game, Iris VR, has just announced that the game is finally coming out this year. I’m pretty excited about that!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

A comment from HTC , just saying that it was up to compete with Oculus has had on Twitter something like 12K likes , and I think that HTC’s social media manager had never seen that number in his whole life. What are you going to buy if you don’t want to use the Quest? Image by Epic Games). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

It’s interesting to see that Neurable is still around and kicking: a few years ago there was a bit of hype around it when it created an EEG-based “mind controller” for the HTC Vive. Head to SideQuest and try to download an indie game from there and if you liked it, share a social media post about it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

The company’s XR portfolio covers everything from augmented reality smart glasses to a cloud-based platform for digital workflow creation. Goertek Goertek produces a variety of hardware and device options for the XR space, including augmented reality smart glasses and comprehensive VR headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Meta hihglights that its work with ASUS and Xbox tagerts gaming hardware, meanwhile Meta’s experiecne with Lenovo will help scale mixed reality devices for productivity, learning, and entertainment. With Meta Horizon OS, ASUS and Republic of Gamers will build the gaming headset of the next generation.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. (Image courtesy RAEng Publications via Pixabay.).

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2018

The interactive pop-up shop included both a VR and AR game. There was no shortage of interactive pieces to experience, which included creepy light projections, an augmented reality clue hunting game, and a VR escape room that had you hunting clues before time runs out.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

French startup Lynx has finally unveiled the R1, the first mixed reality standalone headset. While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

Along with last week’s Unreal 4.11 Here’s a quick guide to everything from Lighthouse tracking to Unreal development. How can I build with Unreal Engine? UE4 has built-in Vive support, and with the new official plugin release in Unreal Engine 4.11 , it’s easier than ever to get started with Leap Motion + Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

They may want to drive vehicles that they own in real life in the latest racing game”. ” Explaining further, he said, “[That’s] what made us the first automaker to look into the gaming industry – the experts of virtual worlds – back in 2016. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 6, 2017

People are doubting it’s ability to run the HTC Vive on the computer, but Apple does claim you can edit 360º video content and create 3D VR content. Also, Apple is offering $100 discount on HTC Vive systems for Apple Developers, if they order an External Graphics Development Kit. (See above tweet).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ultraleap Tobii Varjo Meta Platforms Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI Ultraleap Dedicated to transforming the way users interact with XR solutions and applications, Ultraleap has produced a powerful technology for the hand-tracking sector. So, which companies are paving the way for the next generation of tracking?

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Peter Graham

MARCH 5, 2020

Digital Catapult and Arts Council England launched CreativeXR back in 2018 to provide funds, tools and other assistance for those working on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) projects. The programme has proven to be a success , returning for the third year with new contributors. .

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 23, 2017

Presence Capital — one of the earliest venture capital firms to focus on virtual reality and augmented reality startups — is today announcing that it has made 33 investments. Presence Capital has invested in Baobab Studios, Bigscreen, Harmonix, Nomadic, Meta, Resolution Games, Scope AR, Strivr, TheWaveVR, and Visbit.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Zuck has also had a chat with Jesse Schell, the CEO of Schell Games, and has provided an exclusive interview to Protocol. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. A VR developer (Valem VR) has made a crazy experiment by mapping an entire athletics track in VR and creating a game for it. Some news on content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Although VR hardware is growing at such a scale, immersive firms are doubling down on scaling extended reality (XR) developer talent pools to match the demand for VR software. Major immersive firms like Meta and HTC provide unique funding opportunities for various use cases. Grants are available for up to $500,000.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Game Development You should have a basic idea of any one of them atleast. Optimizing 3D models for Augmented Reality 3. Augmented Reality VR i.e Virtual Reality MR i.e Mixed Reality Here is a course from the University of Michigan. The HTC Vive headsets have its own SDK. Web Development 2.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. AUGMENTED REALITY ON YOUR FEET. These 3D objects can be exported as an OBJ file and easily be plugged into VR or AR projects.

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ARVR

MAY 27, 2021

So I began to pick up 3D modeling, and just months later the HTC Vive was released. This ideally would be some kind of VR editor in a gaming engine, but luckily Unity, Unreal Engine, and Blender are all deep in development on this. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. At the same time, Next Reality has spotted that nReal has slightly changed the name of its company from Hangzhou Tairuo to Shenzhen Tairuo, and has now a new parent company called Beijing Unicorn Technology. This is so sad. Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

Cause If you look around in any modern city, you’ll see humans living in symbiosis with phones and tablets adding layers of information to their realities. So technically, humans have been living in augmented reality for quite a while! Enea Le Fons speaking on how VR can help us escape our sedentary jobs (Image by HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. The popular multiplayer war game Onward has been finally ported on Quest, where it launched successfully, with very positive reactions and reviews.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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