XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. New mixed reality (MR) headsets such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo VRX, and Pico 4 Enterprise have dramatically stepped up the XR industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform. The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm Inc., Meta is a crucial parenting in the OpenXR update.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology. This is followed by 36% who shared that they’re planning to use the metaverse for interactions with colleagues, as well as for creating virtual content for their audience.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Those assets can be created for the experience, but can also be visual representations of connected devices that interact with the virtual space as well as with a companion mobile app. See Also: Resonai CEO Emil Alon Shares How Augmented Reality Will Transform the Modern Workforce. Big thinkers indeed.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

At the end of this simultaneous performance, the participants gathered in the courtyard of the Palais Royal will be able to chat live with Jean-Michel Jarre’s avatar, erasing even further the boundaries between the physical and the virtual worlds. You should see it.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Last year, the company’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, took the stage to talk about the Magic Leap 2 and “augmented enterprise.” Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello. We don’t yet know what will come of this year’s keynote but it’s being given by the company’s CEO Peggy Johnson.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. It is working on some form of virtual currency, that has been internally named “Zuck Buck” (I love this name, actually). It should not be based on cryptocurrency like Libra, but just be virtual money similar to Robux in Roblox, and we can expect it to be used in virtual worlds.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The updated ceremony is planned to be a showcase looking at both virtual and augmented reality. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period. And amid all this, dozens of new virtual worlds arrive each week for people to explore in VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

I’m looking forward to learning more about RealityKit and Reality Composer. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Also, while converging the physical and virtual worlds is inevitable, it won’t be through massive ski goggles on your face.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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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. This week they have added two new amazing features to their XR-1 mixed-reality headset: chroma-keying and marker tracking. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Yesterday, I have dressed as a fortune teller and I have given you my predictions for augmented reality in 2019. Now, it is the turn of virtual reality. Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). How has VR performed in 2018?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

However, where as Palmer Luckey explored the possibilities with VR technology, Vermeulen explores the possibilities of augmented reality, and how AR experiences grounded in real-world physics can co-exist with reality. ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

By revolutionizing the way we perceive reality-altering solutions, the technology that stands behind HoloLens is as fascinating as it is complex. In simple terms, it can be described as the merging of real and virtual worlds where objects from both realities can exist side-by-side and interact with each other in real time.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

The Auggie Award went to Delta Reality for The Museum of Digital Life. The massive multi-user art exhibit includes everything from 2D photographs to 3D objects and virtual worlds. This is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” HTC China President Alvin Graylin said in accepting the award. We’re just so happy.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But the partnership seems pretty weird : the two companies have very different visions of the world, and it is not clear how they could partner in that, also because they both have their own store (Apple Store and Steam) that for sure they want to take to augmented reality. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Because of the mind-boggling number of iPhones and iPads capable of running ARKit, the new tool is already spreading its augmented reality wings across the Internet thanks to a diverse set of developers. Using 3D animations from 4DViews , China-based developer 应高选 created this with his iPhone 6s and Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

So, when everyone is trying to do augmented reality, I’m sitting here trying to do the opposite, that is Diminished Reality (and Mediated Reality in general). . Let me do an example: if I show you your real world, but your real black sofa becomes red through your glasses, can we really talk about augmented reality?

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

The tool works with virtual reality and augmented reality glasses as well as on smartphones and tablets. IrisVR allows you to upload 3D files from Revit, NavisWorks, Rhino, and FBX or other design tools and supports Windows, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Hosted by the Summit’s President and Founder Nathan Pettyjohn, Virtual and Augmented Reality Association’s (VRARA) Kris Kolo, and many others from the IGS and VRARA teams, the organisation’s latest iteration rallied some of the tech industry’s most prized companies, thought leaders, and experts.

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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. Just just a quick overview.

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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. Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

On one side, many of these games have a huge multiplayer component and acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft gains a lot of expertise in how to manage virtual worlds that host many thousands (if not millions) of players at the same time. HTC discounts its headsets. A little tool that can help many VR devs that use Mac.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. In the end, XRDC has made a very interesting survey among XR devs.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. These are the five pillars or Reality Engine (copy-pasted from its website): Reality Application Runtime ?—?8th Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

” Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality.

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