Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

Practically as old as photography itself, use cases for photogrammetry (making measurements from photos) have evolved over time, from triangulation and georeferencing through to movie CGI production and most recently, real-time game environments. After a strong start, the Realities team remained fairly quiet as work went on behind the scenes.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2018

million program, which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, isn’t the first VR experience to focus on surviving an active shooter situation.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

‘The Machines’ brings competitive AR gaming to iPhone. While many were pumped to see a new iPhone, Watch, and Apple TV announced at Apple’s special event from the brand-new Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, we’ve all been waiting to hear more about the company’s augmented and virtual reality efforts.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2022

The programme awards its selected firms with investment capital, guidance from Disney’s senior leadership team, a personal dedicated executive mentor, and a real-world technology showcase at Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. Additionally, Inworld Studio is available for the Meta Quest and Unreal Engine.

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Upload VR

APRIL 13, 2023

First Contact says the game uses Sony’s eye-tracking to tell whether your eyes are closed, so if you’re careful you can keep yourself from being temporarily blinded by the searing light beam of a bright flashlight cutting across a dark room. I last played Zero Hour with Jagneaux on the original PSVR when he was UploadVR’s Games Editor.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). So let’s dig into them.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the Orlando, Florida-based firm, the demo featured two Red 6 testing pilots using Berkut 540 fighter jets at the Santa Monica Airport in California. The company created its Combined Augmented reality Battlespace Operation Network (CARBON), allowing pilots to interact with the same AR assets, which simulated KC-46 Pegasus Tankers.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

in Game Design. The metaverse concept emerged from the world of computer and video gaming, which has been creating vast, interactive, multi-user environments for decades. Many of the emergent metaverse experiences – such as Roblox, Fortnite, and The Sandbox – came about due to gaming and game-related technology.

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VRScout

AUGUST 28, 2018

The company previously partnered with the California State Library system to deliver 100 Oculus Rift’s and VR-ready PCs across 90 libraries. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Hoover Dam: IndustrialVR is a virtual documentary experience giving users an unbelievable behind-the-scenes look of Nevada’s massive structure.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the FTC argued that Meta’s purchase of Within was breaching anticompetitive conduct. He explained how Meta focuses on gaming, social interaction productivity, and other use cases. Internal Response from Meta. ” Can Meta Survive without its VR Pioneer?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Explore Goertek Pimax Focused on the gaming and enterprise landscape, Pimax delivers futuristic VR headsets built with high-fidelity screens and enhanced optical capabilities. Options range from the Pimax Reality 12k QLED headset, with powerful visual processing and a wide field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

Even when talking about games, the first mention was to Apple Arcade games you can play on a giant screen. The same, it could be interesting to port NTW’s fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded to that. This is something we were expecting from the rumors, but it reminds us a lot of the Gear VR. Which is good news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. VR has gone through a rapid transition from a primarily consumer-focused, tethered device for gaming and entertainment, to standalone headsets in similar verticals.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. This could also be a nice testbed for the new Libra cryptocurrency created by Facebook; New info on the AAA VR game that Respawn Entertainment is making for Oculus and that has been teased months ago (this is actually the only confirmed news).

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2019

Now thanks to the tireless efforts of Epic Games’ Lead Technical Animator and self-proclaimed Michelangelo fan-boy, Christopher Evans, fans of the iconic sculptor, painter, architect, and poet have the chance to step into a painstakingly-crafted recreation of the historic art powered by Unreal Engine and the Valve Index VR headset.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Lindero Edutainment is 2-year-old VR production company based out of California. For example, their latest work, a 3D VR 360-degree sci-fi thriller “AI Nightmare” was made by Maya; some of their frequent adoptions also include Unreal Engine 4, Adobe Premiere Pro CC…and the list goes on.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Rob: Carillon was built within the Unreal Engine and uses the Open Sound Control protocol to connect motion and actions in the game environment with a music engine built within the Pure Data computer music system. All the programming for Carillon was done using Unreal’s Blueprint visual scripting language. About the Creators.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experience in game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine is also a must. The posting specifies that the successful candidate will work out of the company’s Sunnvale, California office. SEE ALSO Report: Microsoft Holding a HoloLens 2 Press Event Next Month.

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XROM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

With over 40 years of cumulative Unreal engine experience that spans across programming in C++ to rendering final pixels. Green Rain is excited to be India’s first Unreal Authorized Training Center who have already trained 40+ studios to help them begin their real-time journeys. 5- PlugXR, Inc.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. But then you look at Unreal. We're also bringing it into our concerts.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. But then you look at Unreal. We're also bringing it into our concerts.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. But then you look at Unreal. We're also bringing it into our concerts.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hello everyone from Palo Alto, California! Together with the area update, this means for instance that two teams of four people can play inside a warehouse a laser tag game in VR. This could offer multiplayer colocated games with the same quality of PCVR games. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 5,000 startups in the space and invested in 40, including Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. She has Masters in Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

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