XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The media and entertainment metaverse , complete with 3D avatars, is no longer a distant prospect. A Closer Look at Metaverse Entertainment. In the entertainment industry, the Metaverse has and continues to connect audiences in shared virtual spaces via headsets and their respective or third-party virtual spaces. VR Theme Parks.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

A leading Unity 3d game development services provider explained that gaming is the biggest driver of VR and it will certainly continue in the near future. People will be able to get the entertainment they want right in front of their eyes without having to go anywhere or invest in a big screen for their homes.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With this, tech firms can provide innovative tools to entertain, communicate, work, collaborate, and learn. Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. In the next iteration of spatial communications, this will forever change the workplace.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Lenovo has for instance just announced in China the Legion VR 700, a device that looks inspired by the Pico Neo 3, which was already a copy of the Meta Quest 2. Register for NVIDIA GTC.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 26, 2016

This week, Joseph and UploadVR Games Editor David Jagneaux (subbing for the wonderful Jason, who’s literally in China right now) tackle more than a few big news stories from the world of VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. Learn more: [link] #VIVEMARS #SIGGRAPH2022 #trackedonmars #virtualproduction pic.twitter.com/uNTI9bH6hs. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m still writing from China, and this week I spent the Chinese New Year here… it was an interesting experience, and if you lost my funny story about it, you can still have a look at it in my dedicated post. Welcome to another roundup of AR/VR news of the week! This is a great use of technology to make a part of the life of people better.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

There I’ve been received by Sam , a very smart man that has worked in the VR field for 20 years and that has spent various years of his life in the Silicon Valley, so he has been in the two most technologically advanced places in the world: China and US. This ensures an optimal environment for the requirements of the customer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Me trying the Realmax glasses in Nanchang, China… am I not supercool? Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019. So basically it is not cool on a desk, but can make you look cool while you wear it. It is some kind of magic. It feels like a devkit also in this sense.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. More info (NVIDIA CloudXR upgrade) More info (NVIDIA CloudXR on Tencent Cloud) More info (NVIDIA VRSS v2) More info (DLSS integrated inside Unity) More info (Jarvis) More info (NVIDIA RTX cards shortage). I think it is pretty explicit.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Facebook, Unity, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), Electronic Arts and Kojima Productions have confirmed they won’t be attending but the organisers are still going ahead at present. Most of the cases are in China, centred around Wuhan where the outbreak occurred. So far 47 countries have confirmed cases.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It’s set to launch in China early next week on October 31st, though you can expect it to grow from there. Graylin, China Regional President of Vive confirmed that the company is in talks with Western publishers, describing the app as “too useful” to be kept in China. Speaking to UploadVR, Alvin W.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In China, speed is always a paramount factor, but for these investments patience is key and we all should admire the persistence of Zuck on the topic, for instance.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 12, 2023

For this, we had to find the right Unity developers that understood gaming physics for the rackets. People can do things that were not possible before such as hosting corporate-wide virtual tournaments across different regions, whether in the United Kingdom, China, India, The United States, or the South American continent.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This gamification mechanic seems pretty lame to me : people need entertaining quests, not boring stuff just done to show them the new features of the platform. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

Dubbed “The Metaverse Fund”, it is a plan to invest up to $100 million in studios w orking on gaming, health, media, entertainment, education, and enterprise applications for headsets. New covid outbreak in China is causing new manufacturing issues for electronic components. Applications for consideration will open in June. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality. Holoride has now announced that it is working with Unity and Pico to release its Elastic SDK and offer devkits to let developers create experiences for the Holoride store , that will also be powered by blockchain.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). It is now official: Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed on Instagram that the PlayStation VR 2 headset is going to launch in “early 2023”. Nreal launches in China and partners with Gentle Monster. Two interesting experiments from Shopify and Unity. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Modern AR apps are used for various purposes, from entertainment to enterprise applications, and their usefulness has prompted thousands of organizations to utilize augmented reality in education and training, while educational establishments implement AR in teaching classes. To learn more about it, you can read how augmented reality works.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. On the software side, HTC has just launched in China Vive Sync , a solution for remote meetings in VR that may help a lot the Chinese people that are forced to work from home. More info Buy on Steam. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. Also, people in entertainment, medical, automotive, military training, and other enterprise sectors are interested in our glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. China will try to change gear. The beautiful city of Qingdao, in Eastern China (Image by ThatsQingdao).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

This way it will be possible to add even eye-tracking to these enterprise device; Vive Vee, a virtual character that should represent the brand in China and the rest of the world. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Pico Neo 3 launch has been a success in China. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Delta Reality was also nominated in the same category for The Metaverse Park and was up for Best Enterprise Solution and Best in Location-Based Entertainment. 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 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). Will it be this year? Will it be next year? But will it come at some stage?

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Officially, Virtuix comes Unity and Unreal Engine 4 SDK, speeding the integration in the game or some other VR application. All units are tested at the end of our assembly line in China, and our team fully inspects each Omni again upon arrival in Austin before we deliver the units to our customers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. And I mean, that's costly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. And I mean, that's costly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. And I mean, that's costly.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications. The massive event includes several of the world’s largest XR firms and organisations like The Metaverse Standards Forum, Meta Platforms, NVIDIA, Adobe, Unity Technologies, and Vicon.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Unity has also joined in on the industrial metaverse to deliver tangible results. Nokia, Ericsson, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and even Huawei and China Mobile have begun scaling up their emerging technologies stack. This is leading to incredible, time-lapsed, and real-time monitoring of factory activities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Jio Glass launched as mixed-reality glasses that serve primarily for education & entertainment. They are known as the XR line of processors and the XR2 currently powers a few smart glasses in other markets such as China. The next bet, looking forward, among many things is a pair of mixed reality glasses called Jio Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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