Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2016

One of the flagship announcements at last week’s Oculus Connect developer conference, Epic Games’ Robo Recall is a slick, polished first person shooter built for Oculus’ forthcoming VR motion controllers Touch. Grab a robot, rip the gun out of its hand, then blow its head off and use the corpse as a shield.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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MARCH 4, 2017

At the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco last week, Improbable showed off SpatialOS’s features as well as its new integration with the Unreal Engine toolkit. We’re delighted to be able to show Unreal developers how SpatialOS works [at GDC],” Improbable chief executive Herman Narula said in a statement.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

” Magic Leap’s big announcement wasn’t to do with AI, but it will still be thrilling to developers: an Unreal Engine plugin is coming in August. ” The panel also addressed AI, an overarching theme of the conference. “We go through these hype cycles and bubbles,” said Rothman.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers? Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Now Apple has thrown us a bone, and during their World Wide Developer Conference last week gave us Apple silo folk some good news. ARKit supports iOS 11 (coming this fall) and Unity, Unreal, Scenekit, and if you have an iPhone 5s or higher—you can get in on the action (plus a public beta is coming in June).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations. Don’t miss them!

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members. VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

We were really hoping for the company to finally unmask the full 50+ launch titles promised by Facebook CEO & founder Mark Zuckerberg at Oculus Connect 5 last year, although it appears they’re holding onto that particular bombshell for whatever conference fits the bill for a Quest launch date newsblast.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

XLA announced on Tuesday that it had launched its Metasites modular 3D internet framework, with subsequent demos taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023. Metasites access for individual content creators and enterprise users will adopt a revenue-sharing model, where users have full control and can manage their content.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo. The player then controls a tiny cartoonish night who can run around the room and do battle with an opposing player’s knight, or even jump in the lap of the enemy’s avatar. ElementalVR – E3 2013.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

This headset breaks the barriers of most VR solutions by expanding into the area of mixed reality with full-color passthrough capabilities. To date, the world’s biggest tech company by market capitalisation entered the immersive market melee on 5 June with its upcoming Vision Pro headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track. Pimax is now (finally) selling its Sword Controllers, but in very limited quantities. Other relevant news.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. We know they are working on brand new base stations , shown in the image above, as well as experimental controllers they teased at Steam Dev Days last year. What to Expect from Valve.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ve not been there, but as always, I have read tons of materials, so that to provide you a satisfying summary of the most important news from that conference (but this time I promise you I won’t write as much as for the Oculus Connect 5 !). Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. MagicScript.

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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. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games is using the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to give an advanced preview of the latest additions to its Unreal Engine VR Editor, which allows creatives to build worlds in a virtual reality environment using the full capabilities of the editor toolset combined with interaction models designed specifically for VR world building.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference. Several of the early VR projects from ILMxLab, including Trials on Tatooine and the Magic Leap mixed reality droid experience , were built using Epic Games Unreal Engine 4 technology. “We

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

But there are many other challenges with balancing interactivity and narrative that Apelab CEO & Sequenced producer Emilie Joly explained to me at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference in April. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. Top news of the week. Image by OceanX). Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. The 3D interface in visionOS that users can naturally control with hands, voice, and eyes, makes for a hands-free experience. What more would we expect from Apple?

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. I was at the I/ITSEC conference and that's in your backyard. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. I was at the I/ITSEC conference and that's in your backyard. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. Discover the story behind the PlayStation Aim Controller.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. I was at the I/ITSEC conference and that's in your backyard. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

The year before that, he opened the conference with a joke game show called “ Metaverse, Shmetaverse.” According to a release shared with ARPost, the name change had to do with “disputes regarding the Nreal mark” (probably how similar it was to “Unreal”). He has been skeptical of the metaverse.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

During Apple’s June developer conference, we finally got a glimpse of what we’ve all been patiently waiting for—Apple embracing VR. View your 360° video projects in realtime on a HTC Vive. Aside from testing internally here on 360° video projects, VR studio Jaunt has also begun using Final Cut Pro X on some post-production VR work.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. I got to try a Magic Leap experience at the I/ITSEC conference, the Interdisciplinary/Industry Simulation and Education and Training Seminar last week in Orlando. Our device ships with a totem controller. It was crazy. People were loving it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR. Microsoft Ignite will be in VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

platform at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023. Additional integrations and features for APIs and 5G networks include: Generic Controller Support , allowing CloudXR client developers to map inputs for their head-mounted display (HMD) controllers. NVIDIA announced on Thursday the release of its CloudXR 4.0

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Nick Whiting.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device. There will be also a way to enjoy the conference in Horizon Worlds. This is great news for us content creators. Other news. Learn more.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Experiments in Social VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. The company revealed various improvements to the latest prototype, including brand new 6-degrees-of-freedom controllers, similar to Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

In the same conference, Jio has also announced various other projects, and among which the most interesting are: 1. Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster.

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