Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. But, the industry is still in its infancy and still seeking a firm footing that will truly form an ecosystem: a self-sustaining web of hardware builders, software developers, and consumer demand.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2020

Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with. Those interested can apply here. .

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz around this year because, while AWE never took a break, the conference went online last year and this time it’s live and in-person in Santa Clara California. Because people are still wary of travel and because the virtual AWE conferences had such high attendance, this year is going to be a hybrid event.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

“AR Everywhere” With Niantic While enterprise companies and hardware manufacturers are still struggling with adoption to since degree, few companies have done as much for AR consumer adoption as Niantic. A new maps SDK compatible with Unity is also coming to 8th Wall. We need to strike a balance.” And they’ve done it.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC held its VIVE™ Developer Conference 2017 (VDC2017), where it announced VIVE WAVE™ ( www.vive.com/cn/vive-wave-en ), a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and high-performance device optimization for third-party partners.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 21, 2018

Magic Leap just did something it didn't do during its recent Twitch hardware demo: actually show us some new demo footage of what augmented reality really looks like through the Magic Leap One.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2020

From live VR concerts in Wave coming from some of the biggest names in music, to HTC’s annual developer conference taking place in Engage , social VR is picking up the slack where video chatting platforms simply don’t cut it. SEE ALSO Social VR App 'VRChat' is Seeing Record Usage Amidst the Pandemic.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough. But, it wasn’t the only bridge explored at Ignite.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2023

A New Era in Immersive Technology The Vision Pro’s unveiling at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) generated a buzz in the XR world. The device’s hardware is impressive, but its real strength lies in the software experience it offers. Apple has prioritized its use cases within its existing ecosystem of apps and content.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity, Qualcomm, and the XR Association (XRA) followed Inbar’s welcome address with keynotes of their own. Inbar gave a number of examples, including AR and VR activations raising awareness of the LGBTQ community (as the conference started on the first day of Pride Month). Unity Keynote. Opening Day Keynotes.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough. But, it wasn’t the only bridge explored at Ignite.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

At the 2020 World Conference in Nanchang, a partnership between UK startup PhotonLens and Shanghai AR hardware company Shadow Creator was announced. We have an SDK for developers adapting content from unity, and we’re putting the finishing touches on some of the documentation at the moment,” said Liu. Meet PhotonLens.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A haptic playback and authoring plugin for Unity allows filmmakers to tailor feedback to their experience. Perhaps the company could use the system to showcase its own Gear VR content, which was announced in partnership with Oculus back at the company’s Connect developer conference in October.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 24, 2023

Also, among new consumer-based immersive hardware and software launches, the industrial XR space is accelerating across the enterprise space. The update also includes Unity integration, APIs for server optimization, and low-latency connections. This week was pivotal for the XR industry.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Using powerful modelling software and immersive hardware, many businesses are already experimenting with holographic experiences for training, entertainment, and marketing. So, which companies are leading the way to a new era of holographic content? The all-in-one system can integrate with a range of existing software tools and hardware.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

HTC’s VIVE TALK is a hub of online resources that includes sessions covering its VIVEVERSE platform, enterprise use cases, hardware, software, and the portal hosts “Good Vibes”, an extended reality (XR) podcast produced by HTC VIVE. Immersive training solutions provide many avenues for enterprise-grade use cases.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. XR Directory : open-sourced free directory of established companies in the field (with over 1M$ of investment or annual revenue). super expensive.

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AR Insider

APRIL 12, 2021

The integration allows TechSee’s computer vision AI to be integrated into Vuzix’s hardware and will eventually be available in the App Store. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Launches in May for $1249.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

VIVE hand tracking has a number of features, though which features a developer uses depends on their target platform and hardware. So, the processing power of the hardware that developers want their projects to work on should be considered. “ How and when to incorporate hand tracking isn’t only a hardware and software question.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

In particular, Samsung, which is one of the best smartphone brands, and has also always produced good VR hardware, is positioning itself to become also a leader in immersive headsets and challenge Apple in this field, too. For this reason, Google managed to take two Starline booths to its conference and make some selected journalists try it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

GenAI is already incredibly common on the developer side of XR hardware and software. RT3D developmental engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse also leverage genAI to optimize developmental workflows, notably for budding XR content creators. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023, NVIDIA introduced the CloudXR 4.0

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Other relevant news. Image by Google). Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Think of this as more of a mini VR developer conference than a consumer-focused show, though. SteamVR Tracking Hardware. Interestingly, this is a talk more aimed at hardware developers than software creators, though both are welcome. Unity Development for VR, with Corey Johnson from Unity. 1:30 pm, 12th October.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. You may think that so they want to launch the PSVR 2 before the PS5, and it may be, but actually, if this device truly wants to be next-gen, it can’t be compatible with the rather old hardware of PS4.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2017

On top of announcing a new and more affordable standalone headse t at Oculus’ annual developer conference, the Facebook owned company also teased a massive update to the Oculus Rift platform. Developers can even debug their VR apps while inside them, using Visual Studio, Unity, and Unreal. Dubbed Rift Core 2.0, Home Gets Personal
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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

And the number is also that big because Facebook had no hardware department, so it had to create everything from scratch (i.e. Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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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. HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. Image by HTC).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). We are organizing the Future Business EcoLink Conference 2022 and the 7th Golden Gyro Award. The characters who are involved in the industrial chain.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook F8, the company’s annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. Previously, we needed to capture the content within a game engine, while ensuring we could produce a high-quality image quickly and on baseline hardware for VR. Now, all that’s possible with the 360 Capture SDK.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but that both the new 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro will be VR-ready out of the box. image courtesy TIME.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When asked what the Summit had to offer compared to previous ones, Pettyjohn explained how the conference aimed to unite the industry by helping attendees “learn and be inspired” with new technologies capable of advancing their businesses. . Conference A-List Attendees. Paradise Hosts the IGS 2022 Europe.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

By combining Varjo’s human-eye resolution hardware with the Omniverse’s ray-tracing proficiencies and GPUs, developers across industry verticals can access ‘game-changing’ tools for the enterprise, he said. This has led to the creation of its own Reality Cloud platform, used by US automaker Rivian, and Varjo Teleport.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

That’s the idea behind the company’s VRWorks Audio SDK , which was released today during the GTC 2017 conference; it’s part of the company’s VRWorks suite of tools to enhance VR applications on Nvidia GPUs. SEE ALSO Latest Unity Beta Gets NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features.

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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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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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