XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the Creativity Conference kicks off its first day of speakers, many esteemed experts have begun sharing their perspectives on creativity and how it applies to their respective fields. XR Today: What are your thoughts on the Creativity Conference? I’m looking forward to taking part as a speaker at the upcoming online conference.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. In 2021, Epic Games acquired photogrammetry solutions provider Capturing Reality, with plans to integrate the firm’s digital twin production tools into the Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Think of this as more of a mini VR developer conference than a consumer-focused show, though. Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. SteamVR Tracking Hardware. The Future of VR and PC Games, with Tim Sweeney from Epic Games.

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MAY 8, 2017

As announced at the GPU conference today, Nvidia is releasing new software development kits (SDKs) for VRWorks that will help to enhance VR experiences running on the company’s hardware. The SDK has already been integrated with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. During the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference 2022, the firm outlined how its NVIDIA DRIVE system already employs Instant NeRF data to train AI models, such as familiarising robots and self-driving cars with real-world environments.

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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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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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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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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is here, and today’s keynote saw a number of VR-specific announcements including Apple’s first VR-ready computers to go along with the launch of the company’s newest macOS High Sierra. Wingnut AR is bringing an AR experience to the App Store later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

We also recently seen him at the Vive Ecosystem Conference , where he took the stage to talk about his interesting experiences. Enea Le Fons in Shenzhen, ready to amaze all the audience of the Vive Ecosystem Conference (Image by Enea Le Fons). You have just been in China to participate in the Vive Ecosystem Conference.

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JULY 29, 2019

This makes it far easier for software developers or hardware manufacturers who support the ecosystem to build products that work across devices, allowing for less fragmentation and therefore less confusion for consumers looking to invest in XR technology. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9

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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. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

See Also: XR Technology Conference AWE Goes Live. The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Best Input & Output Hardware. That, according to Miesnieks, is the thing to watch in the next few years.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. We’re still waiting for an Unreal Tournament or Gears of War-caliber game from Tim Sweeney and company.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

At the time of its initial accusation, the argument that “Nreal” and “Unreal” are similar enough to create confusion among customers may have appeared as a stretch due to the firm’s differing technology markets and clients – with Nreal focusing on immersive solutions and Unreal developing gaming services at the time.

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MARCH 1, 2017

AMD had a press conference at GDC to demonstrate their engagement with the gaming community and had some major VR related announcements. The hardware manufacturer will support this feature through a driver update and Valve will support it through an update to SteamVR which is the company’s component of the Steam gaming platform.

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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?? HTC launches Vive XR Suite. Some XR fun.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Last week at the VRX conference in San Francisco Sweeney delivered a keynote address on the idea of “Digital Humans.” To demonstrate, Sweeney showed off a clip of Hellblade , an upcoming game built on Unreal Engine 4 with incredible visual fidelity. The sensor side is what’s going to change next for VR.”

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

GPU Technology Conference 2017 is premier, NVIDIA just announced first set of VR news coming from the conference. Key components of VRWorks are being adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 to provide developers an easy path to taking advantage of the SDK in their games and applications.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

For the first time, thanks to the new hardware, players could lean into the table to see the tiny characters up close. But let’s take a detour for a moment, back to 2014 at the inaugural Oculus Connect developer conference. ‘Showdown’, one of Epic’s VR tech demos build on Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. These changes will also impact Reality Labs and CTO Andrew Bosworth is deciding these days which hardware projects to kill during this spending review operation. Other relevant news. Image by Google). They’re planning support for other engines like Unity, too.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. What is the most used Gear VR device?

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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 !). PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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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. Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

The year before that, he opened the conference with a joke game show called “ Metaverse, Shmetaverse.” See Also: DigiLens Expands Ecosystem With Hardware, Software Announcements From left to right: Vishal Shah, Brian Hamilton, Yi Xu, and Said Bakadir “When I talk to the developers, they say, ‘Well there’s no hardware.’

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. 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. And now we launched last year.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. 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. And now we launched last year.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. 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. And now we launched last year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. It seems to me a great piece of hardware. This has been quite an interesting week.

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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. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Top news of the week.

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