XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With the new sponsorship, the company aims to boost “the potential of immersive technology in industry and education,” it said in a statement. Virtualware will also serve as the exclusive sponsor of the event to unite “Unity instructors and workforce development professionals,” according to a press release.

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MARCH 26, 2021

The virtual Game Developers Conference Showcase was held from March 15-19. The event wasn’t exclusively devoted to VR gaming, but a number of VR gaming companies and independent designers use Unity’s game engine. The annual Game Developers Conference has, historically, been one of the biggest annual events in the technology industry.

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MAY 15, 2023

The Augmented World Expo Asia announced that it will host its 2023 conference in Singapore from August 30-31. AWE Asia looks forward to hosting the conference in Singapore for the first time," said AWE Asia Executive Director Ryan Hu. "We The conference has historically attracted 2,000 participants and 60 exhibitors.

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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. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. billion in 2016 alone. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

Croquet Corporation announced on Thursday last week it had launched its Croquet for Unity solution. The new JavaScript multiplayer framework integrates with Unity to provide a novel approach for developers. With it, people can create Unity-based immersive experiences without writing or maintaining multiplayer code.

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JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with. If chosen, you will have the opportunity to leave your own personal stamp on VR history through this momentous event.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

3D social and shared immersive space platform Spatial announced on Monday that its Unity Creator Toolkit had moved to its beta version. The new iteration of Spatial’s widely-celebrated extended reality (XR) platform now integrates Unity Technologies’ industry-leading solutions.

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JUNE 8, 2023

The global industrial extended reality (XR) market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2030, findings from ABI Research revealed this week. ABI’s Enterprise and Industrial XR Training report found that enterprises have been increasingly tapping virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices over the last five years.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has teamed up with the XR Association (XRA) to host its second Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Policy Conference on 14 September. Aaron Kleiner, Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for Unity Technologies. Juan Londoño, Policy Analyst for the ITIF.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. A veteran firm in the computer vision and mocap gaming industry has shared its success stories with a simpler novel approach. Do they use proprietary or third-party technologies?

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

XR Events in 2021 – Celebrating the Industry that Made Lockdown Bearable. This year will be special for the XR industry. The event is an opportunity to explore the latest developments and trends in the XR industry, meet other professionals and negotiate B2B deals. When: October 17 – October 21. Where: Turin, Italy (and Online).

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AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s no surprise that during SIGGRAPH 2022 , the most significant conference for computer graphics, the company unveiled its latest developments geared at making the metaverse as ubiquitous as the Internet we have today. See Also: Save the Date for the Most Important XR Events in Q3 and Q4 2022. NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE).

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

After a string of cancellations by larger vendors amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), this year’s annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) was postponed. Now, GDC organizers say a summer conference will kick off in its place. SEE ALSO Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Over Coronavirus Concerns.

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AUGUST 28, 2021

Both organizations provide information on area resources, plan area industry events, and more. Every time I went to a conference, there were people from this group called the VR/AR Association. Just through the network down here, I was immediately connected with ten or more industry leaders interested in AR and VR,” said Cunningham. “[VR/AR]

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MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. Industry Announcements.

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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. “Our

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Last year, AR content creation platform Zappar held AR Pioneers – a two-day live streaming virtual conference. One session also discusses how to “Build Your Own Digital Avatar With ZapWorks and Unity.”. Interestingly, some of these workshops are led by industry users rather than by Zappar team members. But, surprise!

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MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. All of the features we’ve seen on-stage so far are expected to be included in the experimental release, though we’ve reached out to Unity to confirm this.

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MARCH 3, 2020

Since 2017, we’ve been able to see significant growth in the adoption of AR and VR across different industries. Education is one of the biggest industries interested in adopting AR and VR. AR VR Academy is an association of professionals working in this industry and helping companies and entrepreneurs adopt these technologies.

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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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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. Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. Learning and training have probably become the biggest use case across industries.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In a statement today Facebook has confirmed that due to the current worldwide situation involving the coronavirus the company has decided to cancel its annual F8 conference which was due to take place in May. . The cancellation of F8 2020 continues a growing trend within the industry due to fears over spreading the coronavirus.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the initiatives of the Orlando Economic Partnership and Unity, a metaverse creation company, the city is creating a digital twin of their 800-square mile metro area that will map everything in 3D and collect massive data like weather, traffic, job opportunities, talent potential, real estate data, and many others.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

The Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), the premier event for creators of immersive VR (and AR) experiences, today announced dates and location for its second edition – its first standalone event. VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. West pressed a ‘Unity button’ to bring up a menu, which hovered above one controller. Update: Unity is aiming the VR editor to launch in December.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The XR Association (XRA) announced on Tuesday that it had onboarded some of the industry’s top extended reality (XR) firms to its organisation. Elizabeth Hyman, Chief Executive, XR Association , explained that 2023 had become an “important year for the industry.”

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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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MARCH 1, 2017

When we last heard from OTOY , the company revealed it was bringing light field baking and more to its Unity integration. On display at Unity’s booth is the first light field video created in OTOY’s Octane renderer using the engine. The piece uses the stereo cube map render shown back at the most recent Unite Conference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Valkyrie Industries announces armbands to offer muscle resistance for VR fitness.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The XR Association (XRA) announced at its Limitless Future Conference on Tuesday it had opened its XR for All Foundation (XRAF). Lindl, Unity Technologies. Through each of these elements, we will position the XR industry for long-term success and create an opportunity for the best possible impact in every community”.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023, NVIDIA introduced the CloudXR 4.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

However, the device will still set shoppers back an eye-watering $3,499 as initially revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June this year. Unity also announced at the Unite 2023 last week it would debut its visionOS Beta for Unity’s Pro, Enterprise, and Industry customer bases.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

During the production period, we faced a pretty tough deadline: the client wanted to show the technology at an annual industry conference that was taking place in 2.5 App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions.

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MARCH 26, 2020

By now, you’ve probably heard that the Game Developers Conference has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is one of our favorite moments of the year. The talk will cover how and why to roll out hand tracking affordances with Unity. How It Works.

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MARCH 17, 2023

Industry events are one of the best ways for professionals or consumers to expand their knowledge, network with thought leaders, and discover new solutions. Conference sessions are planned to cover everything from user experience, to programming, design, and team management.

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