XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

In the construction industry, professionals can work together on digital twins of schematics, blueprints, and products in a shared VR world. Unity represents one of the most flexible environments in the XR landscape for companies looking to build their own collaborative experiences from scratch.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Going beyond science fiction, the Metaverse combines the Internet and spatial communcations technologies. Meta Platforms’ Chief Executive and Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, recently pivoted to building technologies to realise a real-world version of Snow Crash. Upskilling is also a massive benefit for metaverse technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Their headsets have led to multiple partnerships with major automotive, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), aerospace training, art and music, and defence firms.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

This week, we look at the ongoing proliferation of the metaverse as a buzzword and construct for spatial computing’s future. In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. link] Dissections in VR are FREE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home.

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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…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2017

Or you can take a nerve wrecking step across a girder on top of London’s sky line using body motion tracking technology paired to a HTC Vive. Both experiences were built in Unity and contain a mix of high-resolution 360° HDRI images and a full-scale CGI model of the shard.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Next week, the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) will host over 100 speakers from various extended reality (XR) firms to explore new immersive technology innovations and opportunities to match a diverse and emerging industry demand. We have so much planned for the Immerse Global Summit Europe on Sept 28-30!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest). Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. There will be an XR plugins manager, and some of them will be managed by Unity together with its partners (e.g.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

EndeavorXR is a strategy and consulting firm for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) solutions and symbiotic frontier technologies. Peck is also the Board Chair of Prospera Women and hosts the Future Construct podcast. ” Concluding, she said it was important for groups to report on emerging technologies to help educate readers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Attendees learned and experienced the firm’s technologies and the growing number of use cases for simulations, collaboration, engagement, and visualisation. It also leverages technologies such as six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s fair to say the construction (AEC) industry represents perhaps one of the most significant markets for XR technology. Used correctly, the right XR technology can accelerate the development of a project, and allow for innovative new designs, created by a multitude of worldwide specialists. Varjo and Sellen Construction.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates in 2016.The The dev team I work with uses Unity as our bread and butter. At the end of the year they released their EditorVR for constructing environments for VR in VR. They are also helping to push Unity by hosting Learn Unity events.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

By revolutionizing the way we perceive reality-altering solutions, the technology that stands behind HoloLens is as fascinating as it is complex. This technology has been revealed to the world as “mixed reality.” When using Unity, it is extremely important to set the near clipping plane to no less than 0.85m.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I already dedicated an article about how the tracking technology of Google is awesome. Then, keep reading. I was amazed. WTF, really.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. I met with Moore and the Northways for a conversation recently in Colin Northway’s still-under-construction virtual art gallery. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. That’s why 10M is such an important threshold: because it marks the beginning of the serious growth of a technology. Plus Huawei headset is compatible only with Huawei phones, while HTC is more open.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Just like with WebRTC, we see the potential of this technology, and we are proud to be the first to have created it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, tech firms and enthusiasts have worked to develop the Metaverse with Web3 technologies. Issues with Zoom fatigue , intermittent connectivity, and other hybrid meeting concerns have sparked a drive for future XR technologies. The Value of the Metaverse Workplace.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. to visit a newly constructed house). Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Still a win, but almost nothing is going to change in the future.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

This is eluding a key issue with the Metaverse: it is a community contribution of technological solutions. Uniting the Industry Multiple companies, from Meta Platforms, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Microsoft, HTC VIVE, ByteDance, Sony and even massive telecoms like Nokia and T-Mobile are chipping in to increase adoption rates for spatial technologies.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Used to be the best way to plan a three-dimensional construction project was on a two-dimensional blueprint, or perhaps a wooden model. Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Used to be the best way to plan a three-dimensional construction project was on a two-dimensional blueprint, or perhaps a wooden model. Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

Such technologies integrated into the NVIDIA CloudXR platform, where Omniverse would facilitate greater interoperability and adoption of the industrial metaverse and cloud streaming technologies. NVIDIA will empower enterprises with device-agnostic immersive environments through its cloud computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Used to be the best way to plan a three-dimensional construction project was on a two-dimensional blueprint, or perhaps a wooden model. Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. Greg: I'll just start with that idea.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’ve also already reviewed it more than year ago, definining it as an ambitious project under construction. The tool lowers the barriers of creating high-quality interactive content: creators don’t need to deal with complicated tools like Unity, they can simply create interactive content drag and drop.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I think stabilization is what kind of brought the technology full circle, and what started enabling it to be widely used by not just VR content creators, but also by traditional filmmakers who just want special angles or to capture certain moments in a much easier way. The technology just isn’t quite keeping up with the camera tech.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I think stabilization is what kind of brought the technology full circle, and what started enabling it to be widely used by not just VR content creators, but also by traditional filmmakers who just want special angles or to capture certain moments in a much easier way. The technology just isn’t quite keeping up with the camera tech.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Conventional designs like the Oculus Touch, Valve Index, and HTC controllers are manufactured using relatively thin-walled, injection-molded plastic casings, usually split into two halves. On the flip side, 3D printing is too slow to support mass production , at least using current printing technology. So what was this new idea then?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

” Mister President unleashing the Vive superpowers (Image by HTC). The application had a preliminary stage where you could construct a very very rough model of the room by just taking automatic pictures. Come on XR community, let’s make the technology go forward!! And so I started experimenting.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I think stabilization is what kind of brought the technology full circle, and what started enabling it to be widely used by not just VR content creators, but also by traditional filmmakers who just want special angles or to capture certain moments in a much easier way. The technology just isn't quite keeping up with the camera tech.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

Lots of new stuff released for HTC Vive on Steam this week, but not all of it is particularly noteworthy or earth-shattering. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Clash of Vessels VR, from Druid Technologies. New Steam Releases.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

systems, engineering, data center engineering, information security, network and cellular IP development, ERP business engineering, and Healthcare Solutions Development Budget leads opportunities for his customers and partners to utilize exciting and intense compute power in the immersive technology and XR landscape.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

systems, engineering, data center engineering, information security, network and cellular IP development, ERP business engineering, and Healthcare Solutions Development Budget leads opportunities for his customers and partners to utilize exciting and intense compute power in the immersive technology and XR landscape.

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