XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 2, 2023

Project partner Zoan created a digital twin of the opera stage using Unreal engine to provide a photorealistic and a real-time 3D (RT3D) “XR stage.” ” Varjo provides its Aero VR headset to allow audiences to enjoy the broadcast with top-tier immersive display technology.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 5, 2023

Developed by Polish developer Real Invented Studio, The Riese Project was created within Unreal Engine 5 using Nanite and Lumen. It uses photoscanning technology to recreate Riese , a mysterious Nazi German construction project between 1943-1945 in Poland's Owl Mountains and Książ Castle.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This week, 3D modelling and spatial data capture service provider Amrax integrated its Metaroom application onto Autodesk Construction Cloud, ready for international AEC firms. Autodesk Construction Cloud is a suite of first and third-party XR services that Autodesk built primarily for construction firms.

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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. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and photogrammetry technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation. What is Photogrammetry?

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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. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation. What is NeRF/Photogrammetry?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Some of the topics linked to immersive technologies include ‘Music in Gaming and Virtual Realities,’ ‘Music’s Worth in the AI Era: Progress or Downfall’, and many others. The award-winning artist combines her groundbreaking style of artistry and storytelling with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and Abelton.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Epic Games announced on Tuesday it had inked a strategic collaboration with design solutions giant Autodesk to boost real-time immersive experiences in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Sketfab, a major web modelling tool, will offer integrations for its on-the-fly access to digital assets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 6, 2023

Varjo Technologies, a leading high-end manufacturer of extended reality (XR) headsets and solutions, integrated Twinmotion’s architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) tools for professional designers. The joint effort will allow Varjo headset owners to work on Twinmotion’s solution this year.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Extended Reality is one of the most exciting areas in technology today. Using clunky controllers often detracts from the immersive interaction, and can make learning how to use a new technology more complex. As such, many XR innovators are now investing more heavily in hand and eye tracking. Photogrammetry.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The world’s first adopter of the technology, Tiffany & Co, has begun using Snap’s Ray Tracing with its Snapchat-based Tiffany Lock Lens. Snap’s immersive experience leveraged its Custom Landmarker technologies unveiled at the Snap Partner Summit last year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

City planners and construction firms can also plan their future developments with bespoke immersive maps. Additionally, Unreal included its Pixel Streaming service for interoperability across devices. Alternatively, news agencies can utilise the platform for 3D and 360-degree maps to enhance their stories.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A famed and long-running RT3D platform is Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) by Epic Games, initially a games development service. Thanks to the popularity of the XR gaming market, many enterprise-grade RT3D solution providers are reaping the benefits of technology innovation funded and pushed the gaming marketplace.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This week, a report from Prophecy Market Insights revealed core details behind the potential growth of the photogrammetry market – a core technology behind Apple’s spatial computing ambitions most recently shown during the iPhone 15’s showcase. Recently, Apple introduced XR features for its latest iPhone 15 model.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? What is a game engine?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? What is a game engine?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

With this technology, we can all create and enjoy more immersive experiences. Additionally, city planners or construction firms can use Geospatial Creator to create bespoke immersive maps, and news agencies can utilise the platform for 3D and 360-degree maps to enhance their stories.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 14, 2021

Story telling is increasingly blurring the line between the physical and virtual worlds, according to presenters at the just-concluded this year’s Technology + Storytelling: Engaging The Immersive Future event organized by NYC Media Lab. The technology is getting good enough to get us to the other side of the uncanny valley , he added.

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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. Doooooooonate!

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NVidia VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the world’s leading architecture firms is taking its path-breaking designs to the next level with ray tracing, using NVIDIA RTX technology. Zaha Hadid Architects constructed the building’s geometry, structure and materials to reflect the Central Asian nation’s culture.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

We believe that the easier it is to create 3D and XR experiences, the more prolific this technology will become. Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. It feels abandoned in the overall Amazon ecosystem and the rendering technology is older and inefficient.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? What is a game engine?

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NVidia VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the world’s leading architecture firms is taking its path-breaking designs to the next level with ray tracing, using NVIDIA RTX technology. Zaha Hadid Architects constructed the building’s geometry, structure and materials to reflect the Central Asian nation’s culture.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

Creating a future where the technology imagined in books like Ready Player One and movies like The Matrix actually exists is going to take a lot more than solid virtual reality headsets. Most games take place in small, intentionally constructed environments or arenas. ” This promise has caught the eye of investors in a major way.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender. The news comes after the most recent update, where NVIDIA revealed its partnership with Autodesk to join the former’s CloudXR and latter’s VRED technologies via Amazon Web Services last month.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. Parkinson also noted other major trends would involve the “expansion of display technology” as well as further AI integrations.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2016

But as the technology make its way into the hands of a new breed of creators, we are getting more glimpses into the greater potential of VR — one of those being educational VR tools. You can take a virtual trip to Stonehenge and snap a selfie in the process.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The first time I tried the HoloLens I knew I was experiencing the first generation of a game-changing technology. Such as with healthcare provider Ocuvera, which is currently using this technology to prevent patients from taking a fall while in hospitals. This translates into enabling smarter solutions for a range of use-cases.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

You’ll need to mine and gather ore and wood, build smelters and blacksmiths in order to progress your construction plans. We aim to bring this efficiency as well as a long history of working with Unreal 4 and VR into the development process in order to help deliver the first open world sandbox game built from the ground for VR.”.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For frontline workers, it’s important that they have technology at their disposal that is entirely voice-controlled and, therefore, hands-free. Additionally, AR manufacturers, particularly in the enterprise space, can look at new technologies to ensure the data privacy and security of their devices.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I got the opportunity to catch up again with Ivon, this time over email, about his perspective on VR, his love of science fiction, and the future of the IP that he and his team are painstakingly constructing from scratch. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

I met with Moore and the Northways for a conversation recently in Colin Northway’s still-under-construction virtual art gallery. The sound technology combined with the movements of our hands and heads made our conversation, even between avatars represented as the simplest of shapes floating in space, feel remarkably like the real thing.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 23, 2017

You earn gold as you progress to improve your defensive constructs. Natatorium, from Blue King Technology. Natatorium is a visual experience that shows off a highly detailed swimming pool facility running in the Unreal engine. In Keep Defending your task is simple: Just do what the name of the game says and keep defending.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

When do you think web-based XR content can reach the same high level of standalone content made with Unreal or Unity? However, that being said, Unity and Unreal are also constantly accelerating , so it’s currently hard to see a time when WebXR parallels engine-created content exactly! You work with WebXR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

I modestly felt as if I could construct a more approachable and miniaturized AR platform. Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine? developers compared to the amount of Unity/Unreal devs is far less. Graham working on the Triton headset (Image by Graham Atlee). Yes, Three.js

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development. As tracking technology improves, this could truly be something that is revolutionary. Nick Whiting.

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