VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2017

So to assist those looking to take advantage of this desperate thirst for VR and AR developers, massively popular cross-platform game engine Unity has teamed up with celebrated online learning company Udacity to create their VR Developer Nanodegree Program as well as their all-new Learn ARkit Nanodegree Foundations Program.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This year, the Venice VR event, called Venice VR Expanded, is going to be held mostly in VR , with the participating movies and artworks that are being distributed through Viveport and Oculus TV and the event being hold in VRChat with a world built by VRrOOm. This is the boldest and craziest part of the Venice VR Expanded.

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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…). You are organizing an event in China on the 24th… can you tell us something more about it? What can the attendees expect from it?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

John A Cunningham, Head of Government & Aerospace at Unity. John A Cunningham, Head of Government and Aerospace at Unity Technologies , delivered his keynote speech exploring the concept at the event, which gathered roughly 500 businesses, analysts, media partners, and executives at the sunny destination of Madeira Island, Portugal.

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JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers. UI controls.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. New important events have been canceled because of the coronavirus…. This is so sad.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. You can think of visionOS itself like a Shared Space where apps coexist together and you have less control. Whereas Full Spaces give you the most control and immersiveness, but don’t coexist with other apps.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity. Looping haptic playback support, as well as granular controls for the haptics.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Riccitiello explained that this installment marks the last of Unity 5. The Unity 5 cycle culminating in 5.6

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Today I want to propose you a quick solution for one big problem of the Vive Focus apps: the controller pairing popup always appearing in front of your eyes. If you don’t do it, the controller becomes simply unusable, because there is no relation between what you are pointing at physically and what you are aiming virtually.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You can now switch to hand-tracking by simply putting down your Touch controllers. The most noteworthy of which, a new hand-tracking option that — when enabled, allows you to automatically switch between your Oculus Touch controllers and hand-tracking mode. The Oculus Quest just keeps getting better.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It will be a very interesting event and you can register at this link if you want to enjoy it (come on, it’s free!). Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. Finally, the PSVR 2 won’t have anymore the wands (or dildos) of the PSVR 1 but will have controllers that follow the standards of all the other headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. Android, iOS). And this is fantastic.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is called “First Hand” because it has been roughly inspired by Oculus First Contact , the showcase demo for Oculus Touch controller released for the Rift CV1. This makes sense considering that controllers shine with different kinds of interactions than the bare hands , so the applications must be different.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We are all in AltspaceVR, a VR social platform that lets you meet people from around the world and attend live events. After the official event, there was of course an afterparty. I’m looking forward to more people embracing events held in VR—no one had to spend money on a plane ticket or wait in an airport.

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Upload VR

JULY 6, 2023

adds Automatic Controller Rebinding. Unlike on standalone headsets or PlayStation VR2 where all users have a known controller, the PC-based SteamVR platform supports a wide variety of controllers with different input layouts. Changelog SteamVR: Added automatic rebinding for controllers without native bindings.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last week we had a first look at the controllers, while this week we had quite a confusing leak about its product line, which, if confirmed, would show an ambitious plan by the Chinese company. of our revenues with Unity. This is fair, and this is why a good chunk of the community answered positively to these new terms.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. That might be nothing new, but Riccitiello had a tantalizing tease to add.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Soon, Meta will host its Connect 2023 event, whereby the firm will announce innovations in its XR product portfolio. Currently, Unity is the most widely-used gaming engine used to create VR/AR/MR experiences for individual developers and enterprises. Gears are turning as the mid-year crossover is in full effect.

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ARPost

MARCH 27, 2023

The new NVIDIA CloudXR also makes it possible for developers to create custom user interfaces through the use of Unity plug-in architecture. More Deployment Options With the Use of the Unity Plug-in – Developers can build on the Unity engine and create a full-featured CloudXR Client using Unity APIs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

If you are from the EMEA region, and you use my special link to register for the conference and then you watch one of the event sessions, you will participate in a raffle to win an amazing RTX3080 Ti graphics card! :O. Meta to introduce new parental controls on Quest. More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Road Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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ARPost

MAY 21, 2021

The event was full of announcements, releases, updates, and launches. Partners like Farfetch, Prada, and MAC Cosmetics are using the company’s new tools for voice and gesture-controlled virtual product try-ons, social shopping experiences in AR, and more. Bitmoji X Unity Games. Expanding AR Capabilities With Lens Studio 4.0.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. Superhot VR is an action/puzzle hybrid with a unique time control mechanic. Best VR Experience – ASTEROIDS! Baobab Studios).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Rec Room dropped some juicy news during its big virtual event RecCon , including the announcement of Rec Room Studio, an awesome new tool that will let you create your own amazing experiences featuring killer graphics and animations on the social VR platform. And just like last year, there won’t be 40-person event limits. .

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We’re excited about the whole event. 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. See Also: The Future of XR’s Remote Events in the New Normal. See Also: The Future of XR’s Remote Events in the New Normal.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 21, 2018

During this week's Unite Berlin conference, an event dedicated to Unity developers, Magic Leap's Brian Schwab and Aleissia Laidacker, two of the company's Interaction Lab experts, took to the stage for a special presentation.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? During the event, Leen Segers of LucidWeb and Women in Immersive Technology , reported that WiiT found its first partner in Facebook. Let’s jump in. Industry Announcements.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

The company says the SDK includes “a simple API used for creating apps inserted into Cardboard viewers, and the more complex API for supporting Daydream-ready phones and the Daydream controller.” Unity writes on their official blog : Unity’s native support for Daydream aims to solve the hard problems for you.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

According to Microsoft, the immersive Mesh meeting spaces foster various enterprise use cases such as employee onboarding, town halls, brainstorming sessions, team socials, and networking events. The no-code suite comes with organizer tools that give unprecedented control of a Mesh event to its operators.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2022

The company offers creator tools as well as a suite of solutions for users to “manage, control, and benefit from their digital identities.” Peace & Unity” Exhibition in Spatial’s Peace Pavilion NFT Environment. The Oasis Digital Gallery Opening. ARPost hasn’t (yet) introduced readers to Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The MLTK, available now for developers working in Unity , offers up a range of pre-built tools which take some of the heavy lifting out of building AR apps for the Magic Leap headset. The Control Pointer provides a pointer for the manipulation and movement of digital objects with the Control. Bumper events. ControlInput.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

Obviously it was virtual as well, as the rest of Covid affected events. New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). Tg0 Etee : controller that feels level of squeeze. The 3 days of lectures has been recorded, and I will update this article after I watch all the recordings.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement. Immersive Sporting and Events Sporting events now meet gaming in the world of immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. I have made a huge video tutorial on Oculus Spatial Anchors, where you can see me create from scratch an application implementing them in Unity. Let’s start by creating a Unity project. Let me tell you everything you need to know about them! A note on this tutorial.

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