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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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? It provides a framework that makes 3D and UI interactions available from Unity input events. Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ??

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Last Friday, December 17, The VR/AR Association held a one-day event dedicated to the metaverse and avatars as part of the Immerse Global Summit Series. But, presented here are some of the highlights and takeaways from the event. AI is then digitally embodied through Unreal Engine , Unity , Metahuman , or Ready Player Me.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“Varjo Reality Cloud is our platform that will allow the ultimate science fiction dream – photo-realistic teleportation – to come true,” CTO Urho Konttori said in a launch event last summer. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

Alexey Savchenko, XLA Chief Product Officer , demoed the solution at the event in San Francisco as the firm addressed audiences in a speech on the Metaverse and synthetic media. Metasites access for individual content creators and enterprise users will adopt a revenue-sharing model, where users have full control and can manage their content.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

Inbar’s opening talk included a line that quickly became a motto for almost the whole event: “XR is the interface for AI.” ” Magic Leap’s big announcement wasn’t to do with AI, but it will still be thrilling to developers: an Unreal Engine plugin is coming in August.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources. Using clunky controllers often detracts from the immersive interaction, and can make learning how to use a new technology more complex.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Googles solutions allow developers to quickly optimize their augmented reality experiences for android devices, with a convenient Software Development Kit (SDK). Unity Software company, Unity, provides developers and innovators in the creative world with tools capable of building a wide variety of different ads and marketing campaigns.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware.

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ARVR

MARCH 11, 2021

The Best VR Events and Concerts Planned for 2021 On Grab: This is the logic that executes when the object is picked up, it could be snapping an object to your hands position, changing its color, or playing a sound effect. While Grabbed: Update the drawers position to move towards the players controller. Controller Position?—?for

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. This means that Unreal Engine is now free for everyone forever until you really become rich.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. A decade on and there is a new kid on the block from Epic/Unreal called Metahuman. Roisin from Reconfigure and Cont3xt in Unreal engine.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Saatchi Gallery in London, United Kingdom hosted the event, transforming the building’s exterior into a massive Tiffany jewel. Ray tracing tools from NVIDIA, Epic Games, and Unity Technologies also use ray tracing processes to boost efficiency rather than monitoring all of the light trajectories from their respective sources.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Google said that it has partnered with Unity and Epic Games, creators of two of the most popular third-party gaming engines, so developers can use the game-building tools they already know well. “Unity’s native support for Daydream aims to solve the hard problems for you. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Ahead of the event, we thought we’d give you a quick overview of what to expect. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. With the Leap Motion Controller, you can quickly bring your hands into almost any virtual reality experience. Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. million in financing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

The platform also reinforces quality control with Unity and Unreal Engine-based content for digital twins, schematics, and real-time 3D (RT3D) assets. The three-day event featured talks with Infosys, a field service management (FSM) solutions provider, that leverage Dynamics 365 and Teams for remote workers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week, on 25th, I am co-organizing an event about Digital Fashion together with Cecilia Lascialfari. PS If you are asking, no, I haven’t put this piece of news so high because of my event… I strongly believe in the power of fashion in XR!). Learn more (Tweet about the event / 1) Learn more (Tweet about the event / 2).

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In its recent Facebook Connect event (which the echoAR team covered here ) Facebook made a number announcements that cement its place as a leader in the AR/VR space. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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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. The event is offering 5 tracks offering a wide range of topics from technical to the practicalities of VR as a business.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. Meta is hosting an event about AI.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. To make it accessible to game developers and content creators, Refract’s software suite is compatible with platforms like OpenVR, OpenXR, Unity and Unreal engines, and existing VR systems and applications.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Concepts like loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc should be at your fingertips before moving forward. This course from the University of Michigan focuses mainly on developing XR apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal — Developing AR/VR/MR/XR Apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal Skill 5?—?Machine

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The two-day event is essentially a mini-GDC, focused exclusively on VR headsets and related technologies. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. The change made by one user in its program (e.g. This is so cool!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. The initial event and follow-up conversations have generated the necessary buzz and set expectations that “spatial computing” will be a part of everyday life. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

The first time that I experienced Sequenced , I had no idea that my gaze directions might have been triggering different branches or small events within the story. Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative.

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AIXR

MAY 5, 2023

Decentraland (MANA) The Sandbox Somnium Space Roblox Journee Spatial Bespoke On the other hand, examples of bespoke metaverse projects include: Nike’s.Swoosh Metaverse Platform Louis Vuitton – ‘Louis The Game’ The metaverse platforms that are built from scratch use javascript code and libraries or a tool like Unity or Playcanvas.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. The Unity game engine tries to reinforce this real-world falloff. Tutorial Audio.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. If you want my help in organizing your VR event, please reach out to me … Waiting to meet you in VR, let’s talk about some news…. This big event about enterprise AR and VR will be hosted in London on 28–29 April, 2020. Really my favorite.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. Whatever platform you’re building on, it’s important to know that designing for motion control involves a whole new way of thinking about interactions.

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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. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Learning New Skills.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game. Vandonkelaar did say their platform will support Unreal Engine 4 and other technology beyond Unity. locations in Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Wisconsin and the Poconos.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. So, are you ready?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

95% of the content is about the vision of the future “metaverse” in which we all are always in XR , we work, we connect with other people physically distant away, we attend events, we play multiplayer games, etc… all in XR. I wonder if there were more RMAs for Oculus Elite Straps or Valve Index Controllers… Funny link. Some XR fun.

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