Road to VR

MAY 8, 2020

Moving players artificially through large virtual environments isn’t a trivial task. After conducting an initial study with 240 participants, the researchers say the system can significantly reduce discomfort associated with smooth locomotion and even improve immersion.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Whether or not to include controllers to support legacy VR titles. Whether to allow users to full-dive into Virtual Reality, freely move around, and be active in the medium. Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Only a few years ago, when extended reality solutions first started emerging in the market, many viewed them as a novel and consumer-focused. Companies quickly rolled out solutions for the entertainment and gaming landscapes, based on new, immersive technology, introducing us to a new age of digital media.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. A Colorful Background.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

Here, I’ll introduce you to some of the best Apple Vision Pro apps available, whether you’re looking to relax after work or invest in immersive collaboration. PowerPoint even includes an immersive environment where you can practice presentations in front of a virtual audience. What are Apple Vision Pro Apps?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Covering all forms of immersive tech, from virtual to augmented, and mixed reality, XR is a key component in how the relationship between humans and computers is evolving. This allows for the development of a highly immersive and interactive experience. Extended Reality is one of the most exciting areas in technology today.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. The creature is controlled by the user’s facial expressions, and “survives” by eating the emotions of other people. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Sense Arena and HTC VIVE.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Using powerful modelling software and immersive hardware, many businesses are already experimenting with holographic experiences for training, entertainment, and marketing. So, which companies are leading the way to a new era of holographic content?

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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. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

When you are in VR, instead, you have to draw all the environment, the skybox, set the correct lighting, etc… This means more time invested, which is more money spent. There is always some work that is necessary to adapt it” The environment of our VR version of HitMotion: Reloaded.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Today, manufacturing companies use VR to design prototypes of new products in scalable virtual environments. However, there’s more to investing in XR solutions than simply choosing a certain type of immersive technology and buying the corresponding tools. What kind of controls can you put in place for extra safety?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found. Despite this, such activity failed to show metrics for XR activity or determine how immersive experiences differed from typical 2D measurements.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spital audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2016

They used a visual scripting program called “Virtual Environment Interactions”, which is abbreviated as VEnvI. This would control a virtual avatar who would be executing the dance. And then they would go into a virtual environment and then dance with the digital avatar. " https://t.co/1kQffI3Y2Z

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spatial audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

Increase user retention through increased immersion and gamification techniques. Haptics can enhance user immersion during the execution of the training content. User immersion increases the embodiment and believability of the training scenario, increasing its effectiveness. ? Skills transfer. User experience.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. In the Shared Space where rendering is controlled by Apple it mostly just works, though very occasionally you’ll see minor visual artifacts in the periphery. This impressive capability isn’t much used yet, however.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

The Finalists for Best Campaign Are: Portal – an immersive clothing shopping experience that works with Nreal’s anticipated XR technology to “turn your room into a boutique.”. Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. Looking Glass – immersive 8K holographic displays. ?.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? AR-based marketing can help create personalized advertising that actually allows consumers to control the virtual environment they are in and the kind of experiences they want to immerse in. #

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. And here is why. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2023

Providing an immersive space for consuming and interacting with information, XR represents perhaps the perfect way to deliver training and education to students in all environments. The DX platform from Dynepic combines XR training tools and applications from across the virtual landscape, to make them accessible in a single hub.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 4, 2022

Tomorrow we will instead head for one of a new generation of metaverse services where we can do all of those things in a way that's far more immersive, interactive, and experiential. Metaverse worlds will be immersive and three-dimensional – we can see this already in the worlds developed by everyone from Meta to Roblox and Decentraland.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

He tells me that back in 1993 he set up a fully immersive VR lab in the high school where he taught, so it’s not surprising that he believes Virtual Reality and teaching are natural bedfellows, nor that he ended up as the Director of Game Studies & Simulation at Full Sail University. “I But that’s only the beginning.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

You can imagine the potential of such a tool when combined with a mixed reality headset (you could change some furniture in your house, or re-create a virtual environment that has the same shape as your room). Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. But as they were moving on, they want also-- would like to have some more complex tasks added to this virtual training. We need to have that component of touch into VR."

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Haptic Training Virtual Environment Examples 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. But as they were moving on, they want also-- would like to have some more complex tasks added to this virtual training. We need to have that component of touch into VR."

Haptic 78

Haptic Training Virtual Environment Examples 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. But as they were moving on, they want also-- would like to have some more complex tasks added to this virtual training. We need to have that component of touch into VR."

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Haptic Training Virtual Environment Examples 78

AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Commonly, enterprise end-users leverage digital twins to replicate real-life objects or environments. This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives.

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Leapmotion

JULY 28, 2015

The demo puts you in control using a combination of Leap Motion interaction and a fully integrated Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) control system. The VR Cockpit is an ongoing research project that we created to investigate design patterns for hybrid interfaces – combining physical hardware with motion controlled interactions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and experiences, but if we’re ever to achieve a true sense of presence in these virtual worlds, we need to also be able to create really good avatars. Full immersion and meaningful social interaction can only really happen if we feel comfortable in our virtual skins.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The idea of controlling a plane came quite by accident, when discussing the possible options of the game. We thought it would be interesting to turn the situation in the opposite way – controlling the geometry of the level by impacting the object. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Resolution (per-eye) : 1,832 × 1,920 LCD Refresh Rate: 90Hz Processor : Snapdragon XR2 RAM : 6GB Battery Life : 2–3 hours Controllers’ battery life : 4x the one of the Quest Field of View : Same of Quest IPD Adjust : 58mm, 63mm, 68mm Weight : 503g Storage : 64GB or 256GB Connectivity : Bluetooth/Wi-Fi 6. Let’s dig a bit into it.

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HaptX

JANUARY 24, 2019

David used the HaptX SDK to integrate our gloves into the experience he built in Unity. These VR scenarios used the Vive headset and Vive controllers which formed a virtual approach to common situations that combat medics encounter in their primary mission of battlefield first response.

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