XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 18, 2023

Varjo, a manufacturer and innovator of MR headsets, is a joint partner in many enterprise-grade immersive operations, notably vehicle training and simulation. The maritime simulation firm distributes its XR maritime training service on Varjo headsets to add depth and realism.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

” The company says its including support the avatar movement simulation mentioned above in addition to SteamVR base station tracking, which may be used for its still to-be-revealed controller. Controller: Two hand/foot controllers. SDK: Unity (features dedicated to VRChat) / Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For November’s batch of free VR experiences, we have everything from a VR board game experience and collaborative design tool to an old-school DJ simulator. ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Vibrotactile feedback enables other gloves to simulate the feeling of things like touching a surface or clicking a button using actuators in the fingers of the glove. This allows them to recognize specific patterns of movement and hand gestures, making it easier to control virtual interfaces.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will go over the key steps you need to take in order to create your own farming and life simulation game. Stardew Valley is a farming and life simulation game that allows players to build and manage their own farm, as well as interact with the game’s NPCs and complete various quests.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. Hair simulations!

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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. What is Inworld AI ? A Bigger, Better, Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Essentially, the engine is a software package built for simulating interactive or passive RT3D experiences. Simulation: Via simulation, it’s possible to use RT3D engines to reduce risks and challenges in various environments.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Not all AR *has* to contain 3D, but it is a typical type of asset used in the space because of its dimensionality and end goal of simulating reality and enhancing reality by mimicking it! modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.? Free for students!!

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VRGuy

AUGUST 3, 2015

They are looking for high-performance HMDs for a new simulator and wanted to explore some of the higher-end Sensics products. As is often the case, this company uses a special-purpose engine (as opposed to a game engine like Unity or Unreal). After reviewing the HMDs, the conversation turned to software.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion released its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered markerless hand-tracking. .” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today’s VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Cosmic Trip (Left) Job Simulator (Right). VR motion controllers. We stuck with Unity for now, and hope to explore Unreal more in future explorations.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

Using an HDMI input, users connect their computer-of-choice to the device, at which point the Looking Glass becomes a second display for your PC; there’s also a USB-C port for controls. Once connected, users can upload a variety of 3D content—from models and animations to volumetric video—at 60FPS without the need of a VR headset.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Automatic light control. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Simulation Play mode lets you walk through or around a 3D model and watch it on your computer. API: C # for Unity, C ++ for iOS, Java for Android. Integration with Unity. ExpiCulture?

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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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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. This is achieved by the system working with a host who runs the simulation allowing guests to join their environment.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More on Ray Tracing According to NVIDIA, ray tracing simulates lighting effects in virtual scenes and objects with cutting-edge rendering tools. Epic Games’ Unreal Engine The news comes as several major platforms for world-building and graphics have launched tools to enhance realism and immersion for developers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 14, 2023

They then mounted the hardware for inside-out positional tracking into the vehicle. Using the Varjo XR-3 headset, the team was then able to combine a real-time video feed, with 3d car renders, built within Unreal and Unity software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

(Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). 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.

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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. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Apple plans to increase its investment in its Chinese regional partners, who are already working with the company to create device components and control supply chains. He also noted that Unreal and Unity will “try to catch up because the industrial segments are very important for them.”

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

Simulators made by Vrgineers range from portable trainers for military missions to classroom simulators that adjust to support all major platforms. Vrgineers’ simulators also include custom-built solutions that have fully-functioning cockpit replicas with real instruments. Key Features of the XTAL Virtual Reality Headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

This directional input device allows users to walk, run, and crouch within a VR environment without controller inputs. Also, enterprise training and simulation for law enforcement, military, and corporate training. Last Month, Virtuix debuted the beta version of its unique Omni One treadmill.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Announced today via an official NVIDIA blogpost , AxonVR says that the company’s fledgling haptic engine is actually built on top of NVIDIA’s PhysX, a middleware SDK that provides GPU acceleration for complex, real-time physics simulations. “At its heart, haptic simulation comes down to physics.

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XROM

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Varjo-ready software ecosystem of over 100 third-party PC applications and 3D engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity, integrates the XR-4 series into the world’s most demanding workflows across training and simulation, design and engineering, healthcare and more. “As

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

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. CONTROL & SAFETY With any immersive experience, the user has to have a sense of safety and freedom.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

Plus, there are two controllers included, with 6 degrees of freedom movement and hand, eye, and face tracking enabled by front-facing sensors. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline. Plus, Pico promises world-class data security and privacy for all users.

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