ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

ARPost typically reports on the Finnish XR company’s groundbreaking hardware and software developments, but the company also helps develop and distribute XR experiences and solutions ranging from operas to flight simulations. That use case is about to get a big leg up as the company recently announced support for its hardware on Twinmotion.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

With the dawn of the metaverse growing ever closer, reliance on extended reality experiences is set to increase even further. Not only does this generate new opportunities for hardware creators and software developers, but it also paves the way for a new age of design talent.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

India’s Ajnalens is developing extended reality (XR) immersive hardware and software. Hardware for Enterprise. Ajnalens is building a rich portfolio of XR hardware for enterprises. Anjalens also offers its Suite operating system (OS) to support businesses adopting its headset hardware, which is an industry 4.0

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Considering the high bar for performance on Quest’s low-powered hardware, anything that can help boost app performance is a boon for developers. Of course, Application Spacewarp itself needs some of the freed up compute time to do its work. Application Spacewarp Availability.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

That would of course need to be backed by support for at least some consumer VR games, though there’s no word on that at this point. The gun also includes a removable top-plate with mounting hardware underneath so it can be adapted for a wide variety of tracking systems. Image courtesy StrikerVR. Image courtesy StrikerVR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

I teach user experience design and assistive technology courses. Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link]. Talking about the hardware, instead, what are your remarks regarding the accessibility of current headsets and controllers?

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. Of course, many aspects of the classic Iron Man suit are still complete science fiction – particularly the “nanobots” or whatever that showed up in Infinity War. See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

It can also be an effective way to boost productivity during collaborative sessions, enhance the quality of training courses, and increase creativity. Of course, leveraging the power of virtual reality starts with choosing the right headset capable of transporting each user into a new digital landscape.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

.” 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. Models and mockups that I viewed in mixed reality using Campfire’s hardware were beautifully rendered. Of course, Snap has hardware too. And they’ve done it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Sweeney, whose company makes the Unreal Engine toolset used in creating some of the biggest budget 3D projects, outlined in a blog post this week why he saw this as a huge moment for immersive computing: Apple’s debut of VR support for Mac and AR support for iOS are true game-changers. What does a multiplayer AR game look like, for example?

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Of course, when dealing with VR hardware, “cheaper” is certainly relative. It’s compatible with HTC Vive headsets, as well as Steam VR hardware. The company is also making an SDK available for Unity and Unreal Engine developers to make better use of the system.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

It can also be an effective way to boost productivity during collaborative sessions, enhance the quality of training courses, and increase creativity. Of course, leveraging the power of virtual reality starts with choosing the right headset capable of transporting each user into a new digital landscape.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The company is today announcing TouchSense Force, a combination of development software and hardware that it hopes will enhance haptic feedback in both existing game controllers and new devices to make for better VR experiences and other content. Without it, our virtual fingers are little more than ghosts floating through items and surfaces.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

VIVE hand tracking has a number of features, though which features a developer uses depends on their target platform and hardware. So, the processing power of the hardware that developers want their projects to work on should be considered. “ How and when to incorporate hand tracking isn’t only a hardware and software question.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2017

In what is probably one of the more significant hardware developments in the VR space this year, we’ve been waiting patiently to see what developers dream up with the Vive Tracker now that they are finally getting their hands on it. And of course, they have a tutorial up too that you can find here. jonathan[a]vrscout.com.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Another dark horse in the enterprise AR space could of course be Meta's Quest 3. This could lower the cost, time, and complexity of companies adopting headset-based AR in a way that other companies dependent on Unity and Unreal engine won't be able to easily match.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Some people wondered if the avatar moved in realtime with the real Alex, but the answer is no, of course, he was pre-recorded. HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Other relevant news. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. The best place to start when interested in developing augmented and virtual reality experiences are the several free and paid online courses, tutorials and certification programs. Both are free to download and try.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Yes, it is a sign that Facebook is all in for XR , as someone made me notice, but hiring 10,000 people and losing billions every year in R&D and hardware sold under cost wasn’t already a clear sign of it? Of course, there are also some concerns. The idea is cool, and everyone that has tried it has come out impressed by it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2017

And while the system itself is a refreshing answer to one of VR’s biggest pain points, the headset is also one of the most beautiful pieces of VR hardware you’ll encounter. ” Of course, the major need for any VR hardware system right now is to produce content that consumers want to engage with.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

Of course, no AWE recap article would be complete without mentioning the exciting announcements made during the various talks. The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Best Input & Output Hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products. These are the software components that run on the AR devices and are the closest to the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

As the Chrome team explains “WebGPU is a new API for the web, which exposes modern hardware capabilities and allows rendering and computation operations on a GPU, similar to Direct3D 12, Metal, and Vulkan. I totally agree with him (of course… can Carmack be wrong? Impossible!)

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. All hardware and software should be able to work also with products of other vendors. The standard is becoming adopted, and now OpenXR is offering certifications for applications and hardware implementing it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. 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.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers don’t need to implement (or even understand) the mathematics behind IK, as game engines like Unity & Unreal have IK built-in, and packages like the popular Final IK offer fully fleshed-out implementations for less than $100. But of course we can put legs on other people, that you can see, and it doesn’t bother you at all.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

I did try anyway of course, and it worked reasonably well, but didn’t look quite right, and it was clear to me that the app (and its interpretation of the pressure input) was trying to infer drawing strokes rather than the small, quick, and sharp strokes that make up written characters.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course he won’t stay 24h a day in VR for 30 days , this would be potentially too extreme for his health at this point of the technology (even if he actually told me that he would really love to stay for a month completely in VR). Enea developing in virtual reality using Unreal Engine VR editor. It’s all real.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

We said ‘you pick up these gaming tools like Unity or Unreal and you start making something’, but that’s not natural for [cinema creatives],” then-Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe told me at the time the studio was announced. When we started to show people [the Oculus Rift] in Hollywood, their question was ‘how do we get started?’…

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2021

The path that there is at the beginning of each level is of course incomplete, and you have at your disposal some building blocks in your inventory that you can use to complete it and make the ball arrive at its destination. If you want to buy it, you can find it on Steam : it is compatible with all the most famous VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Of course, I’m also a bit envious (I’ve not been invited), but I’m mostly happy for them and I can’t wait to read their impressions about the headset. It’s interesting to see how Somnium is strategically investing in many hardware companies like Vrgineers, Lynx, and now Hypervision.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. Of course, he said that after having tried Google products, they also took inspiration to improve their ones to try to keep pace, but this was surely a bad news for them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As a leader in industrial-grade VR/XR software and hardware, Varjo already has an outstanding reputation in the enterprise landscape. Of course, companies looking to leverage the most advanced passthrough features will need to pay a little more.

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