The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2020

Some months ago I published a guide for all Unity developers on how to request Android permissions for the Vive Focus Plus, because it took me a while to sort out how to do it to access the camera stream to do augmented reality on that headset. I spent some time asking why the Quest wasn’t giving me the data I was expecting.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SideQuest threatened Unity with legal action over its planned install fees while telling the game engine maker to "stick that up your pipe and smoke it." Yesterday saw Unity announce the Runtime Fee , a new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and installs, counting from 2024 forward. With costs as high as $0.20

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2023

Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity Google has launched Geospatial Creator for Unity, a new platform that allows developers to preview 3D assets in the Unity Editor. Geospatial Creator for Unity currently offers visualizations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 countries.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work? Currently, Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity offers visualisations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 nations.

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APRIL 28, 2022

At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for Unity & Unreal Engine. This is achieved, the company claims, with a foveated compression algorithm that compresses the data at a 1,000:1 ratio. Unity & Unreal On the Way.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This Monday, the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity completed its merger with Ironsource to introduce tools for mobile platform developers to track core user metrics that enhance eCommerce opportunities. Unity has merged with @ironSource. Unity (@unity) November 7, 2022. Read the blog for more details.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2022

Unity Technologies has teamed up with Microsoft Azure to add the former’s Create Solutions to the Cloud, allowing users to distribute games across Windows and Microsoft Xbox systems. Azure’s cloud infrastructure boosts real-time processing, sharing, and visualisation with high-speed data transfers and edge computing.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2019

They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones) … so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly from your Unity project! But are we sure that there isn’t a better way for Unity projects? The better way for Unity projects.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This Wednesday, the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity, with the Orlando Economic Partnership (OEP), created a digital twin of the region to assist with local economic and industrial growth. The President and CEO of the OEP, Tim Giuliani , said that the Unity alliance highlights Orlando’s dynamic innovation ecosystem.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

Nstream is “a vertically integrated streaming data application platform.” How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. “How That means lots of data – and doing new things with it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning. These entities leveraged real-time 3D (RT3D) content, with Unity leading the industry as a RT3D content creation platform. PHOTO: XR Today.

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ARVR

MARCH 11, 2022

Data Dive Going more granular, what kind of reach can be expected for individual lenses or lens-based brand campaigns? We’ve tracked and aggregated several examples from Snap for this week’s Data Dive. Snap’s Club Unity lens reached 14.7 Data Dive: How Scalable are AR Lenses? million+ views. million+ Snapchatters.

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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. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. Unity is the platform that makes this world a reality. More Buzz Around Unity.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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.

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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. Anything supported by the Unity XR platform should be supported by this.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. XR Study on Key Analytics.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. Unity Muse, Sentis to Tap AI-Powered Content Creation This week, two AI tools, Unity Muse and Sentis , were released to assist creatives in designing immersive worlds and XR content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Factors such as massive changeovers in the workplace, new workforce requirements, and others would require connecting people to data sources, not just “raw skill.” Currently, Unity is the most widely-used gaming engine used to create VR/AR/MR experiences for individual developers and enterprises.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Unity makes things easier for us, so whenever we use some Unity class that clearly needs a permission, Unity adds this permission automatically to the manifest. Thanks, Unity).

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. Since 2016, the company has invested in AR, VR and XR to help its customers accelerate time to insight and enhance the way SAP data is visualized and understood. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2020

Data from the suit is then transferred to a computer through a WiFi connection at a high frame rate. This means you can capture data without a computer and then upload the data later; and because it’s a wireless system, the user has total freedom to move how they want.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A new report from Super Data offers new estimates for the market size of virtual reality in 2016, suggesting 6.3 Last November, before the figure was released by Samsung, Super Data estimated the company would sell far fewer headsets in 2016. mobile gamers from July 2016, data collected from partners in the VR Data Network.”

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ARPost

JANUARY 16, 2023

Unity users can now enjoy improved OMS playback with their HoloSuite plugins. This provides them with better viewing controls for volumetric video files within Unity. The new native 4DS file support also allows users to import data directly from 4DViews. Framing the Future of Video.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. GPS can be utilized to overlay data from nearby locations. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Supported platforms : iOS, Android, and Unity.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” , a report published today by Unity Technologies where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outline how mixed reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. .

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2020

Each team member can be seen operating the body of their own unique avatars in a custom tech demo environment built on the Unity platform. The 10 headsets were then connected to a 5Ghz WiFi network for sharing the tracking data with each other,” states the company in an official release. Image Credit: Antilatency).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor. A custom tool built in Unity spawns several rooms side by side in an orthographic view, showing how a certain level in Laser Dance would look in different room layouts. Do You Need to Build Custom Tools?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

I had some wonderful ideas of Mixed Reality applications I would like to prototype, but most of them are impossible to do in this moment because of a decision that almost all VR/MR headset manufacturers have taken: preventing developers from accessing camera data. Besides, at that time, AI was already there, but not growing as fast as today.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR working group includes all the major companies in the industry, including Meta, Pico, HTC, Valve, Varjo, and Unity - but notably not Apple. XrUuid (promoted from XR_EXT_uuid), a data type to hold a universally unique identifier. The OpenXR 1.0 specification was finalized in 2019. Khronos says OpenXR 1.1 Further, OpenXR 1.1

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. We’re going to design and sell products, make compelling presentations and understand complex data.” “We want you to make all your VR and AR with Unity,” he said, promising renewed investment in the industry.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. West pressed a ‘Unity button’ to bring up a menu, which hovered above one controller. Update: Unity is aiming the VR editor to launch in December.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2023

Built on a foundation of both ARCore and 3D data from Google Maps, it’s competes with Niantic’s Lightship AR platform , and is getting integrations for both Unity and Adobe Aero. Geospatial Creator gives developers the ability to create world-anchored digital content that will appear in the same location for all users.

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