Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself. The post Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off appeared first on Road to VR. Updated Tracking. Better hand pose stability and reliability.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Virtualware will also serve as the exclusive sponsor of the event to unite “Unity instructors and workforce development professionals,” according to a press release. Those attending can network with executives from global firms, showcasing the capabilities of Unity’s RT3D technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2023

The machine to offer it is of course quite big, so it is not meant as domestic hardware, but for installations for enterprise use (e.g. I answered that it didn’t matter… trying an old hardware would have made me feel a bit younger than I was. The demo I tried was the game one. It was a very basic demo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 11, 2017

The road to photorealistic VR is long, but OTOY is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity. You could import a simple item from the Unity asset store, apply the renderer, and have it look strikingly realistic. ” Tagged with: cloud , development , Octane , orbx , otoy , unity.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

So we reached out to Lynx to ask for a demo and they invited us to come over. One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. I tried an AR color passthrough demo that showed off the hand tracking. In this article, I’ll share a summary of my impressions.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

“AR Everywhere” With Niantic While enterprise companies and hardware manufacturers are still struggling with adoption to since degree, few companies have done as much for AR consumer adoption as Niantic. A new maps SDK compatible with Unity is also coming to 8th Wall. It’s community-driven.” And they’ve done it.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Pearlman will have a separate but related talk later that day. Panel Discussions.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

From top XR trends and must-have skills for an AR/VR career, to XR hardware reviews, to the potential of the metaverse in various industries, to discussing why we’re not all wearing AR/VR headsets, these are the 22 stories ARPost readers clicked on the most this year. KKCOBVR Quest 2 Strap and Battery Pack: Hands-On Hardware Review.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

XR hardware is on the move. So, more and more XR providers are providing cloud services in addition to their hardware and platform offerings. For Varjo clients, a lot of the management and IT solutions that make up cloud services for other developers are handled through software subscriptions bundled with almost all Varjo hardware.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

Curated by the analyst, writer, and venture capitalist Mathew Ball and partners, the index includes companies like Cloudflare, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Unity. The main indicator that Bentovim has been watching has been investment in hardware companies, including through options like the Metaverse ETF. Hardware, Software, and Adoption. “In

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Curiously enough, he let us also the journalist Janko Roettgers try Cambria for a very short demo. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Soon a demo of it for Quest 2 will be released on App Lab, but this demo is meant to shine with Project Cambria Zuckerberg is still committed to the Metaverse.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

Tell them I sent you and they will give you a demo :) [link] Elm Park : AR solutions for enterprise. New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. Varjo : super quality, all features.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Couch , offers a straightforward and pain-free method for watching YouTube videos on Quest; no additional hardware required. ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine. The Z-Race demo is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2022

After a long time with my lovely Unity 2019.4 LTS, I have decided it was time to switch to something new, not to miss the new features that Unity has implemented these years. I have so started using Unity 2021.3 Let’s see how to build a Unity 2021 application with OpenXR. It is a Unity 2019.4 LTS (2021.3.5

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Both Apple and Google already have very popular stores , they have full suits of tools (think about the Google Docs suite) and entertainment channels (think about Apple TV), and they have enormous expertise in building hardware and operating systems. On Quest, there are some nice demos and games with MR features, but nothing more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years. Countless companies have built powerful games and training environments within Unity, specifically designed to work within the extended reality landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

The platform will be targeting 100 million devices by the end of preview access however, coming from various hardware manufacturers and potentially making ARCore the defacto largest AR platform when it launches on other devices later this year. Built with Unity and ARCore. This is a simple demo that lets you draw lines in 3d space.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2022

(Ok, before we go, actually, it’s fair if I make a disclaimer: Raghu is a donor on my Patreon page, so in this review, I will just say that his product is amaz… ok, I was kidding… no matter the fact he’s a donor, I will express my objective opinion about his hardware, don’t worry!). Conquest VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You can then use the HoloPlay Studio software to easily drag and drop new holograms onto the device, develop applications using plugins for programs like Unity and Unreal Engine, and more. Looking Glass Portrait comes with a generous selection of demo holograms you can try right out of the box.

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

While that funding campaign still has a ways to go and we’re an estimated month away from a functioning XR headset demo, Walker Industries founder, Herman Remy, reached out to ARPost to talk about his company and his passion. Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. Meet Herman Remy.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

After that, I was required to try the VR demo, in which I could wear a Vive Focus 3 , always with some special network accessory attached, and enter into a sort of physical square ring and see around me a very complex virtual panorama, with some plants growing if I went around waving my hands. I’ve found it to be a cool solution.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity, Qualcomm, and the XR Association (XRA) followed Inbar’s welcome address with keynotes of their own. Unity Keynote. Unity Technologies CEO and Chairman John Riccitiello did not preserve Inbar’s record in his keynote “Getting Beyond Fiction and Seeing the Reality in the Metaverse.” Opening Day Keynotes. Paul Brady.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

I hoped that the setup of SenseGlove gloves could have been a bit easier , but being a development kit of experimental hardware, it is not strange that it requires some time. As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play. What puzzled me is that there is no software setup. Both sensations are very cool when they work.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Arguably, Teams has been a principal exception to this and the platform serves as a logical bridge between Microsoft’s social experiences and their mixed reality hardware. However, Kipman’s keynote said that the experience would, like Teams, be essentially hardware-agnostic allowing users to “connect from any device on any platform.”.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Though well loved, Apple’s computer lineup got somewhat left in the dust at the launch of the Rift and Vive, both of which had hardware requirements that exceeded what Apple had on offer. Vive Demo on Stage. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. To that end, the company largely steered clear of talking about VR publicly.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Upload VR journalists asked Bytedance about Pico’s future and got back answers like “PICO will continue to operate normally and provide its users with top-notch services ” and “ PICO will continue to invest in hardware , core technologies, and enhance the user experience of current and new consumers”.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This follows investments in mobile hardware capability, interest in immersive virtual experiences with the metaverse, and rising industry competition. It utilizes one of the most powerful hardware features for AR on a mobile device, the LiDAR scanner on the iPad Pro and Phone 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max and 14 Pro smartphones.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Federighi says that ARKit provides fast and stable motion-tracking, plane estimation with basic boundaries, ambient lighting estimation, scale estimation, support for Unity, Unreal, SceneKit and Xcode app templates—all available on “hundred of millions of iPhones and iPads […] making overnight ARKit the largest AR platform in the world.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 19, 2017

I am standing in a virtual living room rendered via Unity. My experience in that Unity-based living room and other demos, using what Varjo is calling the “20/20” prototype, shows that they are working in the right direction. Except I am seeing things I never have before in VR. It’s a glimpse of VR’s future.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 31, 2017

HTC Releases Full Body Tracking Code for Use with Vive and Trackers HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub, which includes a reference source code and Unity demo.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Arguably, Teams has been a principal exception to this and the platform serves as a logical bridge between Microsoft’s social experiences and their mixed reality hardware. However, Kipman’s keynote said that the experience would, like Teams, be essentially hardware-agnostic allowing users to “connect from any device on any platform.”.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

AWE has brought with it XR demos and news. Probably the biggest of them has been Qualcomm announcing the public release of Snapdragon Spaces SDK and its related hardware DK. More info (Leaks on upcoming Project Cambria) More info (Rumors on Zuckerberg pushing for Cambria’s release). This has been the week of AWE in Santa Clara (USA).

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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. VIVE hand tracking has a number of features, though which features a developer uses depends on their target platform and hardware. According to Laverde, this began in 2015.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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