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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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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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. AWE is a lot more fun in-person but, practically speaking, the demos are the only component that can’t really happen remotely. It’s community-driven.” And they’ve done it.

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VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

Wingnut presented a glimpse of their work at Apple’s WWDC keynote last month, but this week BBC posted footage giving us our first look at one of the studio’s first demos, and the results are nothing short of spectacular. On stage demo at Apple’s WWDC.

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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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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

HP appears to be the latest hardware manufacturer to be making a strong push into the VR space, after announcing a range of developments including the pending release of a professional version of its mixed reality headset. The post HP muscles into VR hardware space appeared first on VR World. An HP Z4 Workstation.

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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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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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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Qualcomm’s latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces ‘Positional Timewarp’, reveals new Oculus Go details, and Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing demo. Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing live demo.

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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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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. One of those developers is Master of Shapes , who unveiled their first Tracker demo at CES with HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. RP1 also is working on a demo with 100,000 people which should be ready by the end of 2022. An internal 1,020mAh battery. Plus, RP1 used ONLY ONE SERVER. It is impressive.

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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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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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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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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 12, 2020

The game studio behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine has already done plenty of work with the UK-based startup, creating a number of tech demos over the past several years that have centered on translating an actor’s facial movements to a digital character in real-time. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

There is an online demo for this system, and you can try it out either with preset or custom images. 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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. Right now, it’s a specialized version of Unreal because we’ve just put the demo together, but these are features that are going to be available in regular Unreal.

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2017

” In the experience I demoed, my job was to navigate around the laser security system in a daunting dungeon challenge. 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.

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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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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Your demo can even detect when an Oculus Rift is active and the demo is fullscreen, which triggers VR mode. GET THE PLUGIN.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. SteamVR Tracking Hardware. Interestingly, this is a talk more aimed at hardware developers than software creators, though both are welcome. 11:15 am, 12th October. 1:30 pm, 12th October.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

0:00 / 0:07 1× It's an ideal app to come to Vision Pro, and the company partnered with Alfa Romeo to create a demo 'Jig' showing a C43 Formula 1 car at true scale and visualizing the airflow over it. But existing hardware platforms in the space would be unwise to underestimate the competition Apple could soon bring.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

On Sunday 2/26, members of the press (UploadVR included) will attend a full-day long set of demos of all the latest upcoming games, but we can’t talk about them until Tuesday 2/28. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. But beyond that, what about the news? What about the announcements? What to Expect from Valve.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic’s Robo Recall is not only the company’s first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game and engine design since the beginning. A Brief History of Epic's VR Tech Demos (click to expand).

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. I’ve also worked on all the VR demos that Epic has done to date. Read on for the full interview.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Steam VR stats have been pretty negative in September The Steam hardware survey for September 2023 was very negative for VR. The company is also going to increase the price of Unreal Engine , but this doesn’t apply to people creating games, but only to developers developing other types of content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

I was shown a handful of demos that showcase its features and can definitely see the potential for a dedicated high-resolution device like this. The first demo I tried was a basic game-like demo powered by Unreal. The more impressive demos were the 360-videos and other 360 scenes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

When the UK-based VR studio, Rewind, asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. Project Falcon , as this new demo is called, is an on-rails first-person shooter that uses eye-tracking as an aiming system for noisy machine guns and explosive rockets.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

I got a hands-on demo of the VR Ink Pilot Edition and came away suitably impressed with what Logitech has put together, both in performance and functionality. This demo app (above) was designed for drawing and not handwriting, but with some software tweaks the VR Ink stylus seems like it really could be up to the task.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The XR space has a lot to offer, and as more firms enter the industry as software or hardware solution providers, the use cases for XR will expand. XR Cloud Streaming to Break Down Enterprise Barriers Daniel Seidl, the CEO and Founder of Innovative, participated in an exclusive interview with XR Today at NVIDIA GTC’s XR Demo floor.

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