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. Improved Developer Tools. The post Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off appeared first on Road to VR.

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Cats and VR

MAY 21, 2016

Daydream is Google's new Android-powered VR platform, and Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4 support for it. Here you can see a new UE4 demo for Daydream in action. Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. launch, which is on track for release on June 1, 2016.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2016

Riding the wave of excitement over Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage today that the gaming giant has brought support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. In a collaboration with Hardsuit Labs on the plugin, Epic Games has made Unreal Engine 4 support for Daydream available now.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

Nvidia says the tech is soon to come to Unreal Engine and Unity. So far we’ve only seen SMP built into a few tech demos, but it’s soon to get a potentially huge boost thanks to integration with Unreal Engine and Unity, the two biggest game engines and the primary tools used to create VR content.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

One big part of its showcase will be a new VR tech demo from PlayStation Magic Lab, the division of the company that’s worked on the headset for the past few years. This demo will focus on “simple 3D prodcedural spatial behaviors for VR characters.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

Epic Games’ popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12 With the latest release release of Unreal Engine 4 (version 4.12) Epic have included a preview version of the VR Editor they first unveiled in February and more recently at GDC 2016. The post Unreal Engine 4.12 Elsewhere, UE4 4.12

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

XR experiences in general, have proven themselves to be an amazing tool for everything from workforce training and digital marketing to product visualization, entertainment, and immersive online education. Discover and play indie VR/AR content without having to make a single download.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

ARPost demoed Cupixel, a new app that uses AR and AI to help anyone realize their artistic potential. In this guest post, Gourav Sharma from Arka Softwares lists some popular software development tools used for AR app development. Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine.

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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 can best be described as a design and rapid prototyping tool. Developer XOCUS released a demo for its fast-paced VR racer on Quest back in August.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground bunker and shooting range to showcase hand interactivity. This little demo is an attempt to make VR development easier for them.”. SEE ALSO 'Job Simulator' and the Magic of Hand Presence.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games is using the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to give an advanced preview of the latest additions to its Unreal Engine VR Editor, which allows creatives to build worlds in a virtual reality environment using the full capabilities of the editor toolset combined with interaction models designed specifically for VR world building.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Announced during WWDC, ARKit brings AR development tools to iOS, allowing your phone’s sensors to detect things like depth, ambient light, and motion. Apple also showed off what the new development tool would look like with the popular AR game Pokemon Go. The demo is expected to be released as a game “later this year.”.

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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. we need something better. What is Inworld AI ?

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

But the news of the day is that Meta should assemble only around 1000 units and keep the glasses for internal usage and demos. The company has demoed its software, which exploits eye tracking to increase the “eye box” of VR headsets while reducing visual artifacts like distortions, pupil swim, and chromatic aberrations.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Vive Demo on Stage. To show the audience the power of the company’s new VR Ready 27-inch iMac—and a taste of what it’s like to be in VR—Apple showed a demo running on the HTC Vive that was created by Industrial Light and Magic. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME.

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

I called in for help and we made a great demo game.”. As 360-degree video continues to progress, its appeal as a game development tool will only increase; especially with the recent advancements in 3D depth-mapping technology, which allows players to physically walk around 360-degree scenes with six degrees-of-freedom.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Earlier this week Unity’s Editor VR platform evolved from a novel new way of making videogames into potentially the most forward-thinking VR development platform, and its all to do with Tools. Someone will make the tool you want to use and, when they do, it will be right there in VR. Interactivity.” ’ No.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The $750 ‘VR Ink Pilot Edition’ uses SteamVR Tracking and offers up a more natural and precise input modality for a handful of art & design focused VR tools. Instead, the stylus has custom integrations with a handful of art and design focused VR tools. The demo room was using four 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014. VR has been an increasingly popular tool among neuroscientists as well. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development? Yes, it will be compatible with both Unity and Unreal via the BrainFlow SDK.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet! These include the Hubs Demo Server (hubs.mozilla.com) and the Managed Subscription , the two services actively maintained by Mozilla that most of our users rely on.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. First introduced in 2017, ARKit is a suite of tools for building AR applications on iOS. Today during the opening keynote of WWDC in San Jose, Apple revealed ARKit 3.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2018

Mercedes: Lair Escape was created by VR Playhouse, Double A Labs, and AT&T AUDIENCE Network, and was developed with Unreal Engine and Nurulize Atom View , a tool for volumetric data processing, color management, and delivery. The title is headed to Viveport, HTC’s digital storefront for HTC Vive games, on July 22nd.

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MARCH 22, 2023

XLA announced on Tuesday that it had launched its Metasites modular 3D internet framework, with subsequent demos taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023. The latter tool provides intelligent interactions with non-playable characters while joining spaces, virtual assistants, and others.

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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. will allow developers using Niantic tools to also use outside AR asset libraries. Gathering Around the Campfire I opened by saying that demos can’t be done remotely.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. A decade on and there is a new kid on the block from Epic/Unreal called Metahuman. However there was a bit of a leaning curve.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as a player moves around a virtual room. Add furniture to a room, or change a wall from brick to drywall, and you can hear the difference.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. Shoutout to @ArcturusXR and @dlxrofficial for helping to make this demo happen. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

OK, I will be able give a more definite verdict after I actually get a hands-on demo first thing tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are our first impressions from having seen the live demos on the stage here at MWC Barcelona. Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. More immersive.

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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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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion. Ben Lang of Road to VR got a hands-on demo with the new headset, which is based on the Qualcomm XR2 platform which powers Digilens’ proprietary Waveguide lenses. We were not confused.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

It’s a new Snapdragon Spaces tool called “ Dual Render Fusion.” “We The tool allows an experience to use a mobile phone camera and a headworn device’s camera simultaneously. Existing app development tools hadn’t allowed this because (until now) it didn’t make sense. XREAL In case you blinked and missed it, Nreal is now XREAL.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. We have early internal units and demos at different iterations. It is very positive… usually, after our demos, people want to buy the devices! All APIs have a plain C version.

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