VRScout

JUNE 26, 2023

To help encourage development using visionOS, Apple will be opening developer labs in London, Munich, Tokyo, Singapore, and Cupertino next month where they will provide developers with the opportunity to test their apps on the new Apple Vision Pro hardware. Credit: Apple “Apple Vision Pro redefines what’s possible on a computing platform.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Qualcomm isn’t leading the push with its own hardware though. It’s tapped smartphone and AR hardware OEMs including Lenovo, Motorola, OPPO, and Xiaomi as early partners to support what it calls a “cross-device horizontal platform and ecosystem.” Image courtesy Qualcomm Technologies.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced today on the company’s site , developers can now explore Magic Leap’s software development kit and dive into the Creator Portal to find documentation, tutorials, and more. This allows you to test apps with emulated hardware. One developer we spoke with has been eagerly exploring the SDK to see what’s possible.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Learn the ins-and-outs of Unity development and have your project reviewed by Oculus experts. From the initial prototyping stages to testing and final submissions, students will be guided through every stage of VR development for Oculus Rift/Rift S and Oculus Quest headsets on the Unity platform. Image Credit: Oculus, Unity.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

The company is currently launching new hardware and a new product package, so we spoke with CEO and co-founder Jay Wright for a software demo and an explanation of the new release. A Cross-Platform Solution The complete Campfire ecosystem consists of hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? The first step is to educate yourself. You can find it here: [link].

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Documentation What is WebXR? ? SteamVR is the ultimate tool for experiencing VR content on the hardware of your choice like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality headset, or any other supported VR headset and controllers. ? Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ??

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Magic Leap has quickly emerged as one of the major market leaders in the Augmented Reality hardware environment. Speaking of the Metaverse and the rise of new digital experiences for ecommerce companies, retail brands, and their clients, Unity is another market leader worth looking into in this evolving space. Magic Leap.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

At the 2020 World Conference in Nanchang, a partnership between UK startup PhotonLens and Shanghai AR hardware company Shadow Creator was announced. We have an SDK for developers adapting content from unity, and we’re putting the finishing touches on some of the documentation at the moment,” said Liu. Meet PhotonLens.

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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2023

The company says that starting next month developers who've been building 3D apps with Unity can port their work to the headset. Apple has even released Reality Composer Pro, essentially its own engine editor.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

More importantly though, Valve is putting the onus on hardware manufacturers to add support for the Skeletal Input system to their new controllers, and not the individual app developer. Documentation is now available on the OpenVR GitHub Wiki.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 14, 2023

All three features are available as part of the v60 SDK for Unity and native code. 0:00 / 0:19 1× Together, inside-out upper body tracking and Generative Legs enable plausible full bodies in VR, called Full Body Synthesis, with no external hardware. You can find the documentation for Unity here and for Unreal here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Googles solutions allow developers to quickly optimize their augmented reality experiences for android devices, with a convenient Software Development Kit (SDK). Unity Software company, Unity, provides developers and innovators in the creative world with tools capable of building a wide variety of different ads and marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The only supported hardware for the platform is currently Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 smart glasses (paired with a Motorola phone), but it will expand to include hardware from Oppo and Xiaomi in the first half of 2022. Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile U.S. Image Credits: Qualcomm.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What on Earth is a social networking company doing buying a VR hardware startup, and for that much money? The email was acquired by author Blake Harris who gained access to it and thousands of other documents through research for his upcoming book The History of the Future , which explores the formative years of the modern VR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding. They are not many, but they are.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One of the major market leaders in the XR accessories environment, Rebuff Reality focuses on developing enhanced solutions for existing VR hardware and tools. The VIVE SDK is hardware-independent and user-friendly, although there are specialist sound experiences available for those building solutions for VIVE headsets. Rebuff Reality.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. You can pledge for a unit starting at $500. I loved seeing this.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

XR Today documents the rapid adoption of use cases and solutions from companies such as Lenovo, Moth+Flame, ENGAGE XR, Altoura, GigXR, and CGS. Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. billion USD by 2030.

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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. As a developer, I gave a look to their Unity SDK, that you can find on GitHub here. Applications.

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2020

Even though I don’t have the hardware (i.e Overview & Resources Android Developers are at an advantage over here because developing Vuzix Blade Apps seems very similar to Android Development according to their official documentation. Perhaps they will update the documentation later on.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. This will also lead to companies using fewer resources for travel, documentation, repairing, and event planning. The Industrial Metaverse. Jobs for Metaverse Work.

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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. What is this thing, what does that do?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

Today, there are countless solutions out there, from software development platforms, from hardware ecosystems built for flexibility, ideal for game creators. The Valve Index kit is one of the most powerful tools for gaming developers interested in leveraging both the hardware and software aspects of extended reality. The Sandbox.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Whether an end-user is operating from an industrial, manufacturing or office workspace, XR hardware and software could present opportunities to enhance a worker’s experience. Moreover, users can collaborate using VR/MR hardware using immersive environments and avatars, like Meta’s Horizon Workrooms platform.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2019

It also supports a multitude of other devices … and there is also an (enterprise) demo on the Looking Glass hardware! In the application, you can choose among a wide set of cartoon avatars, but you can also import yours , provided that you rig it in the right way following the documentation. Are you developing it all alone ?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Step 2: Explore your Vendor Options (Hardware and Software). It’s important to think about your options from both a hardware and software perspective. Some hardware options allow you to avoid storing data within the local device to avoid risks associated with theft. Step 3: Discuss Security Options with Your Vendor.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors. While the hardware is universal, there will ultimately be a need for content in Spanish or Portuguese and some content will need to eventually have cultural fluency.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking and inverse kinematics to pose a virtual model that closely matches the human player.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Platforms already exist that provide the immersion Apple offers but without the need to have a bulky — and very expensive — piece of hardware strapped to your face.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

A final notice goes to the fact that this headset wins the price for the weirdest things I have found while reviewing a piece of hardware. This means that if you have developed your application using Unity XR and Unity XR Interaction Toolkit, you can port your application that already runs on Quest to Pico Neo in just a few hours.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. The news of course has attracted a lot of funny comments, like “these dogs have better hardware than me”, or the invention of new terms like “Dogmented Reality”, or “AR Doggles”. I love the internet. This is so cool!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

It is the same hardware as the Pico Neo 3 Pro, but with a different consumer-oriented runtime, which is being sold in limited quantities in selected European countries. I’m in a quite weird situation because hardware-wise, Pico Neo 3 Link is the same as Pico Neo 3 Pro , which I have already reviewed in detail in another article.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Just a quick rewind for everyone: ARCore is Google’s answer to Apple ARKit, a framework that lets people enjoy augmented reality from their smart p hones without using external hardware or markers. format and respect various rules that are enumerated in the documentation. 3D Model format.

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VRGuy

JANUARY 25, 2016

You've done all the hardware work - figured out the optics and display setup, created driver boards, integrated a motion tracker and perhaps an eye tracker, worked out the ergonomics issues. You can find it here and it is part of the official OSVR developer documentation repository. How do you get software support for it?

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