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. The Challenges of Implementing XR Solutions, Software, and Hardware While the prospect or XR is exciting, implementation is a common query from end-users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Essentially, the engine is a software package built for simulating interactive or passive RT3D experiences. To get the most out of RT3D engines, companies must ensure the software can leverage and optimize available content. These solutions work by integrating various types of existing content in the form of metadata and 3D geometry.

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ARVR

JULY 22, 2020

Developers build everything in Unity or Unreal, including all training modules. The only path would be for you to become a Unity or Unreal developer. Here’s how the process works: Trainers create a series of documents, spreadsheets, videos, emails, meeting notes, etc… to describe the training procedure or any updates to the procedure.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. They will get access to documentation, sample code, tutorial and additional tooling to quickly build basic AR applications.

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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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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The research led to the PeopleLens device, which used Xreal Light hardware and Microsoft software to scan and identify individuals around a blind and say that person’s name aloud. Additionally, Epic argued that both companies worked with the same technology partners, which could further increase the likelihood of confusion.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Defining Google ARCore Google ARCore is a software development kit (SDK) for Android’s operating system (OS). The ARCore SDK is currently available for Android, Android NDK, Unity for Android, iOS, and Unity for iOS, Unreal, and iOS. Many courses and documentation options are available to help educate you on the solution too!

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers.

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VRGuy

JANUARY 25, 2016

How do you get software support for it? Get low-latency rendering for your HMD; correct distortion in one of several possible ways; support for many game engines; debug and demonstration software. You can find it here and it is part of the official OSVR developer documentation repository.

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Building the Metaverse

JUNE 14, 2023

Semantic Programming and Software 2.0 We took a look at her product and the supporting technologies like Sloyd, Polyhive and Unreal Engine 5. He’s created — and documented — a workflow involving tools that take art from Midjourney, creates projection maps, sets them up in Blender and then into Unity.

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ARVR

APRIL 9, 2021

If you have such an idea, you need to know about augmented reality software. In this article, we will talk about ARKit, ARCore, Vuforia, and AR Foundation with comparisons and elaboration on each of the software. Now let’s have a look at Augmented Reality software. What is AR? What is ARKit? ARKit is Apple’s AR platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This is great news for the customers of the Quest 2, but it poses some doubts about the retro compatibility of the Quest ecosystem that Zuck promised at OC6: if the Quest 2 is much more powerful than the Quest 1 and the Quest 1 is discontinued, has sense for developers to keep producing software that is compatible with Quest 1? Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

In case you use Unreal Engine, there are similar possibilities : here you can find an official blog post by Epic Games on how to shoot a 360 degrees trailer of your game inside the engine. So have a look at the documentation of the application you want to shoot the media elements in and see if there is a way to shoot 360 content.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

This is not a device that lends itself to sharing with others, although there is a Guest Mode which allows you to give the AVP to somebody else to give them a brief taste of what it’s all about (somebody has even written up a document called How to Give an Insanely Great Apple Pro Demo ).

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. In this section, we’ll cover our community’s three most popular environments for deskop and VR/AR: Unity, Unreal, and JavaScript. Get started with Unreal.

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Here why: OSVR includes two independent parts: an open-source HMD (the "Hacker Development Kit") and the OSVR framework, a free and open-source software platform that provides an easy and standard way to discover, configure and operate a wide range of virtual reality and augmented peripherals. Absolutely!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Then for the next 6 months I built the platform and documented everything to be replicated by the community both in the user experience and pure excitement as AR brings your surface to life. . This is the official documented guide for building a Triton headset. developers compared to the amount of Unity/Unreal devs is far less.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we’ve been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we’ve been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

One of the leading platforms for software development added improved support for Google’s upcoming Daydream VR platform. The company has updated its VR development site as well, where developers can read all the documentation for the new VR platform, and see sample applications and tutorials. The new Google VR SDK 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. This is a very interesting software kit that should make sure that the fingers of your virtual hands adapt automatically to the shape of the object you are holding , for more believable XR interactions. Other relevant news. Image leaked from Meta firmware).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We're speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we've been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

“This survey only further exemplifies that the current state of VR is very business-focused,” said Rolf Illenberger, managing director of VRdirect , a company that provides enterprise software solutions for the metaverse and virtual reality. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Google today released a new spatial audio software development kit called ‘Resonance Audio’, a cross-platform tool based on technology from their existing VR Audio SDK. Google’s existing VR SDK audio engine already supported multiple platforms, but with platform-specific documentation on how to implement the features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

By using AR-enabled smart glasses or mobile devices, technicians can share their live view, receive guidance, and access documentation hands-free. Augmented reality can streamline documentation processes by automatically capturing data, annotations, and images during field service activities. Where do you expect them to lead?

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our plugins and resources for Unity, Unreal, and WebVR include fully interactive virtual hands that can interact with objects in 3D scenes. The Leap Motion software also includes support for modern browsers through a WebSocket connection. To get started, download the Core Assets package and dig into the included demo scenes.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

I chose the specialization in multimedia and software applications. After having learned the basics of Unity, I imported the Oculus plugin inside the game engine and using the related documentation, I started playing around with it. My suggestion to them is to start first of all to learn Unity and C#, or Unreal and C++.

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ARVR

AUGUST 16, 2021

Game Type and Complexity Before any development work can begin, the development company will study all of the aspects and requirements of the game, which will usually be in the form of a GDD document. They will also go over any technical documentation and assets. We mentioned the requirement gathering and creating the GDD document.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?). Creating a different set of hands for every software we developed would have been a very time-consuming task. The visual side is also often driven by the client requirements or a videogame design document. The result is UltimateXR for Unity. Customizable Hands.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. And really, there's been a lot of documentation around the bias that is created when you have face to face meetings, when you're actually looking at the person, it can create a bias that -- right or wrong -- it just is a bias.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. And really, there's been a lot of documentation around the bias that is created when you have face to face meetings, when you're actually looking at the person, it can create a bias that -- right or wrong -- it just is a bias.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

A report from the Wall Street Journal, which claims to have had access to an internal document from Meta, states that the device has actually sold quite ok, having reached 300,000 shipped units , which is not bad for a new niche product. For this reason, I always assumed that they had been a successful device on its niche.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has finally produced its final document in the dispute between Apple and Epic, and her decision is both a win and a loss for both companies. Epic had a little win in the lawsuit with Apple, and this may have consequences for VR, too.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. And really, there's been a lot of documentation around the bias that is created when you have face to face meetings, when you're actually looking at the person, it can create a bias that -- right or wrong -- it just is a bias.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Its documentation consists of just a few pages as part of the Github project Wiki, which describe most of the operations provided by the API.

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NVidia VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

These very large datasets were then optimized for real-time rendered in Unreal Engine at a stable 90 frames per second, retaining all 24Bn points of detail utilizing texture streaming from Granite. NVIDIA’s new architecture combined with Unreal Engine adds a level of speed and power that’s unbeatable with this enormous amount of data.”.

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