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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.23): Facebook works on its OS, Oculus Link official cable released, Huawei VR glasses available, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. A report on Next Reality highlights how AR mobile apps account for over half of the top 10 most downloaded apps for 2019.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). And the genius is that t hey have created 3D printed guns that you can use at home to have an experience as close as possible to the one of the arcade: you download the 3D model of the gun, you print it, you play.

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15 things to keep in mind if you have to showcase your VR game in China

The Ghost Howls

If you don’t have Wechat, please download it and create an account. I don’t think that people at Microsoft are crying because of this. The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This new way of distributing your apps that have not been approved for the Official Quest Store should work through unlisted store pages : if your game has not been approved on the store, you can still create an unlisted page on the Oculus Store for it, and send the link to the people you want to download and play your experience.

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Project North Star is Now Open Source

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. You can download the package from our website or dig into the project on GitHub , where it’s been published under an Apache license. As a result, we used our next-generation ultra-wide tracking module.