XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. The hand and eye-tracking expert explained that the Vision Pro could serve as a “spatial computing platform that we can build on,” but was not yet social. I think it’s a smart move.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. This means that foveated rendering for VR applications will be possible using eye-tracking devices embedded into the headset. NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise edition has been announced.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Apple also presented the Vision Pro as a productivity tool, rather than simply entertainment hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

These take full advantage of the device’s unique capabilities, leveraging features like spatial tracking and hand/eye tracking. Here, I’ll cover some of my favorite Apple Vision Pro apps so far for everything from business productivity to collaboration and entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Using their forward-facing cameras, hand and eye tracking, and 3-6 degrees of flight (DoF), the world’s most popular headsets have employed motion-capturing tools to boost user immersion. We have two kits developed on the Unity gaming engine and feature motion tracking via a single RGB camera.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). Will it be this year? Will it be next year? But will it come at some stage?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. chuckles] Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Certain things are really helping; Unity's assets store is getting filled with really amazing content that you can buy for less.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Certain things are really helping; Unity's assets store is getting filled with really amazing content that you can buy for less.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). News worth a mention.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Certain things are really helping; Unity's assets store is getting filled with really amazing content that you can buy for less.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Certain things are really helping; Unity's assets store is getting filled with really amazing content that you can buy for less.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

What is worrisome the most is that it is unclear what will happen to all the other amazing XR projects that Mozilla was managing like the WebXR framework A-frame or the WebXR exporter for Unity. With this new method, the tracking of the facial expressions is less accurate, but it works well the same. Watch Microsoft Office in XR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right. It’s amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kent: It reminds me of-- I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that's a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft. It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right. It’s amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

From a VR headset for gaming is now an MR headset for entertainment and productivity. Bytedance can’t compete out off the bat with Facebook, but it has deep pockets too and also may have the support (and the money) of the Chinese government, so it is a company to keep an eye on. Eye tracking. It is easy to be used.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. The same is also true for input and output peripherals such as eye trackers and haptic devices. We see entertainment, therapy, home improvement, tourism, meditation, design and many other applications. Others did this work themselves.

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