XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space. Users can also add functionality to their hardware with wireless adapters and tracking components.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

Focusing on three verticals, ARC firstly will use its facilities to incubate an ecosystem of hardware and product demonstrations. Chase Holton, Assistant Professor of Entertainment Arts, CCS , said the partnership was a “collaboration between education and industry.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

AR software development kit (SDK) providers like Apple, Xreal, Niantic, 8 th Wall, Unreal, and Unity give developers the tools to make and distribute custom AR content that naturally drives retention and engagement with new interactive experiences to “wow” potential buyers. Although, this is quickly changing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Also, Mobile Phone manufacturers like Vivo and OPPO have rumored plans to release VR hardware in the future. Why and how has it started?

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

The Void was to be an entertainment destination that promised custom built sets designed to match virtual worlds players experienced through VR headsets – a full body, wireless simulation of a virtual world. The experience is apparently around 15 minutes long, with groups of three players taking part at any one time.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

We chose to host AWE Asia 2023 in Singapore not only because of its convenience for our diverse group of participants who join us from across the globe, but also in recognition of the growth of the extended reality industry in Singapore and across Asia. link] "Innovation in XR requires cross-border collaboration.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“So one of the questions you might ask us is ‘Why in the world are we making hardware?’ And what we can do now is to be designing hardware at the same time that we’re designing software. Our sense is that that’s going to allow us to actually build much better entertainment experiences for people.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. This product was designed in cooperation with an international group of air force experts. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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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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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. Exozet – a company providing remote VR training for groups like Siemens. Bublar Group – makers of a tool, VR Fire Trainer, that uses VR to safely and effectively train firefighters. We’ll Keep You Posted.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement. The updated ceremony is planned to be a showcase looking at both virtual and augmented reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

Moreover, according to the Levan Center of Innovation, the studio can improve a range of enterprise use cases, explainng how marketing groups can create immersive customer experiences for higher sales outcomes and better training, leveraging digital twins of real-world equipment or training items.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Student groups at top-tier schools like Harvard’s VR/AR Club, Stanford’s Rabbit Hole VR, and VR@MIT are officially participating in the hackathon alongside graduate teams at applied research programs like the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Virtuleap has its faith in the power of graduate and indie teams.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

Education, entertainment, gaming, and training sectors have seen unprecedented growth in XR adoption. Finally, XR headsets have benefitted from innovations in gaming hardware, micro-OLED displays, haptic feedback controllers, and full-colour passthrough cameras. North America would also lead global markets for the same period.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Speaking on the emerging trends for 2023, Peck explained that sectors in social media, fashion, entertainment, and games would intersect with a “multimedia approach” to engage consumers. Digital twin technologies were rising as emerging trends, namely from major tech firms such as NVIDIA, Unity Technologies , and others.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

Modding is the act of modifying hardware, software, or virtually anything else to perform a function not originally conceived or intended by the designer. Though the immersive entertainment industry is still relatively new, mods have already become a huge part of VR gaming. Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ).

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EON Reality

AUGUST 2, 2019

Since then, LEGO has pushed innovation in VR for wearable game hardware in their entertainment centers across the world, such as the LEGO VR Race experience in Manchester, UK. Their first experiments in world-building, education and VR began with a game created for Android and Daydream called “LEGO Brickheadz”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. Bu t the outcome for these headsets is a bit different than expected. Let me tell you why.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). One is Adventure Lab, which lets a group of people have fun in VR (and non) from home, living a funny adventure together. Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week. Some XR fun.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The jam saw 11 teams compete for prizes by utilising the latest virtual reality (VR) hardware, coming up with fun, innovative solutions over an intense weekend. . Rather than simply making any old VR videogame or app, participants had a little more structure thanks to the hardware on offer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In its initial Vision Pro showcase, Apple highlighted how headset operators can leverage the Vision Pro spatial computing framework alongside other first-party products and services – from workplace applications to hardware such as the Apple TV.

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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. This ranged from user interfaces (UIs), filming, controls, and hardware optimisation. In a recent Big News episode, five professionals from the XR industry shared their insights on the implications of such content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although its well-known applications lie in gaming and entertainment , its potential isn’t limited to these industries. They met through entrepreneurship programs at Goodman Group Venture Development. For example, they made an immersive environment in Unity to test custom furniture models. Drew MacNeil, co-founder of XpertVR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

All sort of innovations were happening in that studio, so my group of friends pulled me there and I got a job in the camera department. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta. Within a year, I was already shooting scenes with a running camera. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Delta Reality was also nominated in the same category for The Metaverse Park and was up for Best Enterprise Solution and Best in Location-Based Entertainment. The group won over Mutienliao , Oregon Shakespeare Festival , and Ferryman Collective. Unfortunately, no one from Delta Reality was present to accept the award.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Osterhaut Design Group sells their R-7 glasses for $2799.99. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. Unlike the VR, where you can purchase an Open Source VR Hacker 1.4

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). Will it be this year?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. There was a lot of hardware work. I learned how to do the coding.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Tyler of VNN has decompiled the Unity code of The Lab (something that is pretty easy to do) and in the DLLs has found all the code of a shooter game that features various characters from Half Life. Other relevant news.

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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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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 Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Meta Platforms is named so because it was one of the first big tech firms to market itself as a builder of tools, hardware, software developer kits (SDKs), and infrastructure for the Metaverse. Hardware manufacturers must facilitate device interoperability to cross-communicate, interact, and port creative content.

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