XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The most recent addition to the Pro Collection is the HTC VIVE Pro 2, which includes precision room-scale tracking, 5K visual fidelity, and a 120-degree field of view. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Major immersive firms like Meta and HTC provide unique funding opportunities for various use cases. The internationally available programmes help scale XR solutions for arts & entertainment, industry, tourism, retail, and more. Major immersive firms support areas like Metaverse , training, and education content creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. The news comes as XR gaming company holoride debuted a solution for immersive entertainment with rival German auto firm Audi of the Volkswagen Group last week. With Epic, we have found the best possible partner.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. John Lewis is an Environmental Artist for Obsidian Entertainment , developers behind games such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the world reeling from COVID-19, changes to consumer experience across numerous industries, from live sports and entertainment to education, are inevitable. Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. VR has gone through a rapid transition from a primarily consumer-focused, tethered device for gaming and entertainment, to standalone headsets in similar verticals. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I haven’t seen my hometown in almost a year but even the pull of nostalgia isn’t enough to keep me entertained forever. The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

“The Rift had just come out and there was also this craze with IRLShooter’s Patient Zero, which combined laser tag with real actors and a zombie storyline, and the idea was to put these two things together and create a new form of entertainment from scratch,” Ruse explained. Hands-on With Zero Latency.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Portal Stories: VR is a free Portal 2 (2011) “mini story” recently released for the HTC Vive. It was developed by an independent group ( Prism Studios ) and brings with it 10 brand new puzzles, specifically designed for room scale VR. See Also: Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

He’s someone who has worked on games early in his career at Lucas Arts and has always been tied to the entertainment industry. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

There was a demonstration of how you could use the headset to help you work and communicate with others, but there could have been more focus on this, instead of on the entertainment functions. Apple also presented the Vision Pro as a productivity tool, rather than simply entertainment hardware.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

It’s been said it only takes one visionary to champion VR within an organization; that one passionate (and sometimes crazy) person who “gets it” early and then slowly but surely gets others in the group on board. Read on for the full interview. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? .

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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. Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. A new, strategic partnership between Warner Bros.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Jena, Germany-based firm has also collaborated with the Khronos Group and Metaverse Standards Forum along with some of the world’s top tech firms. It develops immersive experiences based on knowledge across verticals such as entertainment, tourism, culture, sports, and others.

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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. But then you look at Unreal. Alex: RIP, LBE. 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. But then you look at Unreal. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alex: Mm-hm.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. Players control Marcus Holloway, a hacker who works with the hacking group DedSec to take down the city's advanced surveillance system known as ctOS.

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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. But then you look at Unreal. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alex: Mm-hm.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

Lots of new stuff released for HTC Vive on Steam this week, but not all of it is particularly noteworthy or earth-shattering. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group , complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. What’s that?

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

XR Awards Winners Announced The XR Awards 2023, alongside an esteemed group of industry expert judges, revealed this year’s winners across 16 categories that showcase the best and brightest the space has to offer. But XR Today is ahead of the coming wave of interest, forthcoming with Apple’s upcoming announcement.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (e3 2017) will officially begin on Tuesday, June 13th, and run until Thursday, June 15th, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Vive (HTC). The HTC subsidiary is still finalizing its show plan and has told us it will update us with final details soon. Twisted Pixel.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you’re trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR — especially if you’re co-located with each other in the same room — so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you're trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR -- especially if you're co-located with each other in the same room -- so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have. Alan: Yeah, it falls apart.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you’re trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR — especially if you’re co-located with each other in the same room — so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Why not wireless? Why hasn’t Oculus gone for the jackpot releasing a fully wireless streaming solution? Medal of honor: Above and Beyond.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Co-founder & CEO of #VeeR, A leading VR entertainment company with the mission of bringing cinematic VR content to the mass audience. Founded in 2016, VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headsets? However, in June 2020, a U.S. 3- Ayden Ye. web, and mobile. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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