Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. ” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Vive Demo on Stage.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Although Meta is pushing multiplayer-ready immersive worlds for gaming and the future of work, firms like Pico, Decentraland, Engage, and HTC VIVE are all debuting Metaverse services to provide different use cases. Finally, the Horizon hub includes Venues, a metaverse solution for enjoying live events with immersive visuals.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encourage content creation.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whether you’re attending the show or just scoping out the news and events from home, we’ve got you covered. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from Oculus.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Space Junkies , the upcoming Unreal Tournament -style VR shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, is headed to all major VR platforms starting March 26th. If that tickles your latent Unreal itch, check out a full match in closed beta to see just what’s in store.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. and USB Type-C connectivity 2 hours of “active use” battery life.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

” Built on Unreal Engine 4, Homebound is a VR experience which puts you through a series of catastrophic events beginning with you escaping a disintegrating mini-space station which is falling apart thanks to an unknown event. I’d never used Blueprints or scripted before, so it was all new to me.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

” Built on Unreal Engine 4, Homebound is a VR experience which puts you through a series of catastrophic events beginning with you escaping a disintegrating mini-space station which is falling apart thanks to an unknown event. I’d never used Blueprints or scripted before, so it was all new to me.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. The result was the one of having Alex Kipman as if he was really in front of you , a fantastic immersive feature for an XR event. Image by HTC). they had no problems in using it.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Developed at 20th Century Fox’s Fox Innovation Lab along with RSA Films and The Virtual Reality Company, the cinematic piece has been shown at a handful of events throughout the year but, tomorrow, you’ll get to experience it at home on both the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Would you pay for an experience like this?

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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. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 28, 2017

Developed with Unreal Engine 4, FATED is a first-person immersive adventure set in the mythical age of Vikings and built specifically for virtual reality. Priced at $9.99/£6.99/€9.99, FATED is a first-generation virtual reality game available on all three major VR platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 5, 2020

For 2020 CreativeXR has been awarded an Epic Megagrant by Epic Games which will be used to support up to five projects built using Epic’s Unreal Engine. The programme has proven to be a success , returning for the third year with new contributors. .

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. See Also: MR Company Nreal Talks Hand Tracking and New Partnerships.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. So, are you ready? Let’s start! Vive Pro price and release date.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. However, hints given at Meta’s Connect 2022 event, and the company’s research, suggest legs will be added in the future.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch. To make it accessible to game developers and content creators, Refract’s software suite is compatible with platforms like OpenVR, OpenXR, Unity and Unreal engines, and existing VR systems and applications.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

10] in our review , noting however that the admittedly standard arena shooter experience would need more than smooth visuals and Unreal Tournament -style gameplay to keep users happy in the long run. After launch, the studio issued several updates and also organized multiple community events in an effort to stimulate ongoing user support.

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

It was a great event to be part of and it allowed us to showcase some of our tech and service to the US, something we’ve never had the chance to do before, actually. ” WHAT'S THE IMPRESSION SXSW LEFT ON YOU AS A GLOBAL EVENT? SXSW is a massive event. Paper Birds” an interactive VR story from Oculus (best story).

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In its recent Facebook Connect event (which the echoAR team covered here ) Facebook made a number announcements that cement its place as a leader in the AR/VR space.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. The HTC Vive headsets have its own SDK. This course from the University of Michigan focuses mainly on developing XR apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal — Developing AR/VR/MR/XR Apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal Skill 5? In VR, there is an SDK for each VR headset.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Some weeks later they held a game jam (an event where teams rapidly create games) and partnered with Valve which brought some early Vive kits for groups to test their projects. Learning New Skills.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

The first time that I experienced Sequenced , I had no idea that my gaze directions might have been triggering different branches or small events within the story. Road to VR previously reported that their 10-episode season is due to “arrive on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard starting in early Q4 2016.”

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. Once we build digital properties, we can easily track them for the length of the event.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. And it feels weird that HTC hasn’t fixed such a cheap little component that was already faulty on the original Vive. He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Graphically, the game uses the Unreal Engine 4 to modest effect. While dealing with launch issues, you flashback over events from the last 18 months, when Prometheus first arrived at the base in Antarctica. Support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is coming soon. And when he talked to his father about the mission.

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APRIL 26, 2017

The idea came to co-founders Tim Ruse (who’s now the CEO) and Scott Vandonkelaar (CTO) when the two first saw the Oculus Rift while working together at web agency Roadhouse Digital. After playing a lot of Oculus Touch and HTC Vive games, it is a bit jarring to not see your hands inside of VR. Hands-on With Zero Latency.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

As I began writing down the characters, events, timeline and world makeup, I realized there is no way this could be covered in one book or one game. 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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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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”. we can’t use OpenVR and choose to execute directly in Oculus runtime); that will be dictated by the API/SDK we are using instead. .:

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

Using the HTC Vive and a wall of silver rectangles, this installation was all about playing with points of reference and altering how your brain processes its surroundings. Using the built-in camera on the HTC Vive headset I was able to view myself back in reality, standing inside the Waterfront Tunnel space.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2019

Ubisoft’s latest VR game is however closer linked to an earlier breed of shooter and much less so than its contemporary brethren of today—ostensibly an homage to the founders of the genre like Unreal Tournament (1999) and Quake (1996). Available On: PlayStation Store (PSVR) Steam (Vive, Rift), Oculus Store (Rift).

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

Each festival will also host live events throughout their respective locations in Paris, Cannes, and New York, with the NewImages Festival organizing satellite pop-ups across nearly every continent. . These in-person events will take place mostly outdoors in order to adhere to COVID-19 safety protocols. “We

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