XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events! The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

Since it is my last post about AWE, let me cast a ray of visibility on some companies I have met there, but about which I do have not enough material to write a full article: Gamedriver : an interesting solution to create automated tests for your XR application in Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

Gurman also says Apple is “leveraging its entertainment arm” and acquisition of live events livestreaming startup NextVR to produce content for the headset. Developers will also apparently get access to a Mac based headset simulator so they can develop before having the device in-hand.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

During an online showcase event, Varjo officially announced its latest enterprise-grade MR headset portfolio. Moreover, the firm is exhibiting the Varjo XR-4 Focal Edition headset at I/ITSEC – a world-leading simulation and training expo.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Saatchi Gallery in London, United Kingdom hosted the event, transforming the building’s exterior into a massive Tiffany jewel. More on Ray Tracing According to NVIDIA, ray tracing simulates lighting effects in virtual scenes and objects with cutting-edge rendering tools.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. In addition to serving as host of the event, Inbar presented a number of the awards. That, according to Miesnieks, is the thing to watch in the next few years. Announcements.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But the “Body Tracking” API only provides a “ simulated upper-body skeleton ” based on your head and hand positions, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to UploadVR. 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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). More info (My summary of the event) More info (HTC’s 2-minutes video of the event) More info (HTC’s vision of the office of the future) More info (Actual prototype of the office of the future) More info (Qualcomm teasing new XR2 standalone headsets). Top news of the week. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. Meta is hosting an event about AI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The right tools can change the way we communicate and connect in the digital age, and transform the way we share experiences. In the arts and entertainment space, XR solutions are helping to create everything from live events enhanced by holographic visuals, to virtual experiences and augmented gallery shows.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

The typical summer week has passed by, with some interesting XR news, but mostly no amazing event to talk about. And I’m not so sure that there will be the build-once-run-everywhere mechanism because every headset has its own Unity plugin with some features that are very vendor-specific. I hope to see a cinematic trailer pretty soon….

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

It enables a new level of presence by bringing physically realistic visuals, sound, touch interactions, and simulated environments to virtual reality. The software release consists of a set of C-APIs for integration into any engine or application, and an integration for Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 that is available now on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. If you want my help in organizing your VR event, please reach out to me … Waiting to meet you in VR, let’s talk about some news…. This big event about enterprise AR and VR will be hosted in London on 28–29 April, 2020. It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

95% of the content is about the vision of the future “metaverse” in which we all are always in XR , we work, we connect with other people physically distant away, we attend events, we play multiplayer games, etc… all in XR. Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. I mean, we all already knew this, Mark.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. The initial event and follow-up conversations have generated the necessary buzz and set expectations that “spatial computing” will be a part of everyday life. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. They showed the demo to someone at Valve and, after the event was over, were told they could keep the headsets. It was a moment that changed their lives.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Our Unity , Unreal , and JavaScript integrations already include model hands that you can quickly drop into any project. Building a 3D Desktop App with Unity. Unity is a powerful game engine that makes it easy to rapidly build and develop desktop and VR projects. Building a Web App. Building a Web App.

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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. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In the meanwhile, if you want, you can attend an Awe Nite event about gaming on 30th September I have been invited to speak at. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all. Actually, there was no news about XR at all, and AR was visible only for 20 seconds in the whole 80 minutes of the event. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Thanks to the vaccines and the pandemic that seemed more or less under control, this seemed a possible scenario, and in-person successful events like AWE 2021 confirmed this hypothesis.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast. The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Image by NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

That is, if you have created an event in VRChat, you can have 4000 attendees, but they will be split among 100 clone instances of your event, with every one of them having 40 people inside. It is so not possible for instance to simulate a virtual stadium with 10,000 people in, with you seeing all the other people you have around you.

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ARVR

JUNE 12, 2020

Visual Appeal Promote the event exactly as you would a physical event. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? It needs to be an attractive proposition that is worth people’s time (even if they are obliged to come) 2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. You can watch videos in a variety of simulated environments, using intuitive hand controls and a virtual remote control. You can check out some more of Joshua’s projects at jcorvinus.itch.io.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

I think that the new generation of talent — say if you were studying right now — creative developer, understanding… I mean, these don’t necessarily all require Unity or Unreal, which are the software programs — the game engines — that often power a lot of this interactivity and experience. Rori: Oh yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

I think that the new generation of talent — say if you were studying right now — creative developer, understanding… I mean, these don’t necessarily all require Unity or Unreal, which are the software programs — the game engines — that often power a lot of this interactivity and experience. Rori: Oh yes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. This is 1999.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Current Status To date, the OSVR team has primarily focused on creating the various types of interfaces, connecting popular devices that illustrate that these interfaces work, and creating simulation plugins that allow developers to work with simulated data in lieu of using a real device. and numerous hardware devices.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Be sure to tune in if you want to participate in this interesting event! In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And a lot of businesses spend tens, hundreds of millions of dollars schlepping around big, heavy, dangerous stuff to trade shows, to customer events, to do demos. And so what we’re doing is consulting on how can they build the team without building a huge team, or whether you need a 3D model or maybe you need a Unity expert.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And a lot of businesses spend tens, hundreds of millions of dollars schlepping around big, heavy, dangerous stuff to trade shows, to customer events, to do demos. And so what we’re doing is consulting on how can they build the team without building a huge team, or whether you need a 3D model or maybe you need a Unity expert.

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