Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here’s how the alliance describes their new OpenUSD inititive: Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers robust interoperability across tools, data, and workflows. OpenUSD is based on years of research and application in Pixar filmmaking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

When Mark Zuckerberg acquired Oculus, all the eyes of the tech industry started looking at VR as the “next big thing” And now that Apple entered the field, all people in the technology world are talking about the Vision Pro, and especially of the future evolutions of the device, which could become mainstream.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) is set to kick off next month at the Fontainbleue Hotel from 5 to 7 December, where the world’s global tech community will rally behind immersive technologies. The news comes after the IGS concluded its European Summit at the Savoy Palace in Madeira Island, Portugal in late September.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The cutting-edge immersive experience will celebrate the heritage of Black and diverse artists, creators, and musicians using a host of emerging technologies. It will also offer a showstopping performance from critically acclaimed fusion band Phony Ppl, using a host of emerging technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The situation has now changed and the sales that will happen in the next weeks will tell us if that was the case, or it is just that this console is too expensive for taking off (and in this case, Sony should consider offering a discount). People can just build worlds, but not organize events anymore. All without leaving your editor.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The ongoing bid to unite the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) sectors requires significant joint efforts to develop novel solutions, technologies, platforms, and standards. Paradise Hosts the IGS 2022 Europe. million tourists annually and hosts 250,000 residents. . Explaining further, Pettyjohn said, .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Next week, the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) will host over 100 speakers from various extended reality (XR) firms to explore new immersive technology innovations and opportunities to match a diverse and emerging industry demand. Here’s a glimpse of the talks!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

But is still very sad : Altspace was the home of some of the more passionate VR communities , which were still holding many events there. In total, I counted something like 32 games, which is ok to start with, but then Sony should be fast in collecting more content to not make the PSVR2 players get bored fast for the lack of playable games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Plus there is this sense of perceived “stasis” of the technology. As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Microsoft’s technology could easily be the basis behind a number of mixed-reality and unique event experiences in the entertainment world going forward.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Plus, if you are in Karlsruhe, I’ll be attending the LEARNTEC event and I’ll be there on Thursday morning… if you’re there, we can meet! That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Top news of the week. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The ongoing SIGGRAPH 2022 event will take place in the Canadian coastal city from 8 to 11 August, celebrating the top firms in animation, creative content, art and design, gaming, and immersive solutions worldwide.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2023

South Korea’s LG Electronics announced on Monday a partnership with Oorbit to develop serious gaming metaverse technologies for LG TVs. The former will deploy its cloud streaming technologies along with high-fidelity metaverse worlds. event last year how these could lead to next-generation metaverse infrastructure.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A leader in AI development for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions, Meta’s latest involvement in the AI Alliance will help facilitate an ethical framework for the emerging technology.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

NVIDIA has had its annual GTC event, and while there it hasn’t announced new graphics cards, it has anyway provided some interesting pieces of news. VRSS is the technology that makes the graphics card draw in higher resolution the region of the image you are looking at. Other relevant news. Image by NVIDIA). billion valuation.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. Brian Vogelsang, AR Product Leader for Qualcomm Technologies. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. News worth a mention.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

AWE Asia brings together developers, creators, founders, product leads, C-level executives, enthusiasts, media, and analysts interested in #virtualreality, #augmentedreality, and related #Web3 and #metaverse technologies in Asia. The press kit for the event can be found here. AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2022

Tim also complimented technology innovation led by Chinese application developers. In the chat with China Daily Reporter Ma Si , Tim explained: I am incredibly excited about AR as you may know, and the critical thing in any technology, including AR, is putting humanity at the center of it. That is what we focus on every day.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Acer hasn’t announced the reason why it has taken this decision, but it has commented the news reassuring everyone that Acer is not abandoning XR, and it will continue exploring the technology. Sony has confirmed its interest in releasing a new PSVR headset, but it has also confirmed that it will be released after the PS5.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned medical institution, joined the event to reveal how it leveraged Microsoft’s MR tools by combining them with its educational software platform. IGS and the Future of XR Training. ” The IGS 2022 Miami took place from 5 to 7 December at Miami Beach’s iconic Fontainebleau Hotel.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. Sony – Playstation VR. HTC – Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. There will be events that will be held in both platforms together, and there will be portals to move from one platform to the other one.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Attendees learned and experienced the firm’s technologies and the growing number of use cases for simulations, collaboration, engagement, and visualisation. It also leverages technologies such as six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. StageCraft is a new technology for shooting films.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Header Image by Sony). Top news of the week. PS5 is a great console, but not for VR yet.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Regarding VR, this week we register the fact that two important events like Facebook F8 and GDC have been canceled. The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. According to the team, between the bundling deal and individual sales (of which platform owners like Sony, Facebook and Valve usually take nearly a third) the title has generated more than $1 million. Here is what I came away with from our talk: Moment Of Inspiration.

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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. Some news on content. Support The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity? Support this blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

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). And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of the most important events about creativity and technology in the USA. Even if it is not so famous in Europe, the SXSW (South by SouthWest) has always been one of the events to be in the United States. Going SXSW. There are many visitors.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. I’m not one of those journalists. They do magical things.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Concerts, tech shows, events, and showrooms will invariably change with the Metaverse. Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. A Closer Look at Metaverse Entertainment.

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