XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AmazeVR, a virtual reality (VR) concert firm, will expand its lineup of artists on its platform for future immersive events. Based on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine , AmazeVR also developed its technical foundation with Roc Nation in 2020, leading to a further $15 million. million USD in Series A funding to build its solution.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

Another method involves using a special camera to film events from multiple angles, which are then spliced together. This method creates 3D video but it isn’t very helpful for creating those imaginative experiences that computers can make. However, making the models move realistically is difficult and time consuming.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2022

This year’s event is expected to attract over 750,000 attendees as people from around the globe gather to celebrate music, art, technology, and everything in between. Everyone’s favorite music & arts festival Coachella is currently underway in Indio, California.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

NextVR is a leading figure in the world of VR video, offering some of the highest quality and best produced made-for-VR video content you’ll find anywhere. SEE ALSO NextVR Partners With Oculus to Bring Live Events to 'Oculus Venues'. The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. Image courtesy NextVR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

Companies can host virtual events and secure their own private spaces on “Moon Valley” using this ambitious VR coworking platform. Built for remote teams such as startups, innovative global organizations, and educational institutions, participants are able to join or host events and secure their own private spaces on “Moon Valley.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Moreover, it combines multiple technologies that enable the creation of photorealistic fictional realities in immersive previs, music videos, installations, visualizations, and interactive XR events. See Also: Dedicated AR and VR Accessories Manufacturers. Unlocking the Metaverse. Empowering Content Makers.

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ARPost

JANUARY 7, 2022

The company has an in-house 3D web viewer but also offers APIs and complete integrations with services like Shopify as well as Unreal and Unity. In addition to more “flat” services, the company supports a “virtual showroom” with 360 images and video. VNTANA 3D web viewer. JOOR platform. Their Partnership and Our Benefit.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The thing is, in today’s social/digital world, brands aren’t limited to running ads during a single event or in a single format since consumers can see and interact with them across the web and on social platforms. Once there, fans could access exclusive artist and show videos, along with custom AR Instagram filters.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 28, 2024

NVIDIA is adding new AI models to the Maxine Developer Platform for developers to use in their video conferencing, call centre, and streaming applications. The US technology company known for making graphics processing units (GPUs) believes this new capability will ‘transform’ the ten-billion-dollar video conferencing industry.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s start from the beginning: on Tuesday, Meta announced the Meta Connect, a one-day event set for October, 11th , in which Meta is going to reveal its latest advancements about XR and the Metaverse. Data miner Bast564 discovered it and shared a video about it online. Other relevant news. New specs of Pico 4 revealed.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2022

We spent a number of months rebuilding the Blippbuilder, our content, and authoring tool,” Galleria told ARPost in 2020, fresh off of the OnePlus Nord virtual launch event. Building out the revenues and continuing at that pace means we need more boots on the ground,” Galaria told ARPost in a video interview. A Look at the AR Market.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. More info Apple unveils new details about the Vision Pro ecosystem At the recent Apple Event, the Vision Pro was not the main focus, but many interesting pieces of news about it have been announced. Others have stopped using Unity Ads, Unity’s main source of revenue.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

They connect to the companion app Facebook View on your phone via Bluetooth can just do three things: Shoot photos and 30s-videos thanks to two cameras installed on the frames; Let you listen to music thanks to integrated speakers Let you have phone calls thanks to integrated microphones and speakers. Apple Event is tomorrow 14th September.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

It exploits the graphical power of Unreal, streamed with cloud rendering so it can run on all platforms via the browser. Surreal was not the only platform using cloud rendering, which was in my opinion one of the big trends at AWE this year. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info At SIGGRAPH there was much attention toward VR and AI SIGGRAPH has always been a very relevant event for all of us in the 3D space, and this year VR and AI were among the most relevant technologies showcased there. The road toward widespread AR glasses is still very long and complicated.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung. It is cool that at the end of the video, the glasses show also the capability to work as sunglasses, and this means that you can carry them everywhere with you, even outside. More info (Both videos in this Twitter thread).

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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. Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Starline promises telepresence technology to reimage video conferencing as we’ve never seen. It looks so real because the video participants are being scanned in 3D. On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

The event about digital fashion and web3 has taken place in Decentraland, Spatial.io, and Over the Reality. It was an event probably more interesting than last year, and that spanned across multiple digital worlds. But the overall event had far fewer visits than last year , most probably because the metaverse hype has deflated.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. There is also a new render about the upcoming elite strap and a lot of videos about its high-quality passthrough in action.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

That would make me a little happier and would let you watch my videos where I speak with my sexy Italian accent! 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. You can’t miss the amazing VRTO event this year!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He promised us all to show images and videos on his social media profiles. Is it for some patents on video streaming? 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. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

As a full disclaimer, this is a paid article that I’m writing for a recent collaboration I started with NVIDIA to help them promote GTC , NVIDIA’s flagship event, that this year will be held online on March 21st-24nd. Video courtesy NVIDIA). Video courtesy NVIDIA). RTX 3080 TI graphics card (Image by NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It talked about SIFT features and how the inventor used this kind of features to add 3D model of rabbits and teapots on top of a desk and over the hand in a camera video stream. A virtual teapot added to a real scene in a video stream. So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is unique in that the general public was allowed to purchase tickets to gain entrance to the event. Previously it has remained as an industry-only event reserved for developers, publishers, PR, press, and other folks related to the video game industry.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. The virtual environment will be built using the Unreal game engine, with technology built on top of it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Ben Lang from Road To VR and Ian Hamilton from Upload VR will be able to attend the event in person. And luckily, it is continuing this tradition: during an investor presentation event, the company announced that in the first month after launch, PSVR 2 had sold 450K units, which became 600K after two more weeks.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. VR looks incredibly stunning with Unreal Engine 5 features like Nanite and Lumen. Video) Learn more (Soccer game in AR?—?Volumetric Volumetric Video).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine. We don’t know many details about it, but from the teaser video, it is possible to see that it is a configurator of semi-realistic humans. More info (Official website) More info (The event on AltspaceVR).

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wisely switched to a virtual format this year, and while the event organizers did an excellent job, I knew that some of my favorite aspects of the CES experience would be missing. I’m very interested to see how the actual experience compares to the video in terms of resolution/readability.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast. Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Finally, the Horizon hub includes Venues, a metaverse solution for enjoying live events with immersive visuals. Moreover, trusted gaming engines like Unreal and Unity are gaining new usage as RT3D engines. The report claims that roughly 16 percent believe video calls help them feel present in meetings.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. The latest example of just how far real-time video game engine technology has come will be on display at GDC 2017 this week. Those cars are built like we would do a video game asset,” Libreri said.

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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. The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming. 266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC). This new standard evolves the previous H265 compression format for videos, reducing data requirement up to 50% while providing visually the same quality. Learn more (VR in healthcare event) Learn more (Oculus Quest giveaway).

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