XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. Virtual reality has long ceased to be just a game story and is actively being implemented in all areas of human activity. See Also: 4 Inventive Examples of Virtual Reality in Education.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the enormous influence in the XR industry, VRTUOLUO has set up dozens of industry communities (such as the Industry Executives Association, VR Game Developers Community, VR Education Community, Financing and Investment Community, Offline Entertainment Group, etc.) Why and how has it started?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I joined BISim in 2009 after seven years of working in engineering positions in video games companies. We use the latest game-based technology and a large, experienced in-house team of engineers to develop high-fidelity, cost-effective training, and simulation software products and components for defense applications. .

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

While most of the Horizon platform is currently focused on socializing, events and gaming, Workrooms is where Mark Zuckerberg hopes we will go when it’s time to get our heads down and do some work. How does it work? The post How To Use Meta’s Horizon Workrooms For Business appeared first on Bernard Marr.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Graeme Devine, Chief Game Wizard at Magic Leap, took the stage today at the DICE Summit 2017 in Las Vegas to talk about the future of mixed reality. As Devine sees it, “The games industry will lead the way to mixed reality in every vertical” as it’s the only software technology that shows constant interaction with the end user.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Ready-to-Use Mixed Reality Templates or MRTK “Examples”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. The bombshell comes directly from Jason Rubin, that interviewed from Kotaku, has clearly said that he wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. This would mean that some great Oculus exclusive games (e.g. Echo VR) could be ported to PSVR and some amazing PSVR games (e.g.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

You’re wearing the smart glasses, looking at the real-world scenario in front of you, yet at the same time you have this (hopefully) friendly and expert voice in your head telling you how to proceed. With this type of guidance, you can instantly turn a layperson into at least a semi-competent pair of hands – Forget games and gimmicks.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 14, 2024

I have been invited to lecture the class about Second Life, as an example of a 3D virtual world platform (an invitation which I accepted with alacrity!). More information on usernames and display names can be found here , including how to set up your display name. Other avatars may have the same display name as you. Nope, not here!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 10, 2017

Oculus Home and the new SteamVR Home offer cosy spaces to launch into your VR experiences, so why should we expect Microsoft to offer anything less? With HoloLens, Microsoft envisions a world in which users have virtual screens showing up in specific locations around their houses. The space also includes a virtual theater.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 15, 2018

The University of Hull has launched an accelerator dedicated to developing Mixed Reality tech for the Microsoft HoloLens. The University of Hull’s Mixed Reality accelerator was recently launched with the remit of promoting collaboration between industry and academia to develop commercial applications for Microsoft HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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ARVR

AUGUST 25, 2022

How the Metaverse will affect the future of the Organizations Image Credit: Unit 2 Games Limited I think that if I ask most people what the Metaverse is, they will start mumbling something related to virtual reality, and some will say online meeting. Since it is still in the making, no one knows. And last year, Warner Bros.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The pandemic has also spurred swiss UBS bankers to experiment with virtual reality, equipping their London traders with Microsoft HoloLens smart glasses to recreate the atmosphere of a trading floor. At the same time, you do not need to interact with anyone to receive a service, for example, to rent a property.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

It can be a game-changer for the whole digital world, so I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts about what it could mean for XR. For instance, Apple is an example of a gatekeeper, since it is a trillionaire market leader, and acts as an intermediary between app developers and their users. Digital Markets Act.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Let’s explain this with the help of an example. See Also: How to Build a Location-Based AR Application. Source: CBINSIGHTS. Occipital Bridge.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s a while that I don’t write something about entrepreneurship, so I thought it could be a good idea to give you some pieces of advice on how to be a good VR startupper. If you don’t have a budget, how are you supposed to buy all this stuff? Focus on how to make money. Evaluate the pros and cons.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. Virtual reality has long ceased to be just a game story and is actively being implemented in all areas of human activity. See Also: 4 Inventive Examples of Virtual Reality in Education.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The day has come and finally, the sandbox to create games without coding that is Dreams on PlayStation has released a patch to be used with virtual reality. The community can play the games you created, and can also remix them and create better ones upon them. And other members of the community now can expand that game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

The headset is marketed as a device for gaming and fitness , and it will feature very interesting games, already popular on Quest: Superhot VR, Red Matter , and Synth Riders are some notable examples. The first one is that Facebook is evaluating other use cases for the Quest that are not gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 11, 2020

She’s also working on how to make art enjoyable through VR. This is a very important topic, especially considering the current pandemic: how can people from all over the world visit a museum in virtual reality? If these tools were directly integrated into the game engines, that would be even better.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 29, 2024

For example, an enterprise director goes to a conference, sees an XR solution, and thinks of innovative ways the new technology can transform their business. A demographic may see XR negatively through the lens of gaming or just entertainment, leading to a negative response right up front due to the gamification trap.

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ARVR

JULY 7, 2020

How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? Creating remote MR productions Microsoft Mixed Reality Dev Days in May 2020 happend at AltspaceVR Creating these types of experiences require interdisciplinary skills and UX designers can play a major role in designing and engaging experience for users.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. Image by Microsoft). 100+ games have exceed $1M revenue. The details of the deal are unknown.

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2018

From animal anatomy to digital twinning and mining simulations, this Canadian company is bringing game development know-how to VR experiences. MineLife VR , for example, manages to synthesize large, complex, and vast spatial data into a life-sized, interactive, VR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

For sure, as someone pointed out on Reddit, that number includes people in every kind of role, from game developers to customer support not to mention researchers. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Luckily, some smart devs have been approved and every week we have new games coming to light on App Lab. Learn more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They promise us wonderful connections between the digital and physical worlds, and games where we can chase cartoon characters through our own furniture. We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Above: CastAR wants you to play tabletop games in mixed reality. Image Credit: CastAR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Our experience shows that metaverse is most beneficial for game dev, entertainment, education, travelling and shopping industries. Gaming experience has been forcing reality to include interactive communication. There are lots of people expecting virtual reality to respond as immersively as 3D gaming interfaces.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. The Unity XR: How to Build AR and VR Apps Specialization course at Coursera offers three shorter courses about VR and AR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Additional firms such as IKEA and Walmart have also explored how to use AR for shopping experiences. For example, Lenovo’s A3 and Magic Leap 2’s smart glasses are designed for prolonged use, low latency, and industrial environments. Each set of smart glasses has bespoke features for accomplishing specific agendas.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This includes Varjo’s XR-2, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, Pico Interactive’s Pico 4 Enterprise, and Meta Platform’s Quest Pro. VR first rose to fame in the gaming industry to offer gamers immersive experiences tethered to gaming consoles. Most recently, companies have begun unlocking potential use cases for XR.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

One VR developer who had originally signed up to include ads in their game reversed their decision due to the controversy. Here’s a deeper analysis I published recently on how much Facebook likely spends and expects to make from XR, given such a low entry price for Quest2. 2022+: Work with Leading Fashion Brands. 2022+: Aria Grows.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 1, 2023

And in the customer service world, IKEA can show people how to put furniture together using holograms and AR. One example of a company that has successfully made this transition is Nvidia, which started in the gaming world but has since expanded into providing support services for the business world.

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