The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

ABI’s Enterprise and Industrial XR Training report found that enterprises have been increasingly tapping virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices over the last five years. Figures cited major use cases for device implementation, such as training, workflow instruction, and remote guidance.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Not a great example of hockey gameplay. Recommendation: Developers will eventually be able to get this for free on the Unity store. Cut Cut Buffet, from 2BDev. Price: $9.99. Price: $4.99.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. Concept picture of SenseGlove used in industrial settings for VR training.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 12, 2023

As enterprises leverage virtual reality (VR) for a host of use cases, one specific example remains team-building. We’re still in the early days with this game, but over time I think people will benefit not just from a nice social experience, but also from a fitness and training perspective. Could they potentially train athletes?

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Peter Graham

MARCH 20, 2020

Originally part of HTC Vive’s accelerator program Vive X, Looxid Labs has created a technology which enables VR users to control experiences simply using their brainwaves. The company released the initial version for HTC Vive in January, offering a foam facial interface with EEG sensors builtin.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Leveraging Gamification for Increasing Patient Outcome s Emerging Metaverse services and integrated, immersive technologies grew alongside RT3D engines such as Unreal and Unity, two SDKs that developers commonly leverage for creating gaming content. Chen remarked: This is one of my favourite examples of real-life value-add today.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Learning and training have probably become the biggest use case across industries. Brian Meaney, Head of Product, Alteon.io

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Likewise, the VR presentation on the Microsoft booth at the education show was muted – rather than the bewildering array of Windows MR headsets seen two years ago, the company promoted the virtual learning systems on only one provider, with the Samsung Odyssey on display giving an example of the education content. Image credit: KWP.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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!!). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2022

The Ericsson team is another excellent example of a leading telecom company working with partners for the next generation of AR edutainment, training, and collaboration opportunities. An excellent example of one of the biggest “media” companies making a major investment into the XR landscape lately is NBCU.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

Upon first entering the exhibit i was instructed to lay on a specially-designed massage table fitted with an HTC Vive headset at the face rest. A trained masseuse then proceeded to conduct one hell of a relaxing massage, which I was able to view from the third-person via a real-time heat map video captured by the Kinect camera.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). This is great news for us developers, because it means we can develop a VR app for Quest, Pico, and Focus using exactly the same SDK provided by Unity! Production quality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). 7Invensun logo (Image by 7Invensun). And if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, it can already offer foveated rendering out of the box! Yes, it is!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. Pokemon Go is a popular example that uses location-based AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. And I could go on with other examples… In China, we had the opening of a giant VR theme park in Guizhou , even if it actually is still an incomplete effort.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For example, a gloved finger presses down, then an ungloved finger hits a real piano key. Companies like HTC have employed it in their promotional materials, and from what we’ve seen, this production style is the best way to convey VR from a third-party view. Thankfully, we found the right tool for the job: LIV. Let the testing begin.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers. Which ones in particular?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Import a 3D model of a spoon into Unity and you’ll be able to see the mesh in full 3D but it won’t do much else. In this example, the spoon’s shape (or mesh) is completely separate from its function of scooping and stirring, which is handled through scripts and trigger zones. Let’s look at scooping and stirring first.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

And let’s unpack this, because if you’re somebody who’s in the aviation world, this is a technology that can be used right across your enterprise; from previsualization, marketing, sales, training, remote assistance, remote collaboration — it can be used everywhere. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. This is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” HTC China President Alvin Graylin said in accepting the award.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

For example, if a user tries to pick up an object in an immersive training environment, hand-tracking technology allows users to pick up and interact with objects in real time by detecting user hand movements. Take, for example, Lufthansa – they train their aircrew through a VR application created by NMY Mixed Reality Studio.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, if a user tries to pick up an object in an immersive training environment, hand-tracking technology allows users to pick up and interact with objects in real time by detecting user hand movements. Take, for example, Lufthansa – they train their aircrew through a VR application created by NMY Mixed Reality Studio.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

And let’s unpack this, because if you’re somebody who’s in the aviation world, this is a technology that can be used right across your enterprise; from previsualization, marketing, sales, training, remote assistance, remote collaboration — it can be used everywhere. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

But over the past couple of months some virtual reality meetup, event and training spaces have reported huge earnings from sale of virtual land during coronavirus pandemic, and Second Life, once thought to be the fore-runner of the virtual metaverse, has run out of land due to high demand. We will update the story if they get back to us.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

One cannot take trips to their favourite destinations without the physical railways, aeroports, cars, trains, planes, roads, or even shoes to move from point A to point B — the same goes for the Metaverse. Unity has also joined in on the industrial metaverse to deliver tangible results. Register and sign up for updates at our website.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications. NVIDIA-Ericsson Use Case For example, Ericsson, a major global telecom, will work with NVIDIA’s CloudXR tools to lower lag across their networks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training. Such tools needed a strong ROI to “compensate for those costs,” namely by reducing risks and creating on-demand training solutions. Oberon Technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering. Cameron: Absolutely.

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