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The XR Week Peek (2024.02.20): Zuckerberg reviews the Vision Pro, Mozilla Hubs shuts down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago).

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Daniel Beauchamp inspires us to do more crazy experiments in VR

The Ghost Howls

My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. Hair simulations! That’s a tough one!

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Creating VR Content With Zero Coding Skills

VRScout

But today you no longer need to be a Unity professional or 3D designer to get into this sacred industry. In that regard, Sumerian is more similar to standard development software, such as Unity, than it is to software such as BioVR. Pros: The main benefit of Sumerian is the lifelike characters offered through the software.

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Boeing, Microsoft Back Australia’s Air Force with HoloLens M&O Tool

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The military organisation’s Mobility Guardian 2023 exercise took place in July. The company explained that the exercise is a first for Boeing Australia to provide remote guidance for global C-17 customers in a military setting. USAF engineers used Microsoft’s mixed reality headset, the HoloLens 2, to conduct the field test.

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What to Expect from the Immerse Global Summit 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality

Road to VR

See Cosmic Trip , which brilliantly uses physical buttons to navigate its item menu; or Job Simulator , which almost entirely eliminates the old point-and-click interaction paradigm. Cosmic Trip (Left) Job Simulator (Right). We stuck with Unity for now, and hope to explore Unreal more in future explorations. Defining Goals.

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Use Cases & Best Practices for Haptics at Scale in VR Training

ARVR

Showing that, by allowing your trainee to do exercises by themselves with the help of virtual technologies, you drastically improve the efficiency of your training. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. However, we can see that the rate for VR Training is very high, at 75%.

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