XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

In the advertising industry, the rise of new and disruptive technologies can be an incredible way to unlock new levels of audience engagement. The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Increasingly, business leaders from across virtually every industry are discovering the value of XR for training, collaboration, ideation, and development. With RT3D developers can immerse their users within a digital reality which feels like real life. Hand-Eye Tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Regarding the consultancies, they have offered solutions in a lot of sectors , from educational to the military, not to mention industrial, marketing and many others. The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. PSVR 2 will have eye-tracking from Tobii and maybe a detachable cable. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 18, 2023

FORCE Technology develops VR and MR solutions for the maritime industry. FORCE also designed its immersive training application on Unity, ready for Varjo distribution. I believe this will become the industry gold standard in the future.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The Gear devices build on the capabilities of mobile virtual reality, allowing users to turn their existing smartphone devices into tools for immersion.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. Aneesh Kulkarni : Apple’s Vision Pro announcement last week is very likely to be one of the ‘watershed moments’ for the VR and AR industry. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

October insanity might be over, but there’s no rest for the VR industry this week. The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Already the, virtual reality in gaming market is expected to grow to a value of $53.44 Today, we’re looking at some of the top XR vendors worth watching if you’re invested or interested in the gaming industry. The ARCore solution allows users to build state-of-the-art Augmented Reality experiences for all kinds of use cases.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The companies investing in spatial audio today are using the technology to enhance the quality of their virtual reality landscapes, and develop new experiences in the metaverse. Rebuff Reality. Unity stands out as one of the top environments for developers in the XR space.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 14, 2020

Virtual reality use cases have greatly matured over the past few years. A large portion of the industry has moved past proof of concept into real world applications. Training in particular has been one of the most successful use cases for virtual reality. Image courtesy Master Lock.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The solution also includes a simple and robust system architecture which doesn’t rely on eye-tracking technologies. Poplar Studio Focusing on the era of virtual commerce, Poplar Studio is a specialist agency committed to developing unique experiences through visualization technologies.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2021

Last year, Unity’s Vice President of Features, Andre Gauthier, told ARPost how the Unity graphics engine enables a number of BMW’s projects that require real-time rendering. To be fair, BMW didn’t wake up and discover AR and VR technology this week.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 28, 2024

Reality Composer Pro: The new Reality Composer Pro tool supports Apple Vision Pro app development with an environment fir editing and designing 3D content. Unity integration: Unity offers comprehensive support for Apple Vision Pro developers, including a visionOS template which forms the foundation of spatial experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

During the Chinese counterpart of the event, the V2EC, Vive has also announced two other interesting pieces of news: The 7Invensun Droolon F2, an eye-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, coming soon for $299. PSVR2 may feature 4K display and eye tracking. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We worked with key industry players and academia on the right algorithm (BVH) and then developed the right hardware to accelerate that algorithm (RT Cores). What about Unity, instead? Will it be available also for Unity developers? Regarding Unity, I haven’t been able to find any news on a possible release date.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Every weekend VRFocus gathers together a number vacancies from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe, to help make finding the ideal job easier. Schuco Virtual Construction Lab. Unity SDK & Engine Developer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Demand for Extended Reality (XR) is growing at an astonishing rate. In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Demand for Extended Reality (XR) is growing at an astonishing rate. In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

This means that Facebook is completely adopting the OpenXR standard and this is amazing news for all of us in the industry. Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. OpenXR is succeeding and this can end the fragmentation in the XR marke t.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s been a long road for FOVE , the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. Display: WQHD OLED (2560 x 1440) 1280 x 1440 per eye. Accessories: Position tracking camera / Face cushion.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

The entire community is rioting , and many important people in the industry have also poured gasoline on the fire. A comment from HTC , just saying that it was up to compete with Oculus has had on Twitter something like 12K likes , and I think that HTC’s social media manager had never seen that number in his whole life.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , companies are set to reshape the industry with high-tech creativity and ingenuity. These experiences will no longer function like webinars or VR apps, but will converge virtual spaces with interoperable, engaging content. Media Psychology Key to User Engagement.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The headset won’t come in two sizes, but in a single one, because the eye box of the lenses is big enough to accommodate for different positions of the eyes in the users. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Image by Unity). GDC state of the dev industry is not positive for XR.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. Voice commands, navigation, interactivity with 3D objects, virtual collaboration; almost every aspect of the HoloLens experience has been fine-tuned and upgraded. EYE-TRACKING AND VOICE COMMAND. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Offering a way to blend computing systems with the physical world in a more natural, interactive way, spatial computing could impact virtually every industry. billion by 2032, it’s safe to say the spatial computing industry is growing. To do this, the ecosystem uses sensors to track movement in various ways.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

These take full advantage of the device’s unique capabilities, leveraging features like spatial tracking and hand/eye tracking. Ultimately, the best apps here vary depending on your industry, but I’ve been very impressed by the “Insight Heart” app for medical students.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Offering a way to blend computing systems with the physical world in a more natural, interactive way, spatial computing could impact virtually every industry. billion by 2032, it’s safe to say the spatial computing industry is growing. To do this, the ecosystem uses sensors to track movement in various ways.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The result is a virtual avatar that looks incredibly realistic in his movements, since it has the eyes, the fingers and the whole body tracked.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

This CES has been very good for augmented and virtual reality, but it has not been exciting. As for the partnerships, the most intriguing one is the one with my friends at 7Invensun , one of the worldwide leading companies in eye-tracking technologies. That said, let’s start! AR and VR at CES.

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