Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

About 3rd Eye Studios Located in Helsinki, Finland, 3rd Eye Studios was founded in June 2016 by a group of game industry veterans, who previously worked in senior positions at Remedy Entertainment, Unity Technologies, Bugbear Entertainment, RedLynx and Moon Studios.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others. What’s the Deal on Data?

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Vizor raised $2.3M THE STREAMING SERVICES BATTLE IT OUT IN VR: CRACKLE ANNOUNCES THEIR PLANS. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP. in funding.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!),

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021. Santa Claus comes from Finland, and every Christmas many tourists go there to visit his home. This is something like a watershed moment that shows that OpenXR is a standard that is here to stay and won’t be useless like VirtualLink.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

More info (Daniel Beauchamp’s experiments) More info (Hands tracking + physics) More info (Quest’s hands tracking inside Unity) More info (Oculus’s hands tracking UX guidelines) More info (All apps currently employing Quest’s hands tracking). Do yourself a favor and invest 30 minutes of your life to read it all. It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Virtual Reality nordic is an interesting event about Virtual Reality organized by my partners at MeKiwi (who sponsor some posts on my blog), that will take place in Oulu, Finland. More info (Cotard’s Syndrome) More info (Special VR dinner) More info (Flaming point clouds).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And talking about “cool” things (pun intended), today I’m traveling to Helsinki, Finland, where I hope to have a great time at MatchXR. More info Get started with Apple Vision Pro development Unity has just released the tools to start developing for Apple Vision Pro and interested developers can already start experimenting with them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Additionally, Colossal Order, a Finland-based gaming development studio, has created best-selling titles like Cities: Skylines. Furthemore, the platform is compatible with most gaming engines, including Unity, Unreal Engine, and others. AVALON, a massively multiplayer online (MMO), is currently under production.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

MeKiwi is a very interesting indie studio in Finland : they have published a very popular VR game like Cave Digger, and they have also experimented with something artistic with ArtPulse. Going deeply technical, how you managed your workflow for handling so many different Unity projects? Git is of course a god-send.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The company has already released their SDK which allows developers to integrate FOVE support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine. The company, now headquartered in San Francisco, will be showcasing the final version of the headset during the Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) this week in San Francisco.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Finland. image courtesy VR First. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Doña Ana Community College, USA.

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