Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2022

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.” ” Image courtesy Metaverse Standards Forum.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The ceremony included one new Auggie for Best Collaborative Tool, which was added in light of the high demand for this kind of product during the pandemic. Presented by Epic Games Head of Brands and Advertising, Raffaella Camera, Best Campaign Auggie Award went to Countdown Super Insects by Zappar. Best Collaboration Tool.

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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. Superhot VR has been awarded Best Game at the Vision Awards. Superhot VR has been awarded Best Game at the Vision Awards.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. There’s a much younger group coming into the industry […] the way they think and the way they operate is very different,” said Armes.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a solo indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel as a side project, the game impressively holds the highest user rating among all Quest apps with more than 100 reviews, according to our latest ranking.

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ARPost

MAY 21, 2021

Partners like Farfetch, Prada, and MAC Cosmetics are using the company’s new tools for voice and gesture-controlled virtual product try-ons, social shopping experiences in AR, and more. Making AR Tools and Experiences More Visible. Bitmoji X Unity Games. Farfetch Try-On. Spectacles.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Also, the founder and managing partner of AR funding group Super Ventures , Inbar’s talks are always full of insight, passion, and a few laughs. Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. Panel Discussions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Notably, Jake Rowland explored new trends in combining XR and unified communications (UC) tools to create shared virtual spaces without needing a headset, therefore bringing value to major companies – “absolutely [a] big crossover” across technologies and that “companies [were] getting a lot of value from it,” remarked Rowland.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here’s how the alliance describes their new OpenUSD inititive: Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers robust interoperability across tools, data, and workflows. We look forward to fostering its growth into a broadly adopted standard.”

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. The Forum will facilitate various projects such as open-source tooling and hackathons. The Future is Now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

On top of casual hangouts, users will be able to play community-built games. As you can see in the trailer above, these range from Western-style first-person shooters to even a Tron-like game dubbed Battle Discs , which looks similar to CCP Games’ upcoming Project Arena.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

Epic Games has launched an Augmented Reality Center (ARC) at Oakland University in Michigan. A major gaming engine, Epic Games announced on Friday a collaboration with OU’s College for Creative Studies (CCS). Comments on ARC Industrial Collaboration Epic Games hopes to foster skillsets for rising XR professionals.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Zuck has also had a chat with Jesse Schell, the CEO of Schell Games, and has provided an exclusive interview to Protocol. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. Google is also going to launch a game to showcase the features you can build with these tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It features full colour passthrough, a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ chipset, and productivity and security tools for workers. The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. The company’s plans may lead to further innovation with the Meta Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Reading the article excited me a bit, because when an experienced VR journalist says that something impressed him, well, I know that thing is super cool for real Vicon , which is a leading company in mocap systems, showcased for the first time its markerless mocap tool. More info Can Monster Hunter be Niantic’s second hit game?

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

It also gives attendees more powerful networking and viewing tools. The Finalists for Best Consumer App Are: Five Nights At Fredy’s AR Special Delivery – the augmented reality version of the viral jump-scare game. ZapWorks Studio – Zappar’s designer tool for creating webAR applications that track QRs, landscapes, and faces.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Two months ago Google launched their Blocks VR creation tool that enabled anyone to 3D model low polygon objects with little modeling experience required. Objects you create in Blocks may seem simple, but as you spend more time in the app, it becomes obvious how important this tool can be for 3D modeling.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It will also include more than 100 Apple Arcade games and titles at the device’s initial launch. Unity Partnerships and Further Updates At the Unite 2023 event, Unity offered its full support for the Apple Vision Pro’s PolySpatial tool, essential for developing spatial experiences on the headset’s Shared Space platform.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. It arguably offers the most fun and inspiring tools we have ever had for telling brand stories. It’s not a casual group; these folks are oriented toward action. tech -> toy -> tool -> totality. Here’s why.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More info Other relevant news (Image by Upload) Upload VR Summer Showcase brought news about many games As usual, Upload VR had its Summer Showcase, in which it announced many pieces of news about many VR games. More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 28, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit, Apple’s collection of tools designed to support app development, has been available for a while now. Additionally, many Apple partners are beginning to roll out their own tools to support development, such as AWS. What is the Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. Pimax Focused on the gaming and enterprise landscape, Pimax delivers futuristic VR headsets built with high-fidelity screens and enhanced optical capabilities. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 23, 2023

Meeting attendees can now walk over to groups, wave to others, and similar activities. Mesh also seamlessly integrates with the Unity gaming engine to adjust the parameters of immersive environments. Mesh will also provide Unity developers with bespoke or personal 3D environments with its proprietary toolkit.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” Right now, the most common use case for networked 3D experiences is online video games.

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MAY 9, 2023

Amazing Platforms Democratising XR Content Creation Democratising XR content creation means providing companies throughout the modern landscape with the tools they need to build and deliver immersive experiences, regardless of skill shortages. It’s impossible to deny the impact of immersive technology on today’s content landscape.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group , explained that interoperability was essential to the Metaverse scaling to its full potential “beyond siloed games, experiences, and worlds.” Additionally, the organisation supports several Forum Exploratory Groups to build consensus on charters for future Working Groups.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2019

Rather than being mere ‘multiplayer games’ both offer a communal focus that spans a wide range of activities—everything from just hanging out, to charades, dodgeball, and much more. The app also lets users get creative with in-game building and logic tools for designing and sharing their own spaces and activities.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sony ‘Ups Its Game’ in Metaverse Technologies. Players can use the novel tools to buy and sell in-game content and identify metadata, ownership, and other key details for immersive content. ” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

He explained how Meta focuses on gaming, social interaction productivity, and other use cases. This month, Meta faced another setback when it lost John Carmack , a pioneering gaming and VR programmer who worked with Meta as an Executive Consultant. The CEO also noted how Meta is not targeting the production of VR fitness applications.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2021

Fokis, who has toured with hip hop legends such as Onyx, The Game, Gza, Ras Kass, Lords Of The Underground, Common, Busta Rhymes, M.O.P., The Beatnuts, and numerous other recognizable acts, explained how he was first introduced to VR, saying, “I was introduced to VR by a friend of mine, Doitall from the group Lords Of The Underground.

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