ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

Between the Metaverse ETF, the Glimpse Group IPO (initial public offering), and other big trends, XR might be finally coming of age. Curated by the analyst, writer, and venture capitalist Mathew Ball and partners, the index includes companies like Cloudflare, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Unity. Glimpse Group Goes Public.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ars Technica reported : For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. ” “Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted.” What has happened?

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab , the platform that lets you view, share, and download 3D models via traditional monitors and AR/VR headsets, today announced its been acquired by Unreal Engine creators Epic Games. Sketchfab says it will continue to support other game engines, Unity included.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2023

Unity developers can build spatial computing experiences for visionOS that blend digital content with the physical world using Unity PolySpatial. Through this beta program, you and other creatives will be able to create experiences using Unity editor that can run on the Apple Vision Pro MR headset. for Apple Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2024

Meta is funding a group of Godot veterans to improve the engine's support for OpenXR and Quest feature extensions, as well as to build high-quality samples and documentation. If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Meta’s Beat Games teased earlier this month that everyone’s favorite block-slicing rhythm game Beat Saber was finally getting the music pack that always needed to happen: Daft Punk. Now that day has come, which arrives with some improved haptics on Quest that promise to be harder, better, faster (and) stronger.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. Superhot VR has been awarded Best Game at the Vision Awards. Superhot VR has been awarded Best Game at the Vision Awards. This is a nice feather in the cap of a game that VR users have come to adore since its release on Oculus Rift with Touch late last year.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

Valve just took a big step in prepping Steam game developers for the full arrival of OpenXR, the new industry-wide open standard for AR and VR headsets. With today’s news we’re hoping Oculus Store game developers will be getting that prototype sooner rather than later. version of OpenXR.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Peter Vindevoge, speaking on the entry of Meta Platforms, Apple, and many others, could lead to a trend of greater VR gaming adoption. Finally, Christoph Fleischmann told XR Today that there was “so much momentum happening in the technology with mixed reality that [has] changed the game again.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At GDC 2017, Unity held a keynote discussing their impact on the gaming industry, future updates to the engine, and much more. In between details on features, they brought up surprise guests to demo the new Power Ranger Legacy Wars mobile game. For Android and iOS, 5.6 For Android and iOS, 5.6 as part of the beta as of today.

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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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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. The VRChat team, which raised $1.2

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Presented by Epic Games Head of Brands and Advertising, Raffaella Camera, Best Campaign Auggie Award went to Countdown Super Insects by Zappar. The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. Best Game or Toy.

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As impressive as that quessadilla was, and it was impressive, it pales in comparison to a project conducted by a group of third-year Japanese students which involved the careful planning and construction of a functioning roller coaster accompanied by a custom-made virtual reality experience. ?????? unity?????????????

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms. Image courtesy Epic Games.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

XR Hub There is a high chance that you are already a member of this group. This group has been started by one of the most active XR Developers on YouTube. If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel. Join Dilmer Games?—?

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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 company’s influence expanded from artificial intelligence and cloud computing to game development.

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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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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

JULY 14, 2022

After a long time with my lovely Unity 2019.4 LTS, I have decided it was time to switch to something new, not to miss the new features that Unity has implemented these years. I have so started using Unity 2021.3 Let’s see how to build a Unity 2021 application with OpenXR. It is a Unity 2019.4 LTS (2021.3.5

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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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JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Rec Room Studio is a powerful feature set that will let you create and publish rooms using the Unity Editor. The company has amassed over 82 million active users who have used the platform to create, share, and play unique VR games. Look out for more details on this game soon. But that’s not all.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

For now it counts Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA as foudning memebers, with general members including Epic Games, Unity, Foundry, Ikea, SideFX, and Cesium. Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, launched a similar USD initiative in the past via its own Metaverse Standards Forum.

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ARPost

MAY 21, 2021

The Bitmoji software that Snapchat users can use to represent themselves on the site or play games with is now accessible to game developers using Unity. This will allow users to play as their custom bitmoji characters in mobile, PC, and even console games made by participating developers. Bitmoji X Unity Games.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

CrossVR’s Revive , the software that allows HTC Vive users to play games from the Oculus platform, today announced it’s joining one of the leading initiatives in creating an open standard for VR and AR apps and devices, otherwise known as OpenXR. image courtesy Khronos Group.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. More info Can Monster Hunter be Niantic’s second hit game? So personally I don’t find this news an indicator of the disinterest of people in the Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Khronos Group , the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player in the industry except Microsoft until now.

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