AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

VR developer ForeVR Games today announced it has raised an additional $7 million in seed capital, bringing its total raise to $8.5 The studio says it’s going to use the dough to launch more games like its debut title ForeVR Bowl on more platforms. XR Training & Gaming Startup Touts $5.2M Yes, I watch too much baseball).

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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. We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You could theoretically even make an experience whose play area is as big as the one of a city (Microsoft once talked about “city-scale VR”). Some people even used this feature to play standard games all via room-scale. Yes, this is the passthrough version of The Unity Cube!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s new digital landscape is sure to pave the way for endless new virtual concerts and online experiences in the years to come. Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2023

South Korea’s LG Electronics announced on Monday a partnership with Oorbit to develop serious gaming metaverse technologies for LG TVs. Oorbit, a metaverse tech company, will leverage LG’s televisions for gaming and immersive experiences. Oorbit, LG, and Serious Gaming. Oorbit, LG Explore Metaverse Infrastructure.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

Dubbed “The Metaverse Fund”, it is a plan to invest up to $100 million in studios w orking on gaming, health, media, entertainment, education, and enterprise applications for headsets. The post I’ve found today thanks to a tweet by Philip Rosedale shows one of these stories about the dark world of Ethereum.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

The Upload Summer Showcase brought news about VR games. Like last year, also this year the Upload Summer Showcase has brought some interesting news about VR games. As usual, this event hasn’t delivered any mind-blowing announcements, but a big series of small news about VR games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. Meta hihglights that its work with ASUS and Xbox tagerts gaming hardware, meanwhile Meta’s experiecne with Lenovo will help scale mixed reality devices for productivity, learning, and entertainment.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

One of the devices that generates the greatest interest among the tech community at the moment is Microsoft HoloLens. In simple terms, it can be described as the merging of real and virtual worlds where objects from both realities can exist side-by-side and interact with each other in real time. Preparing tools, SDKs and IDEs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

However, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that filled some people with interest in an Android-esc XR OS, ex-Meta CTO and famed video game innovator John Carmack expressed concern over Meta’s recent move. The Horizon framework is also used to power Meta’s Worlds metaverse platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Other relevant news. More info (Leaks on RealityOS?—?Upload

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Multiple experiences are currently fighting for the position of top dog in the hopes of cementing itself as THE virtual world where users could meet and interact as entirely new people. Sinespace was built using the Unity game engine allowing for an easily customizable as well as upgradable experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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.” It also hosts the World Wide Web Consortium, Web3D Consortium, and XR Association (XRA).

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. in Game Design.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the first to enter this business is the Metaverse Group, which operates a virtual world called Decentraland. All of this can be puzzling: who will pay real money for the right to own a part of the virtual world that has not yet been completed and will never exist in reality? Somnium Space?—?It

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Technologies such as noise suppression are commonly used on platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and others. These include web browsers, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, Electron, Flutter React Native, and Unity. As a company, Agora aimed to create the “infrastructure of the future virtual world,” he added.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

” According to Epic Games’ Vice-President of Unreal Engine, Marc Petit , his enterprise’s goal was to build an open metaverse that “enriches humanity and is home to a thriving, fair ecosystem.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. HoloLens has not shipped any new version of the device, as expected.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets. Meanwhile, some software startups grapple with the “gap of disappointment” predicted by Unity CEO John Riccitiello wherein VR headset sales lag the dart throw predictions made by analysis groups.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

One problem with virtual reality is that you can’t craft your own characters, or avatars, the way you want them to look in the virtual world. High Fidelity is the first of many virtual world companies that could use the Ready Room to morph avatars and “ready” them for different shared virtual spaces.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Holoride, the Audi-backed startup that’s creating an in-vehicle virtual reality entertainment system designed for passengers, has begun publicly selling its Ride cryptocurrency token. This informs Holoride’s platform in real time so that the user experience within the game is matched by the actual movements of the vehicle.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. Image by Microsoft). 100+ games have exceed $1M revenue. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. What will happen next? Top news of the week. Image by HP). Picture 2).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Also, while converging the physical and virtual worlds is inevitable, it won’t be through massive ski goggles on your face.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 17, 2017

The game—and the wand—were developed by Pat Starace , director of the digital fabrication course at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We The difference is that the screens actually put you into that world. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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XROM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In Microsoft Mesh, the immersive content you create is experienced by users on a desktop PC or in VR. The toolkit supports Unity so you can build environments in a familiar way and leverage existing scenes and assets to build experiences in Mesh. It also works without a server deployment, making it simple to get started.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The gaming landscape stands as one of the most versatile and compelling areas for the development of extended reality technology. Promising a new and improved way for gamers to connect with the worlds they love, XR could represent a new frontier for entertainment. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Tender Claws and Google ARCore.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. Top news of the week. Image from Reddit).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. So, we can expect a beta 120Hz mode coming in March-April.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For a little multiplayer game for Gen-Z, you can try Roblox. For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone. For a workshop, ENGAGE can give you everything you need.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the future, users will access the Metaverse, a unified space integrating multiple virtual worlds on an interoperable platform. Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base.

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