XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls. Mocap solutions are primarily used for the creation of XR content.

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Peter Graham

JULY 30, 2019

While you may not really pay attention (or care) about some of the logos at the start of titles, one that crops up quite a lot is Unity. Today, Unity Technologies has announced the launch of Unity 2019.2 , with the latest iteration including a few tasty features for immersive content developers.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Epic Games announced today that it’s buying Cubic Motion, a computer vision startup that’s been building out a platform for capturing more realistic facial animations with a complex camera rig and software platform. Last year, Epic acquired game studio 3Lateral which built more realistic human avatars.

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Upload VR

JUNE 29, 2023

The motion data Mocopi produces can be relayed to services like VRChat as well as game tools like Unity. Sony announced the body tracking kit last year and shipped it first in Japan, claiming its "proprietary algorithm enables accurate motion capture with only six sensors."

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

A short video (heading this article) of two people wildly hitting a giant ball with foam swords (captured by Super Ventures ) is an amusing showcase of PhaseSpace’s motion tracking technology. The game also renders faster than the 60Hz limit of the Gear VR, in order to minimise latency.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

With ARKit 3, the system now supports motion capture and occlusion of people. When waving, the avatar can be seen to tip forward in response to the motion even though the user doesn’t. Motion capture. Human Occlusion & Body Tracking. Faster reference image loading. Auto-detect image size.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Aftermarket solutions like OptiTrack’s IR-reflective positional tracking system, which uses traditional motion capture tech, would be a likely candidate for large-scale, out-of-home facilities looking to use Sensics system however. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2019

In this virtual stage, you can do your personal show , of whatever type you want: you can speak, dance, teach stuff, play games, etc… Your personal show will be streamed on your platform of choice : the default one is Niconico, but you can also choose other services like Twitch and Youtube. How does Virtual Cast technically work?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. A new interesting project has been published on Kickstarter: it is called Axis, and it is a system of sensors that you install on your body to have full-body tracking for gaming and motion capture.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

While the average consumer might not need haptic experiences in VR games, sensory feedback in the business world can be extremely valuable. They’re not just ideal for intelligent gaming and entertainment. They’re excellent for capturing and recording detailed hand movements for XR game and app development.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HTC VIVE’s Ultimate Trackers will offer next-generational motion-capturing (mocap) technologies for avatars and real-time 3D (RT3D) content development. This will eventually narrow competition with Meta’s Quest 3 mixed reality headset in a bid to attract VR game developers, instructors, and creatives.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

A world premiere from Skydance, with Chris Hewish, EVP Games & Interactive and Pablo Leon-Luna, VR Developer. Additional expo highlights include Xtrematic’s extreme sports simulator, bHaptics’ full-body haptic suit, Bioflight’s VR medical training simulations and Phasespace’s large-scale motion capture system.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

This has led to collaborations with partner companies, including the smash hit exercise game Liteboxer last year. → Explore Meta Platforms Manus Exploring the evolving landscape of haptic feedback, Manus is a dedicated XR company, experimenting with the use of intelligent tracking systems and sensors.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

It seems that the new players have found some other interesting games to play (or that are busy modding). 80% of Quest users don’t care about playing games on SteamVR and are only interested in playing on a standalone device. The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

Haptic gloves and exoskeletons represent real game-changers when it comes to VR Training. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. The scaling process can be divided into “boxes,” from creation to deployment, between Unity , Interhaptics , and Innoactive.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Use cases demonstrated at their AWE booth included games, AR ads with interactive navigation to the displayed items, and IoT devices that triggered visual alarms in massive virtual mockups of real locations when those devices measured certain parameters, like high temperatures. When is this mixed reality future going to happen? StretchSense.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Basketball games used to be about more than basketball. More people play basketball than professionals and, in the 1990s, basketball games reflected that. These games were about the sport, but were also about the life and style of everyday lovers of the game. Vinci Games and Blacktop Hoops.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Latest Manus News Spectre XR The Spectre XR company focuses on the development and design of VR games and apps, as well as fully immersive AR and Mixed Reality experiences for a host of business needs. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. Some of the features that Apple is touting include better motion capture, improvements to camera access, and additional locations for Location Anchors.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. Vandonkelaar said it takes between seven and nine months to create a game.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. I installed Unreal on my gaming rig with its RTX gfx card and all teh trimmings and set about seeing what I needed to do to get my characters working.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $7,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $5,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Vox Rocks: Dino Destroyer is a shooting-gallery-slash-puzzle game. Prize: $2,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

A world premiere from Skydance, with Chris Hewish, EVP Games & Interactive and Pablo Leon-Luna, VR Developer. Additional expo highlights include Xtrematic’s extreme sports simulator, bHaptics’ full-body haptic suit, Bioflight’s VR medical training simulations and Phasespace’s large-scale motion capture system.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. Niantic has just teased the game Urban Legends, another geolocalized game, but this time with more emphasis on AR and 5G.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Although this technology has clear applications for gaming and social VR apps such as vTime and the upcoming Facebook VR platform, the founders also plan to use the recorded data to analyse how audiences react to regular films and TV advertising.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Mannarino said a motion capture grid system allows Universal Creative to track the players and the props inside the VR experience. The 10-minute VR experience, which was designed by VRStudios using the Unity 5 video game engine, spans a library, a narrow ledge high above the ocean and a cemetery.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR).

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VRScout

MARCH 9, 2023

According to developer Flipside XR, the free tool features everything from real-time motion capture and professional-grade production tools to various sets, props, and custom avatars. Flipside Studio is an all-in-one video production studio that allows you to create your very own 3D animations in VR with no prior experience required.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the colleagues of mine of that time was Kim Libreri, that is now the CTO of Epic Games and he created the optical flow for the paint effect for What Dreams May Come. It’s the same crew that can do both. Experiments on immersing people inside the scenes of movies. But VR encloses people and makes them stay in virtual rooms.

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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. Oculus is going to found big games. Robo Recall is still the best game for VR currently released (Image by Oculus).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

One of the strongest verticals for entertainment and media metaverses is gaming. Arguably more lucrative than the movie industry, gaming has remained a massive market for content creators. Solutions developed for the gaming industry have also led to the creation of serious gaming technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 3, 2023

Its Flipside Studio solution will empower content creators to create engaging videos via real-time motion capture (mocap) and production tools. It can also swap and edit real-time 3D (RT3D) objects without gaming engines like Unity or Unreal Engine.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

Jean-Michel Jarre getting suited up for motion capture for the concert on Dec 22nd. // Image Credit: @louisadrienleblay. Although VRChat is one of the most accommodating platforms for developers, it still does not offer the full capabilities of Unity, the game engine that the platform is developed with. .

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