Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Stealth game ‘Budget Cuts’ resurfaces. Image courtesy HTC. Magic Leap announcements.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms. Meta also lacks any real moat beyond its game studios.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

2: Augmented Reality in a Browser We’ve seen AR experiences become increasingly popular in our daily lives, from Snapchat filters to at-home retail try-on applications. You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these Mozilla has recently released the 2.0

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

VRDC's Second Edition: November 2016 To meet the growing demand for high-quality content in the space, VRDC's second edition will expand to cover virtual and augmented reality in games, entertainment, brand experience, and a wide range of innovative use cases. More information on these sessions will be available in the near future.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Denny Unger, CEO, Cloudhead Games.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Some people choose to create a Unity 360 virtual tour, since this game engine has multiple plugins and extensions that make development easier. Virtual tours for retail Our company developed a VR experience for Magrabi Optical, an eyewear provider based in Dubai.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m 46 years old and an avid car-, tech- and games- enthusiast. My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. Marcus Kuehne (Image by holoride).

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Take to the skies in this on-rails shooter by Scott Creager ( @VirtualArenallc ), whose 3D Jam development made him rethink how a game should be played. I was so surprised how playing a game with my hands as the controllers changed what was fun and what felt odd to do.”. AirLeap: The DreadNought.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Previous to that, Rori was a partner and director of strategy at Ogilvy, where she focused on developing digital marketing strategies for health, retail, and media industries. It can also be around planning the future retail store, and using plan-o-grams to set up spaces for future retail. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Previous to that, Rori was a partner and director of strategy at Ogilvy, where she focused on developing digital marketing strategies for health, retail, and media industries. It can also be around planning the future retail store, and using plan-o-grams to set up spaces for future retail. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information. Here's SXSW's full schedule for VR/AR sessions. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Using actual props in the game with Tilt Five (image by Tilt Five).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. I think we built a reputation in the immersive technology space. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. They make Eve Online.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. I think we built a reputation in the immersive technology space. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. They make Eve Online.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. I think we built a reputation in the immersive technology space. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. They make Eve Online.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. AR and VR is a game changer in customer support.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Finding some games to play. Doesn’t work with any games.”.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

There's a usage scenario which is more like a console or gaming console, in the sense you decide that I'm going to be in this experience for an hour or 30 minutes. They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Bharat: It definitely feels like it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

There's a usage scenario which is more like a console or gaming console, in the sense you decide that I'm going to be in this experience for an hour or 30 minutes. They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Bharat: It definitely feels like it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

There's a usage scenario which is more like a console or gaming console, in the sense you decide that I'm going to be in this experience for an hour or 30 minutes. They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Bharat: It definitely feels like it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Alan: 6D.ai

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Alan: 6D.ai

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Alan: 6D.ai

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Virtual worlds and video games do create the feeling that you’ve gone somewhere else. They’re games, or videos, that people sit back and enjoy. There are also app stores for the Oculus Rift , the Gear VR , the HTC Vive , and on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. A virtual meeting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And we are in the process of signing an agreement with a very big retailer. I think it’s a high quality game engine character, but it’s not like talking to an actual person. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200. So things are pretty good.

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