Mashable VR

MARCH 10, 2022

TL;DR: The 2022 Complete Game Developer Bundle is on sale for £22.05, saving you 98% on list price. That’s why this Complete Game Developer Bundle takes you along for the ride with 15 hours of hands-on content that will have you building games of various types. 2022 Complete Game Developer Bundle. Get Deal.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I interviewed CNET writer Scott Stein at Meta Connect about his first impressions of the Quest 3, Rayban Meta Smartglasses, AI, and Meta’s strategy as they move into Mixed Reality. See more context in the rough transcript below. Music: Fatality

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. Immersive games and apps and 3D videos have opened a new world for emotionally exhausted people staying at home 24/7. AIXR Insights Live: Marketing in VR Games. How do you sell real-life products in a virtual game?

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 25, 2023

With recent advances in generative AI, there has been a lot of discussion about how it will be used in games, virtual worlds and the metaverse. So far, most of the focus has been on how we can speed up production pipelines, given how capital and labor-intensive many parts of game development are. These examples are only a beginning.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

I think this is a very smart pricing strategy, because it more or less replicates the one of HoloLens 2, while undercutting it by $200 in its lowest tier. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. Some news on content. Other news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

NVIDIA One of the best-known companies in the graphics landscape, NVIDIA has been heavily investing in its metaverse and XR content creation strategy. Platform developers can import captures into an Unreal project, and begin presenting the digitised object immediately.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Image by Epic Games). Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2023

Also, some hire their own Unity or Unreal Engine developers or licenced out those software developer kits (SDKs). This choice is a central part of our strategy going forward, and we’re looking to foster this growing content ecosystem. The Unity gaming engine has been fundamental to how we’ve developed content.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. Simply put, OpenXR is a technical foundation for interoperability, but business decisions still dictate content, device, and platform strategy. OpenXR 1.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Step 2: A Guide to RT3D Use Cases Once a company understands the potential of RT3D engines, the next step is developing a strategy based on specific goals and use cases. Unity, one of the market leaders in RT3D technology, has a comprehensive kit intended to assist businesses and developers in this optimization process.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The session, co-hosted by Dude Perfect Chief Strategy Officer Jordan Harbbertson, concluded with the opening of the auction for the first Dude Perfect NFT minted with Seek with proceeds to benefit the VR/AR Association. To create not just a game, but a virtual world where people are able to live and work.”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It was in the air in the last weeks and finally, the time has come: Facebook is being sued for monopolization and anticompetitive strategy. Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond is a mediocre game. Reading all the reviews, it seems that Medal Of Honor is a game that is just “good” or “mediocre”, depending on the reviewer.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

At Apple’s WWDC conference today a number of features tangentially related to AR were announced, but the company may be waiting for the headset reveal to show its full AR/VR strategy. In a newsletter published over the weekend Gurman wrote: Apple’s headset initiative isn’t simply the device and its operating system.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

“The ability to provide contract input and get contextual output will really be a game changer.” ” Magic Leap’s big announcement wasn’t to do with AI, but it will still be thrilling to developers: an Unreal Engine plugin is coming in August. A new maps SDK compatible with Unity is also coming to 8th Wall.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. Honestly speaking, we have no idea what is happening, and we don’t even know if this has to do something with the recent lawsuit by Magic Leap or the one from Unreal… are these moves being made to slow the lawsuit or are these just an internal re-organization? Who knows….

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The enterprise-grade immersive software-as-a-service (SaaS) now supports RT3D design projects from Unity and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). The platform now supports design projects running on Unity and UE5, streaming VR/XR content at human eye resolution. The Unity and UE5 RT3D engines power several enterprise-grade services.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers don’t need to implement (or even understand) the mathematics behind IK, as game engines like Unity & Unreal have IK built-in, and packages like the popular Final IK offer fully fleshed-out implementations for less than $100. That’s our current strategy.”.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

He explained how Meta focuses on gaming, social interaction productivity, and other use cases. Thanks to international economic challenges and perceived pressure on Meta’s core business strategies led to broad media scepticism concerning the company’s extended reality (XR) goals. Internal Response from Meta.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Because it is true to say that, to date, it is the gaming consumer that has driven the success and growth of VR. AWE 2023: Lenovo on its Enterprise First XR Strategy Lenovo is working hard within the busy XR marketplace to debut a product portfolio of enterprise-grade immersive hardware. But it is easy to overlook that business use.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

Devices were seen as novel tools for the gaming and entertainment landscape. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline. As an added bonus, business consulting services are available for companies that need help developing their own XR strategy.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards shares a quality with many people in the game industry: She didn’t set out to work in games. Reflecting on her career and her time at the IGDA, she says that like many, she ended up in games after finishing a so-called “normal career.”. The common denominator is that we love games, and we have since we were kids.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The company produces smart glasses, compatible with a range of gaming consoles and devices. The company’s core solution, the VR Builder, is a platform intended to save businesses time and money when developing immersive content using Unity technologies. MeetSpaceVR also works with partners across the UK to deliver private VR events.

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AIXR

MAY 5, 2023

It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from gaming and entertainment to education and training. Here are a few platform examples where brands like BMW to WWF teamed up to implement immersive strategies into their business plans.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. In my spare time, I enjoy training and running full marathons around the world and playing games on my PSVR.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

Basically this is the content that the PCVR community has already been playing in loop in the last months because they can not find new VR-native games made specifically for PC. RecRoom without kids For us developers, there will be a dedicated Unity SDK at launch , with the Unreal one following a few months later.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

This business strategy of selling to few people for a high price has completely sense , considering that all the device has been conceived to add all the features that could make it compelling mostly for professionals. 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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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HaptX SDK makes it easy for any developer to bring a realistic sense of touch to their VR games and apps. The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API. has been pushing the limits of haptic technology since the launch of its HaptX DK2 gloves back in January 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages. I invite you all to see the video I’m linking below to see how this can be cool to give a new life to many old games. The game will also be released on Steam so that to please the current PCVR fanbase of Stress Level Zero.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

More info (Getting started with VR) More info (Best 5 Quest games to start with). I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. More info (Somnium Space headset details) More info (The first game built on top of Somnium Space).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. 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.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

In a nutshell, we are a platform or a medium to experience live venues or live experiences that enable people who would not be able to go to a race or a sports game. We have a twofold strategy to broaden out our offering within each sport. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Truth is that the tiny GPUs in mobile phones simply aren’t good enough for many workloads especially if you are trying to “immerse” your user in, say, a bleeding edge video game. When you go to a football game you are “immersed” in a way that you can’t get by watching the same game on TV.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Extended Reality evangelist Rori DuBoff from Accenture joins us to advise the businesses of today how not to miss the same boat, and shares strategies on staying ahead of the curve. As a virtual, augmented, and mixed reality evangelist, Rori advises companies on strategy and marketing opportunities for brand and business transformation.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Extended Reality evangelist Rori DuBoff from Accenture joins us to advise the businesses of today how not to miss the same boat, and shares strategies on staying ahead of the curve. As a virtual, augmented, and mixed reality evangelist, Rori advises companies on strategy and marketing opportunities for brand and business transformation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2023

Conversely, at the enterprise level, Lamina1, Croquet, Siemens, Unity, Meta, Ready Player Me, and others have leveraged their technologies at the grassroots level. We also cover the company’s open metaverse strategy and the role that the creative content and avatar economies will play in the near future.

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