XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2022

Epic Games, one of the world’s most celebrated real-time 3D (RT3D) content creation platform companies, announced last week it had struck a partnership with sportswear firm Timberland and CONCEPTKICKS to design a mixed reality (MR) shopping experience. Coming soon. TIMBERLANDFORTNITE pic.twitter.com/bKpARA8Hms.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 4, 2023

This Monday, Luma AI debuted a plugin for NVIDIA NeRF, a volumetric capture and immersive content creation suite which enables developers to run their designs on Unreal Engine 5 as a real-time render. The update allows Unreal developers to run Luma AI volumetric renderings locally.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Thanks to this new imaging technology, which is made by a stack of holographic elements, the user is able to see a very high-quality representation of virtual elements, that also have real depth (like in lightfields). This technology is still at a prototype stage, and in fact, its field of view is just a ridiculous 11.7

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. with experience using game-oriented technologies in The Matrix films. It’s a new form of entertainment.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations. Evoking Touch.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. Eventually, I even got to make a massively multiplayer mobile game based on Star Trek that a few million people played.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

We all know that these days the metaverse, the infamous M-word, is one of the hot topics in the tech world. There are many problems to be solved, technological and social to begin with, until we will be able to create the “next generation of the Internet”. In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 20, 2024

Built using Unreal Engine 5 with its dynamic global illumination and reflections system, Lumen , Soundscape promises exclusive artist performances from Deadmau5, Evanescence, Slash, and more. Soundscape, described as a "musical metaverse experience," reaches PC VR next week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. If we want to create virtual worlds scenarios like a concert in a stadium with 50,000 people inside singing altogether, we need to have a new networking stack. Red Matter 2 promises to be an astonishing game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info (iVRy makes PSVR tracking work on PC) More info (IMU is now supported by the tracking) The European Union announces a strategy to lead on virtual worlds and Web 4.0 The European Union has issued a press release to state that it is going to focus on the next technological transition that will lead to the creation of Web 4.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

BMW unveiled the new technology at the Web Summit in Lisbon earlier in November, leading to a location-independent driving experience with the company’s M2 coupe. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users. They may want to drive vehicles that they own in real life in the latest racing game”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some immersive games will be available at launch: Game Room, What the Golf?, Probably What The Golf will become the game of the year 2024… I’m of course super excited for this launch because the hype created by this headset can reinvigorate the whole XR ecosystem. and Super Fruit Ninja. The PCVR space is literally on fire.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 22, 2021

I think there is a lot of confusion in the communities about it… Omniverse is a simulator of 3D virtual worlds. To use an analogy, Omniverse Nucleus – the platform’s collaboration engine – is like the ‘Git’ of 3D assets and these virtual worlds. Why is a solution like Omniverse important?

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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. This might be part of the reason why the haptic technology market is expected to reach a value of $5 billion by 2028. They’re not just ideal for intelligent gaming and entertainment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

3D character creation technology platform Didimo announced on Wednesday that AVALON and Colossal Order have joined its Popul8 partnership network. Avalon is a global, remotely-operated gaming studio staffed by some of the world’s top video game industry executives.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. It’s the most definitive event marking the move to high-end technology that will power a new generation of world-class experiences transcending games and storytelling.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Unity , one of the most popular game engines for VR development, has been a long-term supporter of the medium, introducing many VR-specific features as the hardware evolved at a frantic pace over the last few years. By shrinking the outer viewports, the render target is much more efficient, offering a 30% improvement in some cases.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Developed by The Future Group and FreemantleMedia (the company responsible for American Idol and X Factor ), Lost In Time is a Norwegian game show that uses interactive mixed reality technology combined with a customized green screen studio to transport contestants to different landscapes scattered across time and space.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We are providing an entry-level guide to understanding Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications, the differences between each, and how all of these experiences, when enabled, form what is known as mixed reality. First things first, let’s define the term virtual. What is Virtual Reality? Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

It will launch with VR controllers, and will be expensive because it contains a lot of new technology. This is understandable from a business standpoint, but hearing a CTO, so the supreme tech guy of a company, the one who should be excited the most about technology, saying this is a bit sad. News worth a mention. Image by PUBG).

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

And virtual reality continues to be a technology in search of a problem to solve. But, other than giving a presentation at the OpenSim Community Conference in December , I can’t remember the last time I went in-world for a meeting. I’m feeling the urge to run out and buy a gaming console.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Epic Games’ Fortnite is steadily moving from ‘just’ a massively popular battle royale game to a cultural touchstone for hundreds of millions of players. And it was all surprisingly lifelike for something rendered in the Unreal Engine, led by a motion captured performance of Marshmello behind the turntable.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Lenovo, ASUS, Qualcomm, and More to Support Open Future The revamped Meta Horizon OS aims to scale and drive XR application and hardware development, building upon core technologies such as high-resolution passthrough, scene understanding, spatial anchors, and body tracking, eventually powering metaverse experiences.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

Attendees could jump into one of six networked Oculus Rift headsets and enter the world of SlimeZone, letting you play games, watch cartoons, create art, and of course slime others. There was even a chance for parents to participate from the sidelines on a classic upright arcade machine converted into an in-game spectator camera.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

The recent in-game Fortnite concert by Travis Scott, tied to a digital only revenue stream for music labels and artists as live concerts and festivals are put on hold for 2020, is turning the music industry’s eye towards the potential of virtual concerts. Block by Blockwest. Travis Scott’s Astronomical Tour in Fortnite.

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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! Although it’s very new, many of the basic skills needed to take part relate to fields of technology, business, or design that are already well established.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

While that means the Auggie winners were finally announced, there was also other great content, including a lot of discussion around the future of XR technology. The Future of XR Technology. Many of the talks and panel discussions at AWE’s final day appropriately looked to the future of XR technology and experience. The Auggies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2023

Over the last few months, the open metaverse has seen a resurgence in media coverage and technological developments. Conversely, at the enterprise level, Lamina1, Croquet, Siemens, Unity, Meta, Ready Player Me, and others have leveraged their technologies at the grassroots level.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The collaboration comes as the Gothenburg-based company’s popular no-code HiberWorld platform topped four million user-generated worlds, including games, interactive museums, art galleries, and others, over the last four years. create #customise #avatar #metaverse #hiberworld #readyplayerme pic.twitter.com/T661VD6UoV.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Image by Epic Games). Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. In an interview with Kotaku, Half-Life Alyx developers have discussed the use and the representation of the hands inside the game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Quest has an enormous catalog of games with which a startup can’t compete, but Lynx could start dominating a particular niche for which this headset may be optimal. DLCs and IAPs are two new ways that indie developers that are on App Lab can use to monetize their games. could add DLCs with new training levels to earn some money.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! Instagram), so that Nike is recognized as a fashionable brand both in the real and the virtual worlds. in sales of After The Fall in just 24h of selling the game on all platforms.

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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. A VR developer (Valem VR) has made a crazy experiment by mapping an entire athletics track in VR and creating a game for it. More info.

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