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JUNE 23, 2023

Called Masterpiece X , the free creation tool is now live on the Quest platform, bringing with it the ability to remix existing models and make it your own through “a more playful and fluid workflow: 3D remixing, which is the process of creating new content by modifying old content,” explains studio founder Jonathan Gagne in a Meta blog post.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Meta today announced that it has begun working on a handful of monetization tools for its Horizon Worlds platform that will allow select creators to sell virtual items and effects within their custom worlds, setting the stage for the company’s metaverse economy. Meta kick-starts is metaverse economy. The first is in-world purchases.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Apple has released new and updated tools for developers to begin building XR apps on Apple Vision Pro. While some of the tools will be familiar to Apple developers, tools like Simulator and Reality Composer Pro are newly released for the headset.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Rec Room dropped some juicy news during its big virtual event RecCon , including the announcement of Rec Room Studio, an awesome new tool that will let you create your own amazing experiences featuring killer graphics and animations on the social VR platform. Look out for more details on this game soon.

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VRScout

JUNE 2, 2021

Theia Interactive’s new VR tool takes the guesswork out of designing products and campaigns. . Beyond the obvious use-cases of gaming, socialVR, workforce training, and education, VR can also be used to collect deep marketing data in new and exicting ways. These same tools could also prove useful within the gaming sector.

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2020

Create your own levels, textures, models, and animations using the Alyx Workshop tools suite. According to the official notes , creators will have the opportunity to customize nearly every aspect of the existing HL:A experience, from the robust physics engine, to particle effects, to the in-game multi-tool puzzle mechanic.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

support for visionOS, making its now Vision Pro-compatible game engine available to all Unity Pro, Enterprise, and Industry subscribers. Tools for Vision Pro App Development appeared first on Road to VR. Unity has officially launched 1.0 The post Unity Releases 1.0

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This includes the Presence Platform, a suite of new tools that will let you build more connected experiences that allow you to move easily between worlds. Imagine an experience where you win a battle by yelling out a magic spell or using your own voice to barter with an in-game merchant. Voice SDK will be powered by Facebook’s Wit.ai

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Razer, the popular peripheral company, today announced the free release of the Interhaptics haptic authoring tool which is designed to make it faster and easier for developers to create compelling haptic effects for multiple haptic devices. Razer acquired haptic software tool company Interhaptics earlier this year.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

How much is spent on software and developer tools to build entertainment & gaming apps, as well as web and in-app experiences? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment breaks it down This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2023

Google has announced an upcoming AR game, Space Invaders: World Defense , which is built as a showcase of the company’s latest AR tool. This week at Google IO 2023, the company added a brand new tool to its kit called Geospatial Creator.

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VRScout

JULY 27, 2022

The future of tabletop gaming is looking bright thanks to VR. All On Board is a mod-based VR platform currently in development for Meta Quest and PC VR headsets that allows you to play an ever-expanding catalog of multiplayer board games built by the community for the community in VR. . Image Credit: The Game Kitchen.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. Now in Beta, Rec Room Studio is said to support: Importing assets and textures.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Librarium , a leader in immersive education whose innovative approach helps students prepare for tests and improve their memory retention and performance using their patent-pending VR technology, has announced the launch of their study tool app for the Meta Quest 2 VR headset. As VR headset adoption is predicted to grow by 18.2%

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been a while since we heard about Modbox , the Early Access game creation suite for AR and VR headsets. “The reason this has taken years to develop is because we needed to be able to create our own unique game experiences with it before it was worth releasing,” Alientrap’s Lee Vermeulen explains.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Though gaming is likely VR’s most visible use-case so far, it’s capable of so much more. If you’re interested in exploring your creativity in VR, here’s 11 tools worth checking out. It’s also a space in which to create your own dreams, whether they’re games, art, films, music or anything in-between and beyond.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2019

Yesterday, Oculus launched its official set of Mixed Reality Capture Tools for the Oculus Quest, allowing users to record high-quality gameplay footage where real-world objects and people appear in VR. The post Oculus Quest Mixed Reality Capture Tools Now Available appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: Oculus.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2023

Cloudhead Games is set to release a modding tool for its hit rhythm shooter Pistol Whip next month, which will let you create your own scenes from the ground-up for some very John Wick-style combat. Granted, you will need a copy of the game on PC (for now) to play. If you want to get modding, Pistol Mix is entirely free.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The installation also features an integrated ARFX Pro Plugin and ARFX Launcher collaboration tools that increase efficiency by dramatically reducing downtime on set. UE5) tackles the most demanding tasks from RT3D productions by providing 3D designers with tools to create hyper-realistic renders for film, gaming, and XR productions.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How much is spent on software and developer tools to build XR entertainment & gaming experiences? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment unpacks original data from our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

JUNE 14, 2022

Meta today announced the rollout of its v41 update for Meta Quest VR headsets, offering users new social features as well as a plethora of parental supervision tools that make it easier to monitor your teens’ activity in the metaverse. In addition to Horizon Home, v41 also introduces a plethora of parental supervision tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. Spatial is leveraging existing popular RT3D content creation tools to become the go-to Metaverse content creation hub. Spatial also assists in the We3 revolution.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2020

Valve today launched new Half-Life: Alyx modding tools which will allow developers and tinkerers to make and publish mods and user-generated content via the Steam Workshop system. Valve says the tools will allow for the creation of new levels, models, textures, and animations for the game.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2022

The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The post Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2024

I went hands-on with Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire, an upcoming horror-puzzle for Quest from Schell Games that tasks you with defusing various arcane traps protecting a coven of sleeping vampires. Once you’ve opened the top bit of the coffin carefully, keeping quiet and being very precise is the name of the game.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2022

Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the first time allows developers to import scans of real people for use in real-time applications. A 3D character made with MetaHuman | Image courtesy Epic Games.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

to AUDICA converter, a free tool that allows fans of the uber popular 2007 rhythm game to easily transport millions of user-created maps to Harmonix Music System’s VR rhythm experience AUDICA. map file of your preferred track to the converter tool and transport the resulting.audica file to the games’ song folder.

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ARPost

MARCH 28, 2023

Now, it could become an immersive gaming platform. The quests can be “games and immersive stories” as well as “interactive exhibitions” according to a release shared with ARPost. The toolkit also features advanced tools for linking virtual worlds together. Then, it changed lanes to offer virtual worlds for consumer social uses.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 27, 2022

Users can view and edit their captured data in graphics engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Martin added, “Many companies have primarily used Lidar technology for point cloud creation and are looking for cheaper, easier-to-manage solutions” New Tools for a Range of Industries. ‘Unpacking’ Mosaic X.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Coming soon to major VR headsets, HUMANITY is a unique-looking VR puzzle game that tasks you with guiding hordes of mostly brainless humans through a series of otherworldly obstacles. There’s even a level creator tool, allowing you to design your own courses and share them with the community.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

We also received updates on a number of highly-anticipated VR games. During yesterday’s Upload VR Showcase Winter 2022 , Fast Travel Games revealed Ghost Signal: A Sterraris Game , a VR action roguelite game set in the Stellaris universe. The game sends you on a journey in search of the enigmatic Ghost Signal.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 19, 2022

Auckland-based virtual reality (VR) Metaverse platform Many Worlds launched its bespoke immersive content creation tools on Friday last week, which provides a digital space to create custom avatars, virtual spaces, and interactive content. The company provides an immersive environment for users to play mini-games, join events, and socialise.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

VR has proven to be an incredible tool when it comes to education. Feature Image Credit: Futuclass OU The post VR Game Futuclass Teaches You Basic Chemistry appeared first on VRScout. Experiment your way through a variety of hydrogen VR lessons in this unique educational experience.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 4, 2022

Rec Room today announced the launch of a new game coming to the popular social VR platform that lets you suit up for a PvP western-style shootout with your squad. As a part of Showdown’s release, Rec Room also announced it’s bringing to the platform new weapons creation tools so users can build their own multiplayer battles.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 8, 2022

This Thursday, Enrique Tromp, the Co-Founder and CTO of VRMADA , took to his LinkedIn account to announce UltimateXR (extended reality), a free and open-source framework for creating enterprise-grade immersive training scenarios, collaboration environments, and interactive gaming experiences.

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VRScout

AUGUST 11, 2022

This western-inspired game has you and other players taking a ride on the old Rec Express to Sarsaparilla Springs, a legendary ghost town that is now used as a battlefield. Rec Room members can play an early access version of the game today. Rec Room members can play an early access version of the game today. Yeeee-HAW!!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Starting on November 9th and ending on November 22nd, Meta is challenging developers to create something with either of its latest XR tools, Spark AR or mixed reality Presence Platform. The post Meta Hackathon This Month Challenges Devs to Use Its Latest XR Tools for $700,000 in Prizes appeared first on Road to VR.

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