ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

continuing here with Epic Games. Project Anywhere Epic Games has signaled its commitment to a real-world metaverse with the AR launch of Project Anywhere. In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations.

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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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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. In the real world, sound follows the inverse square law – getting quieter as the source gets farther away.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

CX and the Metaverse: The Changing Face of Customer Service in a Virtual World. Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine. In this article, we introduce you to Victoria VR, a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users, and powered by Unreal Engine. Top AR/VR Trends for 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

I have just finished playing Red Matter 2 , the much-awaited sequel of Red Matter , one of my favorite games for Quest. During the whole game, you are confronted with posters, writings, and products that remind a lot of Soviet Russia (e.g. Red Matter 2 is mostly a puzzle game.

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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 then veered off to instead put real people into an animated world.

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ARPost

MARCH 23, 2023

Even more exciting, the virtual world could be constantly extended. Attendees were also treated to other immersive and engaging virtual music experiences. Each of these emerging French artists performed in different virtual worlds. In this world, all share resources and cohabitate in symbiosis.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2022

Referred to by event organizers as the Coachellaverse , this incredible digital experience allows fans from all around the world to interact with the festival in a brand new way using a combination of immersive technologies. Coachellaverse is a huge turning point for the annual festival. Flume wasn’t the only artist using AR.

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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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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., In these virtual world environments, people are often more comfortable talking to virtual agents,” said Gelfenbeyn. “In

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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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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Sony customers also leverage the widely adopted Unreal Engine, a powerful real-time 3D engine that can create immersive environments. So that was one idea behind the Virtual Production Toolset was to create a virtual Venice camera that can be loaded inside Unreal Engine. Put tools back in the hands of the people.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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Upload VR

JUNE 14, 2023

Guards hide behind desks, tripmines move along walls, weapons and items sit on benches and shelves and large virtual ‘roller doors’ sit on your real worlds - revealing a virtual world beyond. Digital Lode says that small spaces are supported, but the mode also supports multiple rooms of a house.

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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

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 Government: supporting societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities virtual worlds can offer. Kudos to him.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users. BMW Keynote Address.

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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

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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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Coming off of several impressive early VR experiences, the pivot toward a full fledged game was an exciting new path for the studio. At the time the studio expected to launch the game in 2016. While the Smash Bros-esque game is the fundamental core of [Bebylon], we always envisioned a world that you could immerse yourself in.

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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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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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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets. Metal for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

After Fortnite started the trend of virtual concerts in virtual worlds, always more platforms started implementing them. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. This is cool because it will help spread the word about VR and virtual worlds. Image by PUBG).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

According to the team, if you need to test for instance that your game increases the health of the player by 50 hp when he grabs a white suitcase, you can create an automated test that simulates the grab and checks that the action is executed.

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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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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Whimsical fall leaves, melancholy rain, spooky fog – weather can be a powerful way to set the tone for your virtual world (or give your users Storm-like superpowers).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. Meta hihglights that its work with ASUS and Xbox tagerts gaming hardware, meanwhile Meta’s experiecne with Lenovo will help scale mixed reality devices for productivity, learning, and entertainment.

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Voices of VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This adds interactive capabilities to glTF objects that are similar to Unreal Engines Blueprint system, Unity’s Visual Scripting Language, and NVIDIA Omniverse’s Omnigraph systems. jpg format for 3D objects). jpg format for 3D objects).

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

HeadOffice.Space announced their premier space for connection, it’s the world’s first metaverse on the moon designed for the ever-changing way remote teams work, play, learn, and explore together. I’m certain people will spend more time in work-related game-like experiences in the future. Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

If you’re unfamiliar with visual scripting environments, such as Unreal Engine’s ‘Blueprints’ for example, it’s a way to visually represent objects, actions, properties etc. This new feature, is called LogiX. ” NeosVR ‘s LogiX takes that accessibility a step further.

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