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Google Daydream SDK Launches Out of Beta, Adds Unity Integration

Road to VR

After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google’s platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has now combined both Cardboard and Daydream development into the Google VR SDK.

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Start Developing For Google Daydream VR Right Now if You Have a.

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Start Developing For Google Daydream VR Right Now if You Have a Google Nexus 6P Yesterday, at Google I/O, the company unveiled the first details of its new virtual reality platform, Google Daydream. Naturally, there are some specific prerequisites in place to get started with Google Daydream development.

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows. In the meantime, for Windows-focused developer Object Theory, a home-grown solution to input might be a possibility.

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

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There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy.

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Top 50 Terminologies related to AR/VR

ARVR

A form of non-verbal communication through the body (typically the hands or head) that, when tracked by a motion sensing device, can be interpreted as movement and mirrored in virtual reality. Google Poly ?—?a In addition, most HMDs include head tracking sensors so that the system can respond to a user’s head movements.

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VR Prototyping for Less Than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge

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15 for a Google Cardboard viewer. At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. Since VRidge and our Unity Core Assets both take advantage of OpenVR, it’s possible for you to build and test your project using this minimal setup. Download the Unity Core Assets and Modules.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: A Playground of 3D User Interfaces

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With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Click To Tweet Since this project was designed to run on mobile VR headsets, we designed knowing that it might be experienced with only 3 degree-of-freedom (3DoF) head tracking. Ending contact.