XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Google might not earn as much attention in the XR space as some other leading technology vendors, but it has already captured the attention of countless artists and educators with its unique virtual reality tools. Software like Google’s VR tilt brush allows users to create unique virtual art pieces in a completely limitless canvas space.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. More info (Smell Simulation) More info (Eyes’ display).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Megadodo simulation has announced a hard pivot for its Decagear headset. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight. This is not the real Mt.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Additional expo highlights include Xtrematic’s extreme sports simulator, bHaptics’ full-body haptic suit, Bioflight’s VR medical training simulations and Phasespace’s large-scale motion capture system.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2021

Asaf then goes on to describe the tool he created for Daniel (art department) that would let him draw assets in Quill and import them directly into Unity, almost as though streamlining production pipelines and avoiding explosives are just different obstacles in VR game design that needed to be worked around. Image Credit: Peanut Button.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Meta has not yet confirmed 8K streaming on its Quest portfolio.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. HTC – Vive. Google – Daydream View. Google – Tilt Brush. Google – Google Earth VR. Google – Tabel.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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. Very early prototype controllers from Valve that simulated gripping and dropping objects.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! The Pico SDK can be easily accessed from the Pico website : it is available for Unity, UE4 and also for the native Android platform. User Interface.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. Read more about this news: Project Nazare: [link].

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. From location-based entertainment, motion simulators and VR arcades, to next-gen haptics, 360-degree cameras and the hottest product launches across virtual and augmented reality, this year’s expo will feature something for everyone to explore.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The entire short film, embedded below, was created in Unity and is driven by a synthwave soundtrack scored by Emmy award winning composer RAD LAZER (aka Rafter Roberts). UploadVR: Why did you choose to make this entirely in Unity? Unity changed that. Again this is another strength that Unity brought to the project.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Interestingly enough, the open world features wildlife simulations provided by IBM’s Watson. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Curioser and curioser….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. The m**averse hype is attracting investors.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Attendees learned and experienced the firm’s technologies and the growing number of use cases for simulations, collaboration, engagement, and visualisation. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser. We’d love to host you.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

On the other hand, developers only have to write the code once and it will work on all devices (Oculus, Vive, HTC, Google Cardboard, etc.) WebXR Examples WebXR Room I recently created this simple application using the WebXR Device API developed by Mozilla on the Unity video game engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Acadicus is a tool for medical simulations and for training, and works both with or without a virtual reality headset. IrisVR allows you to upload 3D files from Revit, NavisWorks, Rhino, and FBX or other design tools and supports Windows, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The Prospect v2.10

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. But Google said no, he claimed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. There are already a lot of developers on Unity, so I understand that developing for the Vision Pro will be quite effortless. It remains to be seen.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

15 for a Google Cardboard viewer. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. 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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Now there’s a step change in my ability to develop in the simulator, write quality code, and design good user experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. In the case of Google Earth VR , you may need to trick it into running , since Google decided to limit that program to Vive only for now. Another example is with Onward , a military simulation shooter.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Cameron: Absolutely.

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