Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

Intel’s Brent Insko has taken over as the Chair of the OpenXR working group after Epic’s Nick Whiting passed the torch. OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Creating a phenomenal XR experience requires the careful alignment of software and hardware solutions. Plus, it means groups of people can share the same aligned XR interaction. Photogrammetry also makes it easier to bring the detail of real-life content into a virtual space. Edge and Cloud Computing.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many individuals and groups are making Metaverse laws, best practices, and legal standards to regulate and standardize the growing Web3 landscape. Although primary, extended reality (XR) firms like Meta face ongoing hurdles with their refocused Metvaerse and immersive hardware ambitions. Metaverse and XR Investigations.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The CEO of the leading virtual reality (VR) firm first caught the ire of the FTC when Meta attempted to purchase immersive fitness application developers Within for $440 million in 2021. The shake-up refocused the group considerably, leading up to the release of the Meta Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual has been released on the Oculus Quest. Netflix may be interested in the VR market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 22, 2024

Digital twins are already transforming product development in multiple ways, as Gary Radburn, NVIDIA Solutions Manager for Lenovo’s Workstation product group, explained. The convergence of Lenovo ’s innovative hardware and NVIDIA’s cutting-edge software helps power a meaningful leap forward in digital twin technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link]. Talking about the hardware, instead, what are your remarks regarding the accessibility of current headsets and controllers? You cannot test with everyone, however, you can get a few folks to test.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 14- Kai Liang.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. “The working group is excited to launch the 1.0 OpenXR specification.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Back in 2016, a group of Japanese developers were working on a project with a local fashion designer who wanted to do a fashion show in an underwater environment. In physical reality this would be impossible, however they sought to use VR as means of achieving what the fashion designer wanted. What is STYLY’s backstory?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. Rising VR Company. Innovative VR Company.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. Or Unreal if that’s your language. There was a lot of hardware work. I learned how to do the coding.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

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. I have watched in particular the reviews of Mike Virtual Reality Oasis and Sebastian Ang (MRTV). Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. SEPHORA UPDATES THEIR AUGMENTED REALITY BEAUTY APP.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

Enea Le Fons is the epic guy of #30DaysInVR : he spent 30 days inside a virtual reality headset to help to shape an open and better future for virtual reality. I think humans are more than ready, the hardware is getting there … and software making VR more relevant and useful is being built as we speak.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Story Studio is the team within Oculus that focused on the creation of narrative driven virtual reality content like the emmy award winning Henry, emotionally moving story Dear Angelica and breakout content like Lost. In a surprise announcement, Facebook is announcing today that it will be shuttering Oculus Story Studio.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

XR Awards Winners Announced The XR Awards 2023, alongside an esteemed group of industry expert judges, revealed this year’s winners across 16 categories that showcase the best and brightest the space has to offer. But XR Today is ahead of the coming wave of interest, forthcoming with Apple’s upcoming announcement.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets. Currently, the company is investing in a variety of tools to unlock the metaverse.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Generative AI tools have also helped dungeon masters create imagery to share with their groups. For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright Ripple is the first of its kind, using your smartphone to access augmented reality apps and is very accessible at the $40 price point. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Newly Formed Getty Images Virtual Reality Group Wants to Put You Inside Stock Photos.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

This is a free association headed by Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, which aims at creating standards for the future metaverse. The Khronos Group already succeeded with OpenXR, so it has a good track in helping in creating standards. Metaverse Standards Forum aims at setting standards for the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

These changes will also impact Reality Labs and CTO Andrew Bosworth is deciding these days which hardware projects to kill during this spending review operation. Meta won’t perform layoffs in the Reality Labs division, and it is still committed to investing billions in it, but it will have to sacrifice some projects. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Are you ready?

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the company’s own blog post , Senior Vice President of New Technologies Group, Josh Walden, stated the acquisition granted Intel with “low-power, high-performance SoC [System on Chip] platforms” that would help to accelerate its computer vision services. Polyarc , a new company that today announced a $3.5

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

All sort of innovations were happening in that studio, so my group of friends pulled me there and I got a job in the camera department. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. We are seeing industry groups like Open AR Cloud campaigning for interoperability.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. Where OpenVR stands between our application and the hardware (Image by Valve). Go Mati, show us all what you’re capable of!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

Some also define the Metaverse as interconnected virtual reality (VR) environments for socialization, events, and work. Although, the Metaverse is also present on augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) hardware through platforms such as Niantic and STYLY , which promote socially driven immersive content overlaid on the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is much better than ALVR and other similar solutions (of course, because Oculus can operate at a deeper level on its hardware and runtime).

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

group of metaverse experts I know, the over 700 members of the RyanSchultz.com Discord server. Question: how hard is it to move from Unity to, say, Unreal, or Godot? There’s zero information about how a “device” will be kept track of, so potentially just changing the hardware in a device will cause the fee to reset.

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