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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

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Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK. The Florida company has released during the GDC the Lumin SDK, that is the development kit that has to be used to develop for LuminOS, the custom operating system of the Magic Leap device.

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ILMxLab’s Rob Bredow Explains What VR Opens Up For ‘Star Wars’

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Several of the early VR projects from ILMxLab, including Trials on Tatooine and the Magic Leap mixed reality droid experience , were built using Epic Games Unreal Engine 4 technology. “We The haptics and other things you can do in those environments can be very unique and very fun and give people a different kind of experience.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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Microsoft has showcased a new haptic device, that is made by a ball that moves towards your hand when you grab a virtual object and that goes away when your hand is free in the game. Upload VR) More info (Microsoft’s haptic research). Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

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When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link. The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Some XR fun.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.27): Meta shows its R&D prototypes, Apple shows nothing as usual, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. For the first time I can see a real footage of the Teslasuit haptic gloves. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which] is this device where it uses ultrasonic waves to give you the sense of touch.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which]. We’re not tied to Magic Leap. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee.

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