XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

XR enterprise end users can select from various pre-built immersive environments ready on the Mesh platform and personalize those spaces using no-code/Unity tools, allowing end-users to create a meeting room template that the entire organization can access and edit.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

There will be a tipping point for industrial AR, after which adoption accelerates in a sort of herd mentality. We believe the tipping point won’t come in 2020 but momentum will be gained so that it can come in 2021. We believe the tipping point won’t come in 2020 but momentum will be gained so that it can come in 2021.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

SteamVR Tracking Hardware. Interestingly, this is a talk more aimed at hardware developers than software creators, though both are welcome. Given that The Lab is still one of the best-received VR experiences, there’s bound to be tips and tricks shared here that will be useful to just about anybody working with the tech.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

VIVE hand tracking has a number of features, though which features a developer uses depends on their target platform and hardware. So, the processing power of the hardware that developers want their projects to work on should be considered. “ Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking. It’s also a user interface question.

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AR Insider

APRIL 30, 2020

As augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR – collectively mixed reality, or XR) technology and hardware continue to evolve and become more accessible, enterprises are expanding the range of use cases for XR across their organizations. Now, we’ve crossed the tipping point for scaling real-time 3D.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Searching for this week's VR games and hardware news? The Events At Unity Farm is now available on Viveport. If you've got an update for a VR game we should know about for this article or future updates, you can use our contact page or email tips@uploadvr.com with details. Virtual Hunter and Gym Class got new updates.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Chinese VR manufacturer Pico has just got a big round of financing of 242M yuan (circa 37 million dollars) to continue developing its hardware and software platforms.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

While it works well for drawing in the air, a pressure-sensitive tip also makes it great for drawing (and potentially evening writing) against a physical surface. There’s also on-board haptics, and the end of the stylus has a pressure-sensitive tip which allows for pressure-sensitive writing against physical surfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Tips & Tricks for the Quest 2!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

IGS 2023 wrapped up last week, tipping off a monumental event filled with XR innovation across a series of industries. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules. As important industry events occur, the sector continues to progress.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

I found the news a bit worrisome because Facebook currently owns the most used hardware, and is acquiring all the studios creating the best content for the headsets. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. When talking about the hurdles of making a VR game that could run on all platforms, she declared that “The number of polygons we could display on our high-end hardware was about 26 times greater than the number we could display on our low-end”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

And these experiments about wireless headsets make us think that Valve is investigating the possibility of making the Index wireless (or even better, standalone), a feature that many users have asked for. (Thanks Ilja Z for the tip!). Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The rigged hand is available for Unity from our V2 Skeletal Assets. Any tips for your fellow developers? The post Inside Leap Motion: 5 Hands-On Tips for Developing in VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. Even if some gestures don’t impact the data at all (e.g. Think about how to make 3D data accessible.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Within minutes of donning the headset, I saw details in Half-Life: Alyx that I couldn’t even see on prior-generation headsets, like the textured tip of a screwdriver. With the right content, looking through the lenses of Varjo Aero feels like looking at the world with new eyes. Captured by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I like a lot what I know about it, but VR hardware must be tried to be judged, so I’ll wait for the first reviews before expressing a true opinion about it. Thanks Louis Cacciuttolo for the tip). Spatial has announced a toolkit for creators that can be used directly inside Unity. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I love how they are jumping on the hype with humor, more companies should do that (Thanks Tom Ffiske for this tip) Decentralized technologies are great, but be careful that are scams, bots, and hackers also operating in this world. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. Discover the best interaction system for your VR project. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Steam VR stats have been pretty negative in September The Steam hardware survey for September 2023 was very negative for VR. VR users were in September 1.60% of total, down from 1.92% in August … -16% in one month.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The hardware itself is fairly simple, with three LEDs and two infrared cameras. Our Unity , Unreal , and JavaScript integrations already include model hands that you can quickly drop into any project. Here are some tips that will help you build compelling experiences that feel natural: Don’t settle for air pokes.

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

Charles Seguin, Co-Founder and CEO at Digitalnauts, answers a few questions on the representation of the XR industry at SXSW 2022 and gives us his top tips. There are also companies that create d their own hardware to capture their subjects to higher resolution. IF YOU HAVE SOME TOP TIPS, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR THEM!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I’m playing Project Falcon on battered and beaten developer hardware, but it’s still in good enough shape to let me run through the 10 – 20 minute experience. It’s become much more integrated since, and you can expect Unreal and Unity to place a greater focus on native support as more headsets grow to adopt the tech.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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Leapmotion

JULY 28, 2015

The VR Cockpit is an ongoing research project that we created to investigate design patterns for hybrid interfaces – combining physical hardware with motion controlled interactions. However, these hardware controls are also cumbersome in traditional virtual reality. Subscribe to our Twitch channel !). Designing with Hybrid Interfaces.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. In this section, we’ll cover our community’s three most popular environments for deskop and VR/AR: Unity, Unreal, and JavaScript. Get started with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

TIP: If you can allocate the budget I would recommend buying 2 display LCD panels and 1 driver board. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. In terms of software, the North Star uses Unity to render its AR graphics while the Triton uses Three.js. . Yes, Three.js

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

But Meta is not limiting itself to improving its hardware: always this week it has announced that it has invented a new self-supervised algorithm for machine learning training that can learn in the same way for speech, vision, and text. Thanks Edimo Pereira for the tip). Thanks Rob Cole for the tip). Image by Unity).

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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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Leapmotion

MARCH 8, 2015

It looked good on paper, but once I started working with it, I quickly realized that most of my time would be spent just trying to get the device to properly communicate with Unity and pair with the OS rather than having fun making stuff. So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to the rumors, it will be called Vive Flow and it is a hardware product. I don’t think the average VRChat user will ever want to move to this platform : first of all, the world’s creation tools are overly simplistic , while we on VRChat can use the full power of Unity. News worth a mention. News from partners (and friends).

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Of course, it also begins with the hardware and software that drives those interactions. Using our Unity Core Assets detectors scripts , it’s also possible to track certain hand poses, such as thumbs-up. The Leap Motion Orion software opens up two fundamental interactions – pinch and grab.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Over time, my interest shifted to Unity3D, and now I love to tinker with new hardware like the Leap Motion, Oculus Rift, or Kinect – which led to experiments like Hoverboard VR , Polyrider , and Soundscape VR. Any tips for developers who’d like to pursue this road in the future?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! HurricaneVR developer shows you the best way to promote a Unity Plugin for handling VR objects realistically with your hands. Image by HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. This is huge news for all our ecosystem. (Thanks to Mathew Olson for the tip). Their curriculums and programs have also been accepted and implemented by Unity Technologies. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.” The Unity Cube ?? (PS Respect for the devs of Cooking Simulator, it is actually a good game. Thanks Shachar Weis for the tip).

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