Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

HTC has announced a new set of tools allowing developers to build applications which take advantage of the Vive Pro’s stereo front-facing cameras, effectively turning the device into an AR headset dev kit. The new tools allow the cameras to capture depth, spatial mapping data, hand input, and seamlessly shift between VR and AR worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

I know that your team has created a tool called Holo-BLSD. Presentation video of Holo BLSD. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. A self-instruction tool can solve many of these problems if it is indeed effective in achieving the same learning outcomes of a traditional course. And is it a reliable self-evaluation tool?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Earlier this morning, VR hardware manufacturer Varjo revealed the latest additions to its lineup of human-eye resolution mixed reality headsets, the Varjo XR-3 and Varjo VR-3. Varjo has pushed the boundaries of high-resolution mixed reality for professionals across various industries,” said AC Mahendran , Director, XR, Unity. “By

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. Even if Meta still doesn’t admit that its headsets are used by a lot of small kids (these measures are marketed as tools parents can use with teenagers), these measures are targeted also at them.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For November’s batch of free VR experiences, we have everything from a VR board game experience and collaborative design tool to an old-school DJ simulator. Watch YouTube videos with your friends in VR on the Quest. You still can’t log in to your personal account, create playlists, or favorite videos. NEVER BOARD.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 11, 2017

The road to photorealistic VR is long, but OTOY is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity. You could import a simple item from the Unity asset store, apply the renderer, and have it look strikingly realistic. CEO Jules Urbach runs us through them in the video embedded on this post.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review. Vive Hand Tracking Unity SDK. With all those buttons and fields, you can simulate two hands inside Unity (Image by HTC).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You can then use the HoloPlay Studio software to easily drag and drop new holograms onto the device, develop applications using plugins for programs like Unity and Unreal Engine, and more. A built-in Raspberry Pi 4 allows you to view roughly 1,000 holographic photos and videos on a loop without the need for a computer.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2020

Best Creator and Authoring Tool. Best Developer Tool. Best Input and Output Hardware. Best Interaction Software Tool. This includes a brief description and may also include a cover photo and video attachments. The Auggies recognize XR technology in 15 categories: Best Art or Film. Best Campaign. Best Consumer App.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2022

The company offers creator tools as well as a suite of solutions for users to “manage, control, and benefit from their digital identities.” Peace & Unity” Exhibition in Spatial’s Peace Pavilion NFT Environment. The Oasis Digital Gallery Opening. ARPost hasn’t (yet) introduced readers to Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. A thing I have appreciated about Meta is that it has canceled projects, but it has not fired anyone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mesh for Teams, an Overview Mesh for Teams is a set of tools that enterprise clients can use to create virtual immersive spaces ready to meet specific business needs, such as employee events, tours, product showcases, and training. The no-code suite comes with organizer tools that give unprecedented control of a Mesh event to its operators.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. And then there are the “tools” with which all of the above will have to be created, modeled, written, and programmed. Unity (Nasdaq: U) for 3D Modeling and Animation Tools. NFTs have a lot of applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

The hardware-agnostic technology is compatible with a range of different devices to ensure everyone in the workplace can interact with the same holographic tools. Unity Unity stands as one of the market leaders in software development for the metaverse landscape and the XR economy.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. More Accessible Developer Tools VR solutions are becoming more popular in commercial settings and it’s expected that developing such solutions will become simpler in the coming years.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Apple may not hold the majority of the PC market, but among certain sectors its hardware and software are nearly industry standards. Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

In particular, Samsung, which is one of the best smartphone brands, and has also always produced good VR hardware, is positioning itself to become also a leader in immersive headsets and challenge Apple in this field, too. Google is also going to launch a game to showcase the features you can build with these tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

As companies continue to embrace the age of digital transformation, they’re looking for tools which can align seamlessly with the solutions they already rely on every day. As a result, the demand for “interoperability” in XR is increasing. Fortunately, leading XR brands are paying attention.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. The latest generations of mobile users are on Snapchat and TikTok – platforms that provide the latest tools for self-expression and personalization.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove video review. This post contains a very detailed review of the SenseGlove force-feedback gloves, but if you don’t like walls of texts and prefer a more agile video review, then I got you covered! Have fun watching this review video. As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Whether an end-user is operating from an industrial, manufacturing or office workspace, XR hardware and software could present opportunities to enhance a worker’s experience. Nunez also added that immersive tools could provide accurate representations of high-cost items. “Also, your throughput can be a lot higher.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

ARtillery Briefs is a video series that outlines the top trends we’re tracking, including takeaways from recent reports and market forecasts. See the most recent episode below, including narrative takeaways and embedded video. Those are further subdivided by hardware, software and other revenue sources. Virtuous Cycle.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

ARtillery Briefs is a video series that outlines the top trends we’re tracking, including takeaways from recent reports and market forecasts. See the most recent episode below, including narrative takeaways and embedded video. Those are further subdivided by hardware, software and other revenue sources. Virtuous Cycle.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The discussion naturally relied on streaming video as a familiar analogy although streaming XR content is much more complicated. “If The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Best Creator and Authoring Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Altspace was pretty unique because it offered amazing tools to create groups and communities, so people being part of it had many connections inside the platform. The newspaper describes the glasses as the hardware through which Tim Cook will leave his legacy because they are a new product line fully built under his management.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Users of the Mocopi ecosystem can also leverage a plugin from Sony which allows created animations to be exported into other development software, such as MotionBuilder and Unity. Users can leverage the technology to import motion-captured data from haptic tools and hardware.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Though well loved, Apple’s computer lineup got somewhat left in the dust at the launch of the Rift and Vive, both of which had hardware requirements that exceeded what Apple had on offer. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. VR Video Editing in Final Cut Pro X.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2020

ThinkReality. “ [ ThinkReality] is our brand within Lenovo for our commercial AR and VR solutions,” Pettyjohn said in a recent video interview. The ideal industry solution would be hardware and cloud agnostic, but would also have security measures for the posting of proprietary information. Most of them listed the same problems.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no hardware launch , but my lack of sleep has been rewarded by the announcement of a new software platform by HTC and also by HTC publicly showcasing some prototypes I made in the last weeks. The full video is shown down in the article. Vive XR Suite.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In a recent video , we shared our first impressions and showed footage recorded in the headset. One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. The Lynx R-1 is built on Android 10 and will support Unity with an SDK made in collaboration with Qualcomm and Ultraleap.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Earlier this year, Apple debuted its Vision Pro XR headset to provide an immersive productivity tool to act as a technology leap forward following the firm’s Mac laptop and desktop portfolio. Leading developers like Maxo and Unity are already using Object Capture to unlock entirely new ways of creating 3D content.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What on Earth is a social networking company doing buying a VR hardware startup, and for that much money? The key apps are what you’d expect: social communication and media consumption, especially immersive video. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) hardware grows in sophistication, many developers are scrambling to create content to match the evolving landscape. A vital tool in an XR developer’s belt is a real-time 3D (RT3D) engine. Providing $11 Million for Volumetric Video Growth.

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