XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2023

Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity Google has launched Geospatial Creator for Unity, a new platform that allows developers to preview 3D assets in the Unity Editor. Geospatial Creator for Unity currently offers visualizations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 countries.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

Jan Goetgeluk, the Founder and CEO of Virtuix , sat down with XR Today earlier this month to discuss the development of the product while also giving insight into creating VR hardware for consumers and commercial markets. Goetgeluk explained that the hardware provides increased immersion while adding “ a lot to the fun factor of VR.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2020

Oculus has introduced three changes to significantly speed up the iteration process for developers building Quest applications with Unity. SEE ALSO Dev Shares Crash Course on VR Game Optimization for Oculus Quest & Mobile Hardware. Two of the three changes are available with Unity 2018.1 Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2022

At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for Unity & Unreal Engine. Unity & Unreal On the Way. The post Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation. Design, Develop & Deploy for VR with Oculus & Unity. Already have some basic game dev experience and looking to get into VR?

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

Google has announced that its augmented reality platform Tango will be getting native integrated support for Unity later this year. Google’s Nathan Martz, Photo Courtesy Unity. Google’s Nathan Martz, Photo Courtesy Unity. SEE ALSO Asus 'ZenFone AR' Google Tango, Daydream VR Phone Launched, Specs Revealed.

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ARVR

MARCH 30, 2021

This runs like any other unity build, and will connect to the headset plugged in automatically when you open up Oculus link on your quest. You will probably notice when playing the build that the framerate is a lot better than when you were testing it in Unity! You officially have a built project ready to run free of the Unity editor!

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

” Even more was revealed by Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at argodesign , who helped develop the Magic Leap 2 hardware. The idea is that it’s a garment, not a piece of hardware. You can’t just have hardware, you can’t just have software, it’s the whole ecosystem that’s necessary,” said Kling.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ars Technica reported : For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. ” “Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted.” What has happened?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work? Currently, Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity offers visualisations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 nations.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Toggle GPU instancing on materials.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Notably, SpectreXR is collaborating with UltraLeap in a “ shared goal ” to enhance immersive training by leveraging UltraLeap hardware alongside “OctoXR” – the firm’s first-party hand-tracking SDK. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2023

Available for purchase next month, the ELF-SR2 is a 27-inch 4K display that can supposedly deliver immersive 3D content without the need for additional hardware, such as augmented reality (AR) glasses or a VR headset. Sony announced a new addition to its growing lineup of Spatial Reality Displays. For more information visit here.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. But, the industry is still in its infancy and still seeking a firm footing that will truly form an ecosystem: a self-sustaining web of hardware builders, software developers, and consumer demand.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2023

Unity developers can build spatial computing experiences for visionOS that blend digital content with the physical world using Unity PolySpatial. Through this beta program, you and other creatives will be able to create experiences using Unity editor that can run on the Apple Vision Pro MR headset. for Apple Vision Pro.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

Unity VR Developer. Organization: Unity. Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. The Unity organization is keen on training and certifying professionals who will put their tool to the best possible use. Before you take the exam, you can use the Unity Learn platform for practice.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 8, 2023

According to reports, Rec Room is working with Apple to create an updated version of the Metaverse service that leverages the device’s hardware features like body tracking. Apple supports Unity applications as part of its software stack. Here’s a first look at Rec Room running on the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Additional collaboration with major telecoms like Vodafone would also help facilitate 5G connectivity to alleviate motion sickness, create more realistic immersive experiences, improve hardware performance and form factors, and boost opportunities for gaming to grow across the sector.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

No C# Unity programmers please (unless you just happen to know C# and are better in a systems language than you are in C#). We had The Witnes s running on Valve’s pre-production hardware [prior to HTC Vive]. He says the hardware is ready. Experience shipping VR games is a huge plus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 5, 2017

One of the amazing things about Apple’s new ARKit developer platform is that there’s no extra hardware required. The SDK is already functional with the Unity engine, and support for Samsung’s Galaxy phones is also planned for the near future. Clay is looking to do the same with gesture tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Virtualware will also serve as the exclusive sponsor of the event to unite “Unity instructors and workforce development professionals,” according to a press release. Those attending can network with executives from global firms, showcasing the capabilities of Unity’s RT3D technologies.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 18, 2022

The extended reality (XR) industry unveiled news on multiple fronts, from shocking shakeups to big reveals in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) hardware and software. Unity To Boost Advert ROI with IronSource Debut.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. This approach allows limited hardware to provide minimal input to the digital twin. That’s where the game engine starts.”

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. In Unity, OpenXR support is still considered “experimental.” Image courtesy The Khronos Group.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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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. ” Tagged with: cloud , development , Octane , orbx , otoy , unity.

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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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ARPost

JULY 23, 2019

The beta works even without the $1,199 hardware package. They had earlier announced that the kit would be forthcoming, but details were light. A new release shared with ARPost gave us more details on the NRSDK 1.0 Beta which launched yesterday. The Announcement.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made, and we are looking forward to working with software and hardware partners to bring hand tracking to the masses.” . Gemini Supports Popular XR Toolkits. Also, Gemini has already been integrated into Varjo’s XR-3 and VR-3 headsets , as well as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 platform.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

Get a glimpse into the gameplay in Ghostbusters: Dimension, created with Unity 3D. Unity, the largest global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games and experiences, today announced a new and truly unique virtual reality (VR) experience "Ghostbusters: Dimension" has been built using the Unity Technologies platform.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Namely, within the XR space, the firm works on many related immersive technologies to boost Meta’s hardware and software offerings, from AI to avatars. Haptic feedback comes in many hardware forms, such as gloves or controllers. Another technology space, Meta, is keen to crack the haptics market. What is Haptics Studio by Meta?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Learn the ins-and-outs of Unity development and have your project reviewed by Oculus experts. From the initial prototyping stages to testing and final submissions, students will be guided through every stage of VR development for Oculus Rift/Rift S and Oculus Quest headsets on the Unity platform. Image Credit: Oculus, Unity.

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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. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players.

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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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