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APRIL 15, 2024

OpenXR is the open industry standard API for native XR app development and runtimes. It's managed by Khronos, the same non-profit industry consortium that manages OpenGL, Vulkan, and WebGL. The OpenXR 1.1 specification is now available. The OpenXR 1.0 specification was finalized in 2019. Further, OpenXR 1.1

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JUNE 8, 2023

The global industrial extended reality (XR) market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2030, findings from ABI Research revealed this week. ABI’s Enterprise and Industrial XR Training report found that enterprises have been increasingly tapping virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices over the last five years.

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JUNE 30, 2023

As the ever-growing technology space finds its footing in enterprise and for consumers, industry leaders are ensuring that the market stands upon a strong foundation of industry-wide collaboration and rich design tools. On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Industry-caliber VR/XR specialists Varjo today announced their latest hardware release, the Varjo VR-1. Marketed specifically towards industry professionals, the reflective PC VR headset features an impressive resolution of more than 60 pixels per degree – 20x higher than current competitors.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. Those interested can apply here. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0, the unit will have a price tag of $199 USD per unit.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the most popular companies in the virtual reality space today, HTC VIVE specialises in delivering high-quality immersive experiences to enterprises and everyday users alike. Already, various leading companies have begun implementing HTC VIVE technology into their educational environments. That’s where Unity comes in.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Extended Reality has taken the world by storm, influencing workflows throughout virtually every industry. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. In the AEC environment, XR solutions are quickly becoming a critical part of the modern workflow.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

This innovative avant-garde vision of theater comes from LUMA co-founder Joshua Bernard Ludzki, who became fascinated with the idea of creating a live theater experience that could be experienced remotely in VR after the live theater industry was hit incredibly hard from the coronavirus pandemic. You can get yours here.

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JUNE 5, 2017

.” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system.

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APRIL 6, 2017

In just 3 short days you’ll learn how to build a VR experience from scratch using the Unity game engine. You’ll get to work directly with instructors, hear from two industry experts, and meet the local community. HTC Vives for Project Testing. Start your journey as a VR creator! WHAT’S INCLUDED. •

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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. The show also includes an awards portion and this year one of the top honors is going to a familiar face. Baobab Studios).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

In the construction industry, professionals can work together on digital twins of schematics, blueprints, and products in a shared VR world. Unity represents one of the most flexible environments in the XR landscape for companies looking to build their own collaborative experiences from scratch.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. Shoutout to @ArcturusXR and @dlxrofficial for helping to make this demo happen.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

In just 3 short days from June 16 – June 18 you’ll learn how to build a VR experience from scratch using the Unity game engine. You’ll get to work directly with instructors, hear from two industry experts, and meet the local community. HTC Vives & Oculus Rifts for Project Testing. WHAT’S INCLUDED.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Developing with a VR headset doesn’t necessarily mean you’re developing a VR app; the HTC Vive is finding unexpected use as a camera for virtual worlds, too. VRCameraman costs $25 from the Unity asset store. Tagged with: htc vive , shooting , trailers , VRCameraman.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In a video posted by CBS Los Angeles , we see Rams COO Kevin Demoff guiding a reporter through the VR tour of the jaw dropping venue using an Oculus Rift headset with Touch controllers (photos also show an HTC Vive being used).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Supported AR/VR devices ? ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. Aneesh Kulkarni : Apple’s Vision Pro announcement last week is very likely to be one of the ‘watershed moments’ for the VR and AR industry. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. All of the features we’ve seen on-stage so far are expected to be included in the experimental release, though we’ve reached out to Unity to confirm this.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. That will be a bigger deal once it finally happens because Unity is far and away more used than Unreal Engine when it comes to building XR content.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2020

From live VR concerts in Wave coming from some of the biggest names in music, to HTC’s annual developer conference taking place in Engage , social VR is picking up the slack where video chatting platforms simply don’t cut it. SEE ALSO Social VR App 'VRChat' is Seeing Record Usage Amidst the Pandemic. “Our

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. This time, West used the HTC Vive, having used the Oculus Rift with Touch controllers in previous demos. That changed today.

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MARCH 23, 2017

If you’ve been following VR for a while then you’ll likely recognise Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) as one of the original events designed to evangelise and promote the technology, starting out as a small meetup for enthusiasts and steadily growing into a massive conference that gathers industry figureheads under one roof.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Companies can access high-level rendering, industry-leading optics, and dynamic computing all in a lightweight and ergonomic headset. Speaking of the Metaverse and the rise of new digital experiences for ecommerce companies, retail brands, and their clients, Unity is another market leader worth looking into in this evolving space.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

Valve just took a big step in prepping Steam game developers for the full arrival of OpenXR, the new industry-wide open standard for AR and VR headsets. Developers can now download a beta version that will let them start integrating OpenXR apps into SteamVR. The company has released what it calls “initial support” for the 1.0.9

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

XR Events in 2021 – Celebrating the Industry that Made Lockdown Bearable. This year will be special for the XR industry. The event is an opportunity to explore the latest developments and trends in the XR industry, meet other professionals and negotiate B2B deals. AWE USA 2021. When: November 9 – November 11. ICHVR 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

To date, the global tech industry continues to discuss work in the Metaverse. Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. This will come parallel to industry efforts to develop the best practices and standards for building it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

Notably, via its XR segment, the firm highlighted how spatial data cloud streaming will allow various industrial sectors, such as automated warehouse management, to grow and optimize operations thanks to emerging workplace technology. Seidl added: We have supported Unity and Unreal for a while.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. Connecting with the developer community, sharing our technical insights and learning what is next for the industry is always a highlight for our team,” the VIVE team said in their Tuesday announcement. “ The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC held its VIVE™ Developer Conference 2017 (VDC2017), where it announced VIVE WAVE™ ( www.vive.com/cn/vive-wave-en ), a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and high-performance device optimization for third-party partners. Via HTC Press Release [link].

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