XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme. The cutting-edge immersive experience will celebrate the heritage of Black and diverse artists, creators, and musicians using a host of emerging technologies.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

NUMENA GmbH for “ SSI VR ,” an immersive training application to help surgeons avoid infections that can occur at the site of operations. Bhd for “ TM One XR City: Immersive Opportunities.” Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. Geometry Ogilvy Japan for “ Shibuya Virtual Halloween.”

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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. Learn more: [link] #VIVEMARS #SIGGRAPH2022 #trackedonmars #virtualproduction pic.twitter.com/uNTI9bH6hs. —

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. teams for Japan. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. Hello Eido, introduce yourself to my readers!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

That’s why when I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Joyce from the company, I immediately exploited it to ask him not only about Styly and his creators, but also something more about Japan and the M-word. However, if you’re unfamiliar with Unity you can use STYLY Studio to build your scene through a no-code solution.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Eight years on from Hyper-Reality, I found myself on a media tour in Japan with Psychic VR, a Tokyo-based VR/AR start-up presenting me its pitch for an in-development, large scale project called CityXR. With CityXR, Psychic sees cities like Tokyo being transformed into augmented, immersive playgrounds featuring 'spatial entertainment'.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This is an enormous number: this means that now 15–20% of the total Facebook workforce is on immersive technologies, even if XR is currently a very little revenue stream for the social media giant. My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Among these technologies, immersive realities will play a very important part, and HTC wants so to start offering services in that sense. So, I made a prototype with Unity and the Cosmos XR where I can actually take out a PC from an Amazon page and try it on my desk. In Taipei they’re investing a lot in software now.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With the Ultimate Tracker, HTC Vive has developed a way to bring a new immersive world to so many people” VRChat has long been a supporter of HTC VIVE and Sony-based solutions and remains a major platform for spatial communications and VR social environments. #VR Now you can play #VR FBT games anywhere in your house!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That would be great for immersion, of course. If you want to watch an amazing ad about VR, watch this one by Meta Japan! Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Mindport is a very interesting plugin on the Unity Asset Store that lets you create your VR experiences in Unity in an easy way.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. In Japan, new PSVR bundles will include an adapter in the box, while in the West the adapter won’t be included, but it will be given for free to existing PSVR users. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). A doctor has created the website VR Therapists to connect patients with psychologists offering immersive VR therapeutics.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In the blink of an eye the world around me dissolves and the restaurants of East Fourth Street are replaced by the brilliant purple face of Japan’s Mt. ” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset.

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VRScout

JANUARY 16, 2019

With the exception of these vague statements, Nintendo has been quite noncommittal about dipping their toes into immersive tech – at least in public. Image Credit: CNET Japan. So the recent news that the video game giant would be joining a newly formed “VRM Consortium” is likely to get some fans excited.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

PARO is an advanced interactive robot used in hospitals and extended care facilities in Japan and Europe. Several participants wanted to pick up the sushi and I feel adding that interactivity would have made the experience more immersive. Cute Animals. One of my biggest inspirations is taken from PARO, the therapeutic seal robot.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. Officially support for Unity 2019.2 binary builds for Unreal available through the Epic Launcher).

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Japan-based startuped Exiii is developing a pair of haptic gloves with force feedback, aimed at making VR more immersive. Both devices include a Unity SDK for integrating them into VR experiences. Exos Wrist. Image courtesy Exiii. .

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Last weekend, Psychic VR debuted a new project called Air Race X, representing a bold vision for what sports might look like in immersive mixed reality formats. Most forms of gambling are illegal in Japan, so users were just betting with free tokens and competing for prizes instead of cash.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

FIVARS is the first Canadian festival of its kind featuring many world premieres and in our preview screenings and events, audience responses are consistently full of contemplation, surprise, delight, controversy and wonder.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. The original idea of Virtualitics is to immerse yourself within the data.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Diver-X Half Dive is an interesting headset from Japan. We don’t know when these glasses will release and for what price , but the fact that such a big consumer-oriented giant has got interested in glasses is a positive sign that we are on the right (long) road towards the release and adoption of consumer-oriented AR glasses.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. The big tech players will entice developers with tools like RealityKit (Apple), Maquette (Microsoft), Spark AR Studio (Facebook), Spatial Workstation for immersive audio (Facebook via acquisition of Two Big Ears), Lens Studio (Snap), Tiltbrush (Google).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The company has already released their SDK which allows developers to integrate FOVE support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine. ” Check out the video below to get a better idea how simulated field-of-depth and foveated rendering work.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

The games giant joins VRM Consortium in Japan as an observer, but does that mean they’re closer to entering the immersive space? Yet it’s safe to say that overall Nintendo has been quite noncommittal about dipping their toes into immersive tech – at least in public. Why is that a big deal? VRScout (@VRScout) January 16, 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences. Eddie is also the founder and director of Sandbox Immersive Festival, China’s first VR/immersive media festival which the well acclaimed first edition was held in June in the city of Qingdao. web, and mobile.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I don’t know why there is this explicit interest for Japan: maybe they noticed that in Japan they sold very little, and it is actually a very profitable market for electronic innovations. I’m a developer, where is Unity, where is Visual Studio? Ah, of course, they’ll be Oculus exclusive titles.

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