ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Multiuser Sync?—?the

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

These capabilities include higher bandwidth for lower latencies, and real-time volumetric capture and rendering. The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. The AR Cloud. Announcements. Best Input & Output Hardware.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As researchers and VR start-ups make great strides in increasing the sense of presence such as larger field of view, lower latency and more natural input, a Brighton based start-up has just announced a new technology that can track a user’s facial expressions without markers. Emteq, with was founded with $1.5

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AIXR

MAY 5, 2023

Simply put, a metaverse is a shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users. Here are a few platform examples where brands like BMW to WWF teamed up to implement immersive strategies into their business plans. It’s what makes them move.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Reality Cloud is a system that streams virtual and extended reality (VR/XR) applications directly to a Varjo brand headset such as the VR-3, XR-3, and Aero. The enterprise-grade immersive software-as-a-service (SaaS) now supports RT3D design projects from Unity and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality. Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. More info (Synthetic skin) More info (Virtual touch).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2018

It is the experience that I used to show to every person when I introduced him/her to virtual reality: no risk of motion sickness , amazing graphics, and lots of feelings. Vsync locked frame release + low latency fast-path Audio 360 spatialization. A great work by Oculus Story Studio, for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Artificial Intelligence : David stressed many times during the call about the importance of AI with immersive realities. We need digital assistants in our immersive reality; we need intelligent interfaces that understand our intentions and let us do what we want to do by providing minimal input in a natural way (e.g.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

The arrival of Virtual Reality headsets is bringing another possibility – unlike TV, which puts you in a passive position – VR can make you ‘a part of the match’, or a ‘part of the race’. In less than a year, Virtually Live got support from Manchester City, FIA Formula E Championship and numerous others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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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. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. News from partners (and friends).

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

For example, Sony Music is recruiting a team “dedicated to reimagining music through immersive media” that will leverage Sony Music’s catalog and impressive roster of artists to implement a new category of music experiences using the Unreal Engine. Using Meltwater’s statistics, the advertising value of the event was reported to be € 4.3

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. The result was the one of having Alex Kipman as if he was really in front of you , a fantastic immersive feature for an XR event. latency can be high), and so these apps are not allowed. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link. Pico Worlds will be the official social VR application. Thank you for supporting our community!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. Or Unreal if that’s your language. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

For a good Mixed Reality experience, the degree of immersion is key in making you believe what’s in front of you is the real deal. The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. The AR Content Chicken & Egg Building augmented reality or mixed reality content is hard.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. 3D Engines A decade ago, if you wanted to build an immersive world in 3D, you’d need to know a lot about graphics APIs and matrix math.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. Their new headset, XR-1, is a mixed reality developer device for engineers, researchers, and designers who are pioneering a new reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. Their new headset, XR-1, is a mixed reality developer device for engineers, researchers, and designers who are pioneering a new reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Their hardware and software lets people seamlessly mix realities together, moving from the real world to extended reality into pure virtual reality, all with human eye resolution. Their new headset, XR-1, is a mixed reality developer device for engineers, researchers, and designers who are pioneering a new reality.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) aims to create an open and universal standard for the discovery, configuration, and operation of VR/AR devices. Figure 1 – Without OSVR: each device needs multiple plugins The problem is that there are many graphics and game engines (Unity, Unreal, Crytek, VBS, Mongame, OpenVR, Unigine, WebVR, etc.)

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. Alex: Near zero latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. Alex: Near zero latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. Alex: Near zero latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some immersive games will be available at launch: Game Room, What the Golf?, More info Police are investigating a sex assault in a virtual world It has been reported by various online outlets that a 16-year-old girl has been the victim of a sexual assault in a virtual VR world. and Super Fruit Ninja.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 22, 2021

NVIDIA is investing a lot of resources for immersive realities, and its commitment to XR is visible in its products like Omniverse and the CloudXR SDK. This took a lot of people by surprise, because, as we all know, VR is very sensitive to latency. Most recently, we’ve taken XR to the cloud.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we Would it make sense to have hyperportals that allow interconnects between different immersive worlds? Many workloads depend on low latency?—?such Composability is Compound Interest?

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Increased Device Diversity leads to more Choices for Customers Trends An avalanche of new virtual reality devices arrived. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Reducing Latency is Becoming Complex Trends Presence in VR requires low latency, and reducing latency is not easy.

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