Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR. ” Image courtesy Plexus Immersive. Image courtesy Plexus Immersive.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2017

Cannes NEXT, now in its second year, displayed a variety of cutting-edge immersive content. Penrose Studios’ newest animation tells the hauntingly beautiful story of Mina and her father, who live in a floating shack above a post-apocalyptic, underwater San Francisco.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco. The art gallery-inspired VR series starts off with a campaign that immerses you in the problems facing the world’s largest tuna fishery and how technology can catalyze change.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The highly anticipated XRDC conference will be taking place in San Francisco on October 14th and 15th. Most of us first encounter XR technology through immersive games and media. The Entertainment track is still about immersive experiences but it’s less about games. October is a big month for XR technology.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

of research and development in the BCI space, and was created with the goal of providing fully immersive and personalized experiences through various streams of biometric feedback. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development? Yes, it will be compatible with both Unity and Unreal via the BrainFlow SDK.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

This week, the immersive space felt an injection of innovation, with various leading firms hinting at the big news and committing to more prominent partnerships. However, an increased marketplace awareness leads to some great partnerships that solidify a handful of immersive firms in their enterprise presence. The news is ramping up!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

Yes, this one has passthrough, 4K screens, etc… but still, it’s a very old and very not-immersive use case. You can look at something while you have your headset on, record it as a 3D recording, and then re-watch it in an “immersive” way later, whenever you want. So it’s a good use case, but nothing new.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Over the past year he’s served as Vice President of Platform Products at WEVR but, most recently, he was planning a San Francisco-based startup, FormVR. “We think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Nick Whiting.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Abrams and written by Jonathan Nolan ( The Dark Knight, Person of Interest ) and Lisa Joy ( Pushing Daisies ) will actually put VR front and center during the show, one thing’s for sure, HBO isn’t being shy about using the immersive technology to promote their ten-episode season premiering next month.

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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. The company, now headquartered in San Francisco, will be showcasing the final version of the headset during the Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) this week in San Francisco.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

The company, which also has offices in San Francisco, has raised $502 million in funding led by SoftBank, with previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures also participating. Read more here. Improbable made its name with its platform called SpatialOS. Read more here. 3) Vivid Vision said today it has raised $2.2

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

Alexey Savchenko, XLA Chief Product Officer , demoed the solution at the event in San Francisco as the firm addressed audiences in a speech on the Metaverse and synthetic media. Users can also analyse text semantically, create 3D scenes, and deploy content or connect to XLA’s ecosystem using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Unreal Mobile Rendering Engineer. San Francisco, CA. If you are an employer looking for someone to fill an immersive technology related role – regardless of the industry – don’t forget you can send us the lowdown on the position and we’ll be sure to feature it in that following week’s feature. Dublin, CA. Sanzaru Games.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2016

Using the Unreal engine, VRVixen has created a beautiful seamless gaming portal to view pornography in what may be the world’s most immersive porn experience so far. Like many people in the adult film industry, Hess started off as a VR company that “fell” into the porn sector.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. image courtesy VR First. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First. VR First Institutions (including new openings).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Last week at the VRX conference in San Francisco Sweeney delivered a keynote address on the idea of “Digital Humans.” ” His thesis was that immersive technologies like VR and AR will one day completely reorganize our social structures and established routines.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 2, 2016

VixenVR has taken the years of game development experience within the company and used the Unreal engine to create a penthouse style wet dream of interactive VR reminiscent of something out of Saints Row. The thing that is most impressive about Temptation Towers is the immersion.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially. As Unity is the most widely-used real-time 3D (RT3D) engine for immersive experiences, this is set to affect many enterprises aiming to build Metaverse platforms for the business.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. Moreover, Michael Guerin said that over the next few years, immersive and spatial storytelling experiences would become “much more prevalent in the next three to five years.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. the scope and overall philosophy are one of the VR scene’s first truly immersive spaces. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. Experiments in Social VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Surreal has produced various VR content types featuring familiar faces from Snoop Dogg to Gordon Ramsay, which they claim amount to over 70 immersive experiences that have been viewed over 35 million times.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

Last year, he got the call to move to San Francisco and take over the reign over the company, and build relationships with different franchise owners. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences. VRW: What engine are you using to create the experiences?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Rob: Carillon was built within the Unreal Engine and uses the Open Sound Control protocol to connect motion and actions in the game environment with a music engine built within the Pure Data computer music system. All the programming for Carillon was done using Unreal’s Blueprint visual scripting language.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Now we have also an office in San Francisco. The whole idea that we realize is that there’s so many great, immersive content being created, whether it’s VR, AR, and this is really going to be the way that content is going to be consumed in the future. So for me, it really shows the power of ads in immersive media.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Now we have also an office in San Francisco. The whole idea that we realize is that there’s so many great, immersive content being created, whether it’s VR, AR, and this is really going to be the way that content is going to be consumed in the future. So for me, it really shows the power of ads in immersive media.

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