Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

Positional audio for VR experiences—where noises sound as if they are coming from the correct direction—has long been understood as an important part of making VR immersive. But knowing which direction sounds are coming from is only one part of the immersive audio equation. Photo courtesy NVIDIA.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen recently partnered with the Nordmedia funding agency to debut a chilling immersive experience for history learners. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

VR gloves are a wearable XR accessory designed to enhance immersion with spatial computing capabilities and sensory feedback. Vibrotactile feedback enables other gloves to simulate the feeling of things like touching a surface or clicking a button using actuators in the fingers of the glove. What are VR Gloves and How Do They Work?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, genAI is not just applicable to an immersive product vendor. RT3D developmental engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse also leverage genAI to optimize developmental workflows, notably for budding XR content creators. GenAI is already incredibly common on the developer side of XR hardware and software.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2022

He noted that the immersive opportunities for business are endless thanks to HaptX Gloves G1 hardware. The G1 device comes with a rich software development kit (SDK), enabling clients to integrate the HaptX brand of realistic feedback into custom immersive applications using Unreal Engine and Unity.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen recently partnered with the Nordmedia funding agency to debut a chilling immersive experience for history learners. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As Extended Reality (XR) technologies evolve and become increasingly popular, business leaders and developers must search for new ways to create and share immersive content. RT3D engines have emerged as one of the most valuable tools for designing immersive AR/MR/VR experiences.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Designed for use by a wide rand of industry professionals, from pilots and engineers to surgeons and researchers, these professional-grade headsets feature a variety of enterprise-focused tools. By working with Varjo, Unity continues to power the next level of photorealism and immersion for industrial design, simulation, training, and more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

India’s Ajnalens is developing extended reality (XR) immersive hardware and software. ” The product also enables immersive collaboration and communications with a 50-degree field of view that allows the projection of high-quality interactive holograms. Level Four teaches simulation creation, including Niagara VFX Systems.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Reading the article excited me a bit, because when an experienced VR journalist says that something impressed him, well, I know that thing is super cool for real Vicon , which is a leading company in mocap systems, showcased for the first time its markerless mocap tool.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Creating a game like Stardew Valley can seem like a daunting task, but with the right approach and tools, it is definitely possible. In this blog post, we will go over the key steps you need to take in order to create your own farming and life simulation game.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and photogrammetry technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 22, 2022

Epic Games joined the Foundation to promote the interoperability and transfer of visuals, assets, media scripting, and other tools to provide content creators with open-source platforms. The O3DF recently launched the world’s first open-source real-time 3D engine for high-fidelity immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Altspace was pretty unique because it offered amazing tools to create groups and communities, so people being part of it had many connections inside the platform. More info Meta Immersive Web Emulator is an interesting tool for WebXR WebXR developers can now use the Immersive Web Emulator offered by Meta to test and debug WebXR experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation. Google: RawNeRF. NVIDIA Instant NeRF.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! Not all AR *has* to contain 3D, but it is a typical type of asset used in the space because of its dimensionality and end goal of simulating reality and enhancing reality by mimicking it! From artist tools to live-ops?—?everything

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

The Omni One product allows users to explore VR by walking on the treadmill in any direction to reach complete immersion. Over the years, the Austin-based firm gained experience distributing immersive products to end-users in enterprise sectors like entertainment and training. I think it breaks the immersion.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. Steve Bowler of CloudGate Studio will talk about Unreal Engine 4’s Blueprints feature. There will also be talks about simulation in pediatrics and about biometrics.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. The no-code necessary update will “bring all of our tools together into what we call a complete front-line operating system.”. Best Creator and Authoring Tool.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We’ve discovered how valuable the right XR tools can be in collaboration and communication, and how they can help innovators to build new products and ideas. Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation. The Lab experiments with VR, mixed-reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence to provide Nickelodeon artists and creators with innovative tools that inspire new ways to tell stories for the next generation of kids.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 6, 2023

Varjo Technologies, a leading high-end manufacturer of extended reality (XR) headsets and solutions, integrated Twinmotion’s architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) tools for professional designers. Notwithstanding AEC design, its Aero head-mounted display (HMD) is widely used for training pilots in flight simulation.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I’ve heard yet. Riggs says that they’ve been collaborating with Abbey Road Studios in order to figure out the future of music, which Riggs believes that is going to be both immersive and interactive.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The twisted puzzle adventure game beat out more recognizable titles including ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission , Vacation Simulator , and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. VR tech isn’t all fun and games.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Virtual reality accessories are transforming the immersive technology landscape. They encompass a broad range of powerful tools. The options are almost limitless, from solutions that engage more of the body’s senses to tools designed to mitigate the issue of VR sickness.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For the past five years, Varjo customers have demonstrated that true innovation happens when the most advanced computing power meets the highest-immersion XR in the hands of industrial users, and we can’t wait to see the applications unlocked by the XR-4 series’ technological breakthroughs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

Devices were seen as novel tools for the gaming and entertainment landscape. We’ve discovered that immersive experiences can empower companies in a multitude of ways. Companies will have access to an easy-to-use interface where users can customize their immersive experiences according to their specific needs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

British 3D artist Rafi Nizam has opened a new animation with tools from NVIDIA’s Omniverse Create XR along with solutions from Epic Games, Autodesk, and Adobe, it was revealed on Friday. Using Omniverse’s Create XR app, Nizam later leverages VR tools to direct and design his content. PHOTO: Rafi Nizam/ NVIDIA.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

German automaker BMW revealed its M Mixed Reality (MR) platform for developing real-time immersive driving experiences. The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. .”

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