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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Parisi is considered by many to be one of the early pioneers of VR thanks to his work on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the internet, with Mark Pesce back in 1994.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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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. A Colorful Background.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Its upcoming release, Cities: Skylines II, will feature characters developed from Popul8’s immersive technologies. Didimo’s Popul8 tool allows world-building firms to create hundreds of unique characters in a fraction of the time and cost needed to do so.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps. I can only imagine the possibilities of mixing this with immersive headsets : you could visit every city in VR in a much more realistic way than the one shown by Google Earth VR today. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.) And it’s not just Unreal and Unity. With the basic Unreal and Unity plans available for free, is it even worth it for developers to try to add these AI features to OpenSim?

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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. In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world. What are VR Gloves and How Do They Work?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. The result is UltimateXR for Unity. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Swedish immersive firm Hiber announced on Wednesday it had launched its collaborative integration with avatar platform Ready Player Me. Ready Player Me’s highly-bespoke, Unity and Unreal Engine-compatible avatars facilitate rapid creations with a large catalogue of customisation options and features. Changes and Upgrades.

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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. An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform. The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. Meta is a crucial parenting in the OpenXR update.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Explaining the incredible immersion that a solid virtual reality experience provides is difficult to put into words, but showing someone playing or allowing a person to play themselves is the quickest path to amazement. MR is becoming a crucial element for those wanting to share their adventures in VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Sweeney, whose company makes the Unreal Engine toolset used in creating some of the biggest budget 3D projects, outlined in a blog post this week why he saw this as a huge moment for immersive computing: Apple’s debut of VR support for Mac and AR support for iOS are true game-changers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

As companies search for more immersive ways of connecting with their clients in a digital world, AR represents one of the most accessible forms of extended reality. With this technology, we can all create and enjoy more immersive experiences. The right kit is all a developer needs to create a custom AR application.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

XLA Metasites recently received around $100 million USD in initial funding to develop virtual worlds with interactive, engaging content, according to a press release. 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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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. Pico Worlds will be the official social VR application. It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Meanwhile, in 2023 technology like Chat GPT has taken some of the attention away from immersive content distribution and services. Many elements contribute to Web3’s infrastructure, notably real-time 3D (RT3D) augmented, virtual, mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) immersive experiences.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Unity // Most people's intro to game dev! Unity Website Unreal // Unity’s higher fidelity sibling Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. That being said these programs can be used for so much more, take a look! Build 2D, 3D and VR games and apps at speed.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! The metaverse concept emerged from the world of computer and video gaming, which has been creating vast, interactive, multi-user environments for decades.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2023

Conversely, at the enterprise level, Lamina1, Croquet, Siemens, Unity, Meta, Ready Player Me, and others have leveraged their technologies at the grassroots level. XR Today: As an end user for Unreal Engine and Unity, how will this partnership develop interoperability for gaming companies?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It’s a pretty basic addition, allowing developers to bring video content into virtual worlds, though it does sport some interesting extras, like support for 360 degree video playback, and applying video as textures that wrap around surfaces like spheres as well as flat walls. version of the engine, released recently.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The evolving extended reality landscape is changing the world we live in on a phenomenal scale. As immersive technologies become more accessible, both for consumers and business users alike, we’re discovering just how impactful these solutions can be.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Learn more.

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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. Patrick O’Shaughnessy presented the Auggie for Best Developer Tool to Unity , a cross-platform tool that hosts many XR experiences. Announcements. Best Developer Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. The shots on the body were a pleasant addon to the game, that made it more immersive. When I launched a grenade too close to me and it exploded, I felt my chest vibrating, and that was very immersive.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. What can make it become the mirror of the real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, we’re looking at just some of the metaverse innovators that are beginning to introduce the world to the potential of these new digital landscapes. Meta One of the better-known names in the Metaverse landscape today, Meta (previously Facebook), is a technology company investing in the creation of immersive virtual spaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

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. Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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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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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

With this move NVIDIA is making VR more immersive, and VR development easier. So lets recap all that came to our knowledge today: VRWorks is a comprehensive suite of APIs, libraries, and engines that enable application and headset developers to create amazing virtual reality experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

Basically, my first questions as a creator approaching virtual reality have been: “what is similar and what is different from traditional films?” For example, if in a film you see a special effect for one second in a frame and then the film cuts to something else, in virtual reality you need to finish the effect until the end.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. Liz Mercuri (Unity). Prepare yourself; it’s going to be a busy one.

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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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