ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. Let’s jump in.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Used correctly, haptics make VR games more playable and immersive. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the initiatives of the Orlando Economic Partnership and Unity, a metaverse creation company, the city is creating a digital twin of their 800-square mile metro area that will map everything in 3D and collect massive data like weather, traffic, job opportunities, talent potential, real estate data, and many others.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Last Friday, December 17, The VR/AR Association held a one-day event dedicated to the metaverse and avatars as part of the Immerse Global Summit Series. How are we going to transport attributes from the physical world to the digital world?”. “To Value From Virtual Worlds. A World Beyond Augmented Learning.”

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

TAITO and Google partnered with global production and innovation studio UNIT9 to transform Space Invaders into an immersive AR game in honor of its 45th anniversary. Players can defend their real-world neighborhoods from 3D invaders emerging from nearby buildings and landmarks.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Sound is essential for truly immersive VR. For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. The Unity game engine tries to reinforce this real-world falloff.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today, Microsoft is making its long—awaited Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform available for enterprise end users. The service is now available for clients, allowing them to access Microsoft’s dynamic virtual remote meeting solution via desktop or Meta Quest headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022?

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ARPost

AUGUST 15, 2022

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. Esri , the world’s largest GIS software firm, recently released version 1.0 Back in June, the company launched ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity. Real-Time Interaction, Real-World Uses.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

Immersive technologies are no longer reserved for the gaming and entertainment industries. Here’s what businesses can expect if they begin branching into the XR world for collaboration and communication in the years ahead. 1. Cameras, room conferencing kits, and immersive displays have all become increasingly common.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. I feel there is more optimism in the field, and even investors have started to be interested in immersive realities again.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Full body avatars will become available so you can look like a real digital person using the Unity Avatar SDK. The virtual world will add native NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) integration allowing users to place any NFT directly onto Somnium Land Parcels they own and explore them in full VR in headsets like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Valve Index.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2023

This immersive technology (coined “spatial computing” by Apple), which encompasses virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, is set to experience a significant boost from Apple’s entry into the field. This marks a departure from traditional interaction methods, offering a more immersive experience for users.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. Interoperability as the Lifeblood of an Immersive Internet.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

Technology and Consumer Behavior are Trending Immersive. This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Tony Parisi.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

CX and the Metaverse: The Changing Face of Customer Service in a Virtual World. AR cloud is an emerging trend in the field of AR technology that can change the way we interact with both the digital and physical world. The Future of VR in Education: Full Immersion in Learning. Top AR/VR Trends for 2022.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2023

Advancements in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technology pave the way for seamless connections between real and virtual worlds. We see the lines between real-world interactions and digital-world experiences blurring into virtual oblivion. VR is gaining widespread use across industries.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. Now, creatives can leverage them to collaborate in the physical and virtual world, seamlessly and interoperably. Jobs for Metaverse Work. The Future of Metawork.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info LivingCities shuts down Last year, LivingCities was announced as one of the most promising startups out there , having the mission of bridging the real and the virtual world, making physical and virtual people interact together as if they were in the same place.

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ARPost

JULY 19, 2022

VRdirect is a creator platform for turning annotated 360 images into immersive experiences. We see a lot from the science and education world where educators are trying to use immersive environments.”. Using the web tool still requires either 3D photos or virtual worlds created in game engines like Unity.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. That’s because VR is capable of creating such immersive, interactive, and social experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2023

VRChat was one of the first companies to introduce us to the potential of the metaverse, immersive collaboration, and digital communities without a monthly fee. Anyone can use VRChat, even if they’re just checking out virtual worlds on their desktop computer. Is VRChat Free?

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2023

It’s been over a year since ARPost introduced readers to Frame, the hardware-agnostic web-based virtual meeting platform. The team, a part of Virbela (which has its own app-based virtual world platform), just announced a major update. It’s a bit of a different world because they’re a Unity-based application,” said Baker. “In

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NVidia VR

MARCH 2, 2022

That’s what audiences will see in the virtual world of The Green Planet AR Experience , an interactive, augmented reality experience that blends physical and digital worlds to connect people with nature. Audiences engage and interact with the plant life by using a mobile device, which acts as a window into the natural world.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2022

The entirety of the film was shot in VRChat , a social VR platform where users can create and explore their own virtual worlds using custom avatars. But I can definitely say that the VRChat community, to me, I’ve felt so much more immersed in the space. ” Left: Director Joe Hunting / Right: Director Joe Hunting.

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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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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Free roam VR is the only truly immersive VR because users walk through mixed reality environments using their natural locomotion and touch.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

The Virtual Burn is being created by devoted teams of independent technologists, who are building six wholly unique virtual experiences that will welcome anyone from around the globe August 22 through September 7, 2021. Learn about all six Worlds on the Virtual Burn website. What is your favorite virtual World and why?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Through the process of creating Zero Days , we refined our Unity plugin and created a lot of awesome effects—all that work that we did together will be rolled into the project and be released to the community of DepthKit users who are currently in beta.”. “How “And there’s been totally different reactions to that.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Adding a haptic layer to these interactions will only increase the immersion level of any solution. In order to achieve that, the virtual world you are interacting with should be as close to the real world as possible; visually, audibly and tactile-wise. It will also support Unity 3D engine’s latest version Unity 2020+.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

On the other hand, VR cuts you off from your visual surroundings to completely immerse you in an app or film. Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jack Daniel’s opened its virtual doors to the public by commemorating urban art and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in late September. Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme.

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