Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

On social media, we had some popular videos from the creators of Cubism, Gravity Lab, and also a cool AR demo that “teaches” you how to play the piano, and that was very nice, but… I expected something more. This creates other friction for who wants to share content on social media and make passthrough go viral.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 31, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $400M & Antilatency Raises $2.1M 1) Unity Technologies , a 13-year-old, San Francisco-based company that makes development tools for video game creators, has raised $400 million in fresh funding from the private equity firm Silver Lake. Read more on TechCrunch.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

This experience had everything I could expect from a remote rendering solution: the scene was much more complex than anything the HoloLens could handle , and the rendering latency was low, so almost not noticeable. Again, I noticed that the remote rendering was working well, with good visuals and low latency.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons. Application SpaceWarp on Quest 2 – A Video with all you need to know. If you like videos, take a comfortable seat and enjoy it.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2024

Finally, the update brings the following bug fixes and general improvements: • Improved motion extrapolation quality of Synchronous Spacewarp (SSW) for all headsets • Now sending headset battery level and charging state to SteamVR • Reduced video compression artifacts with 10-bit codecs • Improved desktop streaming latency on macOS • Added Wide motion (..)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In both their videos, they basically claim that the Vision Pro may have something nice like a very high resolution, but at the end of the day, the Meta Quest 3 is a better product … even if we do not consider the price. They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

In a compilation video released by the research team, you can see a person wearing a Microsoft Hololens mixed reality headset extinguishing an AR fire using a real-world fire extinguisher. Later in the video, we see a person wearing a Meta Quest VR while another person pilots a drone fitted with a camera.

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2022

Some games have clarity issues and some has latency issues. Unity-tutorial ?—?This This tutorial from unity can help you from setting up for development to basic Oculus development. OculusSDK Tutorial : Dilmer is a talented XR Dev and has a lot of free videos that helped me in understanding Oculus sdk’s.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

From ancient times to the first 3D video game, it shows that the gaming industry has seen its fair share of technological progress. A leading Unity 3d game development services provider explained that gaming is the biggest driver of VR and it will certainly continue in the near future.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

The platform incorporates metaverse, cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to power community-driven video game and entertainment creations. Discover Shurick Agapitov’s plans for impacting the future of video games, Web3, and revenue distribution from his recent interview. We’d love to hear them!

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. When a delay in latency occurs, your real and virtual movements no longer match, knocking the equilibrium out of balance and causing ‘cybersickness.’

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

During the opening presentation at today’s Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google’s high-end Android VR platform. Photo courtesy Unity Technologies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These can train workforces flexibly from any location in the world, using unicast, multicast, or omnicast broadcasting, and uniquely overcoming any latency issues. . The new patents aim to enhance multi-user immersive training with AR and VR, which requires high-bandwidth, low-latency innovations at scale. billion USD in 2021.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

The headset includes the widest field of view of any XR headset currently available, as well as depth awareness, advanced security measures and ultra-low latency. Here’s what we know so far. It also has the industry’s highest resolution (over 70 ppd), and the widest currently available field of view at 115 degrees.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Holo-Light has also just announced to have become the first AR/VR streaming provider to be named Unity Verified Solutions Partner. This video shows what kind of models you can have with cloud rendering on HoloLens 2. The stuttering of the video is much bigger than the one I experienced. Hands-on XRnow. Final impressions.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is now only possible wearing a backpack PC and VR headset in special locations like Sandbox VR, Zero Latency, and Dreamscape. The fund’s top five holdings are Nvidia (8.93%), Microsoft (4.91%), Roblox (4.85%), Tencent, majority shareholder of Epic Games (4.80%) and Unity (3.99%). Speaking of Nvidia….

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

A short video (heading this article) of two people wildly hitting a giant ball with foam swords (captured by Super Ventures ) is an amusing showcase of PhaseSpace’s motion tracking technology. The game also renders faster than the 60Hz limit of the Gear VR, in order to minimise latency.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

360VR videos and photos became a regular part of our social media feeds , billions of dollars invested in VR technology advancement, and a VR experience for everything from movie trailers, corporate training and Presidential farewells. Zero Latency. Zero Latency – Zero Latency. SUPERHOT Team – SUPERHOT VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This leads to a concise, clear audio output, complete with noise reduction, echo and reverberation removal, and low latency audio. These include web browsers, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, Electron, Flutter React Native, and Unity. These would include spatial audio, broadcast video latency enhancements, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. This video from Holonautic sheds light on what’s possible.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Developers can also scale the solution across video calls to multichannel live streams for up to 100 people. With deep-learning, AI-empowered enhancements, Agora’s noise suppression tool eliminates noise, echo, reverberation, and low latency issues.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. On the technological side, it seems all is set to start using cloud rendering, but the big problem of the latency from the nearest server remains; VRSS (Variable Rate SuperSampling) v2 has been announced.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

We’ve just released an updated version of our newly overhauled Unity Core Assets for the Orion Beta. There’s never been a better time to upgrade from the older Unity assets for V2 tracking, so we put together a quick guide to show you how. Verify that demo scenes work. Change coordinate space references in scripts.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In a recent video , we shared our first impressions and showed footage recorded in the headset. The passthrough had a bit of latency but was low enough for me to comfortably walk around while looking at the passthrough footage. We were not obligated to post a video. In this article, I’ll share a summary of my impressions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Users of the Mocopi ecosystem can also leverage a plugin from Sony which allows created animations to be exported into other development software, such as MotionBuilder and Unity. After capturing motion data from hardware, users can leverage Rokoku studio to animate custom characters in real-time, with no lag or latency.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The discussion naturally relied on streaming video as a familiar analogy although streaming XR content is much more complicated. “If These capabilities include higher bandwidth for lower latencies, and real-time volumetric capture and rendering. We know that 5G is coming and, in some cases, it’s already here,” said Ness. “It

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Do you remember that viral video where someone using a smartphone was able to take a picture of an object and then paste it into Photoshop by just framing the PC with Photoshop with the phone

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! for VRChat); A video player powered by Machine Learning that tries to add depth to your videos , so that they become more immersive in VR. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers don’t need to implement (or even understand) the mathematics behind IK, as game engines like Unity & Unreal have IK built-in, and packages like the popular Final IK offer fully fleshed-out implementations for less than $100. These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Latency? —?The In the real world, there is virtually no latency. In virtual worlds, the average latency is 20 milliseconds, which is considered low. As demonstrated in the video below, three of the degrees refer to the motion of the user’s head?—?left while the remaining three pertain to the movement within the space?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR). Two interesting videos on the Quest 2.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Challenges in WebXR One of the main challenges for XR experiences to work correctly and be convincing are, to keep a low latency, high precision, and a great capacity to process data quickly to render scenes, animations, and much more. It consists of a room in which you can interact with some objects.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it can work with Unity, C++ and C#, but will soon have support for Unreal, Babylon, and React Native. Azure Active Directory provides secure identity and login Billing is out of the box Audio/video transmission including special audio for realistic interactive experiences Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Multiuser Sync?—?the

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” Right now, the most common use case for networked 3D experiences is online video games.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. And when I mean slow speed, I mean really potato quality… like 1 hour to upload a short Youtube video. Verify the most that you can before leaving, so that you can find solution in advance.

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ARVR

JUNE 11, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 The average video game is also technically considered a non-immersive virtual reality experience, as it is all about interacting with a virtual space while sitting in a physical one. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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