Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

Brandon Bray, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, took the stage at Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit 2017 to show a little more of what Microsoft has planned for the VR side of things when the first Windows Holographic headsets come later this year. image courtesy Unity Technologies. .”

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella. “As

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. Unity is the platform that makes this world a reality. More Buzz Around Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Announced on Monday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 event , the partnership will offer content creators a trove of solutions for their volumetric video needs.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

How Daimler uses Unity across its automotive lifecycle. The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones. by Nick Davis. Production.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 16, 2021

Unity asked more than a dozen industry experts – including yours truly – to share their thoughts on how immersive technologies would be embraced for a report entitled Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR. How Immersive Technologies are helping us reimagine personal interactions in a post-COVID world. .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

HoloLens 2 Video Review. Here you are my massive video review of the HoloLens 2 (featuring almost 1 hour of content) with many examples of interactions and mixed reality videos! If you prefer videos to walls of texts, this is what you should watch in this article: A HoloLens 2 Video Review just for you!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Following its debut, Igloo Vision began rolling the product out to end users, including Microsoft, Nike, and AtkinsRéalis. Blockade Labs also introduced its GenAI technologies into the XR studio immersive space, offering guests on-the-fly customisation for immersive experiences using prompts, pictures, and videos of their creations.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. On stage, there will be Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Alex Kipman (the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens) and Julia White (Corporate Vice President). The time has come.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2017

” SEE ALSO Video Gives Us a Peek Into the Future of How AR and VR Will Work Together. image courtesy Microsoft. . image courtesy Microsoft. While HoloLens presents the user with a fairly limited field of view (as seen above), a near-field object like a game board plays to the headset’s strengths.

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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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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. But, other than giving a presentation at the OpenSim Community Conference in December , I can’t remember the last time I went in-world for a meeting. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

GDC organizers say that many of the developer presentations that would have been given at the conference will be available for free online via YouTube and the free section of GDC’s video vault. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? More info (Review on Road To VR) More info (Review on Upload VR) More info (Porting to PSVR and Quest incoming) More info (Gameplay article) More info (Gameplay video). Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For the British firm, creating their shared spaces has led to an increasingly more sophisticated portfolio of projects, ranging from presentation suites, retrofitted immersive rooms, and CAVE-type XR solutions. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

NVIDIA RTX 2080 videos and photos. In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. So, here you are what I did today.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But this is no animated video and I’m not watching this on a screen. Instead I’m virtually inside a rendered auditorium with a large presentation screen behind me. Check out this short “flattie” video showcasing the 1st WXR Pitch Showcase, held in VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. This year, leading names like Deborah Oyeyinka from Unity Technologies , and Kristofor Mellroth of Xbox are set to attend.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Instead of showing people how the “metaverse” is now with very rough images (that easily become memes) or how it may be in the future with some fluffy videos, Zuck has used the best technologies from the Meta R&D department: Meta’s Codec Avatars. So this version is still meant to take photos, videos, and have phone calls.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

A bit like Apple, whose upgrades to ARKit show its creation of an AR framework aimed at the future more than the present (because phone AR is good only to add features to 2D apps), Facebook updating the Quest gives us a hint of what we can expect in the upcoming years. Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Why does this matter?

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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 server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. CloudXR SDK, NVIDIA’s service to offer cloud rendering, will update to v2.1.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone. Unity XR was a much safer choice. Talking about coding, for instance, what people should do before coding?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. I think it’s very good because it can finally give full-body VR to many Quest and Vive XR Elite users. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

And that’s it for the news about the present. More info (Quest 2 Couch mode) More info (Vocal commands with “Hey Facebook”) More info (FAQ on Vocal Commands on Quest) More info (Virtuclear lenses) More info (Experimental 120Hz mode coming) More info (Video of Boz winking) More info (Quest 2 Pro teasing).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. It’s been 2 hours full of cool insights and you can watch all of them in the video here below: if you have the time, I assure you you won’t regret watching it! The effects of the pandemic on XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2020

The same light was also present in the eyes of the other people during the Zoom calls we had later on with the artist, while I was more like. VRChat presentation image (Image by VRChat). If you are organizing a meeting for the fans of the “Video paused. And all of this using Unity, the tool that I already use every day.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Check out this video to learn more about it. Cross Platform Mobile AR Development in Unity If utilizing the full power of native AR frameworks on Android and iOS isn’t necessary and if your goal is faster time to market, cross-platform AR development in Unity may be a good option.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

The studio behind it also released a new gameplay video Samba De Amigo: This musical arcade game is not my genre at all, but it marks the entrance of SEGA into the VR market, and this is quite exciting. In the video, you see a family that is manipulated by the AI to sell them more drinks and food at the restaurant. This is impressive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. Image by Microsoft). After the news went viral, Microsoft has clarified that it was just “a translation bug” and that Xbox is not adding VR support at the moment.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. With spatial computing, all the world’s an ad.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Arthur rooms support more than 70 active participants, and come with built-in features for presentations, pinboards, whiteboards, flow charts, and audio zones. Within the platform, users can unlock tools for presentation such as slides and screen-sharing capabilities, as well as spatialized voice technology for deeper immersion.

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