VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises. The 1:30 minute demo apparently operates on a specialized version of ARKit that runs a plugin, which easily integrates the software into Unreal Engine 4.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2022

Motion capture (mocap) specialist Vicon launched its Valkyrie camera solution boasting the world’s highest-quality specifications, the company announced on Tuesday. According to the company, its VKX cameras were tailored for LBVR creatives and offer strobeless, 7-megapixel resolutions, and 380 frames per second.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

This might be part of the reason why the haptic technology market is expected to reach a value of $5 billion by 2028. These gloves are fitted with technology that delivers various forms of feedback to users wearing an extended reality headset. However, haptic technologies have the potential to support various use cases.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 12, 2020

The game studio behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine has already done plenty of work with the UK-based startup, creating a number of tech demos over the past several years that have centered on translating an actor’s facial movements to a digital character in real-time. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 5, 2022

NeXR Technologies SE has become the latest company to sign up for the Metaverse Standards Forum, a group of over 30 tech firms, associations, and entities developing an interoperable Metaverse, it was revealed on Tuesday. NeXR Technologies SE (@Nexrtech) June 20, 2022.

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

A combination of software was used to execute the endeavor, including Adobe Character Animator, Unreal Engine, and NewTeK NDI. The experience streams in Mikey and Donnie puppets by using NewTek NDI Technology. The Mikey and Donnie puppets were created and are driven live using Adobe Character Animator.

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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. Leveraging the technologies across their line of enterprise-exclusive headsets, such as the VR-3, XR-3, and Aero, has birthed several key secondary tools for hand and eye tracking. Under its Varjo Base v3.5

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2017

A broad team of graphics researchers, universities, and technology companies are showcasing the latest research into digital human representation in VR at SIGGRAPH 2017. Advanced capture, rigging, and rendering techniques have resulted in an impressive new bar for the art of recreating the human likeness inside of a computer in real-time.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2016

The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Tauber is an inventive Web3 artist, musician, entertainer, and futurist speaker, who envisions the future of radical technological concepts through her VNCCII project. I also use technologies such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine , motion capture (mocap), and Disguise Designer to produce my VNCCII XR stage shows.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

And it was all surprisingly lifelike for something rendered in the Unreal Engine, led by a motion captured performance of Marshmello behind the turntable. Such an experience is already possible with today’s VR technology. You can watch it below. You aren’t looking through a window: you’re there.

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The Rift Arcade

MAY 3, 2017

A short five-minute video was released today both in the Oculus Store and on Steam, and it uses a combination of Unreal Engine graphics and motion capture to bring a Séance experience to life. Séance: The Unquiet might be just what you’re looking for.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As researchers and VR start-ups make great strides in increasing the sense of presence such as larger field of view, lower latency and more natural input, a Brighton based start-up has just announced a new technology that can track a user’s facial expressions without markers. Emteq, with was founded with $1.5 Emteq, with was founded with $1.5

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. Learn more.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

That fabulously weird genius known as Björk continues her lifetime exploration of technology, art, and music with Björk Digital. To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

At the same time I was living in Greenwich Village and I had some talented friends working in the advertising sector, making things like stop-motion animation for advertising… and these friends told me that a new studio was being built in Massachusetts by Douglas Trumbull. Starting in 2 years, we’ll need 5-10 to become mainstream.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Patent-pending technology using more than 100 cameras and motion capture devices track each player in real-time as they move. Vandonkelaar did say their platform will support Unreal Engine 4 and other technology beyond Unity. We’ve also used dual pistols before as part of our crowdfunding campaign.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

So, exploiting this statistic and knowing that due to the various distortions, usually, the peripheral regions of the rendered images are the one made employing more pixels, Oculus has decided to apply a Fixed Foveating technology. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2020

So it is not advised to just shoot like crazy a la Unreal Tournament : you also need some strategy and think when to use the grenades or the explosive barrels that are scattered all around the levels. I love FPS games, and I loved shooting in Half-Life. There are some little downsides as well. Image by Valve Software).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2016

The ‘interactors’ driving the content of the experience are able to use a set of keyboard commands in order to drive pre-rendered gestures and animations, or they can also do more sophisticated motion capture and virtual embodiment. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Subscribe on iTunes. Music: Fatality & Summer Trip.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

Different methods involve different VR technology and are useful for different kinds of projects. Glassbox has just announced their newest VR technology, the DragonFly plugin. They are responsible for some of the fantastic and other-wordly visuals that we associate with VR technology. How 3D Imaging Happens.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Image by Lemnis Technologies). Facebook acquires Lemnis Technologies. Facebook has acquired the startup Lemnis Technologies for an undisclosed amount.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

I also like to think about this in perspective: Snap is deadly serious in its AR efforts , and the fact that it keeps releasing glasses proves that it for sure wants to become a relevant company in the new AR technological revolution. It feels like magic. Watch a throuh-the-lens video of Tilt Five glasses.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Kshitij Marwah is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review Most Innovator Under The Age of 35. He has a special interest and focus on emerging technologies including #VR #AR #MR #AI. 3- Ayden Ye.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

After laying the groundwork with history and definitions in the first four chapters, in Part II of his book Matthew Ball discusses in seven chapters the various components which he feels go into the building of a metaverse: networking, computing, virtual world engines, interoperability, hardware, payment systems, and blockchain technology.

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