XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. Other relevant news.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 15, 2019

But if starting another career path would be your ideal present this year and you happen to love virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) gaming then take a look at the festive selection box below. Unity 3D Developer. Sony London Studio. Sony London Studio. Sony London Studio. Sony London Studio.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Next week, the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) will host over 100 speakers from various extended reality (XR) firms to explore new immersive technology innovations and opportunities to match a diverse and emerging industry demand. We have so much planned for the Immerse Global Summit Europe on Sept 28-30!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. The reason is that Sony has already announced that it will launch PSVR 2 only after the PS5 , to not confuse its buyers by selling too many things together. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Their overall investment is not much and they haven’t selected VR as a strategic technology at the moment.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. XR Access co-founder Shiri Azenkot told me "But it was always a retroactive thing.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

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. VRSS is the technology that makes the graphics card draw in higher resolution the region of the image you are looking at.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and photogrammetry technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation. ready workplaces.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Attendees learned and experienced the firm’s technologies and the growing number of use cases for simulations, collaboration, engagement, and visualisation. It also leverages technologies such as six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2022

Tim also complimented technology innovation led by Chinese application developers. In the chat with China Daily Reporter Ma Si , Tim explained: I am incredibly excited about AR as you may know, and the critical thing in any technology, including AR, is putting humanity at the center of it. That is what we focus on every day.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation. ready workplaces.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Image by Sony). Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. It is not clear, and we hope that Sony will clarify his.(Theoretically Theoretically yes, but Sony always talked about the compatibility of old games with PS5 + old PSVR, not also about new games).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. Sansar will so become a sister platform for Somnium Space, and in the upcoming months, it will implement all features present in Somnium.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Art or Film Developer, entrepreneur, and consultant Antony Vitillo, perhaps better known as “ Skarred Ghost ”, presented the first Auggie Award of the night for Best Art or Film. “I Unfortunately, no one from Delta Reality was present to accept the award. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). It is now official: Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed on Instagram that the PlayStation VR 2 headset is going to launch in “early 2023”. If this is confirmed, it means that in 2 weeks, there will be people that will actually try the new headset by Sony. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Unity details its MARS solution.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world. What is impressive is that using the technology acquired with another startup, which is The 8th Wall, Niantic has also teased that VPS will be available also for WebAR experiences. News worth a mention. Image by Magic Leap).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. It's based on complex technology, like real time rendering and rules and physics. It's a very, very involved and complex piece of technology. Marc: Polygons and triangles, this is how we present 3D geometry in the virtual space.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. It's based on complex technology, like real time rendering and rules and physics. It's a very, very involved and complex piece of technology. Marc: Polygons and triangles, this is how we present 3D geometry in the virtual space.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

technology (with support for Steam VR 1.0 Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Especially eye-tracking is the special feature here since it would make the PSVR2 the first consumer-oriented device to use this technology. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0. base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Be sure to use this use case in your next presentation about VR. Sony announces new games for PSVR. More info (All announcements by Sony) More info (Doom 3 VR) More info (After The Fall) More info (After The Fall on announced platforms) More info (Fracked). Sony seems to be patenting bananas as controllers for the next-gen PSVR!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Ready Player Me’s highly-bespoke, Unity and Unreal Engine-compatible avatars facilitate rapid creations with a large catalogue of customisation options and features. The Metaverse should be built “with interoperability and openness at its core rather than presenting players with walled gardens,” Hiber said in a statement.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. It's based on complex technology, like real time rendering and rules and physics. It's a very, very involved and complex piece of technology. Marc: Polygons and triangles, this is how we present 3D geometry in the virtual space.

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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. More info Some news about content Sony has announced a few new games for its PSVR 2 headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Their goal is to transform how users interact with XR solutions and applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

In any case, this is good: more people bought a VR headset, and other ones got more engagement with the technology , maybe after months of having left the headset in the closet. Sony reveals finger tracking technology for controllers. More info (Preview facilities in Unity) More info (Dynamic FFR).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. But it also shows that VR is not exploding next year and that the consumer use of the technology will only represent 37% of the whole market. Trimble stress-tests its AR helmet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last week there has been the CES, maybe the biggest technology show of the year. As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

For now, good results are being achieved on the Pimax Crystal by using smart technology like dynamic foveated rendering , a specially developed OpenXR run time, and third-party tools like Quad View rendering. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Road to VR spoke with Nokia’s Head of VR Technologies, Tarif Sayed to learn more about the offering. The cross-platform nature of the OZO Player SDK will be especially useful for those who want to widely distribute VR apps with VR video across multiple platforms, says Nokia’s Head of VR Technologies, Sarif Sayed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

.” She continued, stating, “Our members are anticipating the solutions XR presents in not only a consumer setting but in tangible industries like education, healthcare, and manufacturing. We share our new members’ excitement about the limitless possibilities of XR technology”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

You can expect big updates on Unreal Engine 4, a toolkit that has closely aligned itself with VR over the past few years, from Tim Sweeney, an industry legend that is placing big bets on the future of the technology. Tom Bruckbock (SIEA), Seth Luisi (Impulse Gear), Greg Koreman (Impulse Gear), Richard Marks (Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

base station tracking technology. The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Vive Tracker tracking. Image by Rob Cole).

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