XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

” XR devices can provide hands-free immersive content such as guides, manuals, and CADs as assistive references while an on-site worker performs tasks such as repair and maintenance operations. Also, in augmented reality, you can actually train someone while they’re doing the work.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

We’ll be focusing on augmented reality because it’s what I know best and I think all of the moving parts that can go into AR dev are very nebulous and constantly changing. Refer to my medium article?—? Unity // Most people's intro to game dev! What is Social AR? —?if So, let's begin our list!! link] XR Programs?—?a

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think this may also have negative effects on the XR ecosystem in general: now the biggest headset producer has a strong partnership with the company making all the reference designs for all the XR headsets… and it seems that Meta’s competitors can launch their headsets only a few months after Meta, because they can not do it before.

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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. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Some days ago, two developers have found references to “RealityOS” both in the Apple Store logs and in an opensource repo by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. The presentation at Gamescom talked about your partnership with Unreal Engine for offering real-time RTX. What about Unity, instead? Will it be available also for Unity developers?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

He tells me that back in 1993 he set up a fully immersive VR lab in the high school where he taught, so it’s not surprising that he believes Virtual Reality and teaching are natural bedfellows, nor that he ended up as the Director of Game Studies & Simulation at Full Sail University. “I But that’s only the beginning.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. What can make it become the mirror of the real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Llamas, Research Director with IDC’s Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality programme , added: It will be exciting to watch how the market will evolve from today’s experiences and how end-users will adapt to them. ” According to Seidl, NVIDIA OpenUSD, the Omniverse file format, is a “game changer.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. Despite this, Björk returns to the album via virtual reality collaborations with well-regarded developers and visual artists traveling the globe as Björk Digital.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Much like the Quick Switch gesture for Unity, this experimental approach lets you rapidly toggle between the real and virtual worlds. GET THE PLUGIN.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. This week @LeapMotion will be at @CES w/ their next-gen reference design Click To Tweet. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Today it can work with Unity, C++ and C#, but will soon have support for Unreal, Babylon, and React Native. Holographic Rendering?—?Holographic Multiuser Sync?—?the

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

.” Apple software and services could gain $9 billion in revenue by 2020 as a result of operations related to augmented reality because there will be about 3.6 billion Android phones with augmented reality capability according to a report by augmented and virtual reality research firm ARtillry.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. For the Matrix trilogy it was important the use of computer vision, immersive photography, volumetric capture , the first markerless motion capture, to create frame by frame models of the performances… and today all these techniques are prolific in virtual reality and mixed reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

I’m looking forward to learning more about RealityKit and Reality Composer. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. If you consider virtual reality over the last few years, there has been increasing traction in the enterprise. It remains to be seen.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Crytek didn’t make it clear are they referring here to allowing developers to use both discrete and integrated GPU at the same time, anyway I am sure many developers are looking forward to implement this feature. However their roadmap of course doesn’t stop there, it also looks ahead to tweaks in CryEngine 5.4

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Multiple Frames Of Reference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Support for NVIDIA virtual GPU software, including Quadro Virtual Workstation, will be available early next year. If you want to know more, you can refer to the official pages of the A6000 and A40. For more info, you can refer to NVIDIA’s official post on the matter. Cloud XR lands on AWS.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. Go Mati, show us all what you’re capable of! You may be saying “Come on! And the same happens with OpenVR!

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

As virtual reality enters the consumer space there are two major platforms vying for the public’s attention and money, each with their own content delivery portals. The Oculus Platform patch is still only working for Unreal Engine games, there are quite a lot of Unity Engine games that need a different patch.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

It seems that in the Oculus SDK there are now some lines that refer to the Oculus Quest colocation APIs , that would let you play in local multiplayer with other people in your home. Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. that will probably feature color passthrough, controllers tracking the full hand and other amazing features.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence. For reference, human vision (retinal resolution) is 60 PPD, which can also be expressed as “one arc-minute per pixel” (arc minute).

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. Today we have VR experiences in disjointed sequences, taking off our headsets and rummaging through folders to go to the next virtual place,” says getnamo. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. Reference Design Issues. Noah loves the philosophy of North Star and really believes in an open augmented reality ecosystem.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal. You look at Epic.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal. You look at Epic.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal. You look at Epic.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Top news of the week.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we essentially a “Unity Asset Store” for the metaverse?—?designed Earlier, I referred to composable creativity?—?whether This is what composability is all about: creativity?—?with

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. This announcement is not sus, it is just great.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Virtual Reality is in a moment where there is a lot of confusion, and things are evolving so fast that it is difficult to keep pace with them. Unity and Qualcomm now have GPU profilers for Quest so you can better tune apps to the headset pic.twitter.com/hYeD7TPCfl — Russell Holly (@russellholly) September 25, 2019.

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