Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

In an answer to Apple’s recently released ARKit , a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore. Nougat and above.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Both headsets support the Oculus Mobile SDK, the software which currently allows developers to build apps for Samsung’s Gear VR headset (which runs Oculus’ software and store). In order to support those other headsets, developers will need to build using the Mi VR SDK (which supports Unity and Unreal).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” operating system or later.

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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. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The XR space has a lot to offer, and as more firms enter the industry as software or hardware solution providers, the use cases for XR will expand. This follows similar news from Samsung, who have noted that smartphone sales are decreasing and, in response, they are investing more in XR devices.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. The developer kit works on Unity, Unreal, and Scenekit engines. ” Google’s ARCore to compete with ARKit.

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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. Microsoft is keeping pursuing AR, and in fact, part of the resources that were devoted to HoloLens 3 are now dedicated to what is known as project Bondi, which is the AR glasses that Microsoft is building with Samsung.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. So Unreal and Unity do have abilities to go on the web.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. So Unreal and Unity do have abilities to go on the web.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. So Unreal and Unity do have abilities to go on the web.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. Vive Focus comes to the west.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. And what he wanted to do was create a product that was simple and easy to use and had 360-degree capabilities.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. And what he wanted to do was create a product that was simple and easy to use and had 360-degree capabilities.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. And what he wanted to do was create a product that was simple and easy to use and had 360-degree capabilities.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

The shutdown of its main XR hardware project makes us all think that Google will try to do in XR what it is already doing with smartphones: become the software platform that many hardware OEMs use. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. I’m curious to see how this will turn out to be.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First.

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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. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is a software solution that lets you connect your Oculus Quest to the PC so that you can “transform” your Oculus Quest into a PC VR headset.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 13- Amitt Mahajan. 14- Kai Liang.

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