AllThingsVR

MAY 31, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $400M & Antilatency Raises $2.1M 1) Unity Technologies , a 13-year-old, San Francisco-based company that makes development tools for video game creators, has raised $400 million in fresh funding from the private equity firm Silver Lake. Read more on TechCrunch.

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The AR Show

JANUARY 21, 2020

Timoni West, the Director of XR Research at Unity, joined the podcast in 2019 to share her perspective on tackling the future of human-computer interaction. One of her team’s first tools, EditorXR, which is a tool for editing Unity projects directly in virtual reality, won San Francisco Design Week’s first-ever Virtual Tech award in 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Immersive View for Routes will start to roll out in the coming months in 15 cities, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo, and Venice.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Hailing from 26 countries across the world, people came together in virtual reality to cheer on these top female founders in the XR industry. San Francisco, CA) – creates magical pets for XR, like pet dragons or unicorns, that will become your faithful digital companions.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2017

Decentraland is a virtual world that is using the Ethereum Blockchain to sell plots of virtual reality real estate. They hope to create a virtual city with different thematic districts that will help with content discovery. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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VRScout

MARCH 8, 2017

Life of Us is a Within Original, produced by Chris Milk, Megan Ellison through her Annapurna pictures and Made with Unity. “The quality of work in the Volume 2 Showcase is remarkable and proves virtual reality is quickly evolving into a legitimate art form,” said Kaleidoscope co-founder Selena Pinnell.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

During the Reality+ track, visitors will even access a behind-the-scenes look at the emerging metaverse , how consumerism will change in Web 3.0 IEEE VR + 3D User Interfaces March 25-29th, Shanghai 2023 marks the 30 th anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User interfaces.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jack Daniel’s opened its virtual doors to the public by commemorating urban art and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in late September. Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This week we had our friend Cix Liv ordering a cafe in San Francisco with the Quest 3 on, while Brad Lynch went to Disneyland wearing a Quest. Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. There are many other examples of that.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

GDC (Game Developers Conference) March 20-24, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference is definitely a worthwhile event to attend for content creators and entertainment brands, but anyone with a love of XR can get involved. Here are some top options worth adding to the calendar this year.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

When it comes to jobs in the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industries there’s one position you’ll see repeated over and over again, Engineer. Virtual and Augmented Reality Engineer. C# Unity Software Developer. San Diego, CA. San Francisco, CA.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Shown in this promotional video , both Planet Whack and Resistor are collaborations with TriHelix , a San Francisco-based VR developer, to create multi-user games using PhaseSpace’s motion tracking technology. The system uses Samsung Gear VR headsets for visual output. The usual limitations of this mobile VR solution—i.e.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Every weekend VRFocus gathers together a number vacancies from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe, to help make finding the ideal job easier. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, CA.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Virtual reality (VR) companies are spread across the world but most countries will have a higher concentration in certain locations. Unity 3D Software Engineer (Mobile VR). VR Developer Co-op (Unity). San Francisco, US. And that’s were VRFocus is heading for this week’s VR Job Hub. Seattle, US.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Previous ones occurred in Moscow, Geneva, Perth, Miami, St Louis, San Diego, San Francisco?—?quite Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

The Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), the premier event for creators of immersive VR (and AR) experiences, today announced dates and location for its second edition – its first standalone event. VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The news is overly important because Alyx is already changing the virtual reality landscape for these reasons: It is increasing awareness towards VR a lot (all mainstream gaming media are talking about it); It is increasing sales of VR headsets a lot; It will probably show us new interactions in XR that will affect the UX of many games after it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

This started of as a pet project so I could learn and immerse my self in the world of Virtual Reality. Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates in 2016.The The dev team I work with uses Unity as our bread and butter. They are also helping to push Unity by hosting Learn Unity events.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Like Tyler’s previous acclaimed virtual reality creation Old Friend for the eponymous Future Islands song, Chocolate is an interactive music experience—this time set to tune of Bay Area artist Giraffage’s song of the same name. Inspired, Tyler put his other pursuits on hold and went all in on virtual reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

One problem with virtual reality is that you can’t craft your own characters, or avatars, the way you want them to look in the virtual world. Morph 3D wants to change that, and it is unveiling its 3D-animated avatars for VR today at the VRDC event in San Francisco. The artists and Morph 3D share revenues.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members. VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

As of now, Joe may hold the world record for a virtual reality foot race. The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. Inside VR, it is as if Forrest Gump’s leg braces are flying off. Image above via GIPHY.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

As of now, Joe may hold the world record for a virtual reality foot race. The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. Inside VR, it is as if Forrest Gump’s leg braces are flying off. Image above via GIPHY.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On October 31, Oculus and Kaleidoscope will kick off DevLab , a new initiative to support independent VR creators by bringing together 28 VR artists from around the world to incubate new work, explore new ideas, and create the next wave of great virtual reality experiences. Balthazar Auxietre. Eliza Mcnitt. Elliot Cole. Milica Zec.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. Remember that in the US, salaries are much higher than in other parts of the world, so if in San Francisco $3499 may be worth “just” the rent of a month, in Italy, it is 2.5

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Since 2011, they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. We knew we had to get in on that action, and started jotting down ideas on the flight back from San Francisco. The real ‘Eureka!’

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Since 2011 they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. We knew we had to get in on that action, and started jotting down ideas on the flight back from San Francisco. The real ‘Eureka!’

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing. Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. I’m not one of those journalists. It’s a fizzle.’

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

The arrival of Virtual Reality headsets is bringing another possibility – unlike TV, which puts you in a passive position – VR can make you ‘a part of the match’, or a ‘part of the race’. In less than a year, Virtually Live got support from Manchester City, FIA Formula E Championship and numerous others.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Parisi is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

Talking about the price, most people in the Valley forget how the world has different salaries from them: $3000 may be an acceptable expense in San Francisco for a gadget, but in Italy, for most people, it is worth 2-3 months of salary , so that would be a very hard call.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality. The VR ecosystem looks like being heavily US-based.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

Alan Watts was an influential philosopher in the ‘60s in San Francisco who popularized Eastern philosophy to a Western audience. What do virtual reality and outer space have in common? One of the museum set pieces is a quote from Alan Watts. What’s the significance there? I still have a lot more I want to explore!

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

It can be hard to listen to presentations about VR,” Jeremias says on the line from his office in San Francisco. “A With the Immersive Pavilion we’ve put everything together, and opened it up to formats other than virtual reality for the first time. Because virtual reality is so big in Vancouver, it’s a natural home.”.

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