ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry — 2023 Technology is evolving at a fast pace. Virtual reality games, in particular, have come a long way from the lukewarm response they received in their early years. Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2023

This immersive technology (coined “spatial computing” by Apple), which encompasses virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, is set to experience a significant boost from Apple’s entry into the field. Apple has a remarkable track record of introducing technology that resonates with individuals on a personal level.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

While the average consumer might not need haptic experiences in VR games, sensory feedback in the business world can be extremely valuable. This might be part of the reason why the haptic technology market is expected to reach a value of $5 billion by 2028. However, haptic technologies have the potential to support various use cases.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo hopes these hyper realistic environments will serve as the perfect tool for fields such as architecture, construction, engineering, industry design, training simulations, and other industries where accuracy is paramount. To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Varjo XR-4 is on sale for enterprises, but the company has also opened up a waiting list for interested consumers (especially simulator fans, I guess). More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago).

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ARVR

JUNE 24, 2020

The growth in popularity of industries such as augmented reality and virtual reality is more than real. Virtual reality technology is all about the artificial world, while augmented reality technology includes virtual entities covered in the real world. The virtual reality tools are fully affordable.

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ARVR

JUNE 11, 2020

The immersive technologies created quite a buzz in 2019, after replacing blockchain programmers as a hot commodity, with the demand for AR / VR engineer’s increasing by a whacking 1400%. The “X” in XR is a placeholder, can have Virtual, Augmented, Mixed as it’s value. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2. 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?

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

The Void was to be an entertainment destination that promised custom built sets designed to match virtual worlds players experienced through VR headsets – a full body, wireless simulation of a virtual world. When we finally did get our hands on it, we were impressed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The technology is unique in its flexibility and usability across different devices and sectors. This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The HoloLens headset is currently one of the most impressive mixed reality solutions on the market, paving the way for a future in holographic concerts, and virtual teleportation. Microsoft’s technology could easily be the basis behind a number of mixed-reality and unique event experiences in the entertainment world going forward.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The simulation (or recreation) of sense of touch through the sensations of applying force, vibration, or motion to the user. Haptics be used to assist in the creation of virtual objects in a computer simulation, to control such virtual objects, and to enhance the remote control of machines and devices (telerobotics).

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Not all AR *has* to contain 3D, but it is a typical type of asset used in the space because of its dimensionality and end goal of simulating reality and enhancing reality by mimicking it! modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.? Free for students!!

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

While that means the Auggie winners were finally announced, there was also other great content, including a lot of discussion around the future of XR technology. The Future of XR Technology. Many of the talks and panel discussions at AWE’s final day appropriately looked to the future of XR technology and experience. The Auggies.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. It is working on some form of virtual currency, that has been internally named “Zuck Buck” (I love this name, actually). It should not be based on cryptocurrency like Libra, but just be virtual money similar to Robux in Roblox, and we can expect it to be used in virtual worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. NVIDIA is using its program Folding@Home to help research centers in doing their research and simulations on the new coronavirus. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 25, 2023

With recent advances in generative AI, there has been a lot of discussion about how it will be used in games, virtual worlds and the metaverse. Types of Creators in Games While autonomous cars will do work for us — in virtual worlds, we can express ourselves creatively and affect the product itself.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. We know it will only improve in sophistication, technology and design. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

As technology advances, it becomes important to unify different approaches to prevent fragmentation from stopping its growth. WebXR Examples WebXR Room I recently created this simple application using the WebXR Device API developed by Mozilla on the Unity video game engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The evolving extended reality landscape is changing the world we live in on a phenomenal scale. As immersive technologies become more accessible, both for consumers and business users alike, we’re discovering just how impactful these solutions can be. Recently, the organization also introduced the new “Helix project”.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2020

VR headsets; virtual worlds; the Matrix Reality. Reality as canvas” Using Augmented Reality technologies, we superimpose digital constructs into a particular view of the IRL World. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

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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. VR is a dangerous technology lol. Virtual Virtual Reality 2 has been released. Virtual Virtual Reality 2 , one of the most awaited games of 2022, has been released. CPR Simulator.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Adding to the Book of Face’s massive plans for mixed reality technology, they have made good on their promise to make a 360 camera open source and available to anyone. Interestingly enough, the open world features wildlife simulations provided by IBM’s Watson. Curioser and curioser….

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. Unity launches MARS tools. The weight is only 150g.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

GPU Technology Conference 2017 is premier, NVIDIA just announced first set of VR news coming from the conference. So lets recap all that came to our knowledge today: VRWorks is a comprehensive suite of APIs, libraries, and engines that enable application and headset developers to create amazing virtual reality experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Douglas went away from Hollywood to create this super-studio with all the cutting-edge technology (like robotic camera systems, computers, etc…). In the last 5 years, I’ve seen another movie having such an impact, but not in the mainstream audience, but in the technology sector: “Her” by Spike Jonze.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

But I think we’ll continue to have open and closed systems just as we do today, and it’s likely that there will a closed, walled garden metaverse of interconnected worlds that is more akin to the vision of the OASIS that’s built by Gregarious Simulation Systems. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. GeekWire praised our newest product as an “Invention We Love” and invited Co-founder Bob Crockett to show off our new technology to the crowd. A new generation of HaptX Gloves. Fortunately, we had an answer.

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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. I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world.

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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. I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

Croquet Corporation announced on Thursday last week it had launched its Croquet for Unity solution. The new JavaScript multiplayer framework integrates with Unity to provide a novel approach for developers. With it, people can create Unity-based immersive experiences without writing or maintaining multiplayer code.

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2022

Company executives shared cutting-edge technology that NVIDIA is releasing to transform graphics processing and provide creative tools to help companies embrace the metaverse reality. NVIDIA Metaverse Technology. See Also: Save the Date for the Most Important XR Events in Q3 and Q4 2022. NVIDIA Omniverse Extensions.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

We all know that these days the metaverse, the infamous M-word, is one of the hot topics in the tech world. There are many problems to be solved, technological and social to begin with, until we will be able to create the “next generation of the Internet”. In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis.

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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. I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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