XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. Physics and realistic light simulation (ray tracing) You’d need a way to have a persistent world with data, continuity, rules, systems.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Vibrotactile feedback enables other gloves to simulate the feeling of things like touching a surface or clicking a button using actuators in the fingers of the glove. In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And in fact, in these years, NVIDIA has always worked in offering the tools to improve the graphical quality of games and 3D applications in general , with ray-tracing (RTX ON / RTX OFF) being the latest big innovation it brought to the market. Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! 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! From artist tools to live-ops?—?everything

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. The no-code necessary update will “bring all of our tools together into what we call a complete front-line operating system.”. Best Creator and Authoring Tool.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4. Most of this is often discussed in light of its Unreal engine being used to create virtual worlds….much

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

We are excited that IMAX VR players will get exclusive access to this exciting, fun and family-friendly virtual world.”. SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. I showcased some examples developed at VRMADA, where we use VR for enterprise training and simulation.

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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. Level 0: Hackers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. A very interesting article I’ve read this week talks about how it is difficult to be a “bouncer” of virtual worlds, trying to keep the environment safe and banning people doing wrong stuff. More info (Foxus camera) More info (Foxus landing page). More info.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device.

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ARVR

MARCH 19, 2021

Therefore, if an organisation wants to stay ahead of the competition, it must stay agile and constantly develop its sales enablement tools. The following are 7 major ways collaborative virtual reality environments can supplement your sales enablement toolkit. Virtual reality platforms take this ability to the next level.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

This is how Vertical Robot describes the story of Red Matter 2, which starts exactly where the first game ended: After breaking free from the simulation that held your own mind hostage, your first priority is to escape the Atlantic Union’s base. The left one is using the grabbing tool, while the second one the gun (Image by Vertical Robot).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium. Everything they have announced is realistic , and it gives the company the impression of being reliable. I like this approach.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The good news is, thanks to immersive coworking tools, it’s becoming increasingly possible to feel like you’re in the same room as distant colleagues. Thanks to metaverse-building tools like Unreal Engine 5, it’s easy to build your own virtual world where colleagues can collaborate.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. There was a simulation of the stadium filled with water, with many special effects of lights and sparkles, while the true singers and dancers were (theoretically) performing live.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). VR animation tool Quill has proved to be an interesting tool for creators these years. Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF. It has 4.5DOF.

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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. Creal Exploring the possibilities of the AR and mixed reality landscape, Creal develops light-field display technology, to combine digital assets and content with the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

CPR Simulator. CPR Simulator is an application available on App Lab meant to teach CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) through VR in an easy and user-friendly way. Our goal is to provide creators, developers and teams with the proper tools for extracting 3D insights. Virtual worlds then and now Funny link.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. Collectively, these people have shipped Island 359 , Job Simulator , and Fantastic Contraption , some of the most well-known titles out today. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

Well, bHaptics has ideated a way to somewhat simulate the support, that is give you haptic sensations on your torso based on the audio that the game is playing. Being a developer, of course one of the first things that I did was digging into the bHaptics SDK, that you can find on the Unity asset store or on Unreal Engine Marketplace.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

If this happens, fewer users can create more profit for VR developers, making the PC market worthwile again; New dev tools will make super-easy to make different versions of a game with different qualities. Of course, on a PC VR setup, the game looked overly simple. OpenXR can enable developers to develop only once and deploy everywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. And if you’re a writer or creator, you may experience these simulations and this will affect how you will tell a story later on. This is the story.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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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 As is often the case, the forefront of this revolution has occurred in games and virtual worlds. For the virtual worlds and avatar systems where composability and interoperability are critical?—?composable

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

You’ve got these avatars and these virtual worlds and something just really grabbed me about a future in VR. I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. This is 1999.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Joseph Toma : [From the presentation], although the hardware will inevitably evolve, we are years away from consumers and businesses adopting these tools. Also, while converging the physical and virtual worlds is inevitable, it won’t be through massive ski goggles on your face.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal.

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