UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. In the picture above, you can see how real people can be inserted into a virtual world. Image Credit: The Future Group.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. The firm offers VR simulations for research, planning, and education, with a growing portfolio of use cases. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ?

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Otherwise the rest of the scenery is rendered digitally using Unreal Engine 4 in post. Participants competing will not be wearing any form of a virtual reality headset, which means only spectators will have a chance to view the full mixed reality experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. The firm offers VR simulations for research, planning, and education, with a growing portfolio of use cases. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles.

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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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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. If we want to create virtual worlds scenarios like a concert in a stadium with 50,000 people inside singing altogether, we need to have a new networking stack. I can’t wait to have my stadium experience in VR.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info (iVRy makes PSVR tracking work on PC) More info (IMU is now supported by the tracking) The European Union announces a strategy to lead on virtual worlds and Web 4.0 Government: supporting societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities virtual worlds can offer. Kudos to him.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

According to the team, if you need to test for instance that your game increases the health of the player by 50 hp when he grabs a white suitcase, you can create an automated test that simulates the grab and checks that the action is executed.

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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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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The umbrella term that covers all of the various technologies that enhance our senses, whether they’re providing additional information about the actual world or creating totally unreal, virtually simulated worlds for us to experience. What is Virtual Reality?

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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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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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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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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 Nextant Awards are separate from the Auggies and are presented by the Virtual World Society at AWE. Announcements. Nextant Awards. The Legacy Award.

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ARVR

MARCH 19, 2021

Transform the familiarity of 2D training into a 3D experience Virtual reality platforms are great for interacting with customers, but they’re also great for your employees too. There is something magical about making an unreal world feel real, and people’s positive emotional response demonstrates this wonder.

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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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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. Read on for the full interview. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? .

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. Who knows…. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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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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AllThingsVR

JUNE 17, 2017

In the industry, this type of game is still considered blue-sky thinking—experiences tend to be segmented into AR or VR—but students vying for Full Sail’s Simulation and Visualization bachelor degree, launched in 2016, are encouraged to think big. Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Some companies are going as far as setting up a virtual office – a digital office (which may or may not be a replica of the real-world office), complete with virtual workstations and virtual meeting rooms, accessed via a VR headset. Finally, training and education are becoming much more immersive, thanks to VR and AR.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

It enables a new level of presence by bringing physically realistic visuals, sound, touch interactions, and simulated environments to virtual reality. Traditional VR audio provides an accurate 3D position of the sound source within a virtual environment.

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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 - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

Additionally, the company can assist organizations with the development of unique simulations based on their own narratives. Incarna optimizes the production process for companies investing in VR, with access to full-stack creation services.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“We’re always striving to maximize our users’ immersion in virtual worlds by creating experiences that behave like users expect—experiences where you don’t have to think about what you’re doing; you just do it,” says Software Engineering Manager Ed Foley.

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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

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. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Our Virtual World. Initially, the experience gives you a comfort mode in which your FOV is narrowed as you fly to reduce simulator sickness. Turning slowly I can almost feel the wind in my hair but I know that couldn’t be possible. This is not the real Mt. This is Google Earth VR. And I never, ever want to leave.

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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. However, you unexpectedly discover a distress signal belonging to an old friend.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Now Holodeck is being substituted by NVIDIA Omniverse , NVIDIA’s platform for 3D design collaboration and world simulation, but the vision is always the same: working with other people to build and interact with AR and VR scenes. Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity.

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