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Unity Technologies Raises $181 Million
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JULY 13, 2016
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Microsoft Partners With Unity On HoloLens 2 Development Edition
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MAY 2, 2019
The developer-focused release includes $500 in free Azure credits, 3-month free trials of Unity Pro. The Microsoft HoloLens 2 Developer Edition will include the latest HoloLens headset alongside $500 in free Azure credits plus a three-month trial of both Unity Pro and PiXYZ plugin.
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Unity Technologies Hosting Vision VR/AR Summit Asia in Beijing
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OCTOBER 20, 2016
Building on the momentum set into motion by the inaugural event, Unity Technologies is hosting Vision VR/AR Summit Asia in Beijing. Unity will also host a one-day workshop the day before the event where Unity field engineers will discuss VR development and optimization.
NVIDIA Has Built VRWorks Into Unity, Builds Available Now
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NOVEMBER 9, 2016
NVIDIA is offering early access to a version of Unity with the company’s VRWorks features integrated into the engine for enhanced VR performance. At GDC 2016, Unity announced they would be adding support for VRWorks , Nvidia’s SDK for optimisation of VR using the company’s GPUs.
Unity Technologies raises $181 Million, company now valued over 1 Billion dollars.
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JULY 13, 2016
In addition, DFJ’s Barry Schuler will take a seat on Unity’s board of directors. Based in San Francisco, Unity Technologies has been helping developers bring their visions to life for over 10 years and currently has almost 1,000 employees globally.
HoloLens 2 Development Edition Includes Three Free Months Of Unity Pro
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MAY 2, 2019
Along with the Development Edition buyers will receive $500 in free Azure credits and a three month trial for both Unity Pro and the PiXYZ Plugin for transferring CAD files. The addition of Unity Pro and the PiXYZ Plugin makes it easy to import 3D design data in minutes rather than hours.”
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Improbable Promises Long-term Support For Unity
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JANUARY 20, 2019
Unity has backed down in its battle with Improbable over the cloud platfrom SpatialOS. And now Improbable is promising to move forward with Unity Technologies and developers that use the Unity game-dev tools. On Wednesday, Unity changed its terms of service. Improbable helped forced this change by revealing that Unity had revoked its Unity license. It works with game engines including Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, and more.
Unreal and Unity Both Commit to Google Daydream
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MAY 19, 2016
Middleware makers Epic Games and Unity Technologies have been working on every major VR HMD revealed to date, so it’s no surprise to hear that both are involved with Google’s new Daydream platform.
Unity Vision VR/AR Summit 2017: Courtside for the Convergence of Realities
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MAY 4, 2017
When it comes to changing the game for XR, Unity Technologies just can’t stop. Vision Summit 2017— Unity’s VR/AR-centric industry conference held this Monday and Tuesday at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood—doubled down on this push in a dramatic way. “We Google Tango with Unity.
Watch: Latest Unity VR Editor Shown Off at Unite, Releasing in 2016
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NOVEMBER 2, 2016
During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months.
Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates during their Unite LA event today.
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NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates during their event Unite LA today. Unity's experimental EditorVR build will be available on December 15th. billion new unique devices seen by Unity in Q3.
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VR Veteran Tony Parisi is Leading Unity’s AR & VR Strategy Beyond Gaming
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MAY 2, 2017
The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. New Unity Tools Bring Interactivity and Real-time CGI to 360 Video, Now in Beta.
Isabelle Riva: How The Unity Game Engine Will Democratize Film
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AUGUST 19, 2018
Unity Technologies has been known among developers as the maker of a “game engine” since the tool debuted in 2005. That’s because experiences created with Unity are more often than not films, interactive movies, advertisements, or augmented reality and virtual reality content.
How to make a 3D Photo for Facebook from your Unity project
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APRIL 27, 2019
They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones) … so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly from your Unity project! But are we sure that there isn’t a better way for Unity projects?
OTOY Is Building One of VR’s Most Important Technologies
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NOVEMBER 14, 2016
We talked Unity, open standards, the metaverse, and more, but the general thread pointed to OTOY as one of THE pivotal companies in the VR space. The Big Unity Announcement. At Unity 3D’s conference in L.A. Editorials lightfield metaverse orbx otoy streaming unity VR
Unity Hires VRML Co-Creator Tony Parisi In Bid For VR Dominance
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NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. “We think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite. Unity Engine VR Industry News tony parisi unity
Start Working In VR and AR With These Unity and Udacity Degree Programs
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OCTOBER 8, 2017
By participating in these two cutting-edge programs, students are educated on the fundamentals of designing and engineering captivating immersive experiences using the power of Unity on the Udacity online learning platform. .
Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it Does
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MAY 1, 2017
At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines.
Unity 5.5 Update Brings Microsoft Hololens Integration And More
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NOVEMBER 30, 2016
The Unity game engine is a versatile tool that developers, from beginners to those well-versed, utilize to fully realize their video game concepts. Such a move eases the process for developers, increasing efficiency by allowing them to do a larger amount of their augmented and mixed reality work within the Unity Editor. This will hopefully lead to shorter mixed/augmented development times or more intricate use of the technology. You can find the Unity 5.5
Unity CEO Wants ‘Equivalent of LittleBigPlanet’ Made In VR
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MAY 3, 2017
Unity is hoping that, one day, something will do the same for VR. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said as much to UploadVR in an interview at this week’s Vision Summit. Unity may be the company to make it happen. Tagged with: unity Facebook Twitter Reddit More.
Unity Announces Release Date for 5.6 and 2017 Beta at GDC
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MARCH 1, 2017
Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Unity 5.6. Unity 5.6
Unity Native Support for Google Daydream VR Coming in Summer, Plugin Out Now
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MAY 19, 2016
Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin. Initially, Unity support for Daydream will be available via a plugin, with native support arriving some time in the Summer.
Learn To Create Full VR Experiences In Unity With Our 10-Week Intensive Night Course
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JUNE 27, 2017
We are offering a 10-week intensive night course at our campuses in both San Francisco and Los Angeles to teach you how to create full VR experiences from the ground up in Unity. Tiffany Raber is a Unity developer, 3D asset creator/designer, and biomedical illustrator.
Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B.
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JULY 13, 2016
Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B Now, with the rise of augmented and virtual reality, we are rapidly approaching the likelihood that the future will be built on Unity. unity vr virtual reality
On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Unity’s Head of VR & AR, Tony Parisi
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FEBRUARY 25, 2017
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. He is currently Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, where he oversees the company’s strategy for virtual and augmented reality.
Weekly Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $400M & Antilatency.
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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.
Udacity Launches a ‘Learn ARKit’ Course Created in Collaboration with Unity
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OCTOBER 5, 2017
Students can choose to learn to develop AR apps using the Unity game engine, or using Swift in combination with SceneKit, Apple’s own 3D graphics API. Udacity maintains the Unity course, a result of a direct partnership with Unity Technologies , is “the fastest way to learn ARKit.”
Lifeliqe to work with Unity to support K-12 education.
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OCTOBER 20, 2017
Lifeliqe has announced a strategic partnership with Unity Technologies that will give K-12 students the opportunity to publish work made with Unity onto the Lifeliqe platform.
Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual.
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JULY 19, 2016
Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual Walkthrough, ScopeAR Raises $2M, Pixie Raises $18.5M Unity Technologies announced that it has closed a $181 million Series C round of funding led by DFJ Growth.
Exclusive: OTOY Is Bringing Lightfield Baking And More To Its Unity Integration
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JANUARY 11, 2017
The road to photorealistic VR is long, but OTOY is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity. You could import a simple item from the Unity asset store, apply the renderer, and have it look strikingly realistic.
Scene Fusion Brings Multi-User Development To Unity’s Editor VR
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MARCH 14, 2017
Back at GDC 2017 at the start of this month Unity gave us a brief update on Editor VR, its new platform for developing 3D content within headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Tagged with: Editor VR , KinematicSoup , Scene Fusion , unity.
WorldViz Laughs Off Room-Scale VR, Introduces ‘Warehouse-Scale’ for Unreal & Unity
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MAY 26, 2016
That’s what WorldViz is asking today as it introduces Unity and Unreal Engine support for its self-labelled ‘Warehouse-Scale’ VR technology. hardware PPT system Unity 5.
Sneak Peak:Ghostbusters:Dimension from The Void, Made with Unity.
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JUNE 29, 2016
Get a glimpse into the gameplay in Ghostbusters: Dimension, created with Unity 3D. This is precisely the kind of innovative use of VR that Unity is now powering with our 3D engine and platform," said Clive Downie, CMO Unity Technologies.
Unity Hires Dr. Danny Lange away from Uber to be VP of AI and Machine Learning
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DECEMBER 7, 2016
Unity announced that it has hired Dr. Danny Lange as VP of AI and Machine Learning. As head of machine learning, Lange will lead Unity’s efforts around AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning. Source: Unity Press Release.
OTOY Is Bringing Lightfield Baking And More To Its Unity.
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JANUARY 12, 2017
OTOY Is Bringing Lightfield Baking And More To Its Unity Integration The road to photorealistic VR is long, but OTOY is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity.
Unity Is Creating VR Ads For A New Film In The Saw Horror Franchise
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JULY 17, 2017
Today, we’ve learned that Lionsgate is embracing that concept by partnering with Unity to promote a new entry in the Saw horror franchise. The Jigsaw VR ad experience, releasing before the film, will be in the form of a “Virtual Room” which is a new tool Unity wants to use to showcase VR’s growing potential for advertising. Advertising Experiences Unity Engine Lionsgate Studios saw
Unity is taking a shot at creating the standard for VR advertising starting with SAW!
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JULY 20, 2017
Game Engine powerhouse Unity Technologies is taking a shot at figuring out VR advertising. This week Unity Technologies revelaed key components of its plan which detailed a customizable VR native ad format for brands to create their own integrated experiences.
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