Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

Getting that directional audio to interact in realistic ways with the virtual environment itself is the next challenge, and getting it right came make VR spaces feel far more real. SEE ALSO Latest Unity Beta Gets NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features. Photo courtesy NVIDIA.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. The tech supports PC, Mac, Linux and Android.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources. Eye and hand tracking solutions also allow for better computing power distribution within XR environments. Photogrammetry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We’ve discovered how valuable the right XR tools can be in collaboration and communication, and how they can help innovators to build new products and ideas. According to Aptiv, even people who had never touched a virtual reality headset before were still able to take part in the training. Unity and the University of Miami.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Developers can quickly add the free SDK to their Unity-based VR games, which allows users to easily set up, broadcast, or record mixed reality gameplay footage with the help of the utility. For best results, the real camera and virtual camera need to achieve perfectly-matched calibration, in terms of position, orientation, scaling and FOV.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. A decade on and there is a new kid on the block from Epic/Unreal called Metahuman. However there was a bit of a leaning curve.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Leveraging the technologies across their line of enterprise-exclusive headsets, such as the VR-3, XR-3, and Aero, has birthed several key secondary tools for hand and eye tracking. API , the Scandinavian XR company unveiled cutting-edge proprietary eye-tracking tools capable of millimetre-precise pupil and iris diameter monitoring.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. VRFocus will continue its coverage XR related development tools, reporting back with the latest updates.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

The system is used for tracking movements inside virtual reality environments, and provides freedom of movement inside virtual reality environments, whether users are walking, running, crouching, turning and gesturing. At Miami University , the platform is used to create shared virtual spaces.

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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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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Mixed reality (MR) filmmaking (not to be confused with mixed reality headsets) is a technique that super-imposes a real-world VR user into the virtual environment, creating an eye-catching blend of the physical and digital. Thankfully, we found the right tool for the job: LIV. LIV’s support was astounding. Let the testing begin.

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CraneMorley

JULY 18, 2023

Back to Blog Page Navigating today’s digital landscape can seem like a herculean task, with a plethora of learning tools available for enterprise use. Each method, from the conventional instructor-led training to the revolutionary virtual reality, brings its unique advantages and drawbacks to the table.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. During the 3D Jam, I was surprised by the lack of tools like this. If I could have found a professional tool like this, I would have been begging my boss to buy it!”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Facebook encourages people to create new worlds inside Horizon using the World Creation tools , that let people create easily new experiences for Horizon from inside virtual reality in an easy way and without knowing how to code (there is a visual scripting system). Developer tools.

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