XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. One of the most popular platforms available for developing software crucial to the building and project development environment in the AEC world, is Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

When you are in VR, instead, you have to draw all the environment, the skybox, set the correct lighting, etc… This means more time invested, which is more money spent. There is always some work that is necessary to adapt it” The environment of our VR version of HitMotion: Reloaded.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Unity is also supported through a new Android XR Extension, as well as WebXR and OpenXR. For devs building with Android Studio, a new Jetpack XR SDK extends that workflow to help developers create spatial versions of their existing flat apps. This includes a new Android XR Emulator for testing Android XR apps without a headset.

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2023

.” Here’s a look at what Nanite can do for VR games, courtesy of YouTube channel ‘Smart Poly’: Lumen, the engine’s new dynamic global lighting system, also makes virtual environments look better, as it can use both software and hardware ray tracing for more realistic lighting.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2022

The app features a number of different colors and brush strokes to employ, allowing you to craft everything from stylish self-portraits to complex virtual environments you can actually explore. Once you’ve finished you can upload your sketches to the Unity editor. Ultrawings 2. Price – $24.99

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

” The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity, and support for Unreal Engine is on the way. Available now with support for Unity, the Steam Audio SDK will also soon support Unreal Engine. Realistic sound is an important but often underappreciated aspect of the immersion equation in VR.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity. That is, outside of the testing environment in the developer’s app for Quest. They call this model “Bring Your Own Avatar.”. A Bigger, Better, Metaverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As Meta continues to expand its investment into the Metaverse , we’re likely to see a host of new ecommerce and retail brands taking advantage of the environment to build new digital experiences. Unity provides users with access to a comprehensive real-time development platform, ideal for building 3D, immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The experience should be able to adapt completely to the physical environment it is running in, modifying the size of the virtual environment to be the same as the real one, and taking care of substituting desks, tables, chairs, and sofas, with virtual reality counterparts. it is a bit clunky, but it works.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

For example, if it’s raining, the virtual environment may also show rain, and if there’s a tall building at the player’s location, there will also be a tall building in the AR realm where an Invader may emerge from. The most remarkable update, however, is the real-time response to location-specific patterns and nearby buildings.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Unlike ready-made social platforms though that feature limited avatar selections and only a few virtual spaces, VRChat maintains a DIY vibe that tends to attract more of a Maker crowd.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro. We’ve accumulated substantial UX expertise, ensuring an optimized experience for virtual environments.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

They then feed the stereo data in real-time into Unity using a custom plugin and a custom shader to cutout and depth sort the user directly in the engine renderer. image courtesy Owlchemy Labs. They do it by using a stereo depth camera, recording video and depth data simultaneously.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Substance for Quest allows RT3D designers to sculpt a virtual object within a VR environment. Additionally, the service lets a Substance designer swap between working in a bespoke virtual environment to using their real-world desktop.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

Founders Graham Gaylor & Jesse Joudrey plan to keep it that way for the “foreseeable future” Like other social VR experiences before it, the app will allow friends to meet up online in virtual environments with personalized avatars and talk, share videos and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

There are lots of tests that must be done on VRChat to see what is feasible because in VRChat you can develop using Unity, but you can’t write C# scripts and this kills completely lots of possibilities for us developers. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen? You should see it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

While the Cosmos XR was at the AR voice (because it lets you do passthrough-AR), the teased Vive Proton was listed in the Augmented Virtuality section. AV is when you have a fully virtual environment with some real elements inside (e.g. your real hands, or the real people around you).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The PokéLens tech demo was recorded with the headset’s on-board HD video camera, allowing for a full capture of both the real and virtual environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

The Virtual Burn is being created by devoted teams of independent technologists, who are building six wholly unique virtual experiences that will welcome anyone from around the globe August 22 through September 7, 2021. Here are some numbers from the 2020 Virtual Burn. What were your stats for 2020?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as a player moves around a virtual room. Simulations can run in real-time, so the reverb can respond easily to design changes.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Unity engine support is promised but with no plans for motion control support, Apple has cut out any possibility of porting most of the existing or future VR catalog to its platform. There is a comfort in understanding the topological landscape of a controller and a physical touchpoint within the virtual environments themselves.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor. A custom tool built in Unity spawns several rooms side by side in an orthographic view, showing how a certain level in Laser Dance would look in different room layouts. Luckily the answer to that is: probably not.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Using a lightweight, mobile electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) device that provides low-voltage to arm muscles, the idea is to let AR headset-users stay hands-free, but also be able to experience force-feedback when interacting with virtual objects, and feel extra forces when touching physical objects in their environment too.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Bittman created all the environments for the VR experience except for Corgan and his piano with the Google VR tools. Aside from the virtual environments, Corgan’s hologram live performance was captured in volumetric video with Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. but I thought it could be interesting to write some short first impressions about it.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. “It was after I tried Tilt Brush that I saw the possibilities of what 6DOF controllers could bring,” said Vermeulen, adding , “It brought a sense of depth and spatial awareness in a way that didn’t exist before.”.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They can also create new lesson plans in virtual environments and provide fun, interactive learning experiences for their students. This costs them much less than more widely-used gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

Last month, in a VIVE TALK session, HTC VIVE introduced a virtual reality (VR) behavioural training solution that helps individuals with public speaking by placing users in a virtual environment – like a stage – with digital humans. Mobile World Live (@mobileworldlive) March 1, 2022.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Roughly 60 judges nominated ARuVR out of 450 global applications for two additional categories – ‘Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product’ and ‘Best Use of Simulations or Virtual Environments for Learning.’ . Med-Tech World Awards 2022. A massive expansion of XR use cases and new applications for the technology .

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. Resonai’s Vera – platform for transforming physical spaces into virtual environments. Eve – a virtual assistant that helps users adapt to high tech hardware.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

WebXR Exporter is an integration allowing developers to make unity creations viewable through a standard browser window. They are virtual environments that we can get into alone or together,” XR speaker and strategist Linda Ricci said in presenting the award for World of the Year. World of the Year. Worlds are like web pages.

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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. Often combined with RT3D engines, photogrammetry is a technology designed to help content creators and innovators construct digital twins for the virtual environment.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Mixed Reality content My most successful mixed reality demo is about seeing virtual environment outside your home Mixed Reality is the word of the moment and Meta wants to show that it is strong at it. Or Boz that goes on stage and says that his favorite game on the Meta Store is The Unity Cube. Fingers crossed for this.

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