UploadVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Google is launching Poly, a service with a growing library of free objects for creators to incorporate into their virtual worlds. Poly further positions Google to deliver foundational software and services that could one day open up 3D modeling and virtual world creation to millions of people through VR and AR. Earlier this year, the company added Blocks to its creative suite of immersive computing apps — enabling the creation of simple 3D virtual objects.

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UploadVR

JULY 12, 2017

Virtual world creation tools Improbable and Unity Technologies anchored investment in the AR/VR industry in Q2. Also that month, Unity Technologies raised $400 million for its creation toolsets which are used to make interactive experiences across handhelds and consoles as well as VR and AR headsets. About half of the money Unity raised went to its employees. Tagged with: Improbable , unity Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Investments Improbable unity

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UploadVR

JUNE 24, 2017

In this Exploration, we’ll explore the fundamentals of VR sound design, plus take a deep dive into the auditory world of Blocks. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations.

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UploadVR

JULY 31, 2017

I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. According to Neurable, this works using machine learning to interpret “your brain activity in real time to afford virtual powers of telekinesis.” ” The company offers an SDK so Unity developers can integrate the system into a game.

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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.

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UploadVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Parisi is considered by many to be one of the early pioneers of VR thanks to his work on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the internet, with Mark Pesce back in 1994. “We’re not just going to be using VR and AR to make games, we’re going to tell stories and create worlds. Unity Engine VR Industry News tony parisi unity

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There might be a growing collection of virtual reality (VR) videogames that can off big expansive worlds to explore but if you’re looking for something more akin to Ready Player One’s Oasis then your options are fairly limited.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The company behind the multiplayer plugin Normcore proves the viability of a virtual office and beyond. The 2017 video from Normal VR started with an adorable, yellow, blob-like virtual avatar daintily standing in the middle of a real, physical office. More recently, VR companies have caught on to the idea of professional virtual environments, leveraging existing platforms or creating entirely new ones to accomplish this.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. Plus, they also had other benefits that, combined with the unique features, created a potentially world-changing technology platform. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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Road to VR

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. Unity , one of the most popular game engines for VR development, has been a long-term supporter of the medium, introducing many VR-specific features as the hardware evolved at a frantic pace over the last few years. SEE ALSO NVIDIA Says New Foveated Rendering Technique is More Efficient, Virtually Unnoticeable.

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UploadVR

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. The latter is already available in an early state, and allows you to edit scenes from within VR, accessing some of the features available to Unity developers on a traditional screen. Unity may be the company to make it happen. Tagged with: unity Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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UploadVR

JULY 11, 2017

Unity rolled out a major update to its development platform bringing with it a number of improvements across the board. update to the Unity toolset includes highly touted features like a timeline for producing cinematic content and trailers, while also adding NVIDIA VRWorks to render VR more efficiently on recent NVIDIA graphics cards (at least GeForce 9 series or higher).

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Next Reality VR

AUGUST 26, 2016

Leap Motion created gesture control for all sorts of things, including virtual reality, long ago, but developers must build in support for their tracking peripheral to use its full potential. As a result, they've created an "Interaction Engine" for Unity, the primary platform for developing virtual and mixed reality experiences, to try and take gesture interaction to the next level.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Haptics are important in games in general, but especially in VR—because the medium gives players significantly more agency than non-VR, haptics are critical for helping the player understand what’s happening to them and how they can interact with the world. Anything supported by the Unity XR platform should be supported by this.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Virtual and mixed reality are pretty great, but they offer somewhat solitary experiences most of the time. Archive augmented reality hololens Microsoft Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality Unity virtual realityMicrosoft is trying to change that with its HoloLens platform, improvising a way to create a mode it’s calling Spectator View.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. World Building – Job Simulator.

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UploadVR

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. That means from headset to processor to controller and everything else you might need to access the virtual world.

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UploadVR

APRIL 8, 2020

How To Support In Unity. Most Oculus Quest apps are built using the Unity game engine. To add support for system overlays in Unity, developers need to update OVRPlugin to at least v13 and enable ‘ Focus Aware ‘ in the OVRManager script attached to OVRCameraRig.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. He talks about Mass Effect, an open-world game that was really groundbreaking when it first came out in 2007. It’s not just in terms of conversations with characters, but being able to query your world and query the game as well.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Combined with the headsets integrated eye-tracking functionality, users can supposedly expect lifelike virtual content featuring levels of detail not currently offered by other major providers. To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device. With this high resolution there is a seamless transfer between the real world and the virtual world,” said Jan Pflueger, Coordination Augmented & Virtual Reality at Audi, in an official release.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. The Leap Motion Unity assets provide an easy way to bring hands into a Unity game. Since they’re built on the native VR integration included in Unity 5.4, For a more in-depth perspective on how the Core Assets are architected, see our posts Redesigning Our Unity Core Assets: Part 1 and Part 2.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Corgan worked in collaboration with Isobar, Viacom Next, and VR artist Danny Bittman to conceive the virtual worlds depicted in the production. Aside from the virtual environments, Corgan’s hologram live performance was captured in volumetric video with Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture technology. Corgan’s three-and-a-half-minute performance captured as volumetric video was then brought together in VR using the Unity creation engine and Tilt Brush to create a world around him.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. We now have a butterfly avatar in Unity with integrated VR controls, and we know the basics of how butterflies fly in standard forward flight.

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UploadVR

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s one thing to be able to pick up a traditional controller and fiddle around freely in a game space, but it’s another entirely to be able to immerse yourself in a virtual world and manipulate the things around you. ModBox is one such virtual experience, a game where you’re encouraged to use mods created by the community and create your own. Tagged with: creators , Developers , Modbox , mods , SDK , unity , VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2021

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

This year, in exactly one month from now, there will be the 2021 edition of the Virtual Burning Man and I’ve got the amazing opportunity to talk with the organizers about it. The culture that emerged from Black Rock City has taken root around the world.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Horizon Worlds is the new name for Facebook Horizon and the company is removing support for Unity-based worlds, encouraging creators building with that game engine to seek release on the Oculus Store. Instead of selling, though, Unity went public on the stock market in late 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Virtual elements are colored, and the passthrough is monochrome: the two parts do not blend well together; Its features are incredibly limited: basically it just offers you passthrough vision of the environment and nothing more. reviews virtual reality AR oculus quest vr

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I was able to execute a passthrough app and go all around my office space, and even going out in the streets and keep seeing the real world inside my headset ! Yes, this is the passthrough version of The Unity Cube! augmented reality virtual reality oculus quest

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Dozens of leading companies around the world in the automotive, aerospace, industrial, and government sectors are already seeing incredible results with the HaptX Gloves Development Kit for design and training applications.”. 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

APRIL 29, 2020

Virtual events and meetings are the topic of the moment. Mozilla Hubs is a very nice social XR environment, and its power is that people can join your virtual space by just clicking on a link (Image by Mozilla). Why not a Unity exporter? virtual reality hubs mozilla webvr webxr

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

My silly app The Unity Cube is now in 20th place among the best-rated applications on App Lab ! In an article I missed two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg states that he plans to make money on the metaverse selling ads, but especially with an internal market of virtual goods. Hello everyone!

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. Unity.

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UploadVR

APRIL 8, 2019

Where the barriers between VR and AR dissolve and our virtual worlds and augmentations can seamlessly intermingle. To get there, all we need to do is remove the barriers that exist between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and let them become one thing. Augmented Virtual Reality. This works for any ARKit and ARCore app today in any virtual reality. They don’t care whether they’re augmenting real or virtual reality. Another is the Skyrim world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

I so realized that without a V2 sensor is difficult to have solid and persistent interactions with virtual 3D tools that are not always in front of you. UltraLeap Unity SDK. Playing around with Leap Motion/Ultraleap SDK in Unity is pretty easy.

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MAY 27, 2015

New Unity Asset Lets You See Your Actual Hands — Not Just a Rigged Replica. That’s why we’ve just released a new Unity asset feature that brings your real hands into any VR experience. The Image Hand is available now as part of our Unity Core Assets. We believe that augmented reality and virtual reality are just waypoints along a spectrum of possible experiences. When every real object has been hidden, you’ve entered virtual reality.

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