AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Toyota makes mixed reality magic with Unity and Microsoft HoloLens 2. This includes the use of Unity’s real-time 3D development platform across its automotive lifecycle. Its virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Nick Davis.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The company focuses primarily on wearable devices, designed to capture information about user movement, and provide useful feedback, for immersive experiences. Manus’s product portfolio includes solution like the Quantum Metagloves, with next-level high-fidelity finger tracking provided through intelligent drift-free sensors.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. This feature is not available on Unity, but there is a dev that is trying to build a plugin with similar functionalities: dubbed “Nano-tech”, this plugin aims at letting you use the models you want in your project, even in VR ones. Read this Intelligence Report about Wearables.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

VR gloves are a wearable XR accessory designed to enhance immersion with spatial computing capabilities and sensory feedback. Plus, the gloves are compatible with various software platforms, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. The company is a pioneer in XR wearables, with full haptic suits designed for various use cases.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

Curated by the analyst, writer, and venture capitalist Mathew Ball and partners, the index includes companies like Cloudflare, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Unity. The test until we have a wearable is what experiences will make you take your phone out of your pocket or purse and right now a lot of experiences don’t pass that test,” said Bentovim.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

This wearable headset comes with a wide field of view, surround sound, and eye-tracking capabilities already built-in. Tobii also produces screen-based eye-trackers, capable of capturing gaze data at speeds of up to 1200HZ. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Unity Unity stands as one of the market leaders in software development for the metaverse landscape and the XR economy. The Unity ecosystem enables business leaders and developers to create powerful immersive experiences using virtual, mixed, and augmented reality content.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity, Qualcomm, and the XR Association (XRA) followed Inbar’s welcome address with keynotes of their own. Unity Keynote. Unity Technologies CEO and Chairman John Riccitiello did not preserve Inbar’s record in his keynote “Getting Beyond Fiction and Seeing the Reality in the Metaverse.” Opening Day Keynotes.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 17, 2024

Dirck Schou, CEO at Taqtile , shared his view on what ARGO is achieving within the AR space right now: “ARGO is pushing the industry forward in critical ways with its combination of integrated hand tracking in a compact, wearable package. Customers will have a powerful new option when it comes to supporting their workers.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

HTC VIVE’s immersive training platform integrates the firm’s lineup of VR wearables to place a user within a realistic environment that stimulates the gradual adaptation of an audience to battle a user’s social anxiety. Mobile World Live (@mobileworldlive) March 1, 2022.

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers at The Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany, published a video recently showing a novel solution to the problem of wearable haptics for augmented reality. The researchers say their system “adds physical forces while keeping the users’ hands free to interact unencumbered.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. Attendees will have a chance to experiment with some of the latest tools and wearables on the market, as well as explore learning opportunities.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These wearables could easily be adapted for the entertainment and arts sector too. Apple’s ongoing investment into the XR world also involves a strong focus on sleek, lightweight wearable headsets for augmented reality. At the core of phenomenal art experiences in the XR world, is the right development software.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The SDK will also support third-party Unity plug-ins, and NuEyes intends to ship its SDK platform in Q1 2024. Notably, NueEye explains that the upcoming XR healthcare product will be the first to offer FDA-approved live 3D stereoscopic features to medical professionals.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. A lot of my prototypes are excuses to learn new skills and techniques in Unity. So working on these prototypes gives me an outlet to work on VR. Need inspiration?

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. Finch Technologies makes body-tracking wearable devices to serve as controllers for XR applications and experiences including the recently announced FinchRing (this is the promised cherry on top).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years. Countless companies have built powerful games and training environments within Unity, specifically designed to work within the extended reality landscape.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Google said that it has partnered with Unity and Epic Games, creators of two of the most popular third-party gaming engines, so developers can use the game-building tools they already know well. “Unity’s native support for Daydream aims to solve the hard problems for you.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Cross Platform Mobile AR Development in Unity If utilizing the full power of native AR frameworks on Android and iOS isn’t necessary and if your goal is faster time to market, cross-platform AR development in Unity may be a good option. Unity AR Foundation is a helpful framework for cross-platform augmented reality app development.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Today, there are numerous brands producing lightweight, ergonomic, and infinitely powerful wearable solutions for VR users. So, where should business buyers start their search for the ultimate headset? The ThinkReality portfolio from Lenovo includes both a set of AR smart glasses and the ThinkReality VRX all-in-one headset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

It will also provide support for developers using Unity 2021.3 LTS, where Unity will become the only Unity backend for HoloLens 2 and Windows MR headsets. He concluded that wearables and smart glasses were expected to succeed mobile phones “in the not too distant future.”

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In our discussion, we discussed the following: Virtualware’s VIROO solution and latest client in the XR training sector Why VRaaS is a key component of industry upskilling Additional partnerships with Unity Technologies Thoughts on the future of the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 Thanks for watching.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We wanted to help facilitate lightweight, wearable glasses with comfortable form factors, allowing people to use them for longer periods of time. The AR market has been primarily focused on assisted reality, or devices with monocular displays and sometimes cameras, but are wearable computers for tasks such as remote guidance.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

What is the VITURE 1 Product The VITURE 1 product is a lightweight XR headset wearable for up to three hours. The device also weighs in at 76 grammes, allowing VITURE to promote wearability and useability with its hardware.

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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,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

For many developers, not just in the gaming space, but throughout the world, Unity stands as one of the most powerful environments for development. ARCore works seamlessly with a range of other tools, including the Unity and Unreal environments so that developers can bring all of their most valuable software together.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. . This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2023

Additionally, Handy leverages Unity to create alembic files that a developer imports into Blender to create a realistically animated hand model. pic.twitter.com/v1ONFdv5qf — Russ Maschmeyer (@StrangeNative) January 11, 2023 The update streamlines and accelerates capturing hand-tracking data for Meta Quest developers.

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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

With our latest Unity Core Assets release , we’re excited to unveil full support for the Unity 5.4 And in some cases, we’re adding features to the Core Assets to support upcoming Unity Modules. But more importantly, they’re immediately providing the basis for new Unity Modules currently under construction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration. The new stereo-foveated rendering improves eye-tracking features, and the feature is widespread – already finding a home on Unity, Unreal, and NVIDIA Omniverse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

These will focus on avatars, 3D web interoperability, wearables, digital fashion, networks, cybersecurity, privacy, and others. Some of the top members of the Forum include IKEA, Alibaba, rooom , Adobe, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony, Unity, and many others.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. Finch Technologies makes body-tracking wearable devices to serve as controllers for XR applications and experiences including the recently announced FinchRing (this is the promised cherry on top).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Business leaders will need to determine whether they want to use the software offered by an existing vendor with experience in spatial audio, or whether they’d prefer to build their own XR environment from scratch using a tool like Unity. Step 3: Consider User Experience and Safety.

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2020

Introduction Augmented Reality Glasses are smart wearables that put virtual content right in front of our eyes. Source What can Vuzix Smart glasses mean for the current Android Developers? The Vuzix Blaze Smart Glasses is one such example. Even though I don’t have the hardware (i.e Perhaps they will update the documentation later on.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Taqtile, Microsoft to Enhance Workplace AR Solutions Taqtile’s MWC 2024 news comes shortly after the firm announced support for Microsoft’s Unity-based Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3). Last month, Taqtile announced its official support for Microsoft’s Unity-based MRTK3 to expand the usability of its Manifest application.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

GOOGL, GOOG) Google Glass wasn’t the consumer wearable revolution about which Google ’s parent company, Alphabet , was dreaming. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. One-year price performance for FB as of 2/3/20 Alphabet Inc.

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