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. In the video heading this article, you can hear how much information can be derived about the physical shape of the scene from the audio alone.

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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. The tech supports PC, Mac, Linux and Android.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It can be used as an overall term to describe other technologies similar to, but different from, an actual Virtual Reality experience. It includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies. AR augments the real world in front of you whereas VR creates completely immersive virtual environments.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

By combining live video capture (usually with a green screen for better compositing) with 3D rendering, it is possible to video capture the VR user within the virtual environment, correctly scaled, and interacting convincingly with virtual objects.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A virtual host explains there are “no rules” in Westworld and proceeds to hand you a gun. It’s at this point when you are again teleported, but this time into the old west-themed virtual environment of Westworld — and it only gets weirder from here.

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2017

Right now, the VR industry hosts a variety of mobile and console options—but the former is fixed-position (meaning that, no matter where you move your body, your viewpoint stays the same) and the latter includes a tether, a prospect that renders “losing yourself” to a virtual environment a bit risky (don’t trip!).

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 14, 2021

We’re already seeing this happen on the production sites in series like Disney’s The Mandalorian , as you can see in the video below. “One of the tricks is to blend that physical set with the virtual environment so that you can see it is a seamless transition,” she said. Connie Kennedy.

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ARVR

MARCH 19, 2021

Stimulate people with emotional engagement One of the reasons why VR works so well with communication and training is because virtual environments are 3.75x more emotionally engaging. There is something magical about making an unreal world feel real, and people’s positive emotional response demonstrates this wonder.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

Maybe the highlight of today is that the company is releasing VRWorks Audio and 360 Video software development kits. So lets recap all that came to our knowledge today: VRWorks is a comprehensive suite of APIs, libraries, and engines that enable application and headset developers to create amazing virtual reality experiences.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. UK MOBILE NETWORK O2 TELEFONICA LAUNCHES MUSIC & RUGBY VR VIDEOS.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

During the Build event, Microsoft officially launched Avatars for Teams , its immersive dial-in feature for its leading video conferencing service. Moreover, the update is part of Microsoft’s push to optimise its products with immersive features to combat modern challenges like Zoom fatigue and dial-in hurdles.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Outside of experiencing HaptX Gloves first-hand, we’ve found that video is the best medium to communicate how they feel, what they enable, and why they’re special. When we announced the HaptX Gloves Development Kit last month, a video trailer was a key ingredient to spreading the word. Choosing an approach, building a team.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The good news is that Oculus is continuously improving it : in this video reported by journalist David Heaney, you can see some hands tracking performances that Oculus has obtained in the lab, including hands interacting the one with the other and external objects held in the hands. I imagine Oculus enabling this in the future, but not now.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

Research collected by Meta UK’s Future of Work division highlighted how 81 percent of questioned individuals want to work in collaborative environments. The report claims that roughly 16 percent believe video calls help them feel present in meetings.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

Well, this is a window towards a magical virtual world… it is a way to break the physical limits of his house in VR. Enea developing in virtual reality using Unreal Engine VR editor. He actually used the Unreal VR editor a lot and most of the scenes he has made have been developed or at least refined with this tool.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Destin’s video is approaching two million views and hit YouTube’s front page. 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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. 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. Greg: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. 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. Greg: Thank you.

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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. From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 9, 2017

The contestants are filmed doing challenges against a green screen in a TV studio, and Future Group’s technology renders a virtual world around them live. We render real time graphics with the Unreal engine, using our technology on top, so that the players are in a virtual environment. But more or less.

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CraneMorley

JULY 18, 2023

In this guide, we will shed light on the pros and cons of various learning tools: instructor-led training, eLearning, video learning, virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual instructor-led training (VILT). Furthermore, learning quality heavily relies on the video content and production standards.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. Now, this is in contrast to virtual reality, which of course, is focused on creating full synthetic virtual environments, both of which actually have very interesting usefulness within the enterprise environment. It was crazy.

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