Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. They’re using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot how to play dominos. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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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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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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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

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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Zoom calls, as opposed to actual immersive virtual environments with three Dimensional elements and interactive engagement. So here are important differences between Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality side by side to better understand. AR is 25% virtual and 75% real while VR is 75% virtual and 25% real.

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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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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. But knowing which direction sounds are coming from is only one part of the immersive audio equation. Photo courtesy NVIDIA.

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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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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. The company is also making an SDK available for Unity and Unreal Engine developers to make better use of the system.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 23, 2022

In machine vision applications, that means creating different environments and objects to train robots or self-driving cars, for example. But while there are quite a few tools out there to create virtual environments, there aren’t a lot of tools for creating virtual objects.

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2019

Unreal Engine is changing how filmmakers and advertisers are making movies and commercials with a new virtual production tool that allows them to add special effects in real-time. With Unreal Engine’s new production tool, the entire scene, including all the special fx, can be changed live on set in real-time.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

Epic Games will showcase high-fidelity VR experiences and new photorealistic content developed with Unreal Engine. And out on the concourse, they’ll be using GPUs for one-click body scanning in 12 seconds with automatic data post-processing.

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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 - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Often combined with RT3D engines, photogrammetry is a technology designed to help content creators and innovators construct digital twins for the virtual environment. Photogrammetry also makes it easier to bring the detail of real-life content into a virtual space. Photogrammetry.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

A contestant in a live studio could fire a full-sized slingshot at something in the virtual world, like a giant castle for piggies. Or you could have game show contestants drive in a motion simulator for kart racing and then drive through a virtual environment.

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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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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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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

It enables a new level of presence by bringing physically realistic visuals, sound, touch interactions, and simulated environments to virtual reality. Traditional VR audio provides an accurate 3D position of the sound source within a virtual environment. ” VRWorks Audio for Physically Accurate Audio.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 14, 2021

Producers use the Unreal Engine from Epic Games to combine physical people and objects with virtual components and movie character, Connie Kennedy, head of Epic Games Los Angeles Lab, told attendees at the event. . Connie Kennedy. ” Evolution of the avatar will influence immersion.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Using Magic Leap technology , the University of Washington allowed students to access a virtual environment where they could develop powerful tools, while collaborating in an XR space. HTV VIVE, Unreal, and Nowa Era. It’s also a vital learning environment for people who want to pursue scientific endeavours.

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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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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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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

Karate Combat also employs virtual environments for its broadcast events. The brand uses MR environments the team created on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to broadcast athletes competing while surrounded by a visually enhanced RT3D backdrop.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The company also produces the “Pro Tracker” solution for SteamVR, which supports virtual display tracking, and allows developers to translate the movements of their hands and bodies into a virtual environment. The tracking-system agnostic technology can also integrate with virtually any setup.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

The company also produces the “Pro Tracker” solution for SteamVR, which supports virtual display tracking, and allows developers to translate the movements of their hands and bodies into a virtual environment. The tracking-system agnostic technology can also integrate with virtually any setup.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You and your co-workers can interact in the same virtual environment and feel the same objects, regardless of your physical location, with HaptX Gloves. What to do when challenged to produce the most creative, immersive geospatial solution using the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity or Unreal Engine — and to make it happen in 2-1/2 days?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

During that time, the students hone their coding skills (focusing mainly in C Sharp and C++) and get comfortable using engines such as Unity and Unreal. He shows me a 3D-printed box: “This will ultimately be a scent deliverer that will be controlled by a virtual environment. But that’s only the beginning.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture (MRC) is an important plugin for Unity and Unreal Engine that developers can integrate into their projects. You can watch it here: Otherwise, keep reading for the usual textual version! What is Oculus Mixed Reality Capture?

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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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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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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

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. LIV is a tool that merges game engine environments with green screen footage captured through a live camera.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“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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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

We as human beings want to understand what our environment is about, so if we’re going to be putting people into high-fidelity virtual environments, we need to allow them to feel and interact in a way that’s high fidelity.”. Haptic Gloves for Data Visualization.

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