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Google have just open sourced the popular VR application Tilt Brush. Tilt Brush is a popular VR-based 3D painting application released on Steam initially for the HTC Vive, but now available for all major headsets. The source code is now hosted on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open source license. …
Facebook Reality Labs have just sponsored the open source Godot game engine with a grant for OpenXR (VR/AR) development in 2021.
October 13th is the official launch date of the Oculus Quest 2, and with millions of Quests now in gamer’s hands, some are no doubt going to want to figure you how to develop games for them. This is a quick overview of the various different technical options and tools …
Blender 2.83 was released last week and one of the new features is tentative support for Virtual Reality headsets in the form of Scene Inspection:Scene inspection refers to the ability to inspect the scene in VR, without interacting with content. Essentially this means head-mounted display (HMD) support as well as some simple settings (controllable from […]
Unity have just announced a new AR (augmented reality) focused extension, Unity Mars. This also marks the first time that Unity have charged an additional subscription ($50/month or $600 a year) for additional Unity functionality. Project Mars is described on the Unity blog as:Unity MARS is the world’s first authoring solution that brings real-world environment […]
In a time where far too many people are being laid off, it’s nice to get a bit of good news for a change. AR tech start-up Magic Leap, have had a bit of a rocky year cumulating in the announcement they would be laying off half of their employees. Thankfully it was just announced […]
Back in May Google announced VR support was going to be built into future versions of Android. It was only a matter of time until Google launched a compatible device, and today that device is here. The DayDream View is a new VR headset very similar to Samsung’s Galaxy GearVR headset. The new […]
