Liveblog: Unite Berlin 2018 – ‘Engineering the Best Possible Experience for PlayStation VR’

VRFocus is once again providing liveblog coverage of sessions (where we can) at this year’s edition of Unity’s Unite Berlin. Over three days this week, creators who use Unity are coming together to discuss all the recent developments in both software, hardware and the usage of both. Naturally, both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences are at the event and how immersive technology is being implimented around the world is a topic a number of speakers are getting into.

Next, the subject turns to videogame development. As many of you no doubt know the addition of VR has changed how many developers look at the development process. What was considered to be ‘the rules’ has had to be rewritten. Even more so on console.

“This talk will cover common issues that arise when developing for PlayStation VR. Gleaned from real-life examples of issues that prevented VR titles from passing PlayStation certification, the talk will explore several common scenarios faced by developers and offer high-level technical strategies to mitigate the associated problems.”

It is given by Lloyd Crawley of Sony Interactive Entertainment. Your liveblogger for the event is Peter Graham.

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Liveblog: Unite Berlin 2018 – ‘TRINITY: Next-Level Graphics for Cinematic VR’

VRFocus is once again providing liveblog coverage of sessions (where we can) at this year’s edition of Unity’s Unite Berlin. Over three days this week, creators who use Unity are coming together to discuss all the recent developments in both software, hardware and the usage of both. Naturally, both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences are at the event and how immersive technology is being implimented around the world is a topic a number of speakers are getting into.

Trinity - UNLIMITEDNext up,UNLTD take to the stage to discuss TRINITYBack in April it was revealed that UNLTD would be teaming with Made with Unity, the two companies joining forces to create an interactive, immersive live-action VR experience – TRINITY – which combined footage shot on live-action cameras with 3D VFX produced with Unity’s real-time development platform.

At the time, John Hamilton, the CEO of UNLTD commented that “Working with Unity has been amazing, and completely accelerated not only our post-production process, but gave us a creative freedom to accomplish things nobody has ever seen before. We’re looking forward to partnering up again to make TRINITY a global success.” Hamilton will speak more on the project today.

“VR Creator UNLTD share how they achieved photoreal avatars and environments in TRINITY using volumetric capture in a whole new way!”

Your liveblogger for the event is Peter Graham.

Liveblog: Unite Berlin 2018 – ‘How to Drive VR/AR Use Cases for Enterprises Using the Example of Volkswagen’

VRFocus is once again providing liveblog coverage of sessions (where we can) at this year’s edition of Unity’s Unite Berlin. Over three days this week, creators who use Unity are coming together to discuss all the recent developments in both software, hardware and the usage of both. Naturally, both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences are at the event and how immersive technology is being implimented around the world is a topic a number of speakers are getting into.

Next, we’ve seen many times how both VR and AR are being utilised within the automotive industry. The idea of an AR assisted windscreen, effectively implementing a HUD onto the road ahead of you, has been prevelant for many years but immersive technology has also come into use in car design, as a means to give virtual test drives and as another form of onboard entertainment.

This talk discusses AR and VR and is a part of the AutoTech Summit at the event and is given by Torben Volkwein of Innoactive

“Come hear the story of how the Volkswagen group is using VR to make training for 10,000 of their production and logistics employees more accessible and effective. You’ll learn how they are working closely with Innoactive to provide the right platform for the fast adoption of VR/AR in many applications within the Volkswagen Group. You will also see a live demo showing how the Innoactive Hub and the Innoactive SDK allow business experts and developers to plan, build and manage their VR/AR applications.”

Your liveblogger for the event is Peter Graham.

Unity Announces Dates For Unite Conferences

Unity is one of the most popular videogame engines, and has been the platform of choice for a huge raft of titles in virtual reality (VR), offering an affordable option to those wanting to enter videogame development. To support its huge community, Unity hosts its Unite conferences, and has just unveiled that dates and locations for the 2018 events.

Unity has becomes the most widely used videogame engine and development platform in the world. To support and encourage the community of developers, Unity will be hosting Unite events in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin and Los Angeles.

The various locations have been selected as they are recognised as centres of innovation and creativity, according to the organisers. Unity hopes that the 2018 events will showcase the real-time rendering and other new technological breakthroughs of Unity 2018.

“We love game makers and creators. We stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their pursuit of making magical things. It’s hard and we try to make it easier. Our Unite events are critical to this goal. In 2018 we once again can’t wait to get on the road and meet with developers and creators, learning together and making the world a better place with more creativity,” said Brett Bibby, VP of Engineering, Unity Technologies. “We’ll be out in force around the world offering expert talks, instructional demos and curated panels covering a full range of topics. Whether it be creating content or programming, performance or high-end rendering, or innovating on the next generation VR and AR experiences, we’re excited to share this deep-seeded knowledge with our community.”

Here are the dates and locations of the upcoming 2018 Unite conferences:

● Unite Seoul, May 2-4, 2018, Coex Convention Grand Ballroom and Auditorium

● Unite Tokyo, May 7-9, 2018, Tokyo International Forum

● Unite Beijing, May 11-13, 2018 China National Convention Center

● Unite Berlin, June 19-21, 2018 STATION Berlin

● Unite Los Angeles, October 23-25, 2018 JW Marriott and the Orpheum Theater

Further information and tickets for each event are available from the Unite website. Other news and updates on Unite events will be here on VRFocus.