Enhanced VR and Unity 2021 Compatibility
DiSTI Corporation has released the latest version of its industry-leading solution for virtual maintenance training development, VE Studio 2022.2, the company announced on 12 January.
Featuring improved VR, an enhanced VR user experience and compatibility with Unity 2021 LTS, the release empowers user productivity for virtual training solution development. With DiSTI’s use of Unity’s OpenXR library for handling headset and controller mappings, developers can seamlessly target a wide range of AR/VR devices – making switching headset hardware easier, and switching between wired and wireless VR a smoother experience.
“The team behind VE Studio 2022.3 keeps the customer’s needs in focus. Engineers developed these new features with the best user experience possible in mind,“ explained Doug Classe, Program Manager for VE Studio. “Developers can further harness more power of Unity’s game engine capability, leading to greater potential for student learning outcomes.”
This latest update to VE Studio allows developers to use newer features of Unity, allowing for additional and more recent Unity assets in projects. VE Studio 2022.3 now uses a Physically-Based Rendering (PBR)-compliant material library to upgrade the realism of 3D models. Major features include:
- Updated Unity to Unity 2021 LTS
- Replacement of deprecated UNet library with Mirror
- Several VR UX Improvements
- Updates to the VE Studio project and VE Studio lesson samples
- Oculus VR headset testing
- Refined lighting optimizations
- Addition of PBR Materials library
