Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. In 2006, researchers discovered new ways to add details to projects using a process called SFM (structure from motion), which now contributes to the Gaussian splatting method.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

That and, if we look back at the original interview with Mark Rein which established the $10 million upper budget limit for Gears of War, the context of the discussion was Rein saying how inexpensive it was to “make Gears of War, ” because of the company’s Unreal Engine tech.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. There’s been so much research done on that, Unreal Engine and Unity are really pushing towards that.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. There’s been so much research done on that, Unreal Engine and Unity are really pushing towards that.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. There's been so much research done on that, Unreal Engine and Unity are really pushing towards that. Niko: Absolutely, yes.

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