Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The experience has been demoed throughout a few of its earliest stages, having made its first public appearance at SVVR 2014. Olivier JT calls it a “VR cinematic experience [and] a hybrid between traditional movie story telling, music video and game, all happening in real-time using Unreal Engine 4.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

” In addition, Unreal Engine will premiere The Giant: Michelangelo’s David in VR to the public, which lets audiences get up-close with the iconic statue unlike ever before. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company). A post shared by The Lot (@thelotstudios) on Jun 21, 2014 at 7:53pm PDT.

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JULY 14, 2022

” The title is being built in Unreal Engine 5 and the studio is keeping a lid on more details until a San Diego Comic-Con panel on July 21st. The game will take full advantage of Survios’ expertise in creating immersive and authentic gaming experiences, and is being developed for the PC, Console, and VR.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

We already knew that Meta should manufacture its first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2014 , and that they should be built with high-end features and be manufactured in the US. But the news of the day is that Meta should assemble only around 1000 units and keep the glasses for internal usage and demos.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

Taking much of what they learned and built already with Tango since 2014, Google’s ARCore doesn’t require any additional hardware and works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal. With more than two billion active devices, it now looks like Android may be on its way to the largest mobile AR platform in the world.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2022

Showdown is a UE4 PC VR demo originally made by Epic Games back in 2014 to show off high-fidelity VR graphics running at 90Hz on a GTX 980 GPU at a 1,080 × 1,200 (1.3MP) per-eye resolution. Eight years later, you can now run Showdown on Quest 2 at 90Hz on the headset’s Snapdragon XR2 chip at 1,832 × 1,920 (3.5MP) per-eye resolution.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The company’s headset traditionally has a big showing at the event, having been revealed there in 2014, but this is the first iteration of the show in which the device is already on the market. There are scheduled Unreal Engine 4 and Unity Engine PSVR demonstrations too.

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ARVR

APRIL 28, 2022

“Virtual reality encompasses virtual unreality.” Predictive representations are illusions that are unreal and counterfactual. that does not involve any agentive phenomenal self, and things are experienced neither as real nor as unreal (p. ideally, by creating a consistent self-model in the user (p. Cohen et al.,

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MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. Right now, it’s a specialized version of Unreal because we’ve just put the demo together, but these are features that are going to be available in regular Unreal.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

StrategyVR – CES 2014. Couch Knights – GDC 2014 | Read More. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More. But let’s take a detour for a moment, back to 2014 at the inaugural Oculus Connect developer conference. ‘Showdown’, one of Epic’s VR tech demos build on Unreal Engine.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. In 2014, we created new chips dedicated to virtual reality and augmented reality — and we are here for the long run.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2016

The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation. Jaguar Land Rover launched their first VR experience (in partnership with IBM) back in September 2014.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. The Oculus Rift Crystal Cove prototype VR headset and tracking camera a shown at CES 2014.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2018

Some of the ways the company suggest conquering this challenge include: individual game support, native engine support through Unreal or Unity, an API wrapper (which could break after headset software updates), native support through OpenXR, or native support from headset manufacturers.

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JULY 23, 2017

While Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Presence Capital contends that its was the first VC fund to focus on VR/AR. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Six of its investments are in game companies. “A Mahajan said the average investment size is around $200,000.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Its war-torn city wouldn’t be out of place in a Gears of War game (it’s built inside developer Epic’s Unreal Engine 4), and it’s quite unlike anything else the studio has made thus far. So how did this unexpected partnership come about?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They created a Mars environment within Unreal Engine, and then matched the real-life bus movements with virtual Mars rover movements to create a collective virtual reality experience for a group of school kids.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Where the first Connect back in 2014 was about introducing creators to early VR design and development concepts and pre-release hardware, this year’s conference looks to have gone and grown up, indicating the move from enthusiasts nice to a rapidly evolving industry.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

He’s referring to a conversation he had with Jason Rubin—Head of Content at Oculus—way back in late 2014. “We Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development? We were in the last six months of working on The Order (2015) and we had ideas in the team about what we wanted to do next.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. Immotionar and the first contact with AR and VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Using the Unreal Engine 4, NASA has created an extremely detailed and realistic VR model of the interior of the ISS, and astronauts use the Manus gloves in the model for training simulations. Manus VR is a company developing virtual reality gloves – so instead of using controllers as data input, we use what comes naturally: our hands.

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APRIL 26, 2017

The pair left their secure jobs and turned to crowdfunding to kickstart the idea, raising $30,000 on Pozible in July 2014. By August 2014 the company had a 2,200 square foot system operating with two players in a completely tetherless freeform multiplayer environment complete with pistols.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. Get inspired by the 2014 3D Jam and our Developer Gallery (now with tags for VR , open source , and more). Get started with Unreal. Getting Started Checklist.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. I started working in XR in 2014, long before the term was even coined. This is scheduled for a Q4 release.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve made some huge advances since the 2014 Jam, with new resources and integrations that will take your projects to the next level. On the Unreal side, we’re collaborating with the enormously talented getnamo to bring new assets to his community plugin. Right now, the plugin includes full support for Unreal 4.9.1 Open Track.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. I returned to China from Silicon Valley in 2014 and have witnessed rapid changes in technology in Beijing and the rest of China. What is it?

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AUGUST 5, 2017

Then in 2014 we raised a series A round, which amounted in about $4.2M. NB: Raw Data started when we wanted to switch to Unreal Engine. We were making Zombies in Holodeck when Unreal first came out. But it started off as just us tinkering around in Unreal — seeing what was fun and trying out some of our mechanics and systems.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Many of you recall that I started working in VR in 2014 and my first solution was a full-body system that needed a PC, a VR headset, an array of Kinects, and some networking magic to work. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

I would say my life changed in September 2014, when I saw a 3D printed Vive prototype from Valve, and started thinking what could be done when this product becomes a reality. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine. We considered using Unreal, but it was not a project goal.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Rob: Carillon was built within the Unreal Engine and uses the Open Sound Control protocol to connect motion and actions in the game environment with a music engine built within the Pure Data computer music system. All the programming for Carillon was done using Unreal’s Blueprint visual scripting language.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games’ Showdown demo first shown way back in 2014 was a cinematic walk down a street during an assault on a giant robot; rockets firing and bullets whizzing all around you, people diving for cover, cars flipped into the air by explosions, and you right in the middle of it all. Publisher: Oculus. Developers: Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Or Unreal if that’s your language. There’s an incredible article from 2014 from two German scholars Frank Steinicke and Gerd Bruder, who Gerd watched Frank while Frank spent 24 hours in VR. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. It is the sequel to 2014's Watch Dogs and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in November 2016. What's Nvidia Ansel?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Paul: And we’re talking 2014? There’s these other engines– Alan: Improbable.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Paul: And we’re talking 2014? There’s these other engines– Alan: Improbable.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Paul: And we're talking 2014? There's these other engines--. Alan: Improbable. Paul: Yeah. Alan: Yeah.

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