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

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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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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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Showdown is a UE4 PC VR demo originally made by Epic Games back in 2014 to show off high-fidelity VR graphics running at 90Hz on a GTX 980 GPU at a 1,080 × 1,200 (1.3MP) per-eye resolution.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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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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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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

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

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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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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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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MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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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

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Based in New York, and built on two former college roommates winning the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackthon, InsiteVR’s $1.5M FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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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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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

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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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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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. Their market caps over $3-billion right now. And I think they're doing a fantastic job at that. Are they on VR?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. Their market caps over $3-billion right now. And I think they're doing a fantastic job at that. Are they on VR?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. Their market caps over $3-billion right now. And I think they're doing a fantastic job at that. Are they on VR?

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2020

Built using Unreal Engine, the experience uses headcam and drone footage taken directly from 2014’s The Ridge , Cut Media’s hit action sports film featuring MacAskill. Players begin by donning a VR headset before seating themselves on a specialized motion rig built using a Santa Cruz bike. “It

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. And so that’s an important part of what we offer.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. And so that’s an important part of what we offer.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You've been doing this a while longer than myself, but I've been in early VR since 2014. Similarly, we have some very bright software developers, people that come from the game development industry that understand the different engines -- Unity and Unreal being the two most popular -- and try to work that across different devices.

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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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