Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It was back at the end of 2015 that Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney teased “something much bigger” than the VR tech demos the company has done in the past. Last year at Oculus Connect 2015, Epic revealed the Bullet Train tech demo for Oculus Touch. We’ve played it and it’s awesome (and beautiful).

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Voices of VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Yale Anthropologist Lisa Messeri spent a year doing field work in Los Angeles in 2018 studying the political ecology of the VR community, and will be releasing her landmark book called In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles on Friday, March 8th.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

AmazeVR Background Founded in 2015, AmazeVR aims to connect record labels and artists with their fans, regardless of their location or budgets. Based on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine , AmazeVR also developed its technical foundation with Roc Nation in 2020, leading to a further $15 million.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

Apparently, the new games will be interactive and, according to the IGN piece, rendered with the Unreal engine – which hopefully lays to rest any assumptions these are merely some sort of branching 360 video abomination. “The Walking Dead, it all comes back to moral choice and what would you do as the player.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

This also means app developers can create cooperative games that involve people outside the headset like VR party game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015). Unity and Unreal support. Google Cast-support is also coming to Daydream devices so people outside of VR can see what you’re doing. image courtesy Google. Performance.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Oculus announced the internal Story Studio at the start of 2015, saying that its mission would be to explore VR film and inspire the world to see VR as a medium for narrative and storytelling. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense. ‘Lost’, the first VR short film released by Story Studio | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Feelreal had its first taste of notoriety back at GDC 2015 when the company debuted its public prototype, a sort of smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that provided users with a number of scents through a clip-in cartridge system as well as hot and cool wind, water mist, and haptic vibrations. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Bebylon Battle Royale was first announced by studio Kite & Lightning back in 2015. In early 2018, the studio received $200,000 as part of Epic Game’s Unreal Dev Grant program. Coming off of several impressive early VR experiences, the pivot toward a full fledged game was an exciting new path for the studio.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

Thief in the Shadows – GDC 2015 | Read More. Bullet Train – Oculus Connect 2015 | Read More. ‘Showdown’, one of Epic’s VR tech demos build on Unreal Engine. Fast forward to 2015, the Oculus Connect 2 developer conference.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

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. And so work began in earnest in May 2015 on the project that was to become Lone Echo. Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development? As it turns out, no.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

My team at Shopify started on VR stuff back in 2015 but we’ve been really focused on augmented reality shopping as of late. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. So working on these prototypes gives me an outlet to work on VR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In 2015, major artists like Bjork, Muse, and U2 took the dive into this new frontier. ” Like “Surge,” “Apex” renders in real-time (via Unreal Engine 4). I don’t want to spoil the story, but I’ll say this much: be ready for a healthy tug on ye olde heartstrings. Apex – Arjan van Meerten.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The earlier Oculus Lipsync SDK from 2015 offered this capability for lip movement only, and Meta's Audio To Expression is its official replacement, offering cheeks, eyelid, and eyebrow movement too. Developers can find the Audio To Expression documentation here: Unity / Unreal / Custom Engines.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. Oh wow… 2015 has called and said that it wants its user experience back.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Robo Recall is easily one of the most exciting VR experience coming in 2017, but its roots actually trace back to a relatively simple tech demo from 2015. There’s no two ways about it; Robo Recall is looking gorgeous, no doubt thanks to the intimate knowledge the developer has with its popular development toolkit, Unreal Engine.

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MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” The company’s main product is a new platform for networked 3D graphics called SpatialOS.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Unreal Engine 4 and Open Source. There is no return from that.”. Next Up: NexusVR.io.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I have been working in the immersive space since 2015 and my personal vision is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

According to Laverde, this began in 2015. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. It also hinted at some developments to come in the future. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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VRScout

JUNE 24, 2016

Winner of the Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015, Daydream Blue takes you to a magical valley full of mystery, surprise, and an AWESOME ROBOT buddy. Built with the acclaimed Unreal Engine 4, Zero-G VR provides incredible graphics and lighting effects for the ultimate VR simulation. Will you make it? Daydream Blue ($4.99 – Oculus Rift).

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Although Facebook has had 360 video capabilities since September 2015, it’s not clear why they have waited so long to release 360 photo functionality.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The exhibit is rooted in her 2015 album Vulnicura – a dizzying dive into the depths of post-breakup despair. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

My carreer as an “influencer” (I hate this world, really) started in 2015 when Gianni advised me to recover an old Twitter account of mine with the nick “Skarredghost” just to make some noise for the startup. My suggestion to them is to start first of all to learn Unity and C#, or Unreal and C++.

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

It brings a new level of visual fidelity in Unreal Engine 4 to the series, but will also deliver a well-known brand to the PlayStation VR ecosystem when it releases. Ace Combat 7 was announced at the previous PlayStation Experience in 2015 and things have been mostly quiet since then.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Gunjack was praised for its breakthrough graphics when it launched on Gear VR in November 2015, and with Gunjack 2: End of Shift, our development team has raised the bar again for mobile VR games,” said Michael Lee, Gunjack 2: End of Shift ’s Senior Brand Manager. SRP to $4.99

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

It appears Hanbitsoft actually first announced the VR game all the way back in 2015, but release is being planned for the beginning of 2018. It’s built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and, if these screenshots are anything to go by, it’s looking like it makes good use of it.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi blockbuster, The Martian , is considered a return to form for the legendary director. It’s built in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. This week, you’ll be able to enter the world of the movie with a new VR experience. You may have heard of The Martian VR Experience before.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content. CALLING ALL CREATORS: HERE’S A MARKETPLACE FOR YOUR VR CONTENT. …and just a few more… FUNDING IN Q2 RESULTS ARE IN.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Going by the descriptions for the images, the project was developed for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift using Unreal Engine 4. You might remember, though, that the publisher showed off a prototype of Eagle Flight at E3 2015 before it was confirmed as a full game later in the year, so its possible it could grow into a product too.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

Fove raised $480,000 on Kickstarter (along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures) in summer 2015 to manufacture their eye-tracking headset, a technology that’s useful for a number of important applications such as foveated rendering, avatar eye-mapping, simulated depth-of field, and eye-based user interfaces.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve also switched up the 2015 competition with two tracks: AR/VR and Open. 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 The post Welcome to the 2015 3D Jam!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony is closing its Manchester-based game studio, that it opened in 2015 to produce ‘AAA’ PSVR exclusives. Interested people could preorder the device today for $1500 ($150 to be deposited at the moment of the purchase and the rest to be given upon shipping). Sony closes its game studio in Manchester.

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JULY 23, 2017

That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Presence Capital has invested in Baobab Studios, Bigscreen, Harmonix, Nomadic, Meta, Resolution Games, Scope AR, Strivr, TheWaveVR, and Visbit.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And while the easy path would likely have been to take one of the readily available built-for-VR engines—like Unreal Engine or Unity—to develop a one-off Battlefront VR experience, the developers behind the X-Wing VR Mission have confirmed that it is indeed the Frostbite engine powering the experience.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 6, 2015. OTOY added support for rendering stereo cube maps in the Octane renderer.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Or Unreal if that’s your language. Derek graduates January 1st, 2015, and then shocks everybody by signing six national football league teams in a couple of months to multiyear six-figure contracts. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding. Then Strivr is born, the company.

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