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Deadmau5 Shares Mysterious VR Project Being Developed With Unreal Engine

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In a video posted to Instagram earlier this week, Grammy-nominated DJ/producer Deadmau5 teased a new VR project being developed alongside game art studio Upsurge Studios and game technology studio Geodesic Games using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. No word yet on when we can expect to learn more about this mysterious virtual endeavor.

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Meta To Recommend Using Unity & Unreal's Built-In OpenXR Support From Next Week

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Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. The news comes shortly after we reported on developer frustration that Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations, which are described as using OpenXR, block other PC VR headsets. What Is OpenXR? Meta writes.

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Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025

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With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app revenue, we were reminded of a similar program for VR apps based on Unreal Engine 4 that Oculus established back in 2016. SEE ALSO Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed.

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The Essential VR Music Videos of 2016

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2016 has been a landmark year for VR and 360° video. Moses Sumney – Music from Every Angle for the 2016 Honda Civic (Original song: “Everlasting Sigh”). “Old Friend” wasn’t just heralded as the future of the music video , it was one of the most buzzed-about VR projects of any kind in 2016, and for good reason.

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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

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If we exclude the 3D memory thing, all the rest are use cases that we can date to 2016 maybe. 2016 or 2023? Header image by Apple) The post Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. The headset is strongly focused on 2D media consumption: watching movies, series, and sports shows.

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Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

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Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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Create A Digital Human In Less Than An Hour With Epic Games’ MetaHuman Creator

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Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. Back in 2016, we saw our first look at Epic Games’ game-chaning digital human technology with its Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice preview at the Game Developers Conference. There’s no avoiding it, digital humans are here to stay.

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