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MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Plenty of high-profile industry pros will also be available too as mentors.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Announced as “The Official Blancpain GT Series Game” , the sim brings many technology upgrades over Assetto Corsa (2014) , thanks in part to the move to Unreal Engine 4. Unreal Engine’s comprehensive VR support could benefit the new sim in these areas. Image courtesy Kunos Simulazioni.

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MAY 1, 2017

With over 120 applications, Nvidia has announced the 10 companies that will compete at the VR Content Showcase during GTC 2017 for $30,000 in cash and prizes. Nvidia’s GTC 2017 conference next week has a heavy focus on broader business uses of AR and VR, including healthcare, education, architecture, and more. Opaque Space.

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JUNE 6, 2017

At yesterday’s keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017, Apple revealed the new iMac Pro and updated 27” Retina iMac , both of which are VR-ready, along with a slew of other VR related product updates. SEE ALSO Watch Epic Games' Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal's VR Editor.

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APRIL 27, 2022

In June 2017, Apple launched its own AR development kit, ARKit , while launching iOS11. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. GPS can be utilized to overlay data from nearby locations. For example, to find a nearby location, restaurant, or object. Top 5 Tools for Developing AR Mobile Apps. Apple ARKit. Pricing : Free.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. It’s a crazy time to be alive.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2018

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. They’re using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train a robot how to play dominos. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but that both the new 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro will be VR-ready out of the box. image courtesy TIME.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

A broad team of graphics researchers, universities, and technology companies are showcasing the latest research into digital human representation in VR at SIGGRAPH 2017. Advanced capture, rigging, and rendering techniques have resulted in an impressive new bar for the art of recreating the human likeness inside of a computer in real-time.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Of course, all of the various applications, programs and tools will require a base engine for creation, and that’s where Epic Games – and specifically its Unreal Engine – comes in. On the professional side, I’ve been blown away with the amount of progress we’ve been able to make with the VR Unreal Editor.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Ninja Theory, the studio behind award-winning VR-supported game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017) , says there are currently no plans to bring its upcoming sequel to VR. Hearing we shouldn’t expect official VR support anytime soon (or at all) is a shame, since the first was such an amazing way to experience the game.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Space Junkies , the upcoming Unreal Tournament -style VR shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, is headed to all major VR platforms starting March 26th. If that tickles your latent Unreal itch, check out a full match in closed beta to see just what’s in store.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

SEE ALSO Preview: 'Space Junkies' Feels Like VR's Spiritual Successor to 'Unreal Tournament'. We went hands-on with Space Junkies at E3 last year, and it’s proven to be a highly polished shooting experience reminiscent of zero-G version of Unreal Tournament. Its quick, comfortable gameplay seems pretty well-suited for arcades.

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MARCH 11, 2019

The company joined VIVE X, HTC’s global VR/AR accelerator program, for its second batch back in 2017, which included investments and mentorship for a total of 33 startups working in the areas of software and hardware for both augmented and virtual reality.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The standard has been in development since 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. Earlier this year the standard took a huge step forward by announcing the start of certifications for compliant implementations. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games is using the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to give an advanced preview of the latest additions to its Unreal Engine VR Editor, which allows creatives to build worlds in a virtual reality environment using the full capabilities of the editor toolset combined with interaction models designed specifically for VR world building.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Nick Whiting. Great content, yes.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At Slush 2017, Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies today announced an additional investment of $6.7 The announcement coincides with the company’s first public technology demonstration which happened this week at Slush 2017, the annual Helsinki-based startup conference. image courtesy Varjo.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Epic Games, creators of Unreal Tournament , have revealed a sneak peek of their newest title, Robo Recall , during Oculus Connect 3. Expect Robo Recall to hit digital shelves on the Oculus store sometime early 2017 and expect all your VR enthusiast friends to be nagging you to death about it.

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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. — guyal of crypto (@cryptoguyal) August 3, 2017. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Despite technically being a stripped-down version of the original 2017 PC VR release, Vinyl Reality Lite is a surprisingly robust VR DJ experience. Not sure where to start? Try the in-game tutorial.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Utilizing Unreal Engine, the construction of the virtual island was actually based on real satellite data and travel journals catalogued by anonymous users on Reddit. The post VR Gets Experimental At Moving Image New York 2017 appeared first on VRScout.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS , along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR as part of its ecosystem. — Philip Schiller (@pschiller) December 12, 2017.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Pavlov exploded on the PC scene in 2017 on Steam and was one of the first titles in the VR market to embrace User Generated Content. Players could download Unreal Engine 4 and create content easily. Earlier this year, Pavlov Shack included a massive update that shifted from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5, but also included Mod.io

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JUNE 12, 2017

Announced at E3 2017, Raw Data will launch out of Early Access simultaneously on Vive, Rift and PSVR in September, bringing a wealth of improvements to its already polished Early Access state. Survios’ stunning VR action game Raw Data , currently in Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, will launch in September on PlayStation VR.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. “The spec is in great hands with Brent and the OpenXR working group, and Epic remains just as committed as ever to the standard.

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MAY 8, 2017

That’s the idea behind the company’s VRWorks Audio SDK , which was released today during the GTC 2017 conference; it’s part of the company’s VRWorks suite of tools to enhance VR applications on Nvidia GPUs. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of GTC 2017.

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APRIL 17, 2024

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and over time has become supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players—but notably, not Apple. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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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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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. The latest example of just how far real-time video game engine technology has come will be on display at GDC 2017 this week. Tagged with: blackbird , chevrolet , epic , GDC , the mill , Unreal engine.

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APRIL 26, 2017

By this June, Zero Latency will have 10 sites across the globe and 24 by end of 2017, including U.S. Vandonkelaar did say their platform will support Unreal Engine 4 and other technology beyond Unity. locations in Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Wisconsin and the Poconos.

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JULY 1, 2017

At the ‘VR with Metal 2’ session during Apple’s WWDC 2017 conference last month, Apple GPU Software Team member Rav Dhiraj detailed the new features in Metal 2 for VR. On stage at WWDC 2017, Valve’s Nat Brown overviews the inner workings of SteamVR rendering on MacOS | Photo courtesy Apple. Single-pass Stereo.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

According to a report by Reuters , ZeniMax filed papers on Thursday, at the same court where the early 2017 trial was held, which seek an injunction that would prevent distribution of the VR code that was found to infringe on ZeniMax’s copyright.

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MAY 18, 2018

Boss Key Productions, the North Carolina-based developer behind the unfortunately ill-received first-person shooters LawBreakers (2017) and Radical Heights (2018) , is out of business. Rappel outside to weld legs too, toss wrenches to each other etc,” Bleszinski tweeted. Image courtesy Cliff Bleszinski. pic.twitter.com/R9I64nDJKC.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Genvid’s technology is already available in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, but a plug-in for Unity is also being released.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Robo Recall is built entirely around Oculus Touch and will be exclusive to the platform; Oculus funded the title and plans to release it for free in Q1 2017. The free Robo Recall, which will be released in Q1 2017, will have three environments with three missions easy. The game isn’t just fun, also impressively beautiful.

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