Road to VR

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. And though Epic hasn’t made any VR games since then, it seems that in 2018 it was still ready and willing.

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MAY 12, 2019

Brought to life using a combination of Unreal Engine and volumetric capture, these augmented holograms would appear sporadically throughout the performance, disappearing into puffs of smoke around the original Madonna seemingly at random. Image Credit: UMG. Image Credit: UMG.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from the third day of our GDC 2018 coverage. Qualcomm’s latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces ‘Positional Timewarp’, reveals new Oculus Go details, and Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing demo.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

Using the companies custom Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, game developers can easily drag-and-drop ad-ready billboards, posters, and signs into everything from simple 2D games to complex VR and AR experiences. funding round back in 2018. Image Credit: Admix.

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Road to VR

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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JUNE 8, 2017

The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. Things are changing though. Tagged with: e3 , E3 2017 , Scorpio Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 4, 2019

Unreal P.T. Developer RadiusGordello has spent 9 months on development, starting in April 2018 and ending in January 2019. Unreal P.T. is a short psychological horror game, completely recreating the atmosphere and gameplay of Hideo Kojima’s P.T., originally published on the Playstation 4. The original P.T.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. Facebook says developers can still use Oculus Integration v18.0

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The company says its Beta Prototypes will be shipping to new and existing partners during Q1 2018. Urho Konttori, CEO and founder of Varjo Technologies says the company plans on launching “a profoundly revolutionary VR/XR headset by the end of 2018.”. image courtesy Varjo. The post Varjo Secures $6.7M

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2024

Unlike the first game, which brought PC VR support in a free update in 2018, it doesn’t appear we should hold out hope for a similar release for the upcoming sequel Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. Much has changed since 2018—back when PC VR was essentially the only way to experience high-quality VR. But all is not lost.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2019

Red Matter (2018), the sci-fi puzzle-adventure from Vertical Robot , is slated to launch on Oculus Quest on August 15th. Set in fictional universe featuring two old Cold War rivalries—the NATO-esque Atlantic Union and the very Soviet-sounding Volgravians— Red Matter puts you in the space boots of Agent Epsilon, an Atlantic Union astronaut.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

Citing additional responsibilities in his role at Epic, Whiting tells Road to VR that he stepped down as chair in late 2018, though the company is still fully committed to OpenXR. In August 2018, members of the OpenXR working group presented a detailed overview of the OpenXR architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine? developers compared to the amount of Unity/Unreal devs is far less. I have no plans to provide Unity/Unreal support but if developers want to they could easily make a Unity rig for the Triton. Yes, Three.js The amount of Three.js

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2018

” Le Fons started his 30-day challenge shortly after the release of Steven Spielberg’s film Ready Player One (2018) , and although he’s nearing the end of his full 30 days, according to a SkarredGhost exclusive, he’s adding on another 15-30 days of multi-hour stints immersed in VR. image courtesy Enea Le Fons.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Impressive VR haptics are already on their way and could be in your living room in 2018. It’s possible we could release in Q1 of 2018 but we also might want to wait until the holiday season.” The focus lately has been getting both controllers ready to go and perfecting Unity and Unreal Engine integrations.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 9, 2020

Today, Looking Glass Factory has announced that its displays will now support those working in Unreal Engine (UE4), Epic Games’ popular videogame development software. The Unreal Engine plugin feature list is as follows: Real-time 3D view of content in Unreal’s Game View. One-build deployment for 8.9″,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

One of my favorite games of all times is Unreal Tournament because I just love to shoot and kill without thinking too much… or better, without thinking AT ALL. Playing with it is great, it is a bit like playing Unreal Tournament. Shows the long term vision of this company. Space Junkies is a great VR action game.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

” It has taken place in LA in October, 9-10th 2018 and has been attended by various believers, innovators, developers and journalists. — The Digital Acid (@thedigitalacid) October 11, 2018. — Magic Leap Developers (@magicleapdevs) October 10, 2018. — Andre Elijah (@AndreElijah) October 13, 2018.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2019

The company’s penultimate investment round netted the AR startup $461 million in March 2018, led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm. SEE ALSO Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic's $100M Unreal MegaGrants. billion, according to Crunchbase.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Developers can tune the vest’s actuators with both Unity and Unreal SDKs for greater immersion in VR, as the vest can hypothetically simulate things like gunshots and raindrops, so not only sound-based haptis. You can check out the Kickstarter campaign here.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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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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Road to VR

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. Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) May 15, 2018. Turtle in fez. Je repete, there’s a turtle in a fez. pic.twitter.com/R9I64nDJKC.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experience in game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine is also a must. Magic Leap launched their debut product, the Magic Leap One , in August 2018. The posting specifies that the successful candidate will work out of the company’s Sunnvale, California office.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

From going on a daring spacewalk to hanging out with your favorite cartoons, VR is beloved for its ability to make the unreal feel real. The AR experience is the latest jump into immersive technology and storytelling for the media giant, following the release of an AR mobile app feature during the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 14, 2018

Launched today at SIGGRAPH 2018 , StarVR One is a one-of-its-kind VR head mounted display that provides nearly 100-percent human viewing angle. StarVR’s native Unreal plugin gives developers quicker access to premier hardware features, enabling them to manifest their vision of creativity, form and function, and to create business value.”

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

The company said at the time that high res content would become available in early 2018, so we’re hoping to see it crop up sooner rather than later. Cole said that, to achieve top quality and smooth playback, the company writes native applications for each platform they build for, rather than building upon engines like Unity or Unreal.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

At $199, Oculus Go is a low-cost, all-in-one standalone headset launching in early 2018. Project Santa Cruz developer kits coming in 2018, we go hands-on: Image courtesy Oculus. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for the Rift, and many software and game reveals. Oculus Home also completely rebuilt: The Rift Core 2.0

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The game is due to launch for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in early 2018. Sci-fi shooter Evasion from VR studio Archiact has been revealed, said to feature ‘next generation’ VR locomotion and ‘high intensity’ co-op multiplayer combat for up to 4 players. The game’s ‘Swarm A.I’

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2020

Using SkyReal, the company is able to take the CAD design of the product and transform it on the fly in a multiplayer solution inside Unreal Engine. In 2018, the technology was spun off from Airbus to create SkyReal and Go to market. Why visualization of CAD models is so important for companies?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2018, we put Arden’s Wake at the top of our Tribeca Immersive “Awesome List,” and have previously called director (and company CEO) Eugene Chung “the D.W. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine. In Nanome, scientists can engage and collaborate with others at the molecular level. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development. Today we hear from Nick Whiting, Technical Director of VR & AR at Epic Games. Nick Whiting.

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Upload VR

MARCH 12, 2024

Developed by Stonebrick Studios, cyubeVR is an open-world procedurally generated sandbox that launched in 2018 on Steam Early Access. You can watch gameplay below: After the 57th update to the Steam version, Stonebrick says the PSVR 2 version uses 8K textures through Unreal Engine and eye-tracking support for foveated rendering.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

In early 2018, the studio received $200,000 as part of Epic Game’s Unreal Dev Grant program. Not oblivious, the studio poked fun at itself by writing on the site, “[ Beylon is] coming 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020!” ” However, the initial release never came.

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