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 20, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines.

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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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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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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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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2018

In order to support those other headsets, developers will need to build using the Mi VR SDK (which supports Unity and Unreal). ” – – — – – The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone is expected to become available around the same time as the Oculus Go headset, which is planned for “early 2018” and priced at $200.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2018

Unreal Tournament (1999) was one of the staple arena shooters of my youth. That said, Space Junkies personally feels just a little too familiar to be called truly innovative in the year 2018. In the meantime, check out this video of a full match to whet your appetite.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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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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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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Upload VR

APRIL 9, 2024

We've known for years that Ninja Theory is developing a sequel to its third-person action-adventure game, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice , which received a PC VR Edition back in 2018. We enjoyed Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition in our 2018 review. However, this doesn't mean you can't play Hellblade 2 in VR at all.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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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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Voices of VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Morie is featured in the 6th chapter of Yale anthropologist Lisa Messeri’s In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles field study conducted in 2018. Flashback to VRLA 2017 with Jakie Morie talking about her patented Scent Collar and VR history. Music: Fatality

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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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Voices of VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Jastrow is featured in the 3rd chapter of Yale anthropologist Lisa Messeri’s In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles field study conducted in 2018. Flashback to SXSW 2019 with Marcie Jastrow talking about the Technicolor Experience Center, and the Mars Home Planet location-based experience.

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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

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

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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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Since this is the last episode in my series from Meta Connect 2024, then here's a list of all 20+ interviews and 12+ hours of my coverage from this year: #1468: Kickoff of Meta Connect 2024 Coverage with Orion AR Glasses Hands-on Impressions with Tested's Norm Chan & CNET's Scott Stein #1469: Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta Connect Announcements & Orion (..)

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2023

Epic Games: A Background The story of Nreal’s potential rebranding starts back in 2018. In a pre-covid world, the Chinese AR hardware firm became embroiled in a legal dispute with Epic Games, the parent company of the RT3D engine Unreal.

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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

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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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2024

What troubles me though is we’ve seen that before in other, similarly high-profile VR games not too long ago, such as Ready at Dawn’s Echo Combat (2018) and Ubisoft’s Space Junkies (2019), both of which are now defunct for their own reasons.

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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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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At HaptX, our team is celebrating a milestone-filled 2018. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Our team took over the Ready Player One livestream on Twitch at the 2018 South by Southwest Conference. A new generation of HaptX Gloves.

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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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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

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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