Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

’ in 2019 ; this new announcement from Oculus is sure to hasten the pace significantly. While both Unity and Unreal Engine—the two most commonly used tools for building VR applications—offer some degree of support for OpenXR, neither have shifted to OpenXR as the default for building new VR applications. .”

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JULY 31, 2019

Now thanks to the tireless efforts of Epic Games’ Lead Technical Animator and self-proclaimed Michelangelo fan-boy, Christopher Evans, fans of the iconic sculptor, painter, architect, and poet have the chance to step into a painstakingly-crafted recreation of the historic art powered by Unreal Engine and the Valve Index VR headset.

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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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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. The feature is the second and final installation of a VR-based adaptation of the work by award-winning author Neil Gaiman. The story follows 8-year-old Lucy as she uncovers mysteries about her house.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Now, Survios CTO and co-founder Alex Silkin is set to share his experience by teaching a full semester course on expert-level Unreal Engine VR development. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Duration : 14 weeks (September 4 – December 11, 2019 – current dates with MIT fall semester). Course Specifics.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Alongside its proprietary 20/20 eye tracker and 60-PPD Bionic Display with “human-eye” resolution, the VR-1 also features support for a large helping of photorealistic virtual workflows, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk, VRRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue. Tracking: SteamVR Tracking V1.0 + V2.0.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

version of the standard was announced in 2019 and has been slowly but steadily finding its way into key VR platforms and game engines like Oculus Quest & Rift, Windows Mixed Reality, Unity, Unreal Engine, SteamVR, and more. OpenXR has been in the works for several years, and has garnered backing by many key players in the XR space.

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JUNE 22, 2020

See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Unreal worked with the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to create an AR experience based around Apollo 11. NASA, Boeing, and Varjo. Connie Miller with Varjo headset.

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2019

Available for demo July 28th – August 1st at the Immersive Pavilion, Undersea harnesses the power of the Magic Leap One, as well as Unreal Engine 4 and Vulcan 3.1 Spatial Computing is increasingly becoming the norm in experiential entertainment,” added Victoria Rege, SIGGRAPH 2019 Immersive Pavilion Chair.

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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Established in 2019, Prox & Reverie has continually sought to enhance the design experience by incorporating the latest technologies into innovative studio systems. Real-time engines such as Unity and Unreal enable them to instantly merge digital realities and real-world scenarios in-studio or on-location.

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Road to VR

APRIL 14, 2022

in 2019, and picked up significant steam in 2021 with official support on SteamVR , Meta going “all in” on OpenXR, “production-ready” OpenXR support in Unreal Engine , and more. Image courtesy Khronos Group. OpenXR has seen a slow but steady adoption since reaching version ‘1.0’

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview. It’s headed by a 16-year-old futurist, inventor, and self-proclaimed “Kid Tony Stark.”

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

If you were lucky enough to stop by E3 2019 this year, you may have come across a line of people waiting to check out a small booth set up by CBS and Insta360. The reaction has been unreal. How the Insta360 Titan allowed an amateur developer to recreate ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ in VR. This is a fun game, I could play it for hours.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2021

This obviously wouldn’t be possible to do on the original games themselves, so I used what I was learning to start working on a makeshift Halo VR world-viewer, built with Unreal Engine 4. Fannon now says ReclaimerVR is however “on ice for the time being.”

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

AWE USA 2019 Day 1. AWE USA 2019 Day 2. However, here we’ll give the scoop on some of the main events and speakers. We’ll also tell you how ARPost readers can get tickets at special rates. There are three main AWE events, namely, Conferences, Expos, and the Auggie Awards. The Conference Portion. creative director BC Biermann.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with the original ‘Unreal Dev Grants’ fund announced back in 2015. In many ways, those grants have reflected Epic and Unreal Engine’s early and consistently prominent support of VR since the early days of VR’s latest resurgence.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms. Image courtesy Epic Games.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2022

We have tripled revenues for the last three years since 2019. Unity and Unreal are wonderful but heavy-weight systems … on the other hand, social media platforms are building within walled gardens.”. A recent CB Insights report ranked them among the tech companies making the metaverse a reality. AR’s British Invasion. “We

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

VentureBeat reported that PUBG Mobile, a popular mobile version of the original PC release, surpassed $1bn in revenue in 2019. Meanwhile, Neilson’s SuperData tracking reports that Fortnite made $1.8bn in 2019. . Blade And Sorcery mod The Outer Rim (Image Credit: WarpFrog). Image Credit: Twitch Inc.).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

We’re continuing to actively participate in all the [OpenXR] working group online and in-person meetings, and of course, continuing work to add support for OpenXR to Unreal Engine 4.” . “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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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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APRIL 17, 2024

release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0 is the first major update to the standard in more than four and a half years.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Called Apollo 11: Mission AR, the interactive demo is streamed wirelessly in real-time from networked PCs running the company’s game engine, Unreal Engine. Released in early September, Unreal Engine 4.23 We’ll update this article as soon as we hear back.

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VRScout

JULY 30, 2019

Hands-on with Magic Leap’s latest spatial computing experience at SIGGRAPH 2019. Available today via the Magic Leap World Store, Undersea harnesses the power of Unreal Engine 4 and Vulcan 3.1 Among this year’s exciting offerings is a brand new augmented reality experience from Magic Leap entitled Undersea.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Unfortunately we didn’t learn more about Oculus Quest’s launch date at GDC 2019 this week, although Oculus did reveal a few more titles coming to the standalone 6DOF headset at launch this Spring. As a 2017 title, it still hold up today, something we can’t say about all games from the first consumer wave of game design.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Olivier JT calls it a “VR cinematic experience [and] a hybrid between traditional movie story telling, music video and game, all happening in real-time using Unreal Engine 4.” There’s no word on exactly when it’s due to arrive; according to the experience’s website , it was slated to arrive in Summer 2019.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

The Looking Glass Pro is now available for shipping worldwide at $6,000 and is compatible with both Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a handful of 3D modeling and printing applications. Things that the looking glass isn’t really designed for is being a window into another world.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2019

The company has pivoted their approach to bring the Reactive Grip controllers to VR enterprise and LBE markets, and is now set to open pre-orders for the controllers on May 29th , with shipping expected in Q4 2019. Later this month, Tactical Haptics says it will show off the controllers with an integration of the VR LBE game Sweet Escape.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today, at MWC 2019, Alex Kipman went on stage together with Satya Nadella and Julia White to announce the new HoloLens 2. Unreal SDK. Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Unreal, has made a fast appearence at the event, saying that finally it will be possible to develop for HoloLens also using Unreal Engine. Full specs.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Space Junkies (2019), the multiplayer sci-fi arena shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, has reached a pretty significant impasse; the studio is pulling its previously planned support for the flatscreen version of the game , and issuing its final update on PSVR and PC VR headsets.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Axon Park has begun a strategic partnership with VR First with the Unreal Engine VR Masterclass being the first endeavour. They’ve brought on board Survios CTO and Co-Founder Alex Silkin to teach the course who will also be supported by the Unreal Engine Team.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

In 2019, the company went on to launch both a Kickstarter and IndieGogo campaign to bring the device to consumers, with the combined funds tallying over $190,000. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc. The Feelreal mask is however based on the same tech as vaping devices, and uses basically the same liquid as e-cigarettes, albeit without nicotine.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier program and provides an intimate look into the city that shaped Eminem as you traverse Detroit over a cold December night alongside the Grammy Award-winning artist. The intricacies of his music become most evident through this eye-opening in-person interview. “

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Lone Echo 2 has been the “Duke Nukem Forever” of VR, and it has been constantly delayed from the expected 2019 release period. It got popular during CES 2019, and then, even if it had not new PR stunts, it kept working under the hood on its products and now it is ready to release its devkit and its SDK.

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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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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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