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Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games has finally released the latest iteration of its popular game engine: Unreal Engine 5. This means that while great, Unreal Engine 5 is not disruptive for us VR users and developers, yet. It’s interesting that HTC is keeping the name Vive both for VR and Web3 solutions.
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Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. He cited ARtillery data, highlighting how, in 2023, XR will become a “$38 billion” industry.
In its report, the WEF named the “Medical Metaverse” among its top emerging technologies of 2023 – alongside flexible batteries, genAI, sustainable aviation fuel, designer phages, wearable plant sensors, spatial optics, flexible neural electronics, sustainable computing, and AI-facilitated healthcare.
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According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.
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We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025. What was your biggest challenge? You look at Epic.
We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025. What was your biggest challenge? You look at Epic.
We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025. What was your biggest challenge? You look at Epic.
And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector. Pico and HTC still offer better services, and better guarantees on data management than a consumer device, so it has to be seen what companies will value the most. I’m very curious about its consequences.
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