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

MARCH 28, 2018

Lens Matched Shading is part of NVIDIA’s VRWorks toolset , and takes advantage of the architecture of the company’s Pascal-based GPUs to better match the pre-warped VR image to the final output image, thereby reducing the rendering of pixels that would otherwise not be visible after the distortion-correction phase. .”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo hopes these hyper realistic environments will serve as the perfect tool for fields such as architecture, construction, engineering, industry design, training simulations, and other industries where accuracy is paramount. Premium cars can only be made with premium tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Unreal, or “Unreal Engine”, on the other hand, excels at enabling the creation of visually stunning graphics. However, each option has its own unique pros and cons to consider.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2017

According to an Nvidia press release, it is Valkyrie’s support for VRWorks’ Lens Matched Shading rendering technique (only possible on the Pascal architecture) that maintains the level of performance required to render these higher quality visuals. and Unity 2017.1.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 25, 2022

Epic Games launched Reality Scan in April, a photogrammetry tool for the firm’s Unreal Engine suite. The Reality Scan smartphone application enables XR developers to photograph a real-world object from multiple angles to create an RT3D model which users can import into the Unreal Engine hub. Reality Scan.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Kilograph brings Michael Graves’ unrealized architectural designs to life in VR. Architecture is filled with works that speak to people on an impressionistic level. mile resort located in the Canary Islands designed by legendary designer and illustrator Michael Graves. . Image Credit: Kilograph.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Although most people still consider AR as an entertainment technology, we can see its practical implementations in various industries like e-commerce, healthcare, architecture , training, and many others. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Pricing : Free. Google ARCore. ARCore is developed and launched by Google.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Sony says direct sales will open to the general public in November, and that it’s already seeded the device across companies such as Volkswagen, Ghostbusters studio Ghost Corps, and “one of the largest architectural firms in the world,” Sony tells The Verge.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Last November the company participated in Autodesk University, where they unveiled an integration with Unreal Editor in partnership with Epic Games. The company is hoping to scale their VR plug-in to other CAD software including SolidWorks, a parametric CAD used in mechanical engineering.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2019

As a sort of retrofuture adventure, it makes for a fun mix of 70s and 80s era tech, like old CRT monitors and analogue switchboards, and places a patently Soviet style of brutalist architecture into the far reaches of the Solar System, answering the question: What if the Space Race never stopped?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Multi-res Shading, which has already featured in custom branches of Unreal Engine, deals with the barrel distortion required for rendering optically-correct images to a VR headset, rendering multiple viewports across a single render target, using a hardware feature called ‘multi-projection’.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We all know that the new Ampere architecture gives NVIDIA GPUs much more horsepower, especially for what concerns AI and ray tracing. An architecture project made with Omniverse (Image by NVIDIA). Let me briefly describe them all, and let me tell you why they are so important! NVIDIA RTX A6000 (Image by NVIDIA).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 11, 2017

Lens Matched Shading uses the new Simultaneous Multi-Projection architecture of NVIDIA Pascal-based GPUs to provide substantial performance improvements in pixel shading. Its competitor, Unreal from Epic Games, is often the go-to toolset for large teams working with big budget titles.

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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 new feature can be used for a range of industries not just videogames, such as automotive, architecture, mapping/GIS and medical imaging. ″, 15.6″,

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 22, 2022

Then a user can import the 3D object into an NVIDIA Ominverse-supported graphics suite like Autodesk, Blender, Unreal Engine 5, and Adobe Substance 3D for further customization. NVIDIA claims that the NeRF platform applies to various markets, including automotive, robotics, manufacturing, architecture, and entertainment.

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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.” In August 2018, members of the OpenXR working group presented a detailed overview of the OpenXR architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

XCOM Labs has worked on all the layers of this solution: the network architecture, the hardware, and the streaming protocols. It exploits the graphical power of Unreal, streamed with cloud rendering so it can run on all platforms via the browser. Those little white cylinders are the special antennas developed by XCOM Labs.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

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. Epic Games will showcase high-fidelity VR experiences and new photorealistic content developed with Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 27, 2022

Users can view and edit their captured data in graphics engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Mosaic’s website also outlines how industries such as architecture, engineering and construction, asset management, and real estate can adopt its latest device to create large-scale 3D assets to support industry 4.0

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that. To realize that, RP1 engineers should do some improvements to the current architecture, but they see it as totally doable. Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this.

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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. A simple example is in the architecture and construction industries. Nick Whiting.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2017

Rendered 100% in real-time using the Unreal Engine 4, this VR experience takes users on a stroll through a 3D model of the rappers new palace, giving you a small taste of how the better half live. . The company hopes to further demonstrate the many use-cases for virtual reality when combined with video games and the Unreal Engine.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

for Unreal Engine 4 enables developers to better tackle the creation of challenging fuzzy and fibrous characters, objects and surfaces such as furred creatures, carpets, blankets, mosses and other natural landscapes. for Unreal Engine 4 can be purchased for 20% off until October 6, 2016 by using code NEOFURPR20 at checkout.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

Further, these roles, and the teams under which they’ll work, are likely developing the architecture for playback of VR video content on Mac and iOS devices. ” See Also: Microsoft is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Developers designed the VR experiences using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 , arguably the world’s top immersive platform for designing and deploying immersive content. ” The platform also hosts several categories of immersive documentaries on history, architecture, health, space, World War II, and archaeology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To help adopters leverage TouchDIVER Pro in business situations, WEART is also deploying a supporting Unity and Unreal-ready SDK for creating custom hand-object interactions. The SDK includes an accompanying textures library to help teams get started with 22 ready-to-go textures.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This means that sectors like healthcare, architecture, etc… will be able to take this solution offered by Microsoft and solve most of their common pain points out of the box. Unreal SDK. With Microsoft Dynamics Guide 365 , for instance, it will be possible to create easily an AR solution to help maintenance workers. Full specs.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Developers designed the VR experiences using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 , arguably the world’s top immersive platform for designing and deploying immersive content. ” The platform also hosts several categories of immersive documentaries on history, architecture, health, space, World War II, and archaeology.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. The graphical fidelity we are achieving on mobile architectures is absolutely incredible, this is some of the secret sauce that makes the MetaVRse Engine so special. This is scheduled for a Q4 release.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2018

ski, a member of the GPU Software Architecture Team at Apple, walked developers through the latest VR optimizations coming to MacOS Mojave (10.14) and offered an overview of how developers should think about optimizing their game’s graphics pipeline for VR. ski visualizes below: Image courtesy Apple.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced ‘Turing’, their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. Image courtesy NVIDIA. The company also says that the cards can manage a 30x increase over CPU-based rendering of cinematic effects.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Now the tech is available to all Unreal Engine developers in version 4.14 Unreal Engine 4.14 This is especially important for use cases such as VR and architectural visualization where you need the highest possible quality at the fastest possible performance. released today.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

Twinmotion Programs Come to Varjo Devices The virtual production of Turandot is a highly artistic example of using Varjo for architecture and design. It would be interesting to see XR also being used in recording and distributing live content at this level.

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