Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unity announced in recent a blog post that support for visionOS is now out of beta, which lets paid users create three main types of XR experiences: mixed reality apps, fully-immersive virtual reality apps, and 2D windowed content that is resizable and repositionable by the user. Unity has officially launched 1.0 The post Unity Releases 1.0

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2016

Riding the wave of excitement over Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage today that the gaming giant has brought support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. In a collaboration with Hardsuit Labs on the plugin, Epic Games has made Unreal Engine 4 support for Daydream available now.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2020

SEE ALSO Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025. Oculus has introduced two changes with the goal of significantly speeding up the iteration process for developers building Quest applications with Unreal Engine 4. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

In this blog, we will cover some highly popular software development tools used for AR app development. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. If you are interested to board the AR bandwagon, then this is the right time to build AR applications. An AR software development kit or AR SDK is the key to AR app development.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Following a two-part blog series in partnership with Crytek , where the studio shared some of its research into VR locomotion comfort , Oculus has now added 8 new experimental locomotion methods to the SDK. A recent entry on the official Oculus blog provides an introduction to the techniques. Unreal World Beyond Static Cockpit.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

Built in Unreal Engine 5, PlayStation Blog confirmed that "players will need to stay frosty as they explore an overrun facility on the inhospitable planet Purdan." You can watch that below.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Let’s see… More info (The specifications of Orion from the TESTED video) More info (Porting games to Orion is difficult) More info (Karl Guttag’s analysis about Orion) Epic Games is already envisioning Unreal Engine 6 In an interview with The Verge, Tim Sweeney talked about the future plans of Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

We all like to shoot videos and screenshots of the VR experiences we play : sometimes to me it is a necessity because I need content to insert inside my articles for my blog, but in general, we all love to save some great moments we had in VR, in the same way we feel the need to take a picture when something interesting is happening in real life.

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Upload VR

APRIL 3, 2023

Some users have reported that it even works with praydog’s Unreal Engine VR injector, the tool that adds basic VR support to certain non-VR Unreal Engine titles, including in Returnal, Atomic Heart, and STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order. As this is an Oculus blog, if you experience it you should report it to Meta.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

More details about Local Floor functionality and its value to developers are available in this blog post. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse. It also has an estimated floor height built-in.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The company says in a blog post that anyone with the know-how will soon be able to develop new VR experiences for its location-based attractions using its upcoming SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. What is interesting for us is the last line “adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team”.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. With the integration of Unity’s real-time 3D platform, ArcGIS Map SDK lets its users not only envisage and evaluate, but also manage geographical facts and figures for any digital twin model constructed,” said Dave Rhodes, SVP of Digital Twins at Unity, in a blog post.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

Announced last week via an official update to the Vive developer blog , Vive Pro developers now have full control of the headset’s front-facing stereo cameras to develop their own mixed reality experiences. The SDK also supports native development with plugins for both Unity as well as Unreal Engine 4. That is until now.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

The company deeply details the implementation in depth at their developer blog , and said that the feature “provides a performance boost and a slight quality improvement.” This week, Oculus announced the addition of LMS to their PC SDK 1.19. SEE ALSO NVIDIA Announces 'RTX', Real-Time Ray Tracing Engine for Volta GPUs.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a famous example of using the technique in Unreal Engine 3 (see The Astronauts’ blog for a detailed explanation), and Realities.io took a photo-realistic approach to create their free SteamVR product Realities using Unreal Engine 4, which launched alongside the HTC Vive in April 2016.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In February, a post on Google’s official blog recognised the “confusing and time-consuming” battle of working with various audio tools, and described the development of streamlined FMOD and Wwise plugins for multiple platforms on both Unity and Unreal Engine. Image courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form. Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 1, 2022

In February, Sony unveiled the core details of its PSVR 2 headset in a blog post. Sony also invested roughly $1 billion into Epic Games, owners of the real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unreal, to develop Metaverse projects and experiences. More on PlayStation VR 2. Features include: New orb-shaped controllers. Rebalanced weight distribution.

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

Unreal Engine Unreal Engine by Epic Games is another powerhouse in the AR development arena. Known for its high-fidelity graphics and performance, Unreal Engine is preferred for projects that require photorealistic visuals and complex simulations. High-Quality Graphics : Superior rendering capabilities for realistic visuals.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. Others have stopped using Unity Ads, Unity’s main source of revenue. Others have even threatened the safety of the employees.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Unreal Engine 4 and Open Source. There is no return from that.”.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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Upload VR

JULY 9, 2023

You can read more on PlayStation Blog. New physics-driven platforming lets you swim, jump, crouch, climb, zipline, and swing across these environments. Combat is being reworked with a new set of weapons, ammo and enemies, which Mighty Eyes claims will allow "players to be more creative with how they solve the various combat situations."

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will go over the key steps you need to take in order to create your own farming and life simulation game. Use a game engine: Another option is to use a game engine such as Unity, Unreal Engine, or Godot to build your game. Step 5: Promote and Market Your Game Finally, you need to promote and market your game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Funny link Donate for good Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate to my blog, but to the poor people who are facing the consequences of the war. I believe there will be many use cases for this. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

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. Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing live demo.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! This week has been quite cool for me. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Completely free for Unreal development, the 7,600 art and sound assets on the Marketplace represent $3 million in content development. VFX Weather Pack – $19.99.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Sweeney, whose company makes the Unreal Engine toolset used in creating some of the biggest budget 3D projects, outlined in a blog post this week why he saw this as a huge moment for immersive computing: Apple’s debut of VR support for Mac and AR support for iOS are true game-changers.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

When it comes to developing virtual reality (VR) videogames there are two primary engines studios use, either Epic Games’ Unreal Engine or Unity by Unity Technologies. As the company previously announced Unity 2019.3 will end support for Samsung Gear VR and Google VR, while OpenVR compatibility will be phased out.

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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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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

As a neuro-ophthalmologist, I use the eye as a window to the brain,” said michineMD Medical Director Professor Mathias Abegg in a blog post announcing the partnership. In addition to helping specialists, the device could also be more accessible to doctors that aren’t neuro specialists. “As

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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 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info Tools for VisionPro are surfacing in Unreal Engine In the XR Story Wechat group, I’ve seen shared a picture from Epic Games’ Git repository of Unreal Engine , where it is possible to see that t ools are being built so that people can create applications for Apple’s headsets not only with Unity but also with Unreal Engine.

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