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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

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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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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Flying into the metaverse through books and culture. Zuck still thinks that it is a device that can start substituting the laptop. Learn more.

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. See Also: MR Company Nreal Talks Hand Tracking and New Partnerships.

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SXSW Reviews vol. 2: Hands-on with AmazeVR, Beatday, and The Sick Rose

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Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. Beatday is another virtual concert I was able to try at the HTC Vive booth. The booth for Beatday.

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Epic Games Technical Director: We Want ‘Robo Recall’ To Be The ‘Ultimate Tech Demo’ For Unreal Engine

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“There was a lot in there that people liked, such as the action, the feel, the not too serious tone, it was very over-the-top like a comic book movie. However, you probably shouldn’t expect official support for Robo Recall to come to other VR platforms, like the HTC Vive or PlayStation VR — at least not any time soon.

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Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

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Scraper: A Novel About Punk, is a great book about a young rocker in the early 80s and his band. I wanted a well-known sci-fi author to help with the book. As I began writing down the characters, events, timeline and world makeup, I realized there is no way this could be covered in one book or one game. No relation at all.