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

The Ghost Howls

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. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. Top news of the week.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Snap & Epic Games

AR Insider

Sketchfab is integrated into Epic’s popular Unreal Engine game and special effects paltform, and notably, all of its competitors, starting with Unity, Snap’s Lens Studio, Facebook’s Spark AR, and even Tilt Brush. Epic says the name of the Chinese company, which makes AR glasses for 5G networks, will be confused with its Unreal Engine.

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Regine Gilbert talks about accessibility in XR

The Ghost Howls

You have written a book on the topic “Inclusive Design for a Digital World” What can people find inside it? The book is meant for those who are new to accessibility and looking to learn more about it. In addition, I am working on a book that will be related to XR and spatial computing. How can people support you?

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Extended Reality In Education: Is it the Future of Instruction?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Companies such as Gamooz gamify reading books for children, significantly boosting engagement levels with 2D pop-up content, and offering more publishers and authors access to the technology for their books. This costs them much less than more widely-used gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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

The Ghost Howls

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Article about the metaverse in China) More info (Article about Chinese cities’ attitude towards the metaverse) More info (Animoca Brands getting 75M) More info (Metaverse books reading list) More info (Web3 platforms issues). Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. See Unity running on Quest. Learn more.