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VR Modding Monthly: Heaps of AAA Unreal Engine Games Soon to be Unlocked for VR – August 2022

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Praydog’s Universal Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod. This mod opens the door for VR enthusiasts to play heaps of AAA games in VR ( here’s a list of just a few of them ) by making it easy to add initial VR support to games built with Unreal Engine. but it makes most Unreal Engine games quite fantastic to play in VR out of the box!

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OpenXR 1.0 Released, Microsoft Supports on HoloLens & WMR, Oculus Plans Rift & Quest Support

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Each company, even if a supporter of OpenXR, still has control over where their content is made available and which platforms support which headsets. Microsoft has released initial support for OpenXR on both HoloLens and Windows VR headsets , and Collabora has released its Monado open-source Linux OpenXR runtime. The post OpenXR 1.0

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

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Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter some years ago that he wants full control of the XR platform.

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Varjo Hardware to Be Used in Astronaut Training

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With our devices, astronauts can see and virtually interact with the switches and control panels inside their Starliner capsule and read the real-time data on their crew displays. Custom Boeing computers and controllers were required to make the training experiences as realistic as possible, according to documents Varjo shared with ARPost.

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Epic Floated the Idea of Building a Launch Title for Sony’s Next VR Headset

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Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo.

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E3 Spotlight: Microsoft Aims For A VR Sweet Spot In 2018

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. What We Know .

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Sony is an Official Supporter of OpenXR But Hasn’t Committed to a PSVR Implementation

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Major VR stakeholders—including Oculus, Valve, HTC, Microsoft, Unity, and Unreal Engine—now offer full or partial support for the standard. Sony’s next-gen VR controllers | Image courtesy Sony. After years of development, the OpenXR 1.0 specification has taken major strides toward real industry adoption.

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