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Unreal Engine’s New Virtual Production Tool Is Reshaping Cinematography

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Unreal Engine is changing how filmmakers and advertisers are making movies and commercials with a new virtual production tool that allows them to add special effects in real-time. The technology has already been used in films such as First Man and Solo: A Star Wars Story. Is real-time VR technology the future of filmmaking ?

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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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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You Can Now Play ‘Hellblade 2’ in VR Thanks to This Indispensable Mod

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Praydog’s UEVR mod allows you to retroactively inject a host of games built in Unreal Engine with VR support, putting you head-first into non-VR titles like Palworld and many others. The same goes for Hellblade II , which was built in Unreal Engine 5, letting users play the game in full 6DOF VR, in either first or third person.

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“It’s Time to Go Spatial”: Get Hyped for AWE USA 2020

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Nearly 100 speakers are signed up to give talks on fifteen topics throughout the course of the Conference portion. There are 15 main categories including art and film, apps, games and toys, headworn devices, developer tools, and more. There are three main AWE events, namely, Conferences, Expos, and the Auggie Awards.

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Why the Closure of Oculus Story Studio is Good News for VR Filmmakers

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Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. ‘Lost’, the first VR short film released by Story Studio | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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A Look at the World’s First Interactive Mixed Reality TV Show

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Otherwise the rest of the scenery is rendered digitally using Unreal Engine 4 in post. Of course if they are driving something, they see the environment like you would on any motion simulator platform today. Immersive technology could revolutionize how TV and film projects are developed from the ground up.

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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Epic Games’ Technical Director of VR & AR, Nick Whiting

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Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. For entertainment, we’re largely using the same techniques of framing and timing from film, but adapted a little bit to make it feel better in VR. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development.

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