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JUNE 5, 2017

.” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. Unreal Engine 5 launched earlier this year, but unfortunately its two new key features—Lumen for global illumination lighting and Nanite for micro-geometry—weren’t supported for VR out of the gate.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

I finally managed (with some delay) to find the time to try First Hand, Meta’s opensource demo of the Interaction SDK , which shows how to properly develop hand-tracked applications. What is incredible about this demo is that all the interactions are very polished, and designed so that to be ideal for the user. First Hand.

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JUNE 6, 2017

John Knoll, chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic, presented a mixed reality Star Wars themed live demo of VR content created on Mac and played on the Vive. Lauren Ridge, programmer at Epic Games, was backstage to operate the demo (which you can watch in the video heading this article).

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JUNE 8, 2017

The post 4 Dev Demos Showing Off Apple’s New ARKit Tracking appeared first on Road to VR. This appeared to deliver fairly stable tracking, without the need for dedicated hardware, unlike Google Tango, which uses a suite of cameras and sensors.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Epic Game’s Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18 Epic has however provided experimental support in their game engine for ARKit since Unreal Engine 4.17, but the new 4.18 ” Unreal Engine 4.18 ” Unreal Engine 4.18 The post Unreal Engine 4.18

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Developed by Holydh, this well-crafted demo experience allows you to play through the first three parts of the original PlayStation 1 game on PC VR headsets such as the Valve Index and Meta Quest 2 (with Air Link). ” A new fan-made mod brings Konami’s legendary stealth action game Metal Gear Solid to life on VR headsets.

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JULY 11, 2018

Kimball said that the Unity and Unreal engine integrations for Magic Leap do much of the core balancing optimizations (between the available A57 cores and Denver 2 core) for developers already. The headset also has a 6DOF controller, but it isn’t shown in this demo.

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MAY 11, 2022

Showdown is a UE4 PC VR demo originally made by Epic Games back in 2014 to show off high-fidelity VR graphics running at 90Hz on a GTX 980 GPU at a 1,080 × 1,200 (1.3MP) per-eye resolution. Meta ported the short demo as a case study in optimizing PC VR content to run on Quest 2.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. The demo, while brief, blew audiences away, teasing the next-generation of real-time animation. MetaHuman Creator features 30 different hairstyles to choose from, each of which leveraging Unreal Engine’s strand-based hair. .

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APRIL 28, 2022

At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for Unity & Unreal Engine. Unity & Unreal On the Way. To demonstrate the capability the company showed a demo of Epic’s MetaHuman streamed from the cloud. To Varjo and Beyond.

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JUNE 11, 2018

” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself. The post Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off appeared first on Road to VR. Better hand pose stability and reliability. Improved Developer Tools.

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Nvidia says the tech is soon to come to Unreal Engine and Unity. So far we’ve only seen SMP built into a few tech demos, but it’s soon to get a potentially huge boost thanks to integration with Unreal Engine and Unity, the two biggest game engines and the primary tools used to create VR content.

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MAY 4, 2021

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. A Brief History of Epic's VR Tech Demos. ElementalVR – E3 2013. StrategyVR – CES 2014. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Each team member can be seen operating the body of their own unique avatars in a custom tech demo environment built on the Unity platform. The content for the technical demo was created in Unity. Image Credit: Antilatency). Antilatency’s full-body tracking is available for purchase now via antilatency.com.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft’s latest standalone AR headset. Released in early September, Unreal Engine 4.23 Image courtesy Epic Games.

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JULY 9, 2020

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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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground bunker and shooting range to showcase hand interactivity. This little demo is an attempt to make VR development easier for them.”. SEE ALSO 'Job Simulator' and the Magic of Hand Presence.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Meant to serve as an interactive teaser for an upcoming Silent Hills game directed by Hideo Kojima in collaboration with legendary film director Guillermo Del Toro, the playable demo featured an assortment of “looping” puzzles nestled within a genuinely unsettling atmosphere designed to shake the human psyche. Unreal P.T.

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JANUARY 26, 2019

The idea worked very well and this little demo, released for free on PlayStation Network, got over one million downloads. And this why an indie game developer, Radius Gordello , has decided to re-create completely it in Unreal Engine. Some days ago, the author of the demo has published this announcement on the itch.io

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Wingnut presented a glimpse of their work at Apple’s WWDC keynote last month, but this week BBC posted footage giving us our first look at one of the studio’s first demos, and the results are nothing short of spectacular. On stage demo at Apple’s WWDC.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Later this week the film will get a tie-in game experienced based on Unreal Engine 5, but it won’t be available in VR and that’s a terrible shame. The upcoming title, called The Matrix awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 experience, is set to debut on December 9th during The Game Awards, just two weeks ahead of the film.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Lushfoil Photography Sim , a serene photography game built on Unreal Engine 5, is expected to get optional PC VR support following its initial release. ” A demo version of the game was released this week as part of Steam Next Fest.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

When you buy a PlayStation VR headset, you already get a multi-game demo disc packed full of short glimpses for some of the PS VR’s biggest and best games. It’s appropriately named the Demo Disc. That sounds an awful lot like a demo disc, right? That’s literally what the box says. Last and least is VR Luge.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

One big part of its showcase will be a new VR tech demo from PlayStation Magic Lab, the division of the company that’s worked on the headset for the past few years. This demo will focus on “simple 3D prodcedural spatial behaviors for VR characters.” A new talk based on the controller has been scheduled too.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.17 Unreal Engine was powering the Wingnut AR demo we saw during ARKit’s reveal earlier this year, but now all Unreal developers can get to grips with it. update is here , and it’s got some great new features for VR and AR lovers. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Much like the popular third-party platform SideQuest, XR Swim could be huge for Web-based immersive content by offering independent creators a place to showcase their projects, whether it be a fully developed game or a simple tech demo. Steam provides an excellent service and can charge developers because of their huge install base.

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JULY 31, 2019

Now thanks to the tireless efforts of Epic Games’ Lead Technical Animator and self-proclaimed Michelangelo fan-boy, Christopher Evans, fans of the iconic sculptor, painter, architect, and poet have the chance to step into a painstakingly-crafted recreation of the historic art powered by Unreal Engine and the Valve Index VR headset.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. . Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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JUNE 5, 2022

The project’s Twitter account announced that a free demo for the project will launch on June 10. This isn’t a full and final release for the project but instead the first part of the demo. The demo had previously been available for the project’s Patron supporters. First version of the force !

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JUNE 5, 2017

Vive Demo on Stage. To show the audience the power of the company’s new VR Ready 27-inch iMac—and a taste of what it’s like to be in VR—Apple showed a demo running on the HTC Vive that was created by Industrial Light and Magic. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME.

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JULY 12, 2017

Among the 11 picked for the company’s 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal Engine creator Epic Games. The Walt Disney Company has announced participants in its 2017 incubator Disney Accelerator , a program intended for early and venture-backed tech startups working in media and entertainment.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

ARPost demoed Cupixel, a new app that uses AR and AI to help anyone realize their artistic potential. Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine. In this article, we introduce you to Victoria VR, a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users, and powered by Unreal Engine.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Developer XOCUS released a demo for its fast-paced VR racer on Quest back in August. The Z-Race demo is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab. Z-RACE (New Map & Ship).

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AUGUST 3, 2022

I told him “no way this can be true”, so he invited me to his demo to prove that he was saying the truth. And RP1 is actually not stopping there: they plan to expand the current network architecture so that the next demo should feature 100,000 people in 20 square kilometers , with also the ability to deploy gaming modules.

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JULY 23, 2019

Available for demo July 28th – August 1st at the Immersive Pavilion, Undersea harnesses the power of the Magic Leap One, as well as Unreal Engine 4 and Vulcan 3.1 mobile, to transport users to a photorealistic undersea environment featuring life-like animated sea life inside a dynamically generated coral reef biome.

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