Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2022

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Though the new version brings improvements in many areas, its most notable features are Lumen (global illumination) and Nanite (micro-polygon geometry), which could be game-changers for VR immersion.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Admix, the in-game advertisement platform, today announced it’s raised $7 million in its series A financing round. Admix has created a platform that lets developers insert advertisements into their games, something the company says can be done non-intrusively across all device types, AR and VR included.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Unreal Engine, one of the leading creation tools in the digital development market, has its own selection of valuable VR modes and technologies specifically suited to virtual reality. The latest version of Unreal Engine, UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) shipped in April 2022 this year, after an initial period of early access in 2021.

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VRScout

JUNE 2, 2021

Beyond the obvious use-cases of gaming, socialVR, workforce training, and education, VR can also be used to collect deep marketing data in new and exicting ways. For example, Kellogg’s turned to VR and eye-tracking to put themselves in the shoes of consumers in an effort to develop new ways to better market their Pop-Tart Bites.

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JULY 31, 2024

The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not. The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

Skybound Entertainment in partnership with Skydance Interactive have confirmed that multiple interactive VR games based on the hugely popular The Walking Dead franchise are in the works. I think that’s what people who either read the comic, watch the show, play the games,” says Murray in the IGN interview.

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JULY 26, 2023

Space Invaders is a shooting video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 and manufactured and sold by TAITO. It was the first fixed shooter video game and is considered one of the most iconic arcade games ever. It means that the AR game adapts to the player’s real-life surroundings.

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JULY 6, 2022

Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the first time allows developers to import scans of real people for use in real-time applications. A 3D character made with MetaHuman | Image courtesy Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

I have just finished playing Red Matter 2 , the much-awaited sequel of Red Matter , one of my favorite games for Quest. During the whole game, you are confronted with posters, writings, and products that remind a lot of Soviet Russia (e.g. Red Matter 2 is mostly a puzzle game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2023

Nreal becomes XREAL One of the new brand images of XREAL (Image by XREAL) Nreal, which is one of the most interesting AR startups around, entered into a dispute with Epic Games for its name being too close to “Unreal” , which is a well-known name in our ecosystem. So the Nreal management took the right decision.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Nick Whiting.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

For example, captions are provided on videos for people in the deaf and hard of hearing communities as well as those who may not be native speakers of a language. Can you give us some examples of good ones in this sense? Mozilla Hubs is one of the good accessibility example provided by Regine. You can find it here: [link].

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

Practically as old as photography itself, use cases for photogrammetry (making measurements from photos) have evolved over time, from triangulation and georeferencing through to movie CGI production and most recently, real-time game environments.

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JULY 11, 2017

Every year, for example, it selects a handful of companies to join its Disney Accelerator program. The other company on the list is Epic Games, the creators of the Unreal Engine platform that many developers use to build both VR and traditional games. There are a lot of sides to Disney beyond the movies and merchandising.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

From the opening moments of Guerrilla Games Cambridge’s PlayStation VR exclusive competitive shooter, RIGS: Mechanized Combat League [ Review: 8/10 ], it’s clear that the idea of piloting giant robots that shoot each other is meant to be a futuristic sport in this fictional universe.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

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. The Best Examples of VR Museum Tours From Across the World. Here are some of the applications of industrial metaverse.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The new update will include the addition of plugins for the Unity and Unreal engines that make the process of adding interactive virtual objects and effects easier as well as the integration of controller functionality for the Vive, Oculus Touch, PS Move and others. The ZED Mini will be available for $499 starting December 18th.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. For example, to find a nearby location, restaurant, or object. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. It enables applications to recognize 3D objects like cups, toys, boxes, cylinders, and many more. Apple ARKit. Pricing : Free.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Given that virtual reality games haven’t been around for a long time, there’s little we know about their nonphysical consequences. Violence in Virtual Reality Games. For decades, violence in video gaming has been widespread concern. But can we say the same for virtual reality games ?

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JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., For example, the characters can recall past conversations. we need something better. Inworld AI is working on it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

In the best-case scenario, you are the developer of the VR experience, and you want to shoot a 360° video of your own game for promotional purposes. Basically in most cases, you set the Recorder settings, you play your game inside Unity, and you have the video ready without any hassle. The dev tools. How to Record 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And in fact, in these years, NVIDIA has always worked in offering the tools to improve the graphical quality of games and 3D applications in general , with ray-tracing (RTX ON / RTX OFF) being the latest big innovation it brought to the market. First of all, AI can be important to improve the quality of VR, and DLSS is a clear example of it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

If you design games to be played on the tray table of a plane, you are also creating experiences for people with mobility issues who might not be able to jump around like in a normal BeatSaber session. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. Pack it in, folks.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Industry Direct by Will Cloxton at Vankrupt Games Industry Direct is our program for sponsors who want to speak directly to the Road to VR newsletter audience. Pavlov is a team-based multiplayer VR shooter with over 65 fully interactable weapons and limitless game modes is supported by a passionate and extensive modding community.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

It is a pretty sparse example, but when applied to VR you would have sound that more realistically matches your actions and behavior. It is launching with Unity integration but Unreal Engine 4 support is coming soon with other software integrations planned as well. The tech supports PC, Mac, Linux and Android.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 22, 2022

Then a user can import the 3D object into an NVIDIA Ominverse-supported graphics suite like Autodesk, Blender, Unreal Engine 5, and Adobe Substance 3D for further customization. An example of an imported MoMa asset at various levels of the editing stage PHOTO: NVIDIA. Omniverse Integration for Enterprise. requirements.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games is using the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to give an advanced preview of the latest additions to its Unreal Engine VR Editor, which allows creatives to build worlds in a virtual reality environment using the full capabilities of the editor toolset combined with interaction models designed specifically for VR world building.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Both are stellar companies that started out in very different ways.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2021

The goal, according to Impulse Gear, was to develop a game that stands out from the surplus of realistic shooters on Oculus and SteamVR headsets, resulting in one of the first true hero shooters developed from the ground up for VR headsets. Like any good hero shooter, the game features numerous game modes to compete in.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

At first, the mod will focus more on playing the game using your motion controllers like a gamepad (the game has fantastic gamepad support out of the box), but will later support actual motion controls (you can also play with mouse & keyboard too if you want too). . But what about Valve’s game that started it all?

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MARCH 14, 2025

Examples of how apps could use this include scanning and tracking QR codes, detecting a game board on a table to add virtual characters and objects to it, detecting physical objects for enterprise guide experiences, or integrating the visual AI functionality of cloud-hosted large language models (LLMs).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

One good example could be LBVR (location-based VR) venues, which could so substitute backpack PCs with Vive Focus 3 devices and remote rendering. It exploits the graphical power of Unreal, streamed with cloud rendering so it can run on all platforms via the browser.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

At first, the mod will focus more on playing the game using your motion controllers like a gamepad (the game has fantastic gamepad support out of the box), but will later support actual motion controls (you can also play with mouse & keyboard too if you want too). . But what about Valve’s game that started it all?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this post, we’ll discuss the evolution and iteration of implementing hand tracking in Myst —and in particular, adding more support for it in Unreal Engine 4.27.2. In playtesting, most players would point forward with their palm facing the ground, as one likely would when attempting to point at something outside of a game as well.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

If you’re unfamiliar with visual scripting environments, such as Unreal Engine’s ‘Blueprints’ for example, it’s a way to visually represent objects, actions, properties etc. This new feature, is called LogiX. ” NeosVR ‘s LogiX takes that accessibility a step further.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2017

Rendered 100% in real-time using the Unreal Engine 4, this VR experience takes users on a stroll through a 3D model of the rappers new palace, giving you a small taste of how the better half live. . The company hopes to further demonstrate the many use-cases for virtual reality when combined with video games and the Unreal Engine.

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