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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

More info (Samsung Project Moohan may launch in Q3 2025) More info (Samsung headset may use displays from Sony) Other relevant news (Image by Wooster Games) Animal Company has been the most grossing game on the Meta Store If you think that Gorilla Tag is the game that is earning the most money on the Horizon Store, you are wrong.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The enterprise-grade immersive software-as-a-service (SaaS) now supports RT3D design projects from Unity and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). Reality Cloud’s integration enables businesses to stream more XR projects for use cases in gaming, entertainment, and healthcare.

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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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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

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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ARPost

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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Road to VR

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

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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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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AR Insider

AUGUST 27, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , geospatial gaming experiences from Niantic, or location-specific social AR experiences like Snap’s Local Lenses. For example, Here recently took a big step in this direction with its platform for developers to build 3D cities. Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

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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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ARPost

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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ARPost

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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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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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

The graphics quality is a long shot from what you can build in systems like Unreal Engine , but it’s still powerful. Another example is Mozilla’s own A-Painter , a Tilt Brush-esque app for sculpting and painting that even has multiplayer. . ” Watch the video below to see more apps made with WebVR.

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ARPost

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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ARPost

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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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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ARPost

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

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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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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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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APRIL 30, 2025

The capability was made available to all developers as an experimental release six weeks ago, meaning they could experiment with it, and in theory distribute APKs with it (on SideQuest, for example), but couldn't include it in Meta Horizon Store apps until now.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

People have been collaborating remotely in games like The Sims and Second Life for almost 20 years and most recently with Fortnite and Roblox among others. A few examples include: Squadpods: Private, secure office space for teams to customize, meet and collaborate with work tools they know and love. Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. It’s the most definitive event marking the move to high-end technology that will power a new generation of world-class experiences transcending games and storytelling.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It was back at the end of 2015 that Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney teased “something much bigger” than the VR tech demos the company has done in the past. There’s no denying Epic’s game development talent, and their work in VR is no different. The game isn’t just fun, also impressively beautiful.

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

Unity has had a very successful run in the last 10 years or so and is more specific in its purpose as an authoring tool, originally being a 3D game engine giving mostly indie developers a platform to build games for smartphones. A great alternative to Unity is Epic’s Unreal Engine by the way. Know your size limits.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Until now, building even a simple app for Quest headsets required using a full-fledged game engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. Developers could, for example, easily add a 360 photo viewer, or a floating 3D model, without writing any rendering or lighting code. Meta Spatial SDK is now available for developers.

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AR Insider

APRIL 23, 2021

And there’s no better example of this trend than Industrial Light & Magic’s Stagecraft technology. For example, green screens can’t recreate accurate parallax. Much of this is done through 3D game-engine software. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine. Perceived Depth.

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