Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2022

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Available as of this week for all developers , Unreal Engine 5 promises to usher in a new era of game development which makes it easier for developers to create games with extremely high quality assets and realistic lighting.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. MetaHuman Creator features 30 different hairstyles to choose from, each of which leveraging Unreal Engine’s strand-based hair. . Head to Unreal Engine’s website for more information. Feature Image Credit: Epic Games.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A new technique for reducing positional latency called ‘Phase Sync’ has been added to both the Unity and Unreal Engine 4 integrations; Oculus recommends that all Quest developers consider using it. Phase Sync Latency Reduction in Unity and Unreal Engine. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

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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JUNE 2, 2021

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. The VR tool is designed to work within Unreal Engine and has multi-user capabilities intended for collaboration.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The update brought Unreal Engine 5 to the platform (Did we mention that Unreal is a tech partner?), See Also: ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment. For example, I used the same avatar in this interview as I used in a recent tour of Spatial. seed round.

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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. The MetaHuman tool is still in early access and intended for developers of Unreal Engine.

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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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APRIL 27, 2022

For example, to find a nearby location, restaurant, or object. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. GPS support – The geolocation feature is a must-have feature for your AR development app if you are planning to build a location-based AR application. GPS can be utilized to overlay data from nearby locations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Its platform also allows them to do it at scale thanks to its Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, which essentially lets game developers forgo popups and other interstitials that may otherwise ruin the gaming experience. Example image courtesy Admix. The London-based startup’s penultimate funding round brought them $2.1

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a famous example of using the technique in Unreal Engine 3 (see The Astronauts’ blog for a detailed explanation), and Realities.io took a photo-realistic approach to create their free SteamVR product Realities using Unreal Engine 4, which launched alongside the HTC Vive in April 2016.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

The company has an in-house 3D web viewer but also offers APIs and complete integrations with services like Shopify as well as Unreal and Unity. VNTANA and JOOR are examples and drivers of this trend. VNTANA 3D web viewer. The company calls itself “a complete digital ecosystem for brands and retailers.”.

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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.

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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel. He gave examples of some applications of VR that have nothing to do with gaming, such as house tours, and meetings.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

This example shows how the Spatial Mapping module can create a model of the room’s geometry for use in applications: The Vive SRWorks SDK is available in beta through the company’s developer portal. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Pro Headset Review: Welcomed Improvements Overshadowed By a Steep Price.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

The SDK also supports native development with plugins for both Unity as well as Unreal Engine 4. Some of the most interesting examples of the SDK have so far revolved around linking augmented with virtual, allowing users to step in and out of reality at their whim.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

First of all, AI can be important to improve the quality of VR, and DLSS is a clear example of it. NVIDIA makes available a few examples of using services to build applications using Omniverse Kit, for instance Omniverse Create, View, and Machinima but developers can build their own applications using Kit as well.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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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 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, 2021

In case you use Unreal Engine, there are similar possibilities : here you can find an official blog post by Epic Games on how to shoot a 360 degrees trailer of your game inside the engine. Basically in most cases, you set the Recorder settings, you play your game inside Unity, and you have the video ready without any hassle. Surreal Capture.

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JULY 13, 2022

For example, the characters can recall past conversations. Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity. “You are basically teaching an actor how it is supposed to behave.”. They call this model “Bring Your Own Avatar.”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. For example I’ll start by going “hmm, I’d really like to learn more about compute shaders”. Take the hand grating video, for example: the focus is all on the hands with a simple prop. Pack it in, folks.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2019

An example? Lucy is the first example of this new path and well, she is fantastic. It is an incredibly polished experience, developed with Unreal Engine. Do you want some examples? Lucy has a big fantasy and this is what permeates all the experience : everything that happens feels a bit unnatural, and a bit magic.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

” SEE ALSO Facebook Founder Says Company Invested $250M in VR Content, Will Invest $250M More.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2018

Utilizing Unreal Engine 4, the team eventually aims to recreate every room of NCC-1701-D, including areas not shown during the original program. You can do all and more as we develop this walk-through to be as identical and immersive as possible to the show and the ship,” states Stage Nine in their official site.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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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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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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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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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. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine. This makes things a lot more natural in the final cut, with less post-production rigor. Perceived Depth.

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JUNE 3, 2020

A great alternative to Unity is Epic’s Unreal Engine by the way. Reality Composer is a great example of a free yet powerful piece of software, helping developers create interactive 3D content for web AR or more specifically for ‘AR Quick Look’ on Safari. Know your size limits.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

Taking much of what they learned and built already with Tango since 2014, Google’s ARCore doesn’t require any additional hardware and works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal. With more than two billion active devices, it now looks like Android may be on its way to the largest mobile AR platform in the world.

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