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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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The AR Experience Honoring Scientist Jane Goodall

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This concrete jungle is a far cry from Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park where Goodall studied chimpanzees. FCG’s telltale combination of CGI and film, shot with a 360-degree camera, is then projected on walls, ceiling, and floor. Jane used unorthodox approaches to study chimpanzees, yielding extraordinary results.

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Sony Establishes Virtual Production Collaboration Centre

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. VP solutions look to replace or enhance pre-existing film production operations such as green screens and in-vehicle backdrops. Unreal Engine] is a beast which is inherently a game engine, not a film production tool.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

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As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. In college, I studied a lot of things, including biomedical engineering. Read on for the full interview.

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Improbable Showcases Large-Scale Metaverse Tech

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

He explained that the Metaverse was really about “taking existing brands and communities from sports, fashion, film and music” to receive an “unprecedented opportunity” to unite communities, and offer and monetise unique experiences with digital assets, virtual goods, and virtual lands. pic.twitter.com/bxFgXkPV5l.

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 10/09/16

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There are also a couple award winning virtual short films worth your attention. In this educational lab you can tinker with a science set, study virtual animals, and explore historic locals. In Allumette , watch a beautifully styled VR short film about the relationship between a mother and daughter unfold before you.

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My Strange Head: Part of another’s feeling world

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In doing so, she has been pursuing the mission of bridging the gap between lightning-fast advancements in technology and film. During the project, a switch was made from Unity to Unreal for production. This was chosen because Unreal specialises in cinematic productions; they have more tools to integrate games and film.

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