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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

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Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator. 6th Sense VR – Ayatana Concept (France). ??ALO

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NewImages, Cannes, Tribeca Join Forces In Unprecedented Collab

VRScout

” “The acceleration of innovation coming from the video game industry is being driven by real-time game engines, like Unreal and Unity, primarily used in XR and video games, and now more and more in the cinema industry.” The XR community are really experts on that.”

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Reverb G2 Omnicept, with Eye, Mouth, & Heart Rate Sensors, Priced at $1,250 for May Launch

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USA, Canda, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia. HP says the Omnicept features are supported across both Unity and Unreal Engine. Pulse Rate Variability API. Developer Support. Online self-help. Premium support. Country Availability. 68 countries (same as headset). HP Omnicept SDK. Free to download.

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Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Now Publicly Available In Early Access

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Meta's (Limited-Scope) Unity Competitor According to creators who have been testing the closed beta version, the Meta Horizon Desktop Editor has an interface resembling a simplified version of game engines like Unity, reminiscent of Apple's Reality Composer Pro, the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), or the Roblox Creator Hub.

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Magic Leap Update Brings Hand Occlusion, Expanded Multiplayer Support & More

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Here’s a quick rundown of some of the other features hitting ML1 with Lumin’s 6th OS update: Internationalization and localization for UK, France and Germany. binary builds for Unreal available through the Epic Launcher). Officially support for Unity 2019.2 OAuth support for 3rd-party apps through C API.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This project involved creating augmented reality statues of women alongside men in eight major cities in France. You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). RUBIKA, France. image courtesy VR First. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. Oklahoma State University, USA. Paneuropean University Bratislava, Slovakia.

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