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MARCH 7, 2025

Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific core APIs for different hardware. For Unreal Engine, the situation is somewhat more complicated.

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APRIL 25, 2019

At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. The post Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants appeared first on Road to VR.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" integrations block other PC VR headsets, and developers aren't happy about it. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific APIs for different hardware. But the reality, today at least, is more complicated.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

moves the Steam version to OpenXR and Unreal Engine 5, promising stability and performance improvements. It's now been moved from Unreal Engine 4.27+ to Unreal Engine 5.3.2, Elsewhere, other new changes include promised improvements for ray tracing on Windows and hardware-accelerated ray tracing for Macs. Myst update 2.0

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JUNE 22, 2020

Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. While many readers will know the graphics engine from gaming, this isn’t their first trip to space. Unreal worked with the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to create an AR experience based around Apollo 11. Connie Miller with Varjo headset.

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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. Going Beyond Gaming. There’s no better example of this than the revolutionary entertainment experience, Fortnite.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our team has been researching and developing open-source hardware and software to help our larger community of independent researchers, academics, DIY engineers, and businesses at every scale create products that bring us closer to solving society’s greatest challenges , from mental health to the future of work. On what hardware will it work?

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JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input. and Vulkan.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Regarding the well-established virtual reality market, immersive training and learning tools are easily one of the largest XR opportunities for businesses worldwide outside of gaming and entertainment use cases. It also supports XR experiences built on Unity and Unreal Engine SDKs.

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APRIL 5, 2023

A Pico Neo 3 Pro headset comes with the Omni One treadmill package, allowing customers to integrate approximately 30 games. Now the Omni One introduces hardware innovation to users at home for the first home, enhancing experiences like immersive gaming or Metaverse applications. It’s not good enough.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Watch YouTube with friends, mix your favorite music, or go head-to-head in a variety of classic board games. Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. Couch , offers a straightforward and pain-free method for watching YouTube videos on Quest; no additional hardware required. NEVER BOARD.

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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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APRIL 4, 2023

Available for purchase next month, the ELF-SR2 is a 27-inch 4K display that can supposedly deliver immersive 3D content without the need for additional hardware, such as augmented reality (AR) glasses or a VR headset. Sony announced a new addition to its growing lineup of Spatial Reality Displays. For more information visit here.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. Their VR Developer certification is, therefore, one of the best AR/VR certifications you can obtain if you are passionate about creating immersive games. Professional Certificate in Unreal Engine Foundations. Certified AR Expert.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Image by Epic Games). Other relevant news.

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JULY 31, 2024

Meta announced its released a new Acoustic Ray Tracing feature that will make it easier for developers to add more immersive audio to their VR games and apps. “One of the standout benefits of our new acoustics features is their performance on mobile hardware. You can find out more about Meta’s Acoustic Ray Tracing here.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub. They’re easier to project.

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JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi took the stage and confirmed that “Valve is bringing SteamVR to Mac.”

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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. Especially in the past 20 years, when gaming has become massively mainstream.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Plenty of high-profile industry pros will also be available too as mentors.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

From top XR trends and must-have skills for an AR/VR career, to XR hardware reviews, to the potential of the metaverse in various industries, to discussing why we’re not all wearing AR/VR headsets, these are the 22 stories ARPost readers clicked on the most this year. KKCOBVR Quest 2 Strap and Battery Pack: Hands-On Hardware Review.

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MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. And though Epic hasn’t made any VR games since then, it seems that in 2018 it was still ready and willing.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Lauren Ridge, programmer at Epic Games, was backstage to operate the demo (which you can watch in the video heading this article). SEE ALSO Watch Epic Games' Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal's VR Editor.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Epic Games, the parent company of the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) development suite Unreal Engine 5, recently released MetaHuman, a framework for creating highly realistic digital human avatars. Epic Games designed the MetaHuman project alongside longstanding avatar creation experts 3Lateral and Cubic Motion.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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JULY 25, 2022

In April, real-time 3D (RT3D) engine developers Epic Games and NVIDIA debuted easy-to-use photogrammetry tools to streamline the creation of RT3D assets. Accessible photogrammetry tools also allow developers to facilitate system-intensive RT3D production pipelines using consumer-grade hardware and software. Reality Scan.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HaptX SDK makes it easy for any developer to bring a realistic sense of touch to their VR games and apps. The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API. has been pushing the limits of haptic technology since the launch of its HaptX DK2 gloves back in January 2021.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Still in early access, Qualcomm is initially working with Felix & Paul Studios, holo|one, Overlay, Scope AR, TRIPP, Tiny Rebel Games, NZXR, forwARdgame, Resolution Games, and Trigger Global. Qualcomm isn’t leading the push with its own hardware though. Image courtesy Qualcomm Technologies.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As developers explore the limitless potential of VR, performance and efficiency continue to be an essential focus of hardware and software. ” Nvidia has also integrated VRWorks into the latest versions of Unreal Engine , Unity’s closest competing game engine for VR development.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Audio To Expression is an on-device AI model that generates plausible facial muscle movements from only microphone audio input, providing estimated facial expressions without any face tracking hardware. Developers can find the Audio To Expression documentation here: Unity / Unreal / Custom Engines.

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2020

As a key figure in OpenXR (owed to it being one of the leading VR game engines), it’s good news today to hear the company affirm its commitment to the standard and say that it’s accelerating work to bring OpenXR to Unity. Image courtesy Khronos Group. “We have been closely monitoring the development of the OpenXR standard.

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MAY 19, 2021

Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link]. There are several communities of gamers willing to test games. Talking about the hardware, instead, what are your remarks regarding the accessibility of current headsets and controllers?

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JANUARY 22, 2019

OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. The OpenXR working group has been chaired from the start by Nick Whiting from game & engine maker Epic Games.

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MARCH 11, 2019

The company joined VIVE X, HTC’s global VR/AR accelerator program, for its second batch back in 2017, which included investments and mentorship for a total of 33 startups working in the areas of software and hardware for both augmented and virtual reality.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh, they’d seen some AR demos of some new hardware and were really excited about the creative possibilities,” said Wingnut Creative Director Alasdair Coull, speaking to BBC Click. The result is a visually impressive and beautifully choreographed experience running at 60 frames per second. .

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