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WEART, MAIZE Partner to Drive Immersive Training Adoption and Innovation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

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. This enhancement allows learners to improve their situational awareness, dexterity, and coordination during simulation exercises.

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NASA Needs Your Help Building A VR Mars Simulator

VRScout

Earn money helping NASA build a next-gen simulator for researchers and astronauts. Built using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, the Mars XR Operations Support System is a virtual environment developed by NASA in collaboration with Buendea that simulates life on the planet Mars. ” Credit: HeroX. ” Credit: HeroX.

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Yaw2 Motion Simulator Surpasses $1M On Kickstarter

VRScout

With 34 days left to go in the campaign, Yaw VR’s next-gen motion simulator/smart chair, the Yaw2, this week reached over $1M in funding on Kickstarter, absolutely demolishing its original goal of $100,000. There’s also built-in vibration haptics capable of simulating acceleration, speed, an engine’s RPM, and gunshots.

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ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment

ARPost

From real to unreal, from unreal to real. ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine 5 is now enhanced with the dynamic global illumination power of Lumen.

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Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine

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From Real to Unreal and Unreal to Real. ej Dobruský, Victoria VR blurs the line between the imaginary and real worlds by building its metaverse platform on Unreal Engine , the gaming engine of choice for most developers. Unreal Engine has the capability to render real-life photos into photorealistic graphical images.

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Meta Releases New Audio Ray Tracing Tool for More Immersive Soundscapes on Quest

Road to VR

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. “Our acoustics features can handle arbitrarily complex geometry, ensuring that even the most intricate environments are accurately simulated,” Meta says.

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

Road to VR

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. The projects range widely from games to simulation to education and more. In 2021 the program awarded grants to 31 XR projects.