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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

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

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. What We Know .

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Road to VR

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. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic). Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2021

This obviously wouldn’t be possible to do on the original games themselves, so I used what I was learning to start working on a makeshift Halo VR world-viewer, built with Unreal Engine 4. The post ‘Halo’ and ‘Alien: Isolation’ VR Modder Joins Microsoft’s 343 Industries appeared first on Road to VR.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

See Also: Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience? creative director BC Biermann.

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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, HP Reverb G2 is similarly affected after Microsoft deprecated Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Myst update 2.0

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Windows. Unity, Unreal and other game engines plugins. Lockheed Martin Prepar3D, DCS World, X-Plane 11, Bohemia Interactive Simulations (VBS3, VBS4), Microsoft Flight Simulator, Aero FS 2, FlyInside, and other custom integrations. VirtualLink (5m / 16.40 ft) cable or DisplayPort 1.4 , USB 3.2 SOFTWARE SUPPORT.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Let’s see… More info (The specifications of Orion from the TESTED video) More info (Porting games to Orion is difficult) More info (Karl Guttag’s analysis about Orion) Epic Games is already envisioning Unreal Engine 6 In an interview with The Verge, Tim Sweeney talked about the future plans of Epic Games.

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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. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. What about Unity, instead?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 23, 2020

A court filing says the banning the engine will 'harm game creators and gamers'.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For instance, earlier this year Microsoft announced a partnership to utilize the AR2 Gen 1 chip for future products beyond the HoloLens 2. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X The device weighs only 0.5lbs and boasts some pretty awesome specs according to the company: Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 Works outside.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 19, 2019

Don't Miss: Microsoft's Live HoloLens 2 Apollo 11 Demo Didn't Take Flight, but You Can See It Thanks to Unreal Engine's Video The John. Luckily for us, augmented reality presents the opportunity to experience the Apollo 11 launch and landing, as well as the moonwalk, within our own, Earth-bound terrestrial boundaries.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Facebook, Microsoft, Valve, Unreal Engine, and others have been making progress toward supporting OpenXR in their platforms and now Unity says it’s moving to do the same. Earlier this year the standard took a huge step forward by announcing the start of certifications for compliant implementations. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Major VR stakeholders—including Oculus, Valve, HTC, Microsoft, Unity, and Unreal Engine—now offer full or partial support for the standard. After years of development, the OpenXR 1.0 specification has taken major strides toward real industry adoption. Members of the OpenXR consortium publicly supporting the standard as of March, 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1 More info Microsoft adds Mesh features to Teams At the annual Build event, Microsoft has not announced any stellar XR- or metaverse-related news. But still, there have been some interesting announcements about Microsoft Mesh.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 17, 2019

Don't Miss: Microsoft's Live HoloLens 2 Apollo 11 Demo Didn't Take Flight, but You Can See It Thanks to Unreal Engine's Video The app, which is made for iPhones (iOS) and Android devices gives the user the ability to.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft’s latest standalone AR headset. Released in early September, Unreal Engine 4.23 We’ll update this article as soon as we hear back.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. As enterprises explore entering XR, these offerings also help them integrate into cloud services offered by suppliers that they may already be working with, like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or Lenovo. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

without limitation, Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Valve, Steam, HTC)”, venture capital, or crowdsourcing. ” SEE ALSO Facebook Founder Says Company Invested $250M in VR Content, Will Invest $250M More. The post ‘Oculus Start’ Program Aims to Help Indies Jump into VR Development appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

” See Also: Microsoft is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Spatial Maps?—?Spatial

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms. Image courtesy Epic Games.

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HoloLens

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The latest example comes via the current International Space Station (ISS) crew, several of whom are using the Microsoft HoloLens to carry out vital procedures.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Microsoft has developed its mixed reality (MR) solutions with fresh updates on its Dynamics 365 Guides platform, the company announced in early April. The new tools will support deskless and frontline workers worldwide and follow numerous steps Microsoft has taken to promote its Mesh platform for MR experiences.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experience in game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine is also a must. SEE ALSO Report: Microsoft Holding a HoloLens 2 Press Event Next Month. Underlining this, the listing says candidates should posses experience in building native mobile applications on iOS or Android, and hands-on experience with AR platforms like ARKit or ARCore.

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JULY 24, 2017

The Machines is an upcoming concept from Directive Games that was made using Apple’s ARKit and Unreal Engine 4. We even saw a prototype of HoloGrid running on a Microsoft HoloLens that works similarly to what we’re seeing with The Machines here — in fact, they just recently launched it on HoloLens as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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HoloLens

JUNE 3, 2019

Native support for Unreal Engine 4 has arrived for the HoloLens 2 via early access on GitHub (login required). A major software tool first promised during the reveal of the HoloLens 2 earlier this year is finally available.

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APRIL 3, 2023

That includes Microsoft Flight Simulator, iRacing, the open beta branch of DCS World, War Thunder (though not with EAC), the Steam version of Bonelab, Hubris, Everslaught, Contractors, The Light Brigade, and A Township Tale. OpenXR Toolkit added eye-tracked foveated rendering support for Meta Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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