VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

The Lord of the Rings auteur is using Apple’s ARkit to unlock new levels of storytelling immersion in augmented reality. The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 26, 2017

During a week where Unity gained a $400 million influx of investment capital, it’s chief rival Epic Games is working to spend $5 million of its own money to facilitate game development for the Unreal Engine. Earlier this year, Epic announced that it would be dolling out $5 million total in grants to up and coming Unreal devs.

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GizModo VR

MAY 26, 2021

The answer is they’ll be starting next month in New Zealand—and it’ll premiere on HBO Max. Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell can finally stop answering the question they’ve gotten for almost 30 years: “When are you going to make Evil Dead 4 ?” Read more.

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Instinctively Real Media

APRIL 21, 2024

Meet Jeasy Sehgal, a trailblazing creative technologist and filmmaker from New Zealand, mastering cutting-edge tech like motion capture and virtual production. From founding ventures Continue reading "Exclusive TrailblaXR interview:Jeasy Sehgal, Emerging Technology Specialist"

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NVidia VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Simon Che de Boer and his New Zealand-based VFX R&D company, realityvirtual.co , have found a way to digitally preserve Nefertari’s tomb and give countless individuals the chance to see inside it. They’re invaluable for working with physically based rendering engines such as Unreal Engine. AI: Creating More Realistic VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions. Or maybe with the same money, they can directly go to New Zealand (Image by Road To VR).

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NVidia VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Simon Che de Boer and his New Zealand-based VFX R&D company, realityvirtual.co , have found a way to digitally preserve Nefertari’s tomb and give countless individuals the chance to see inside it. They’re invaluable for working with physically based rendering engines such as Unreal Engine.

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