Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Epic Games’ Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google’s I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what’s more is that it’s available right now.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. San Francisco textured buildings with demographic data, global imagery, and elevation, viewed from within the Unity editor. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR. Compatibility : Unity, Unreal Engine, C++, C#, Python.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

I briefly spent some time working at Meta to try and integrate OpenBCI-based biosensing into their headsets and while in San Francisco, I got to know Guillermo Bernal a bit better, who was investigating some of the same things as part of his Ph.D. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development?

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MARCH 5, 2017

I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. 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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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2017

Penrose Studios’ newest animation tells the hauntingly beautiful story of Mina and her father, who live in a floating shack above a post-apocalyptic, underwater San Francisco. ” At NEXT they hinted they might be releasing a special toolset for Unreal programmers, so keep an eye out for announcements later this year.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Nick Whiting.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

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%). Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. image courtesy VR First. This vision could only be achieved with a vendor-neutral approach,” added Özkan.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco. This Is Our Future” is not a live action VR film, but instead was built in Unreal, letting you trigger action within the experience, playing with your perception of space, scale and volume.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The highly anticipated XRDC conference will be taking place in San Francisco on October 14th and 15th. Steve Bowler of CloudGate Studio will talk about Unreal Engine 4’s Blueprints feature. October is a big month for XR technology. Here we’ll look at some of the most exciting companies, speakers and events.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

He’s taking my call as he pounds the pavements in San Francisco between meetings at an industry conferece, so I have to contend with traffic and street sounds in the background. ‘Showdown’, one of Epic’s VR tech demos build on Unreal Engine.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

Aided by the UEVR mod, the ceaseless work of Team Beef and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own. The biggest trend in VR gaming of 2024, though, is the blurrying line between flat content and VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Passing by this discreetly placed booth at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, you’d have no idea this was home to HBO’s first internally built experience in VR. It leverages Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and is built to run natively on HTC’s Vive headset system.

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MARCH 4, 2017

At the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco last week, Improbable showed off SpatialOS’s features as well as its new integration with the Unreal Engine toolkit. We’re delighted to be able to show Unreal developers how SpatialOS works [at GDC],” Improbable chief executive Herman Narula said in a statement.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

You may wonder where is Unreal, well… maybe I have to remind you about which company brought Apple in court for Fortnite… The new store dedicated to Apple Vision Pro I see this headset as an AMAZING opportunity for developers. Developer Opportunities The Apple Vision Pro will have a dedicated store for XR apps.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The company has already released their SDK which allows developers to integrate FOVE support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine. The company, now headquartered in San Francisco, will be showcasing the final version of the headset during the Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) this week in San Francisco.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Over the past year he’s served as Vice President of Platform Products at WEVR but, most recently, he was planning a San Francisco-based startup, FormVR. “We think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Last week at the VRX conference in San Francisco Sweeney delivered a keynote address on the idea of “Digital Humans.” To demonstrate, Sweeney showed off a clip of Hellblade , an upcoming game built on Unreal Engine 4 with incredible visual fidelity. The sensor side is what’s going to change next for VR.”

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Additionally, Unreal Engine is one of the premier VR development ecosystems and new advancements on the technology side of the company will likely be announced as well. What to Expect from Ubisoft.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The San Francisco-based company has since secured over $11m across 3 funding rounds with investors including Samsung Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, and Foxconn Technology Group. The company has since released their SDK which allows developers to integrate Fove support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 2, 2016

VixenVR has taken the years of game development experience within the company and used the Unreal engine to create a penthouse style wet dream of interactive VR reminiscent of something out of Saints Row. I was very intrigued by what this could develop into and would find out several months later.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Over on Unreal Engine’s Twitter account , the company said: “Here at Epic we were excited about participating in GDC 2020. ” Epic Games tends to have a very big presence at GDC, not only with two major stands filled with developers but also its State of Unreal keynote which tends to draw a big crowd.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

The company, which also has offices in San Francisco, has raised $502 million in funding led by SoftBank, with previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures also participating. Read more here. Improbable made its name with its platform called SpatialOS. Read more here. 3) Vivid Vision said today it has raised $2.2

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2023

Alexey Savchenko, XLA Chief Product Officer , demoed the solution at the event in San Francisco as the firm addressed audiences in a speech on the Metaverse and synthetic media. Users can also analyse text semantically, create 3D scenes, and deploy content or connect to XLA’s ecosystem using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” After the April announcement of its $100M Vive X VR Accelerator program, it’s funding of Steel Wool further illustrates that HTC is investing heavily in the virtual reality ecosystem. FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially. This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members. VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. Experiments in Social VR.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Google Earth VR does not require an army of animators to build each building in San Francisco through Unity or Unreal Engine 4, it is fueled by an always refreshing data set from one of the world’s most powerful sources of geographical information.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Unreal Mobile Rendering Engineer. San Francisco, CA. Dublin, CA. Sanzaru Games. Environment Artist. Click Here to Apply. Dublin, CA. Sanzaru Games. UI Technical Artist. Click Here to Apply. Foster City, CA. Sanzaru Games. Click Here to Apply. London, UK. Software Engineer, React VR. Click Here to Apply. Menlo Park, CA.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

The trademark filing relates to the font used in the forthcoming xrOS branding, which Apple is trademarking under its own San Francisco typeface. Apple Trademarks XR Operating System Apple has filed a trademark for “ xrOS ” with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office, further teasing its upcoming MR headset.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

XR World Reacts to New Unity Runtime Fees Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community, with many Unity developers slamming the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

Last year, he got the call to move to San Francisco and take over the reign over the company, and build relationships with different franchise owners. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences. VRW: What engine are you using to create the experiences?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Rob: Carillon was built within the Unreal Engine and uses the Open Sound Control protocol to connect motion and actions in the game environment with a music engine built within the Pure Data computer music system. All the programming for Carillon was done using Unreal’s Blueprint visual scripting language.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What is the difference between workflows on Threekit, versus Unity or even Unreal? It's-- in some ways the asset management system is very similar to Unreal Engine. But the advantages that it has over, say, Unreal Engine is everything's on the web, optimized for the web, and our runtime is very, very small. It's awesome.

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