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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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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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Fan Remake Of ‘Silent Hills P.T.’ Now Available In VR

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Developed by independent developer @RadiusGordello , Unreal P.T. Unreal P.T. If you have trouble progressing through any of the convoluted puzzles, he’s included both a control manual and strategy guide within the main directory. Image Credit: Radius Gordello. is a near identical recreation of the original P.T.

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PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

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During an interview with VRScout, Dr. Shippee said, “The Fusion Model articulates a strategy for organizational adoption of innovative solutions. Financial assistance to launch the program was provided by Epic MegaGrants, aiding in the development of the Unreal Engine-powered VR training solution. Image Credit: Precision OS.

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The acclaimed NeoFur 2.0 Unreal Plugin really brings it in the cuteness and adorable CATegories.

Cats and VR

for Unreal Engine 4 enables developers to better tackle the creation of challenging fuzzy and fibrous characters, objects and surfaces such as furred creatures, carpets, blankets, mosses and other natural landscapes. for Unreal Engine 4 can be purchased for 20% off until October 6, 2016 by using code NEOFURPR20 at checkout. NeoFur 2.0’s

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‘Red Alert 2’ In VR Is Historical Fiction We Can Control Directly

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Video games are often ways for us to escape reality for small chunks of time and strategy games tap into that in different ways. Red Alert 2 is one of the most popular strategy titles, a real-time strategy game that had an incredible historical fiction of its own for us to navigate, and it’s being recreated in a VR environment.

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HaptX Gloves G1 Open for Pre-Orders

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The HaptX SDK also features updates including multi-user support and an API to bring in C++ assets in addition to Unity and Unreal Engine that were already supported via plugins. Organizations developing their metaverse strategy now have a solution for touch feedback so effective, their jobs can depend on it.”. The Evolution of HaptX.

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Epic Floated the Idea of Building a Launch Title for Sony’s Next VR Headset

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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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