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How VR Was Used To Help Produce A Full-Scale Opera

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” Built using Unreal Engine, the tool was used from the proof-of-concept phase all the way to final production. Turandot was co-produced by the FNOB and the Malmö Opera in Sweden. A virtual set was developed by Finnish studio ZOAN before being built IRL, saving time and money in the process.

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Reality Scan Vs NVIDIA NeRF – Photogrammetry for Developers

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Epic Games launched Reality Scan in April, a photogrammetry tool for the firm’s Unreal Engine suite. The Uppsala, Sweden-based firm owns the “world’s largest” photogrammetry asset library and offers an XR content creation suite with its Megascans, Bridge, and Mixer toolkits. Reality Scan.

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Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Now Publicly Available In Early Access

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Meta's (Limited-Scope) Unity Competitor According to creators who have been testing the closed beta version, the Meta Horizon Desktop Editor has an interface resembling a simplified version of game engines like Unity, reminiscent of Apple's Reality Composer Pro, the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), or the Roblox Creator Hub.

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Varjo, Finnish National Opera and Ballet Debut Immersive Opera

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Director Sofia Adrian Jupither leads the Turandot opera, which the FNOB and the Malmö Opera in Sweden helped to co-produce. Project partner Zoan created a digital twin of the opera stage using Unreal engine to provide a photorealistic and a real-time 3D (RT3D) “XR stage.”

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Ready Player Me, Hiber Partner for Avatar Integration

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Ready Player Me’s highly-bespoke, Unity and Unreal Engine-compatible avatars facilitate rapid creations with a large catalogue of customisation options and features. #create #customise #avatar #metaverse #hiberworld #readyplayerme pic.twitter.com/T661VD6UoV. HiberWorld (@HiberWorld) September 14, 2022. Comments on Partnership.

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Homebound Hits Rift And Vive This Month, Watch The Stunning New Trailer

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Sweden-based Quixel, best known for its high fidelity graphics creation tools, recently confirmed that its very own VR experience will be releasing on February 16th via Steam. Get ready to suit up and head out into space once more: the visually-stunning Homebound is hitting the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive very soon.

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Varjo, Twinmotion Team Up for AEC Designers

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Sweden’s Malmö Opera and the FNOB co-produced the XR event in February. The Varjo-powered immersive experience leveraged high-fidelity visuals to offer a 1:1 digital twin on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. The event featured operas from Turandot and composers Giacomo Puccini and Franco Alfano.