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Digital humans evolve

Life at the Feeding Edge

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. A decade on and there is a new kid on the block from Epic/Unreal called Metahuman. However there was a bit of a leaning curve.

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‘Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter’ Is Fast, Frenetic, and Fun FPS Action With Full Locomotion

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The most accurate comparisons you could draw would be to that of the Duke Nukem, Unreal, and Quake franchises. The First Encounter and The Second Encounter each got remastered in HD in 2009 and 2010, respectively, before the release of Serious Sam 3: BFE in 2011.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

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These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. Room 2009, West Hall. What can be done to simplify VR development now that there are so many headsets out there? Experiments in Social VR.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

The Laguna Beach, CA-based company was founded in 2009, and has over 36 patents (some pending) pertaining to live streaming virtual reality technology. Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” funding score. FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. It uses eye tracking in various fields and has released a product for Virtual Reality called aGlass. Isn’t it a cool device?

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Grids close year with record active numbers

Hypergrid Business

The following 23 grids were marked as suspended this month: 2Worlds2Go , 3DHappiness , Admeja , AvatarHaven , Avi Brasil , Avination , AviWorlds , CINECA GRID , Cuon , Dreamworldz , GEA , Homeland , HyperWild , Ingen-Lab , Ipsofacto , JamGrid , Kea Nation , Mystery , Pseudospace , Revo Grid , SimGrid , Traduverse , and Unreal.

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Users up, land down for holidays

Hypergrid Business

The following 12 grids were marked as suspended this month: 2nd Oakdene , Alluris Estates , Américas Worlds , CINECA GRID , Kingdom of Creation , KRRRL , Lupopas Welt , PTDE , TUIS Open Grid , UFSGrid , Unreal , and Virtual-EPI. Grids that have been suspended for more than two months will be marked as closed. OSgrid : 18,921 regions.