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Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

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Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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Feelreal VR Scent Mask Hits Roadblock Amidst Crackdown on Flavored Vaping Products

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Feelreal had its first taste of notoriety back at GDC 2015 when the company debuted its public prototype, a sort of smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that provided users with a number of scents through a clip-in cartridge system as well as hot and cool wind, water mist, and haptic vibrations. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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Multiple ‘The Walking Dead’ Interactive VR Games Are in Development

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Apparently, the new games will be interactive and, according to the IGN piece, rendered with the Unreal engine – which hopefully lays to rest any assumptions these are merely some sort of branching 360 video abomination. “The Walking Dead, it all comes back to moral choice and what would you do as the player. .

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Oculus’ New 360 Capture SDK Lets You Create and Share In-Game 360 Videos and Photos

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Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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According to Laverde, this began in 2015. For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’ Gets A Full VR Experience On Vive, PS VR This Week

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Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi blockbuster, The Martian , is considered a return to form for the legendary director. It’s built in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. This likely isn’t the first time HTC Vive owners will have visited Mars, and nor will it have been the last.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature.