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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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Why the Closure of Oculus Story Studio is Good News for VR Filmmakers

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Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense.

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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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Epic’s New Action-packed ‘Robo Recall’ FPS is Beautiful, Brutal Arcade Fun

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It was back at the end of 2015 that Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney teased “something much bigger” than the VR tech demos the company has done in the past. Last year at Oculus Connect 2015, Epic revealed the Bullet Train tech demo for Oculus Touch. We’ve played it and it’s awesome (and beautiful).

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Welcome to the 2015 3D Jam!

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We’ve also switched up the 2015 competition with two tracks: AR/VR and Open. The AR/VR track covers experiences built on tethered HMDs like the Oculus Rift, while the Open track covers desktop, hardware hacks, and the Internet of Things. Our Core Assets for Unity now feature: Full Oculus 0.7 The post Welcome to the 2015 3D Jam!

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Leap Motion VR Support Now Directly Integrated in Unreal Engine

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Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Unreal Engine 4 and Open Source.

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Epic’s New Robo Recall Dev Diary Details The Game’s Evolution From Bullet Train

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Robo Recall is easily one of the most exciting VR experience coming in 2017, but its roots actually trace back to a relatively simple tech demo from 2015. There’s no two ways about it; Robo Recall is looking gorgeous, no doubt thanks to the intimate knowledge the developer has with its popular development toolkit, Unreal Engine.

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