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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

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Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. He said that 59 percent of virtual reality developers are using Unity, according to a survey by VisionMobile. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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More info Steam VR stats have been pretty negative in September The Steam hardware survey for September 2023 was very negative for VR. The company is also going to increase the price of Unreal Engine , but this doesn’t apply to people creating games, but only to developers developing other types of content. Wait, what???

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

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Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. billion) and ARkit (1.25

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Xreal Supports Apple MacBooks: Shape of XR Competition to Come

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Epic claimed that the two companies trademarks, “Nreal” and “Unreal,” were visually similar and could create confusion among customers. The deal attracted considerable attention from Apple fans, and the Xreal Apple dongle sold-out within 24 hours of debuting on the Amazon marketplace.

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AWE EU ’23: Key Takeaways and Announcements

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Moreover, Stettmeier noted that Lenovo is taking an enterprise-first approach to developing XR solutions, meaning you cannot purchase the device via conventional means such as Amazon. Instead, a buyer must go through professional channels – “because we really want to make this an enterprise story,” Steinmeier said.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

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Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot. a $100 Amazon Card). Participate in the survey. If you want to join it, click the link below. Some XR fun. Memories of old VR devices… Funny link.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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BMW uses VR to build cars faster & cheaper, Disney uses VR for research for theme parks, get set for Ready Player One in VR, a VR survey, and the investment & funding wrapup, plus much more. THE SURVEY SAYS: PEOPLE LOVE THEIR VR DEVICE. AMAZON MIGHT OPEN AR SHOPPING STORES. THEME PARKS LOVE VR AND AR, BUT HOW?