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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games has finally released the latest iteration of its popular game engine: Unreal Engine 5. This means that while great, Unreal Engine 5 is not disruptive for us VR users and developers, yet. It’s going to be very interesting and very busy… I hope to meet you in Laval!

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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

Road to VR

Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator. Lemay – AR Workflow from Revit to Reality (Canada).

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Unreal Engine 4 Now Available for Microsoft HoloLens 2

Next Reality AR

Native support for Unreal Engine 4 has arrived for the HoloLens 2 via early access on GitHub (login required). A major software tool first promised during the reveal of the HoloLens 2 earlier this year is finally available.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! teams for Japan.