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Creator of Indie Breakout ‘Braid’ Building Roomscale VR Game With ‘no concessions for stationary play’

Road to VR

Jonathan Blow, the creator of one of indie gaming’s fomative successes, Braid , has begun hiring a team to develop his first VR game. Before Fez (2012) , before Limbo (2010) , and before Minecraft (2009) , Braid (2008) was one of the breakout successes in the formative years of indie game development and distribution.

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Choosing the Right AR SDK: Mobile AR App Development Toolkit for 2020

ARPost

Unity Support. Unity is an advanced game engine used in the development of augmented reality apps, especially gaming. So, if you are in this business, try to pick an SDK that is compatible with Unity. ARToolKit has plugins for Unity, which we mentioned earlier, and also works with OpenSceneGraph.

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How Epic Games and Autodesk are Shaping XR Design

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Firms like Epic Games and Autodesk are working to meet this demand. RT3D development engines provide a suite allowing creators to access powerful content creation tools generally reserved for video game development. A famed and long-running RT3D platform is Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) by Epic Games, initially a games development service.

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Sinespace launches VR beta

Hypergrid Business

Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Instead, creators need to use the Unity 3D interface, which has a steeper learning curve. Unity 3D user interface for Sinespace. The instructions for downloading the Unity Editor and the Space Editor Pack are here.

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Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games

Road to VR

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Several ‘location-based’ AR games using Google Maps APIs and ARCore are coming to mobile devices this year.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. It stands for effortless.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. It stands for effortless.

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