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Epic Games Acquires Sketchfab, the Massive 3D Object Library Compatible with AR/VR Headsets

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Founded in 2012, Sketchfab plays host to over 4 million 3D assets, all of which are accessible through its web-based platform across PC, mobile, and immersive headsets. Sketchfab says it will continue to support other game engines, Unity included. Sketchfab has partnered with Epic Games in the past as a recipient of an Epic MegaGrant.

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

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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. No C# Unity programmers please (unless you just happen to know C# and are better in a systems language than you are in C#).

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Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth

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Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market. See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech. billion, thanks to over 5.5

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ZeniMax Seeks Injunction to Halt Oculus’ Use Rift & Gear VR SDK and More

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The filing also appears to indicate that ZeniMax wants the original campaign video for the 2012 Oculus Kickstarter to be barred from use, which includes footage of John Carmack, a key figure in the lawsuit, demonstrating a very early Rift prototype at E3 2012.

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Axon Park To Offer Expert Level In-Headset VR Design Course

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The company wants applicants to have experience in game development, particularly in Unity. Despite language that appears directed at beginners (specifically where it comes to “learning core concepts”), it seems like the course is primarily aiming to cross-train Unity developers in Unreal Engine 4. This is the first class of its kind.

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Survios CTO to Teach Full Semester VR Development Course in a Virtual Classroom

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“I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with VR since 2012 and contribute to the development of many innovative VR systems over these years. The class focused on VR Development with Unity and was taught remotely by an instructor in LA with students split between two buildings on the MIT campus.

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Colin Farrell Narrates VR Series ‘Gloomy Eyes’, Debuting at Sundance 2019

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Farrell is narrating all three episodes of the VR series, which was co-directed by 3dar’s Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado, the creators behind animated short Shave It (2012). Here’s a synopsis of Gloomy Eyes : 1983. To love what’s different will bring harmony once again,” Tereso and Maldonado said.

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