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VR Mountain Bike Simulator Has You Riding Cliffside Across Death-Defying Trails

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Built using Unreal Engine, the experience uses headcam and drone footage taken directly from 2014’s The Ridge , Cut Media’s hit action sports film featuring MacAskill. Players begin by donning a VR headset before seating themselves on a specialized motion rig built using a Santa Cruz bike. “It

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Disney Invests in VR Arcade The VOID, Epic Games in 2017 Accelerator

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Among the 11 picked for the company’s 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal Engine creator Epic Games. Companies to come out of Disney’s Accelerator include the toy company Sphero , 360 streaming platform Littlestar , 360 video production studio Jaunt and modular electronics producer littleBits.

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‘Synthesis Universe’ is a Musical Sci-fi Experience Coming Soon to PC VR, Trailer Here

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The experience has been demoed throughout a few of its earliest stages, having made its first public appearance at SVVR 2014. Olivier JT calls it a “VR cinematic experience [and] a hybrid between traditional movie story telling, music video and game, all happening in real-time using Unreal Engine 4.”

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Meta Releases UE4 Graphics Demo to Show What Quest 2 Can Do with Expert Optimization

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Showdown is a UE4 PC VR demo originally made by Epic Games back in 2014 to show off high-fidelity VR graphics running at 90Hz on a GTX 980 GPU at a 1,080 × 1,200 (1.3MP) per-eye resolution. Eight years later, you can now run Showdown on Quest 2 at 90Hz on the headset’s Snapdragon XR2 chip at 1,832 × 1,920 (3.5MP) per-eye resolution.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

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We already knew that Meta should manufacture its first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2014 , and that they should be built with high-end features and be manufactured in the US. I’ve seen some videos about it and honestly, the experience feels a bit subpar to me, but it’s a cool sneak peek of what could be the future of Zoos in 15–20 years.

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GDC 2017: Epic Games Teams With Chevrolet On New AR Car Project

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Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. The latest example of just how far real-time video game engine technology has come will be on display at GDC 2017 this week. Those cars are built like we would do a video game asset,” Libreri said.

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Jaguar Lets You Feel Wimbledon With Andy Murray VR Experience

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The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation. Jaguar Land Rover launched their first VR experience (in partnership with IBM) back in September 2014.