Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic’s Robo Recall is not only the company’s first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game and engine design since the beginning. I’d also played the game from start to finish and felt inclined to agree.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Bebylon Battle Royale was first announced by studio Kite & Lightning back in 2015. Coming off of several impressive early VR experiences, the pivot toward a full fledged game was an exciting new path for the studio. At the time the studio expected to launch the game in 2016. who love trolling each other.”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series roots its fiction deep in virtual reality within the game world, but could we soon see a new entry in the franchise for today’s real-life headsets? Going by the descriptions for the images, the project was developed for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift using Unreal Engine 4.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Unreal Engine 4 and Open Source. There is no return from that.”. Next Up: NexusVR.io.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Robo Recall is easily one of the most exciting VR experience coming in 2017, but its roots actually trace back to a relatively simple tech demo from 2015. The demo was a first glimpse into what Touch could do for VR shooters and served as the foundation for Epic’s first larger VR game, Robo Recall.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Feelreal had its first taste of notoriety back at GDC 2015 when the company debuted its public prototype, a sort of smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that provided users with a number of scents through a clip-in cartridge system as well as hot and cool wind, water mist, and haptic vibrations. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It was back at the end of 2015 that Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney teased “something much bigger” than the VR tech demos the company has done in the past. Last year at Oculus Connect 2015, Epic revealed the Bullet Train tech demo for Oculus Touch. The game isn’t just fun, also impressively beautiful.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

This also means app developers can create cooperative games that involve people outside the headset like VR party game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015). Unity and Unreal support. Google Cast-support is also coming to Daydream devices so people outside of VR can see what you’re doing. image courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Along with the closure, the company also says they’re earmarking $50 million to invest in non-gaming experiential VR content, and in doing so reveals a major reason why the company opted to shutter the studio. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense.

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

At the PlayStation Experience taking place this weekend, Bandai Namco shared the trailer for its upcoming Ace Combat 7 game during the opening keynote. The Ace Combat franchise is arguably the most well-known flight combat simulator series and this latest entry is the first for the new generation of video game consoles.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

If you design games to be played on the tray table of a plane, you are also creating experiences for people with mobility issues who might not be able to jump around like in a normal BeatSaber session. My team at Shopify started on VR stuff back in 2015 but we’ve been really focused on augmented reality shopping as of late.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

Nate Burba is CEO and Co-Founder of Survios, one of the forerunners  in VR gaming today. His company’s immersive experiences taking gaming to the next level. His successes resulted in AAA hits like Raw Data, a co-op first-person shooter proclaimed as VR’s first hit game. They’re basically the patron saints of game development.

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MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” Right now, the most common use case for networked 3D experiences is online video games.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ars Technica reported : For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. It’ll squash innovation and art-oriented games that aren’t designed around profit, especially.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

According to Laverde, this began in 2015. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. It also hinted at some developments to come in the future. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking. Keep Coming Back.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi blockbuster, The Martian , is considered a return to form for the legendary director. It’s built in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. This week, you’ll be able to enter the world of the movie with a new VR experience. You may have heard of The Martian VR Experience before.

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JULY 23, 2017

That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Presence Capital has invested in Baobab Studios, Bigscreen, Harmonix, Nomadic, Meta, Resolution Games, Scope AR, Strivr, TheWaveVR, and Visbit. Six of its investments are in game companies. “A Mahajan said the average investment size is around $200,000.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. Definitely look forward to our discussion. Alan: I'm really excited. You get to play with probably the coolest toys in the VR space.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. Definitely look forward to our discussion. Alan: I'm really excited. You get to play with probably the coolest toys in the VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! For instance, reviewers were given the 3DOF unit, and many complained about the poor performances of Nolo tracking (Nolo sounds so much 2015 to me). Others complained about the colors of the display.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The exhibit is rooted in her 2015 album Vulnicura – a dizzying dive into the depths of post-breakup despair. Steel Wool Studios , based in Oakland, CA and founded by former Lucasfilm, Telltale Games, and Pixar creatives, received $5M in Series A funding entirely from HTC.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Star Wars Battlefront is easily one of the best looking games ever made. That’s thanks in no small part to the proprietary Frostbite game engine, created originally by Battlefield developer DICE, and eventually sucked up as part of an EA acquisition of the company.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

Fove raised $480,000 on Kickstarter (along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures) in summer 2015 to manufacture their eye-tracking headset, a technology that’s useful for a number of important applications such as foveated rendering, avatar eye-mapping, simulated depth-of field, and eye-based user interfaces.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards shares a quality with many people in the game industry: She didn’t set out to work in games. Reflecting on her career and her time at the IGDA, she says that like many, she ended up in games after finishing a so-called “normal career.”. The common denominator is that we love games, and we have since we were kids.”.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the HTC Vive’s roomscale virtual experience, you should check the Microsoft, Game Stop, or Micro Center location closest to you!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 6, 2015. OTOY added support for rendering stereo cube maps in the Octane renderer.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. And though Epic hasn’t made any VR games since then, it seems that in 2018 it was still ready and willing.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You have motion simulators for racing games, and it's not all fun and games, but man, you must have a pretty cool office. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. Definitely look forward to our discussion. Alan: I'm really excited. You get to play with probably the coolest toys in the VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I have been working in the immersive space since 2015 and my personal vision is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one?

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content. CALLING ALL CREATORS: HERE’S A MARKETPLACE FOR YOUR VR CONTENT. …and just a few more… FUNDING IN Q2 RESULTS ARE IN.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. Sarah Northway is working on her own VR game she’s not ready to talk about yet. ” Moore recalls thinking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In the meantime, Valve has given a complete overhaul to the UI of SteamVR , changing the interface both of the desktop menus and the VR menu, that is now curved and more suitable to select games in an easier way with VR controllers. Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. Fun stuff: this studio never actually launched a game.

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The Rift Arcade

APRIL 15, 2016

Back in 2015 we were fortunate enough to get some hands-on time with an early build of FATED: The Silent Oath and came away impressed by its characters, animation and atmosphere. Now the first trailer for the game has been released alongside a launch date for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive: April 28 th.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The company will also be developing software compatibility to support MacOS, iOS, and Unreal Engine in the near future. The company was founded in November 2015, as a spin-out from the University of Tokyo, with offices in Tokyo (Japan) and Worcester, MA (USA).

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