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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

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If we exclude the 3D memory thing, all the rest are use cases that we can date to 2016 maybe. 2016 or 2023? Among the examples, I’ve said Disney… and in fact, Disney has been the first announced content partner. The headset is strongly focused on 2D media consumption: watching movies, series, and sports shows.

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Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

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Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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Create A Digital Human In Less Than An Hour With Epic Games’ MetaHuman Creator

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Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. Back in 2016, we saw our first look at Epic Games’ game-chaning digital human technology with its Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice preview at the Game Developers Conference. There’s no avoiding it, digital humans are here to stay.

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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

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Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Riccitiello said in a press event and in our interview that Unity-based games were installed more than 16 billion times in 2016, up 31 percent from 2015.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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Photogrammetry Showcase ‘Realities’ Update Brings New Content, Touch Support, and Improved Visuals

Road to VR

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a famous example of using the technique in Unreal Engine 3 (see The Astronauts’ blog for a detailed explanation), and Realities.io took a photo-realistic approach to create their free SteamVR product Realities using Unreal Engine 4, which launched alongside the HTC Vive in April 2016.

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5 Unreal Assets for Your Next Orion VR Project

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With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! It’s an incredible example of how you can optimize for 90-frames-per-second VR, and the whole project is free for download, including its content library.

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