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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. When you change the way you see the world, you change the world you see, and this is what has happened with the HoloLens,” said Satya Nadella as he kicked off the much-anticipated launch, over 3 years after the device was first launched in 2016.

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

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Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. 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. The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016.

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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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Khronos’ OpenXR 1.0 Specification Establishes Unifying XR Ecosystem

Peter Graham

To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9 Today, the consortium has announced the launch of the 1.0

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Game On! The Top 10 Video Game Trends In 2024

Bernard Marr

The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world. Gaming On-Demand Google's Stadia streaming gaming service may not exist in 2023 - it proved to be a great idea, backed by solid technology, that just didn't catch on with consumers.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC 2017

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But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. They have some impressive-sounding NPC technology that will be showcased a bit, but there likely will not be new game announcements or flashy demos that we haven’t heard about or played already. What to Expect from Microsoft. Robo Recall.