Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Neoglyphic Entertainment, a storytelling company built for the digital age, has released a comprehensive feature updates to its award-winning, cross-platform, real-time fur and fiber technology, NeoFur. NeoFur’s licensing options are aimed at providing access to the technology for individuals, indie developers and AAA studios.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Epic Games’ Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google’s I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what’s more is that it’s available right now.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2017

SEE ALSO Watch Epic Games' Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal's VR Editor. Thanks to higher-performance Intel Kaby Lake CPUs and AMD Radeon Pro 570, 575 and 580 GPUs, combined with a VR-optimised display pipeline in the Metal 2 graphics API, Apple users can now enjoy this creative technology natively on the Mac.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Back in 2016, NVIDIA offered an approachable explanation of LMS. LMS also provides a more even distribution of pixel sampling between the initially rendered image and what ends up being seen through the lens. This week, Oculus announced the addition of LMS to their PC SDK 1.19. With 92.2% of Rift users using NVIDIA GPUs (65.8%

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. You can check out a short behind the scenes below: Trying the experience for himself, astronaut Tim Peake reflects: “Exploring space is something that motivates a lot of young people to enter careers in science and technology.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2018

million program, which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, isn’t the first VR experience to focus on surviving an active shooter situation.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Nvidia RTX.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2016

Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encourage content creation. Image courtesy Scapeliving.com.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. Technology is like a flash in the darkness – long nights building towards an instant when suddenly everything is different. .” The future of #VR is mobile. Playing with blocks.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

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. Tagged with: blackbird , chevrolet , epic , GDC , the mill , Unreal engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

BMW unveiled the new technology at the Web Summit in Lisbon earlier in November, leading to a location-independent driving experience with the company’s M2 coupe. ” Explaining further, he said, “[That’s] what made us the first automaker to look into the gaming industry – the experts of virtual worlds – back in 2016.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Evasion aims to deliver several cutting-edge technologies, including ‘next gen’ full-body avatars powered by IKinema’s inverse kinematics animation system , “best in-class physics and destruction” enhanced for Intel Core i7 and i9 processors, and high-quality visuals and 3D spatial audio powered by Unreal Engine 4. The game’s ‘Swarm A.I’

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. The technology is generally considered a necessary ‘next step’ for VR headsets.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Raw Data ’s first-person combat is some of the most impressive VR action we’ve seen to date , and recently made a comfortable transition to Oculus Touch after its debut on the Vive in July 2016; hopefully the move to PSVR will be similarly successful. Photo courtesy Survios. Photo courtesy Survios.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? What is a game engine?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? What is a game engine?

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2016

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. Narrated by Murray himself, #FeelWimbledon was created by UK virtual reality studio, Hammerhead VR.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 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. Let’s be honest, 2016 seems like a very long time ago now.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Reviews have raved that Obduction’s jaw-dropping vistas, breathtaking sounds and masterfully integrated puzzles will blow your mind in virtual reality, calling it the most rewarding experience of 2016. It’s been Cyan's tradition to make the most immersive worlds possible by pushing the boundaries of advanced graphics technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. “We think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite. Of course, a big piece of Unity’s VR puzzle is its Editor VR , which also got a date today.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? What is a game engine?

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

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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VRWorld

MAY 2, 2022

In operation since 2016, the digital magazine caters to esports enthusiasts, providing them with the latest news and updates in the online gaming sector, as well as guides to the most popular games. The Damage Media Group just revealed that is has acquired EsportsHeadlines.com.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Digital lightfields are a cutting-edge technology that can render photorealistic VR scenes, and Otoy has been a pioneer of the rendering and compression techniques to deal with the massive amounts of data required to create them. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski indeed believes in the technology. Unfortunately this costs a lot of money,” he said at the conference.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Unity is the most popular game engine for mobile game development, so it makes sense that the company would be on board from the beginning of Google’s new push into the immersive technology space.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

This year’s conference, held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center , aims to gather together the worlds VR developers to share the latest technologies and techniques with them. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. It’s a crazy time to be alive.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

GPU Technology Conference 2017 is premier, NVIDIA just announced first set of VR news coming from the conference. Key components of VRWorks are being adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 to provide developers an easy path to taking advantage of the SDK in their games and applications.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

PanguVR works with two amazing technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence , so I was really interested in talking with him. The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Launched last year , it lets developers design and build massively detailed environments by using distributed cloud computing infrastructure, incorporating machine learning technology and other advances. Read more here. I am a little disappointed I won’t make it to my 5 year Oculus anniversary — only 2.5 months away!

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

That fabulously weird genius known as Björk continues her lifetime exploration of technology, art, and music with Björk Digital. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss. THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR. Internet traffic. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. The sound technology combined with the movements of our hands and heads made our conversation, even between avatars represented as the simplest of shapes floating in space, feel remarkably like the real thing.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course he won’t stay 24h a day in VR for 30 days , this would be potentially too extreme for his health at this point of the technology (even if he actually told me that he would really love to stay for a month completely in VR). This picture alone is able to show how this project is able to mix art with technology.

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