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

AUGUST 30, 2022

Still, Epic Games has been a big proponent of VR since the launch the original Oculus Rift in 2016, having pioneered VR support for its Unreal Engine whilst putting out one of the slickest VR arcade shooters to this day, Robo Recall (2016).

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Throughout the past year, we’ve loved working in virtual reality — from in – house projects to our work with Google Daydream for IO 2016. As far as production software, we were torn between our familiarity with Unity and the rendering potential of Unreal. VR motion controllers. Defining Goals.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. The Home Virtual Reality experience brings that opportunity even closer, in a very authentic and accessible way. Rewind collaborated with the BBC Science, BBC Learning and BBC Digital Storytelling to create the cinematic and fully interactive 15-minute VR experience.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

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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VRScout

JULY 5, 2016

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

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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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VRScout

MAY 22, 2017

Back on February 23, 2016, GMA anchor, Amy Robach did a live 360° broadcast from the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, bringing viewers on a spectacular safari during The Great Migration. WATCH: UNREAL! At one point, the broadcast had well over 1/2 a million viewers participating live through GMA’s Facebook page.

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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. How an indie #LeapMotion project became part of #UE4: [link] Click To Tweet Leap Motion VR support directly integrated in Unreal Engine. The future of #VR is mobile.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

As virtual reality began to heat up, it became clear that there were major opportunities for novel input in the sector, and over time Leap Motion has pivoted its focus from desktop to VR, offering a bespoke mount to allow developers to attach the device to VR headsets for hand-tracking in VR experiences. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

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! Whimsical fall leaves, melancholy rain, spooky fog – weather can be a powerful way to set the tone for your virtual world (or give your users Storm-like superpowers).

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s clear optimizing the lush visuals for Quest will be a challenge, although who better to work with Unreal Engine than the company that created it? As a 2017 title, it still hold up today, something we can’t say about all games from the first consumer wave of game design. That’s where Moss comes in. Superhot VR.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

Featured image: President Barack Obama watching a virtual reality film captured during his trip to Yosemite National Park in 2016. Luckily, makers of Virtual Reality have created amazing pieces for us to watch while buried in our big blanket/sack hybrids. Going outside in winter can be…well, terrifying.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. West and Ebrahami demonstrated EditorVR last month at the company’s Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles. of their game development engine.

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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. Cyan, Inc., About Obduction: Obduction is a sci-fi adventure puzzler from Cyan, Inc.,

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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. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Parisi is considered by many to be one of the early pioneers of VR thanks to his work on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the internet, with Mark Pesce back in 1994.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Today, it was confirmed that, along with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, Unity developers can build for Daydream, Google’s new platform for Android VR development, and they can do it right now. Initially, Unity support for Daydream will be available via a plugin, with native support arriving some time in the Summer.

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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 OpenXR specification.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 17, 2017

A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) reality I hold in my hands what looks and feels like a wand from a Harry Potter film. We talk about VR and AR as their own separate industries, but they are in fact simply screens into a virtual world,” says Full Sail program director Rob Catto. Read more here.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

It’s available as a plug-in for development engines like Unity and Unreal. It’s been a while since the company has demoed its tech, but you can see (or, more accurately, hear) the state it was in a year ago at CES 2016 below. Impulsonic had previously signed up to Razer’s open virtual reality ecosystem, OSVR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Speaking of Battlefront , the company is just about to release the PSVR exclusive Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission , giving players the first glimpse of Battlefront’s (and EA’s) take on virtual reality. — Johan Andersson (@repi) May 17, 2016. pic.twitter.com/zIhEZJD2qC.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. Despite this, Björk returns to the album via virtual reality collaborations with well-regarded developers and visual artists traveling the globe as Björk Digital.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th, Oculus Connect returns once again and, as before, promises to become a Mecca for virtual reality developers around the world. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers?

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Manus VR have already announced that their first developer kit edition gloves will ship in Q3 2016 and will set you back $250. The post Manus VR’s Gloves in Action Using Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking for Hands and Arms appeared first on Road to VR.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Alongside platforms like Google VR and Unreal Engine, it gives developers a springboard into creating immersive experiences, which many believe will be the future of how we will interact with many services — both leisurely and utilitarian ones — in the future. Read more here.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. We’re still waiting for an Unreal Tournament or Gears of War-caliber game from Tim Sweeney and company.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

So lets recap all that came to our knowledge today: VRWorks is a comprehensive suite of APIs, libraries, and engines that enable application and headset developers to create amazing virtual reality experiences. In 2016, NVIDIA announced Audio API as a part of VRworks like this: “Audio can have a huge impact on presence in VR.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. And I was playing Doom 2016 and was just like clicking the trigger, and then a half second later it was firing a shot. But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia. There were so many problems with it.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. ” We spoke with Oculus’ Head of Content Jason Rubin at Gamescom 2016, and he maintains that Oculus’ penchant for exclusive content “is the only way to viably jumpstart the market.”

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

If you take a look at programs that truly utilize graphics processing, they are really decades-old apps: Photoshop( 1987 ), Unreal Engine (1999), 3Dmax ( 1988 ), Blender ( 2002 ) and others. Making quality 3D software takes time, like decades’ worth of time. I’m all in ( and may God have mercy on my soul and my wallet ).

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

SDK, this is an exciting time for virtual reality. How about Unreal Engine? Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 Updated April 5, 2016). With the recent release of the Oculus Rift CV1 and 1.3 Here’s what you need to know to start playing and building with the consumer edition. But not today!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

It uses eye tracking in various fields and has released a product for Virtual Reality called aGlass. The aGlass consists in two circular add-ons that you insert on the lens of your headsets, and then after having attached some USB connectors here and there, offers you awesome eye tracking for your virtual reality.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Toward the end of their on-stage demo at Unite 2016 on Tuesday, Unity Labs’ Amir Ebrahimi and Timoni West debuted this addition to the platform, which is due to release before the end of the year. Dourin thinks it will give them a leg up over the competition: Unreal Engine 4’s own in-VR editor.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

But there are many other challenges with balancing interactivity and narrative that Apelab CEO & Sequenced producer Emilie Joly explained to me at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference in April. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. ” Here’s a trailer for Sequenced. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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