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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. The twisted puzzle adventure game beat out more recognizable titles including ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission , Vacation Simulator , and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. It’s often used in industry for advanced training simulations.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

Physically-based audio is a simulation of virtual sounds in a virtual environment, which includes both directional audio and audio interactions with scene geometry and materials. Traditionally these simulations have been too resource-intensive to be able to do quickly and accurately enough for real-time gaming. Photo courtesy NVIDIA.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Having worked on titles ranging from Unreal in 1998 to the Gears of War series more recently, Shane is an Epic Games vet, but this is his first VR project. Ghost Paint includes a very realistic airbrush simulation as well, which is no surprise given Shane’s background. “I

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation. Launched in 2017, the Nickelodeon Entertainment Lab that created SlimeZone focuses on long-range research and development of emerging technologies.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. America’s largest employer recently spent $2.7B

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. Hair simulations! And then I’m building a haircutting simulator. That’s a tough one!

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

Founded in 2017, Vrgineers offers virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) pilot training systems for businesses and the military. Simulators made by Vrgineers range from portable trainers for military missions to classroom simulators that adjust to support all major platforms. A Little Bit About Vrgineers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Its partners are still unnamed, but the company and its first partner plan to make an announcement sometime in 2017, Future Group cofounder Jens Petter Hoili said in an interview with GamesBeat. “We Or you could have game show contestants drive in a motion simulator for kart racing and then drive through a virtual environment.

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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. It enables a new level of presence by bringing physically realistic visuals, sound, touch interactions, and simulated environments to virtual reality.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Epic Games is using the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to give an advanced preview of the latest additions to its Unreal Engine VR Editor, which allows creatives to build worlds in a virtual reality environment using the full capabilities of the editor toolset combined with interaction models designed specifically for VR world building.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

The other end of the spectrum is pure audio production, which can do volumetric audio that is real-time and interactive by using audio objects in a simulated 3D space. But Riggs says that there’s a limited amount of depth information that can be captured and transmitted with this type of passive and non-volumetric ambisonic recording.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

which is planned in late 2017, and major feature for that update is addition of support for DX12 multi-GPU. Although CryEngine isn’t quite as popular as Unity or Unreal Engine among developers, there are a few high profile releases coming up in the next months powered by Crytek’s engine, and we are looking forward to see them in action.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Collectively, these people have shipped Island 359 , Job Simulator , and Fantastic Contraption , some of the most well-known titles out today. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

NB: Raw Data started when we wanted to switch to Unreal Engine. We were making Zombies in Holodeck when Unreal first came out. But it started off as just us tinkering around in Unreal — seeing what was fun and trying out some of our mechanics and systems. So that’s the #1 thing to simulate in a VR video-game.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

No wait, is 2017… or maybe 2018, ah no, VR is dead… in 2019 there is the Quest, so VR will be mainstream! The new Unreal Engine 5 lets you import graphical assets of whatever quality and they get downgraded on the fly on the target platform, depending on its horsepower. Will all of this happen for sure?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. We are looking at simulation of sound, and how sound changes when things are added or taken away, and all those things. We did this with Hololens in 2017, I think. We are looking at sound.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. We are looking at simulation of sound, and how sound changes when things are added or taken away, and all those things. We did this with Hololens in 2017, I think. We are looking at sound.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. We are looking at simulation of sound, and how sound changes when things are added or taken away, and all those things. We did this with Hololens in 2017, I think. We are looking at sound.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Owlchemy Labs , creator of popular VR titles like Job Simulator, and the Rick and Morty Simulator for Adult Swim, raised $5M. FOR VR GAME IN 2017. Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” MOVIN’ $10.3M TO BITMOVIN’S SERIES A.

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