XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2023

Epic Games: A Background The story of Nreal’s potential rebranding starts back in 2018. In a pre-covid world, the Chinese AR hardware firm became embroiled in a legal dispute with Epic Games, the parent company of the RT3D engine Unreal.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. Emblematic is involved in using MR, AR, and VR tech to create immersive experiences for education and entertainment. Make Real uses VR technology for tools and entertainment. Out-of-Home VR Experience.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

NextVR , a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, have finally launched their app for the Vive via Viveport after being available for several years on other platforms. The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. 6DOF content is also expected this year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The game is due to launch for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in early 2018. Archiact has been crafting immersive VR entertainment since 2013,” said Kurt Busch, Studio Head at Archiact. The game’s ‘Swarm A.I’ With Evasion , the team is using everything we’ve learned and weaving our experience into a truly genre-defining AAA title.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

In an interview with IGN, Skybound Entertainment and Skydance Interactive Presidents of Interactive Dan Murray and Peter Ackermann discussed details of a new series of “immersive narrative storytelling” titles currently in the works, promising new characters and a new storyline.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2018, three co-founders of Refract, Chong Geng Ng, Michael Chng and Eugene Koh, worked on a gaming-related project and encountered a problem statement: How would one bridge the gap between gaming and physical activity? The Series A round brings Refract’s total raised to $9 million.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. Things are changing though.

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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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Upload VR

APRIL 13, 2023

First Contact Entertainment gave me something new to experience in consumer VR with a recent hands-on demo of Firewall Ultra. The Firewall Ultra demo showcased a more detailed vision of fast-paced tactical team battles compared with its 2018 predecessor, Firewall Zero Hour. So you’re still useful even if you’ve gone down.”

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VRWorld

APRIL 4, 2018

Image Credit: Unreal Engine’s YouTube channel. Unreal Engine shows off a stunning Star Wars real-time ray-tracing demo. Nvidia is pushing real-time ray-tracing for its next-generation Volta GPUs, and this Unreal Engine demo was created as a demonstration of what the tech could be capable of. So how is this possible?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

He’s someone who has worked on games early in his career at Lucas Arts and has always been tied to the entertainment industry. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A standalone game, Scraper: First Strike, Episode I, will premiere on all four major VR platforms in late 2018 , in advance of the full Scraper game scheduled for a 2020 release on console and PC. Then it was building the main stream in Unreal and branching off when needed. Marketing is really tough in entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. The red and blue “walls” on opposing sides of the playing field (the 2018 designs resemble street wall graffiti) are actually gigantic tuned AR positioning markers. The other reason is technical.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Launching today, Solaris Offworld Combat is a team-based VR arena shooter from First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind the lauded Firewall: Zero Hour (2018). Firewall Zero Hour | Image courtesy First Contact Entertainment. Image courtesy First Contact Entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. And in general, the world of cinema and of “gaming” will converge always more and in the end, we’ll have movies that will be realized with game-engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. For entertainment, we’re largely using the same techniques of framing and timing from film, but adapted a little bit to make it feel better in VR. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced ‘Turing’, their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. The arrival of real-time ray tracing is the Holy Grail of our industry.”.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

At $199, Oculus Go is a low-cost, all-in-one standalone headset launching in early 2018. Project Santa Cruz developer kits coming in 2018, we go hands-on: Image courtesy Oculus. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for the Rift, and many software and game reveals. Oculus Home also completely rebuilt: The Rift Core 2.0

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2018

Developer : Hidden Path Entertainment. Released : 2018 – Oculus Store link. Synopsis : Epic Games knows Unreal Engine—after all, they created it. Released : 2017 – Oculus Store link. 4 – Archangel: Hellfire Free. Battle Training is live, jump in. Developer : Skydance Interactive. 3 – Rec Room (Social VR).

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. Announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015, the game was developed primarily by Ubisoft's studio in Montreal, and released worldwide on February 14, 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

in 2018 ( according to SuperData ). First of all, it has finally announced the war game that it is being developed by Respawn Entertainment : it is called “Medal of honor: Above and Beyond” and it is a realistic war game set in the WWII times. These numbers are cool, but to put it in context, Fortnite alone has made $2.8B

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

billion before it fell into administration in 2018 after an investor dispute prevented it from raising emergency funding. Co-founder & CEO of #VeeR, A leading VR entertainment company with the mission of bringing cinematic VR content to the mass audience. Location-Based Entertainment content partner (Dark Media and VR).

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

As Matthew Ball writes in the introduction to his book: In 2018, I began writing a series of online essays on the Metaverse, then an obscure and fringe concept. Chapter 6 covers the computational requirements and trade-offs in building the metaverse, while chapter 7 looks at virtual world engines such as Unreal and Unity.

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