Upload VR

APRIL 9, 2024

We've known for years that Ninja Theory is developing a sequel to its third-person action-adventure game, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice , which received a PC VR Edition back in 2018. It's not surprising news from Ninja Theory, who were acquired by Xbox Game Studios shortly before the VR Edition's launch.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Today, Looking Glass Factory has announced that its displays will now support those working in Unreal Engine (UE4), Epic Games’ popular videogame development software. The Unreal Engine plugin feature list is as follows: Real-time 3D view of content in Unreal’s Game View. One-build deployment for 8.9″,

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Upload VR

MARCH 12, 2024

Developed by Stonebrick Studios, cyubeVR is an open-world procedurally generated sandbox that launched in 2018 on Steam Early Access. You can watch gameplay below: After the 57th update to the Steam version, Stonebrick says the PSVR 2 version uses 8K textures through Unreal Engine and eye-tracking support for foveated rendering.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from the third day of our GDC 2018 coverage. Qualcomm’s latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces ‘Positional Timewarp’, reveals new Oculus Go details, and Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing demo.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

Thanks in large part to the growing demand for social and mobile gaming, in-game advertising is on a monumental rise. Using the companies custom Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, game developers can easily drag-and-drop ad-ready billboards, posters, and signs into everything from simple 2D games to complex VR and AR experiences.

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VRScout

MAY 12, 2019

Brought to life using a combination of Unreal Engine and volumetric capture, these augmented holograms would appear sporadically throughout the performance, disappearing into puffs of smoke around the original Madonna seemingly at random. Image Credit: UMG. Image Credit: UMG.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Plenty of high-profile industry pros will also be available too as mentors.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 14, 2018

Launched today at SIGGRAPH 2018 , StarVR One is a one-of-its-kind VR head mounted display that provides nearly 100-percent human viewing angle. StarVR’s native Unreal plugin gives developers quicker access to premier hardware features, enabling them to manifest their vision of creativity, form and function, and to create business value.”

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

XRDC has eight tracks – Games, Entertainment, Healthcare, Brand Experience, Enterprise, Training, Safety, as well as Partners. XR Games and Entertainment. Most of us first encounter XR technology through immersive games and media. The Games track focuses on how developers use XR technology to change the way that we game.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Space Junkies , the upcoming Unreal Tournament -style VR shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, is headed to all major VR platforms starting March 26th. If that tickles your latent Unreal itch, check out a full match in closed beta to see just what’s in store.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2023

The move follows a long-standing legal dispute with Epic Games, who took Nreal to court over the use of similarly titled services. Nreal Vs. Epic Games: A Background The story of Nreal’s potential rebranding starts back in 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

This kind of feedback can be interesting for instance during action games: when you are shot, you can get vibrations in the exact point of your body where you have been shot… and if you just got headshot, well, then you have to feel something on your head. Space Junkies is a great VR action game. Space Junkies is like that.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2019

Red Matter (2018), the sci-fi puzzle-adventure from Vertical Robot , is slated to launch on Oculus Quest on August 15th. The game has since been released on Steam with support for Rift, Vive, Index and Windows VR headsets. In the meantime, check out why we gave Red Matter a solid [8.3/10]

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

” It has taken place in LA in October, 9-10th 2018 and has been attended by various believers, innovators, developers and journalists. — The Digital Acid (@thedigitalacid) October 11, 2018. Yes, various games have been announced, but this is the true innovation proposed by the Florida company. Grordbort’s Invaders.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Coming off of several impressive early VR experiences, the pivot toward a full fledged game was an exciting new path for the studio. At the time the studio expected to launch the game in 2016. While the Smash Bros-esque game is the fundamental core of [Bebylon], we always envisioned a world that you could immerse yourself in.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Ivon, the CEO of Labrodex , an indie game studio that is working an interesting action VR game called Scraper: First Strike. I talked with him about the game and the hurdles of being an indie VR developer. We didn’t want to create just VR game, but a new IP. Each game will have 5 Episodes, or 15 in total.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I loved the news of this launch because the first alpha of Flipside was launched in 2018 for PCVR. They took five years to arrive at the first full version… this is a big sign of commitment The cyberpunk game adventure Low Fi is launching this year for PSVR 2. I’m pretty excited about that!

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2018

Boss Key Productions, the North Carolina-based developer behind the unfortunately ill-received first-person shooters LawBreakers (2017) and Radical Heights (2018) , is out of business. Bleszinski showed off two VR game concepts, replete with concept art and mention of some key game mechanics. Image courtesy Cliff Bleszinski.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Space Junkies (2019), the multiplayer sci-fi arena shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, has reached a pretty significant impasse; the studio is pulling its previously planned support for the flatscreen version of the game , and issuing its final update on PSVR and PC VR headsets.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At HaptX, our team is celebrating a milestone-filled 2018. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Our team took over the Ready Player One livestream on Twitch at the 2018 South by Southwest Conference. Our 2019 game plan.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2020

Using SkyReal, the company is able to take the CAD design of the product and transform it on the fly in a multiplayer solution inside Unreal Engine. In 2018, the technology was spun off from Airbus to create SkyReal and Go to market. Games vs Enterprise. Working for Games, is creating fun and beautiful experience.

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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. As shown in the announcement trailer, the game features ‘bullet hell’ action combined with destructible environments. The game’s ‘Swarm A.I’ Archiact has been crafting immersive VR entertainment since 2013,” said Kurt Busch, Studio Head at Archiact.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

New The Walking Dead games were revealed, Bethesda clarifies VR platform exclusivity stance, we go hands-on with Ace Combat 7, and try out DisplayLink’s XR wireless solution for the HTC Vive. Multiple The Walking Dead VR Games in Development: Image courtesy AMC.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Revealed just this week, Beat Saber (2018) is officially coming to Oculus Quest, so you’ll finally be able to slash those flying rhythm blocks in the forest, in a large-sized public restroom, or on the Moon. Oculus probably shelled out beaucoup bucks for Epic Games to create this gem of a shooter. Robo Recall. Shadow Point.

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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. Going Beyond Gaming. There’s no better example of this than the revolutionary entertainment experience, Fortnite.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Epic Games’ Fortnite is steadily moving from ‘just’ a massively popular battle royale game to a cultural touchstone for hundreds of millions of players. And it was all surprisingly lifelike for something rendered in the Unreal Engine, led by a motion captured performance of Marshmello behind the turntable.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. VR Game of the Year. VR Game of the Year went to A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace and ARTE France. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them.

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Upload VR

APRIL 13, 2023

First Contact says the game uses Sony’s eye-tracking to tell whether your eyes are closed, so if you’re careful you can keep yourself from being temporarily blinded by the searing light beam of a bright flashlight cutting across a dark room. I last played Zero Hour with Jagneaux on the original PSVR when he was UploadVR’s Games Editor.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 5, 2020

Digital Catapult and Arts Council England launched CreativeXR back in 2018 to provide funds, tools and other assistance for those working on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) projects. The programme has proven to be a success , returning for the third year with new contributors. .

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VRScout

AUGUST 28, 2018

Partnering with Seattle Public Schools, specifically Ballard High School and Franklin High School, Oculus hopes to kick off the 2018-2019 school year right with a VR creation and learning program designed to prove the technologies relevance in the classroom. Image Credit: Immersive VR Education / Oculus / Filament Games.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The FTC investigation noted how Zuckerberg said it was crucial to be completely ubiquitous in killer [VR] apps during its 2018 acquisition of Occulus. He explained how Meta focuses on gaming, social interaction productivity, and other use cases. The CEO also noted how Meta is not targeting the production of VR fitness applications.

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