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Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed

Road to VR

Epic Games today revealed a PS5 tech demo built with Unreal Engine 5, the next-gen version of the company’s game engine. With new features for advanced lighting and unprecedented geometric detail, Unreal Engine 5 hopes to enable a generational leap in real-time graphics. While UE 4.25 Image courtesy Epic Games.

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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

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Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. In 2021 the program awarded grants to 31 XR projects. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator.

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Unreal Engine 5: A Tutorial for VR Designers 

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Unreal Engine, one of the leading creation tools in the digital development market, has its own selection of valuable VR modes and technologies specifically suited to virtual reality. The latest version of Unreal Engine, UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) shipped in April 2022 this year, after an initial period of early access in 2021.

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This VR Tool Knows What You’re Thinking Before You Do

VRScout

Beyond the obvious use-cases of gaming, socialVR, workforce training, and education, VR can also be used to collect deep marketing data in new and exicting ways. Once captured and recorded by Claria, all of the biometric data can be easily played back, fast-forwarded, and stopped so you can take a more detailed look.

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HTC Launches Aftermarket Face & Eye-trackers for Vive Focus 3

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Developers will be also able to implement both facial and eye-tracking in Vive’s Wave SDK and soon via OpenXR, with integration available in Unity, Unreal Engine, and Native. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC.

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Top 5 AR SDKs for Building Augmented Reality Mobile Apps?

ARPost

As per Statista research , the global AR, VR, and MR market already surpassed $27 billion in 2021, and it is going to rise exponentially hereafter. GPS can be utilized to overlay data from nearby locations. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. For example, to find a nearby location, restaurant, or object.

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New Quest Rendering Tech Promises Massive Gains in App Performance

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At Connect 2021 last week, Meta revealed a new Quest rendering technology called Application Spacewarp which it says can increase the performance of Quest apps by a whopping 70%. Developers also have full control over the key data the goes into Application Spacewarp: depth-buffers and motion vectors. Application Spacewarp Availability.

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