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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

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Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And in fact, the prosumer Pico 4 Pro that has been announced in China for consumers won’t be sold in the West. More info (Pico launches Pico 4 Enterprise) More info (Pico 4 Pro not sold outside of China) More info (Pico 4 Enterprise vs Quest Pro vs Vive Focus 3). Bytedance may have sold 46,000 Pico 4 headsets in China.

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Gianluigi Perrone: “To make a VR film you need to know the DNA of VR”

The Ghost Howls

He is Italian like me, but he is living in Beijing, China for 7 years. I met him in China two times, and I still remember the great times we had together in Beijing. For this occasion, I had the pleasure to interview him, and I asked him about VR, cinema and China. It will be available on Amazon soon. Why do you think it?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. China is launching real name identification in games. China is launching real name identification in games.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The leak came from China and talked about the Pico 5 product line going to feature the Pico 5, Pico 5 Pro, and Pico 5 Pro Max (yes, like the iPhones). Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5%

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.28): The debate on Facebook continues, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(Personally, I think that this trend that every country wants to keep its data inside its boundaries in understandable, but it risks also creating a collection of walled gardens, as it is happening with USA vs China). Shadow Creator , one of the best AR/VR manufacturer in China, has teased at AWE Asia its new upcoming AR headset.

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