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How Epic Games’ Lawsuit Against Apple Could Impact The Future Of VR/AR

VRScout

Apple threatens to withhold support for ARKit and upcoming VR technology on Unreal Engine. For those who may be out of the loop, last week Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Apple after the company pulled their megapopular multiplayer game Fortnite from the iOS App Store. We are asking the court to stop this retaliation.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games has finally released the latest iteration of its popular game engine: Unreal Engine 5. This means that while great, Unreal Engine 5 is not disruptive for us VR users and developers, yet. Image by Apple). Apple WWDC is back in June. Top news of the week. More info.

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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

The Ghost Howls

I just watched the full keynote of Apple at WWDC , where the company in Cupertino announced the Apple VisionPro headset. UX : Can Apple make XR usable? Use cases : Can Apple make XR useful? Partnership : Who’s onboard with Apple in this journey? Terms : Will Apple invent new words to define XR?

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The XR Week Peek (2024.1.1): Quest is selling well for the holidays, UEVR injector released, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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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

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. Since the rumors about the upcoming Apple headset were not enough, the famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thought well to release rumors about the next-generation headset. Other relevant news. Image from the web). Anyway, we’ll see… these are all speculations.

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This Week In XR: Epic’s Unreal Metaverse, New Apple AR Glass Rumors, Spatial Goes Free

Charlie Fink

You, too, can host a million person party thanks to Epic Games Unreal Engine. Apple rumors? Yes, please!

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