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Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse

Road to VR

Epic Games, the company known for its hit battle royale title Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine, has managed to attract a stunning $1 billion in its quest to establish a metaverse of linked games and services. The post Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse appeared first on Road to VR.

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Optim Turns Unreal Engine Enterprise Projects into VR-capable Apps for Collaboration & Review

Road to VR

Optim is a tool designed to make Unreal Engine more user-friendly for enterprise use-cases like design, visualization, and review. While Unreal Engine is a popular game engine, the tool is also increasingly being used for things like architecture, visualization, training, planning, and even filmmaking.

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Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants

Road to VR

At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. The post Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants appeared first on Road to VR.

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#1359: Landmark Anthropological Field Study of VR with “In the Land of the Unreal” author Lisa Messeri

Voices of VR

Yale Anthropologist Lisa Messeri spent a year doing field work in Los Angeles in 2018 studying the political ecology of the VR community, and will be releasing her landmark book called In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles on Friday, March 8th.

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Watch: ILMxLab’s Star Wars Real-Time Ray-Tracing Demo on Unreal Engine is Stunning

Road to VR

At the Unreal Engine presentation at GDC 2018 today, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri introduced several projects highlighting the scalability and performance of Unreal technology, including a partnership with ILMxLAB and Nvidia. This was the first live demonstration of interactive, real-time, ray-tracing with Unreal Engine.

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My experience at the Immersive Architecture

The Ghost Howls

This weekend I’ve attended the Immersive Architecture in Venice. The location of the Immersive Architecture is fantastic. What Immersive Architecture does in a wonderful way is to let you grow your network. Immersive Architecture is all about doing networking while having fun. So, has it been interesting?

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Unreal Engine Creators can Visualise Their 3D Creations Using Looking Glass Factory’s Holographic Display’s

Peter Graham

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 new feature can be used for a range of industries not just videogames, such as automotive, architecture, mapping/GIS and medical imaging. ″, 15.6″,

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