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

Road to VR

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. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator. Art Reality Studio – IVR 6 (United States).

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Sony’s New 3D Display Doesn’t Require Any Glasses

VRScout

Available for purchase next month, the ELF-SR2 is a 27-inch 4K display that can supposedly deliver immersive 3D content without the need for additional hardware, such as augmented reality (AR) glasses or a VR headset. The device will be available for $5,000 this May in the United States and Canada.

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Madonna Performs Alongside AR Clones During Billboard Music Awards

VRScout

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. . ” In the end, three AR-capable cameras in total were used during the live performance.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

ARPost

Some of the exhibitors who will present new devices and technologies to the public are 8th Wall, Nreal, Unity, Unreal Engine, Pico Interactive, Atheer, Holoptic, Varjo, Cleanbox Technology, LetinAR, and Vuzix. Clément Gosselin from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada; Prof. See Also: The Future of XR’s Remote Events in the New Normal.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.21): Google is building an AR OS, Nike acquires RTFKT, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products. These are the software components that run on the AR devices and are the closest to the hardware.

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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 Right Time to Invest in VR, with MetaVRse’s Alan Smithson and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

We're going to be talking about the investment landscape of virtual and augmented reality as it pertains to investment in startups, companies going public. He's in the eastern part of Canada. And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Alan: Hey, what's up, Alex?

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