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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. The projects range widely from games to simulation to education and more. HumanCodeable – Advanced VR Framework.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

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Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. More info Can Monster Hunter be Niantic’s second hit game? After the huge popularity of Pokemon Go, Niantic never managed to replicate the same success with another game.

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Leading VR Engine Unity Will Start Charging Developers Per Install

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Effective from January 1, 2024, Unity confirms any games running the Unity Engine - comprised of Unity Editor and Unity Runtime - will incur this new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and lifetime installs. depending on how far over the threshold the game is, while Enterprise users go from $0.125 - $0.01.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

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Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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Kayak VR: Mirage Gets Festive With Limited Time Christmas Update

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Kayak VR: Mirage gives Australia a Christmas makeover on PC VR and PSVR 2. In our enthusiasm to make the game better, we spread ourselves thin trying to (unsuccessfully, for now) port the game to Unreal Engine 5, work on your most requested features from the roadmap and a new environment.

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HTC VIVE Debuts Mars CamTrack at SIGGRAPH 2022

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VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. With the solution, users can leverage the following tools: FreeD plug-and-play capabilities for Epic GamesUnreal Engine.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

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95% of the content is about the vision of the future “metaverse” in which we all are always in XR , we work, we connect with other people physically distant away, we attend events, we play multiplayer games, etc… all in XR. Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. I mean, we all already knew this, Mark.