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GDC 2017: Epic’s Tim Sweeney on What Unreal Engine VR Means for Non-gaming Industries

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Enhanced reality devices – especially AR — will be ubiquitous in another decade or so, and used in nearly every aspect of our lives and in nearly every industry, from automotive to medical care, education to neuroscience, engineering to shopping.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

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This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Experience of the Year.

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How To Become A VR Designer: Careers in the Metaverse 

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Many product development and design teams in the automotive, engineering, and construction industries are all beginning to experiment with VR design using the latest software and tools. In the US alone, the average salary for a “VR designer” is somewhere in the region of $60,000 to $90,000 per year, depending on experience and skills.

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Which XR Firms Are Leading the Charge for Interoperability? 

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Automotive companies use VR environments to build new vehicles while embedding AR technology into their navigation systems. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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Tim Sweeney Believes VR and ‘Digital Humans’ Will Make Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop’ Irrelevant

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In part one the outspoken founder of Epic Games warned us how dangerous collectivization could be for virtual reality; in part two he gave us our best look yet at how much Oculus is spending to fund VR content and now, in part three, Sweeney is setting his sights on the Internet’s champion himself: Elon Musk.

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The Benefits of Microsoft Mesh and What is Still Limiting the Mixed Reality Industry

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Today it can work with Unity, C++ and C#, but will soon have support for Unreal, Babylon, and React Native. The Exciting Applications of AR and VR in Automotive 4. One of the great benefits of Mesh is the ability to create applications that work across iOS, Android, HoloLens, HP Reverb G2 and Oculus Quest 2.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

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We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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