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

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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. It’s interesting that HTC is keeping the name Vive both for VR and Web3 solutions.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

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No grey zones like HTC did in the past. Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. Moss Book 2 has been released on Steam for PCVR headsets Supernatural has implemented single controller mode.

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. See Also: MR Company Nreal Talks Hand Tracking and New Partnerships.

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Epic Games Technical Director: We Want ‘Robo Recall’ To Be The ‘Ultimate Tech Demo’ For Unreal Engine

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“There was a lot in there that people liked, such as the action, the feel, the not too serious tone, it was very over-the-top like a comic book movie. However, you probably shouldn’t expect official support for Robo Recall to come to other VR platforms, like the HTC Vive or PlayStation VR — at least not any time soon.

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OpenBCI: games using brain-interfaces are coming in 3 years

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Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development? Yes, it will be compatible with both Unity and Unreal via the BrainFlow SDK. I’ve always been more of a Ready Player One guy (the book more-so than the movie). A little concentration game I played with my HTC Vive and the Looxid Link addon.

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Frontier VR, MakeVR And More Added To Viveport Subscription

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As of today HTC’s Viveport Subscription service is one month old, meaning those that signed up at launch have used up their free month and are now able to download a new set of experiences (or choose the same ones from last month) for $6.99. New apps are coming to the service, too, including some you should definitely check out.

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AWE USA 2023 Day One: XR, AI, Metaverse, and More

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Neal Stephenson Stephenson’s 1992 book, Snow Crash , introduced the world to the word “metaverse” – though Stephenson said that he wasn’t the first one to imagine the concept. The year before that, he opened the conference with a joke game show called “ Metaverse, Shmetaverse.”

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