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

The Ghost Howls

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. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high.

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Report: ‘Fortnite’ Update Includes Mention of Oculus, Suggesting Future Quest Support

Road to VR

Fortnite doesn’t natively support VR headsets, however an update coming to the popular battle royale shooter today reportedly holds mention of Oculus, possibly pointing to future VR support for the game. Epic added stuff related to Oculus (Quest, Quest 2 & Mobile) in today's update. — HYPEX (@HYPEX) August 30, 2022.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

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This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine.

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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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Regine Gilbert talks about accessibility in XR

The Ghost Howls

You have written a book on the topic “Inclusive Design for a Digital World” What can people find inside it? The book is meant for those who are new to accessibility and looking to learn more about it. Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. The first step is to educate yourself.

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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!

The Ghost Howls

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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Spatial Beats: Fortnite, Nvidia & Snapchat

AR Insider

The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding. VZfit launches on the Oculus app store. The app allows users to workout and experience the world on Oculus Quest 1 and 2. See his books here. Let’s dive in… .