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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. It’s going to be very interesting and very busy… I hope to meet you in Laval!

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Book Review: The Metaverse, and How It Will Revolutionize Everything, by Matthew Ball

Ryan Schultz

I am on holidays this week, and today I decided to set aside a couple of days to read through—and write a review of—a recently published book by the venture capitalist Matthew Ball, author of the Metaverse Primer and lead creator of the Ball Metaverse Index (whom I have written about before on this blog ).

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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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Hands-on XCOM Labs streaming… and more from AWE!

The Ghost Howls

A few friends of mine suggested I visit the booth of XCOM Labs , so I booked a meeting to try their solution in one of their private rooms. It exploits the graphical power of Unreal, streamed with cloud rendering so it can run on all platforms via the browser. XCOM Labs.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But the cool stuff is that it doesn’t perform the classical cloud rendering with “video streaming”, but it performs “polygon streaming”, sending geometrical data that is much more optimized, for a better final result Another startup called Wonder Interactives wants to create a framework to let you play Unreal Engine 4 games on the web.

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Generative AI and Virtual Worlds

Building the Metaverse

We took a look at her product and the supporting technologies like Sloyd, Polyhive and Unreal Engine 5. We also show off some amazing demos of using Zach’s voice synthesis technology inside a flight simulator. We also talk about the nature of art, and the evolving creator economy around AI.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Collectively, these people have shipped Island 359 , Job Simulator , and Fantastic Contraption , some of the most well-known titles out today. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session.

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