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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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#1359: Landmark Anthropological Field Study of VR with “In the Land of the Unreal” author Lisa Messeri

Voices of VR

Yale Anthropologist Lisa Messeri spent a year doing field work in Los Angeles in 2018 studying the political ecology of the VR community, and will be releasing her landmark book called In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles on Friday, March 8th.

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Extended Reality In Education: Is it the Future of Instruction?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Companies such as Gamooz gamify reading books for children, significantly boosting engagement levels with 2D pop-up content, and offering more publishers and authors access to the technology for their books. This costs them much less than more widely-used gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine. Reduced Educational Costs.

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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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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

AR Insider

The virtual collaboration product uses 3D visualization tools to enable pharma R&D between computational chemists and structural biologists. The tool can help power more realistic body movements and facial animations. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine. See his books here.

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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. More info.

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Improbable Raises Over $500 Million To Create The Tools That Will Build The Metaverse

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Creating a future where the technology imagined in books like Ready Player One and movies like The Matrix actually exists is going to take a lot more than solid virtual reality headsets. It’s also going to require insane computing horsepower and new methodologies for the creation and exploration of computer generated worlds.

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