Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. John Lewis is an Environmental Artist for Obsidian Entertainment , developers behind games such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art. GET YOURSELF A RIFT WITH THIS SWEET SUMMER DEAL. …and just a few more… FUNDING IN Q2 RESULTS ARE IN. GO SKYDIVING SAFELY… AND INDOORS!

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Image by Respawn Entertainment). We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

During that time, the students hone their coding skills (focusing mainly in C Sharp and C++) and get comfortable using engines such as Unity and Unreal. There’s urban simulation, military, medical, flight, disaster relief, and then gaming and other entertainment. But that’s only the beginning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

Also, in Red Matter 1, I was pretty sure that wherever I could go, there was no danger for me, while in Red Matter 2, I started being alert to drones that may kill me, and this created additional tension that made the game more entertaining. But the problem is that the combat is super frustrating. Its gameplay was also less frustrating.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2019

The company has worked hard to ultra-optimize everything for the Quest, even creating a custom version of Unreal Engine to offer better lighting! The graphics will surprise you, the story will conquer you and the enigmas will entertain you. One of the weird moment of the game, when everything is covered in red matter.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

There was a demonstration of how you could use the headset to help you work and communicate with others, but there could have been more focus on this, instead of on the entertainment functions. Apple also presented the Vision Pro as a productivity tool, rather than simply entertainment hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Maybe they will work with a phone, exploiting the new Qualcomm reference designs. This could also be a nice testbed for the new Libra cryptocurrency created by Facebook; New info on the AAA VR game that Respawn Entertainment is making for Oculus and that has been teased months ago (this is actually the only confirmed news).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. HADO” is a name we use either standalone to refer to our flagship and most popular team sports game , but it also refers to a genre of games where an energy ball is released by the player through gestures.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

These experiences may be of whatever sector: entertainment, transportation, health, arts and science, education … every sector can create a special application, and can be local to one spot or can span on a large destination, even the whole world. We can see them as running at different layers, divided by their sector of reference.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The CEO of Enklu often refers to it as “Google Docs for AR” because of the ease of collaboration and file-sharing.” . You go there to play, start creating stuff, and at the same time be sharing that with whoever’s in the space and get real-time feedback on experiences. Image Credit: Enklu. “At Image Credit: Enklu. Just check their calendar.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Inevitably, given the cost of both consumer headsets, most people can only realistically entertain the prospect of buying one. The Oculus Platform patch is still only working for Unreal Engine games, there are quite a lot of Unity Engine games that need a different patch. Do you think those concerns hold up with reference to Revive ?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. You've done all sorts of things. Alan: Indeed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. You've done all sorts of things. Alan: Indeed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. You've done all sorts of things. Alan: Indeed.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

Using the HTC Vive and a wall of silver rectangles, this installation was all about playing with points of reference and altering how your brain processes its surroundings. Utilizing Unreal Engine, the construction of the virtual island was actually based on real satellite data and travel journals catalogued by anonymous users on Reddit.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

On a purely technical standpoint, the two headsets are very similar , since they are both based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 reference design. On Unreal Engine, the Wave SDK for the Vive Focus has lots of issues. Nolan Bushnell really believes that Virtual Reality is the next big thing in out-of-home entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we Streaming your gameplay to educate and entertain has become a large industry of its own. The only way for that to happen is if most of the experience revolves around the core entertainment value.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (e3 2017) will officially begin on Tuesday, June 13th, and run until Thursday, June 15th, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. What we know: in the past year Intel has begun dipping its toes into the HMD space through its Project Alloy reference design. Epic (Robo Recall, Unreal Engine).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. That guy is doing free marketing for me,” said Stan referring to Zuck, and this was one of my highlights of the week. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience. News worth a mention. Image by Sony).

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 8, 2023

This could be a factory, retail premises, or a sports or entertainment facility such as a theme park or sports stadium. Since then, game developers, using tools like Unity and Unreal Engine, have pushed the boundaries when it comes to creating realistic, simulated worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

First of all, it has finally announced the war game that it is being developed by Respawn Entertainment : it is called “Medal of honor: Above and Beyond” and it is a realistic war game set in the WWII times. We all bet that Oculus would have talked about content in this OC6, and we were right! Medal of honor: Above and Beyond.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it. We see entertainment, therapy, home improvement, tourism, meditation, design and many other applications. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR headset is a good reference design. Others did this work themselves.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. We see entertainment, therapy, home improvement, tourism, meditation, design and many other applications. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR goggle is a good reference design. Others did this work themselves.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Chapter 6 covers the computational requirements and trade-offs in building the metaverse, while chapter 7 looks at virtual world engines such as Unreal and Unity. As I tell my students when doing information literacy training, footnotes are useful to find what sources the author refers to, so you can look them up yourself.

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