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Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed

Road to VR

Epic Games today revealed a PS5 tech demo built with Unreal Engine 5, the next-gen version of the company’s game engine. With new features for advanced lighting and unprecedented geometric detail, Unreal Engine 5 hopes to enable a generational leap in real-time graphics. While UE 4.25 Image courtesy Epic Games.

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Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

Road to VR

Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. The game is currently in closed beta.

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Create A Digital Human In Less Than An Hour With Epic Games’ MetaHuman Creator

VRScout

Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. MetaHuman Creators isn’t available just yet, but Epic Games did give us a sneak-peek at its powerful tool, showcasing a line of hyper-realistic digital humans ready for use in gaming, film, socialVR, fashion, retail, and so much more.

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XR Talks: Augmenting Hollywood

AR Insider

The latest augmentation that came to our attention isn’t a new technology but one that isn’t often associated with AR: the growing trend of LED walls in film production. And there’s no better example of this trend than Industrial Light & Magic’s Stagecraft technology. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine.

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Sony Establishes Virtual Production Collaboration Centre

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. VP solutions look to replace or enhance pre-existing film production operations such as green screens and in-vehicle backdrops. Unreal Engine] is a beast which is inherently a game engine, not a film production tool.

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How accurate is 'The Northman' to Viking history? Well, it’s a Robert Eggers film.

Mashable VR

Although his films blur the line between reality and magic, Eggers has become known for his intense attention to historic detail with films like The Witch , set on a Puritan family farm in 1630s, and The Lighthouse , set in an isolated lighthouse in the 1890s — both in New England. How to build a Viking world.

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What does Unity’s IPO mean for Virtual Production and Filmmaking?

RealVision VR

With Unity achieving nearly the same valuation as it’s rival Game engine maker, Epic (13.6mil versus 17.3mil) what does it mean for Film-Game convergence and VirtualProduction ? There’s also the free version perfectly suited for VP and no royalties whatsoever for film output. make for intelligent Digital Actors.

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