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Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real

Road to VR

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. Unreal Engine 5 launched earlier this year, but unfortunately its two new key features—Lumen for global illumination lighting and Nanite for micro-geometry—weren’t supported for VR out of the gate.

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Unreal Engine’s New Virtual Production Tool Is Reshaping Cinematography

VRScout

Is real-time VR technology the future of filmmaking ? Unreal Engine is changing how filmmakers and advertisers are making movies and commercials with a new virtual production tool that allows them to add special effects in real-time. The technology has already been used in films such as First Man and Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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Unreal Engine 5: A Tutorial for VR Designers 

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Unreal Engine, one of the leading creation tools in the digital development market, has its own selection of valuable VR modes and technologies specifically suited to virtual reality. The latest version of Unreal Engine, UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) shipped in April 2022 this year, after an initial period of early access in 2021.

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Varjo Reality Cloud Supports Unity, Unreal Engine

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The enterprise-grade immersive software-as-a-service (SaaS) now supports RT3D design projects from Unity and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). An example of Reality Cloud operating on a Smartphone, enabling an XR developer to stream immersive content on a Varjo headset GIF: Varjo.

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ESI Design Uses Unreal Engine To Create An AR-Inspired Lobby Experience

VRScout

A two year renovation has transformed The Crossroads lobby into an interactive digital experience powered by Unreal Engine. For example, as you walk past the massive digital displays, you’ll see a herd of deer look right back at you with curiosity. Move too quickly, and they scatter into the woods.

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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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XR Interaction Toolkit (eXtended Reality Technology Platforms)

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Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? Sample Examples ? Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? Unity Game Engine ?? Supported AR/VR devices ? Maturity of Toolkit ? Stability of Toolkit ? Developer Community ?