Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2018

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. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This weekend the second annual Infinity Festival opened its doors at the Goya Film Studios in the heart of Hollywood, offering guests the chance to attend a killer lineup of panels lead by Hollywood storytelling professionals and go hands-on with groundbreaking 5G, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and immersive technology. .

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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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AUGUST 26, 2020

Built using Unreal Engine, the experience uses headcam and drone footage taken directly from 2014’s The Ridge , Cut Media’s hit action sports film featuring MacAskill. Players begin by donning a VR headset before seating themselves on a specialized motion rig built using a Santa Cruz bike. “It

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JANUARY 30, 2022

Unreal Engine by Epic Games, the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool, today announced the winners of its ‘Shorts India Program’, successfully concluding its inaugural edition in India. Below are the Unreal Engine's top entries. Technicolor & Neha, Ruchir – DEVMASA. link] Holocraft – KARU.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 26, 2022

See Also: ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment. How the Map2Earn Beta Program Works. The Map2Earn Beta program is backed by an intuitive UX that guides the users through the capture process. This is one of the ways through which users can earn.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2019

Meant to serve as an interactive teaser for an upcoming Silent Hills game directed by Hideo Kojima in collaboration with legendary film director Guillermo Del Toro, the playable demo featured an assortment of “looping” puzzles nestled within a genuinely unsettling atmosphere designed to shake the human psyche. Unreal P.T.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

for Unreal Engine 4 enables developers to better tackle the creation of challenging fuzzy and fibrous characters, objects and surfaces such as furred creatures, carpets, blankets, mosses and other natural landscapes. for Unreal Engine 4 can be purchased for 20% off until October 6, 2016 by using code NEOFURPR20 at checkout. NeoFur 2.0’s

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Film, gambling, or education subscription plans are unaffected. Some expressed interest in alternative game engines like Godot or Unreal, while others questioned the wider implications for current releases. Editor excluded, that includes using Unity Gaming Services or Unity LevelPlay, a mediation service for mobile ad-supported games.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 20, 2022

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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 23, 2021

That there’s actually a new Matrix movie out feels almost as unreal as The Matrix itself. It’s been almost 20 years since the last film and in that time, the Wachowskis have said again and again they’d never do it. But Lana Wachowski now has, and we’re still kind of shocked it’s real. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

.” Nord XR Opens Führerbunker Historic VR Experience The immersive experience comes shortly after German XR enterprise Nord XR released its VR film Führerbunker in November last year.

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MAY 22, 2023

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 26, 2017

During a week where Unity gained a $400 million influx of investment capital, it’s chief rival Epic Games is working to spend $5 million of its own money to facilitate game development for the Unreal Engine. Earlier this year, Epic announced that it would be dolling out $5 million total in grants to up and coming Unreal devs.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2020

This is the same motion capture solution used on blockbuster films like Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker , Avengers: Infinity War , and The Wolverine , as well as hit games such as Creed: Rise to Glory and Counter Strike. . Legend conducted his performance live in-studio wearing an Xsens MVN Animate Motion Capture System.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Today, ARWall, a virtual production product and services merchant, updated its augmented reality effects (ARFX) Pro Unreal Engine Plugin to streamline workflows for end-users incorporating immersive backdrops for media productions. New Features. ARWall Establishes a New Virtual Production Studio.

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MARCH 23, 2023

SXSW 2023 also offered a range of compelling conference sessions across 15 tracks, including interactive tracks exploring science, technology, culture, government, and more; film tracks covering both the creative and business elements of film and TV production; and music tracks featuring content on the making, marketing, impact, and future of music.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with the original ‘Unreal Dev Grants’ fund announced back in 2015. In many ways, those grants have reflected Epic and Unreal Engine’s early and consistently prominent support of VR since the early days of VR’s latest resurgence.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 13, 2019

FCG’s telltale combination of CGI and film, shot with a 360-degree camera, is then projected on walls, ceiling, and floor. The idea of using light and sound to create an unreal experience was also used in the Unreal Garden this summer. In fact, it’s part of some pretty exciting trends.

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2019

Available for demo July 28th – August 1st at the Immersive Pavilion, Undersea harnesses the power of the Magic Leap One, as well as Unreal Engine 4 and Vulcan 3.1 mobile, to transport users to a photorealistic undersea environment featuring life-like animated sea life inside a dynamically generated coral reef biome.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Last November the company participated in Autodesk University, where they unveiled an integration with Unreal Editor in partnership with Epic Games. The company is hoping to scale their VR plug-in to other CAD software including SolidWorks, a parametric CAD used in mechanical engineering.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 27, 2022

Users can view and edit their captured data in graphics engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Mosaic X is a mobile device that enables users to capture real-world environments as 360-degree immersive environments, photos, or videos. 360 photographers can use the hardware to create real-time 3D (RT3D) digital twins of locations.

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VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

Over the past year Jackson and his team at Wingnut AR, a subdivision of Wingnut Films , have been utilizing Apple’s ARkit to experiment with various types of AR experiences. The 1:30 minute demo apparently operates on a specialized version of ARKit that runs a plugin, which easily integrates the software into Unreal Engine 4.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Wired called Penrose’s first project, Allumette (2016) “the first VR film masterpiece.”. Back in November, we covered the release of Fable’s “Wolves In The Walls” on Oculus Quest, a film in which Lucy, the AI-driven character, was the star. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine. Griffith of VR.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

The company says Metal 2 will also support Unity, Unreal Engine and the Steam VR SDK, making Apple’s new operating system a true VR-native. The new external GPU dev kit, available today, is coming with a VR-capable AMD Radeon RX 580, which is somewhere between an NVIDIA GTX 1060 and 1070 in function. image courtesy TIME.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There are 15 main categories including art and film, apps, games and toys, headworn devices, developer tools, and more. See Also: Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience? creative director BC Biermann. AWE USA 2019 Day 2. The Auggie Awards for XR Technology. The Auggies are AWE’s AR and VR awards show.

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AR Insider

APRIL 23, 2021

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. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine. . “Augmentation” should include a more expansive set of ways to fuse the digital and physical.

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

Using the Insta360 Titan , the companies recently released 11K cinematic 360-degree camera, Feimster—who also happens to play one of the zany mascots on the show—filmed the ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ audience for one minute before having them stand up. The reaction has been unreal.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. Since being originally developed by the BBC and REWIND in 2016, Home – A VR Spacewalk has won multiple awards, including a Cannes Lion, and has been shown at film festivals around the world.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. ‘Lost’, the first VR short film released by Story Studio | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. At the time, the one challenge Baertsoen had was that the director filming the car was still seeing the Blackbird and the transformation into whatever car they wanted it to become occurred in post production.

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GizModo VR

MAY 26, 2021

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell can finally stop answering the question they’ve gotten for almost 30 years: “When are you going to make Evil Dead 4 ?” The answer is they’ll be starting next month in New Zealand—and it’ll premiere on HBO Max. Read more.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

” In addition, Unreal Engine will premiere The Giant: Michelangelo’s David in VR to the public, which lets audiences get up-close with the iconic statue unlike ever before. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company). thelotstudios #filming #hollywood #studio #weho #summer.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2018

” Le Fons started his 30-day challenge shortly after the release of Steven Spielberg’s film Ready Player One (2018) , and although he’s nearing the end of his full 30 days, according to a SkarredGhost exclusive, he’s adding on another 15-30 days of multi-hour stints immersed in VR. image courtesy Enea Le Fons.

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Slashgear

JULY 3, 2018

Thanks to the well-timed and successful film adaptation of “Ready Player One”, virtual reality has gained even more mainstream attention. Ironically, it has also set up somewhat unreal expectations of what VR is and can do. Fortunately, there are some that are rising up to the challenge to actually make fiction real.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

VR Film of the Year. VR Film of the Year went to Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. One of the first VR documentaries, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival that year.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

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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