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Meta Quest Gets Unreal Engine 5 Support Minus Two Headlining Features

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Meta is transitioning its support from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.1 In a dev blog post announcing the news, Meta says developers who choose to work with Epic’s game engine should start thinking about using UE5 for their Quest apps. Games using dynamic lighting need to use unshadowed Sky Light on mobile.”

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Meta’s Twisted Pixel Studio is Building an Unannounced VR Title with Unreal Engine

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Following the studio’s acquisition by Meta late last year, we haven’t heard much about Twisted Pixel, a veteran VR game studio which made several exclusive titles for Meta. Following the launch of several non-VR games, Twisted Pixel Games in recent years has become largely focused on VR.

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Unreal Engine Gets OpenXR Improvements Just in Time for Oculus Development Shift

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The latest version of Unreal Engine 4, version 4.27, brings “production-ready” support for OpenXR. You may recall news back in May that the early access version of Unreal Engine 5 includes improved support for OpenXR. That makes Unreal Engine 4.27 Epic says that the OpenXR support in Unreal Engine 4.27

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

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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. Image courtesy Epic Games. While UE 4.25

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

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Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. Back in 2016, we saw our first look at Epic Gamesgame-chaning digital human technology with its Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice preview at the Game Developers Conference. HD stubble // Image Credit: Epic Games.

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Virtuix: VR Hardware From Commercial to Consumer

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A Pico Neo 3 Pro headset comes with the Omni One treadmill package, allowing customers to integrate approximately 30 games. Now the Omni One introduces hardware innovation to users at home for the first home, enhancing experiences like immersive gaming or Metaverse applications. It’s not good enough.

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Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants

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At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. The post Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants appeared first on Road to VR.