TechCrunch VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Epic Games announced today that it’s buying Cubic Motion, a computer vision startup that’s been building out a platform for capturing more realistic facial animations with a complex camera rig and software platform. Last year, Epic acquired game studio 3Lateral which built more realistic human avatars.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. According to NVIDIA, users can now enter a NeRF-rendered space via a VR headset, which presents use cases across industries. Sony is also empowering the emerging industry 4.0

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. What you’re seeing right now is a lot of the wave shooter game—‘here’s a wave of robots or zombies.’ That's the quote.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. Head to SideQuest and try to download an indie game from there and if you liked it, share a social media post about it. The whole indie VR community will appreciate that.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Zuckerberg noted that Meta is working with industry leaders, such as Lenovo, ASUS, and Xbox, to “build headsets that are designed for more specific use cases, so you can imagine a lightweight headset that pairs with your computer on your desk to provide the best work experience, whether you’re at home or anywhere else on the go.”

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Going Beyond Gaming. There’s no better example of this than the revolutionary entertainment experience, Fortnite.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Epic Games: Reality Scan. In 2021, Epic Games acquired photogrammetry solutions provider Capturing Reality, with plans to integrate the firm’s digital twin production tools into the Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

As extended reality experiences continue to gain popularity in virtually every industry, solutions are constantly emerging to help developers and companies design their own immersive experiences. Sony Mocopi As one of the current gaming and entertainment leaders, it’s little surprise that Sony would want to introduce its Mocap technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

However, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that filled some people with interest in an Android-esc XR OS, ex-Meta CTO and famed video game innovator John Carmack expressed concern over Meta’s recent move. It appears that Meta is trying to compete with Apple’s approach to its hardware ecosystem.

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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. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. 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. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

He continued, stating, “The Metaverse Standards Forum is a unique venue for coordination between standards organizations and industry, with a mission to foster the pragmatic and timely standardization that will be essential to an open and inclusive metaverse” Comments on the Metaverse Standards Forum.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

Nate Burba is CEO and Co-Founder of Survios, one of the forerunners  in VR gaming today. His company’s immersive experiences taking gaming to the next level. His successes resulted in AAA hits like Raw Data, a co-op first-person shooter proclaimed as VR’s first hit game. They’re basically the patron saints of game development.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. VR Game of the Year. VR Game of the Year went to A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace and ARTE France. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

British 3D artist Rafi Nizam has opened a new animation with tools from NVIDIA’s Omniverse Create XR along with solutions from Epic Games, Autodesk, and Adobe, it was revealed on Friday. He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

With the solution, users can leverage the following tools: FreeD plug-and-play capabilities for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Players will take on the role of Crowe, a young villager who must interact with in-game characters to solve puzzles, combat an alien onslaught, and uncover the secrets of an ancient temple that could help unravel the true past of his society. The post Rogue Initiative Unveils VR Title ‘Crowe: The Drowned Armory’ appeared first on VRScout.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. What to Expect from Sony.

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JUNE 13, 2017

We’ll undoubtedly hear about some exciting things on the way for those gaming platforms, but the picture is unclear about just how significant AR and VR will figure into what gets announced next week. It is because the industry is rapidly changing, and the main players are keeping their biggest plans tightly under wraps.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Apple is also the owner of ARKit , a developer tool used by iOS developers to build mobile AR apps and games for iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

It’s the prequel novel to not one, but rather an entire series of upcoming Scraper VR games, headed by the budding Labrodex Studios out of Jericho, NY. As Labrodex’s founder, Jim Ivon, initially told me over the phone, Labrodex intends to release three Scraper games with five episodes of content per game.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry. The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group.

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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. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. And though Epic hasn’t made any VR games since then, it seems that in 2018 it was still ready and willing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In the meantime, Valve has given a complete overhaul to the UI of SteamVR , changing the interface both of the desktop menus and the VR menu, that is now curved and more suitable to select games in an easier way with VR controllers. Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. Fun stuff: this studio never actually launched a game.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Four days ago, I blogged about a widely-circulated report by an Apple industry pundit , speculating that the computer maker was making significant cuts to the number of Apple Vision Pro (AVP) units it was planning to ship this year, and stating that demand for the brand new, high-end VR/AR headset had “fallen sharply beyond expectations.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 19, 2023

Virtual production (VP) is a new technology revolutionizing the film, media, and broadcast industries. That’s why the Virtual Production Toolset [Sony’s virtual set planning system] with the virtual Venice camera is a great tool to have access to. So, our engineers developed this because we understood there is a pain point.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Creating more believable virtual characters will play an essential role in further immersing us in single-player VR experiences in the future, and Sony intends to demonstrate that on PlayStation VR (PSVR) this GDC. There are scheduled Unreal Engine 4 and Unity Engine PSVR demonstrations too.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift. Almost everyone in the industry has “AR/VR” listed on their Twitter account. I’m not alone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon is a global, remotely-operated gaming studio staffed by some of the world’s top video game industry executives. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

The recent in-game Fortnite concert by Travis Scott, tied to a digital only revenue stream for music labels and artists as live concerts and festivals are put on hold for 2020, is turning the music industry’s eye towards the potential of virtual concerts. Why the music industry cares. Block by Blockwest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They’ll come in a standard PC version and in a ruggedized version for the industry. What is most intriguing to me is the design: usually, the products by Vuzix doesn’t look sexy, because they are industrial products or glasses for prosumers, while in this case, they look cool. Read more about this news on Road To VR and Engadget.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Room 2011, West Hall.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

We talked with Ready At Dawn Founder & Chief Creative Officer Ru Weerasuriya to understand how the games came to be, the challenges faced during production, and the future of VR. The team had their interest in VR piqued around 2012, at an internal conference for Sony developers. This learning extended to team sizes. “At

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