Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms. Image courtesy Epic Games.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2022

Referred to by event organizers as the Coachellaverse , this incredible digital experience allows fans from all around the world to interact with the festival in a brand new way using a combination of immersive technologies. This year, Coachella took its first steps towards creating its very own metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

I have just finished playing Red Matter 2 , the much-awaited sequel of Red Matter , one of my favorite games for Quest. During the whole game, you are confronted with posters, writings, and products that remind a lot of Soviet Russia (e.g. Red Matter 2 is mostly a puzzle game.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. By merging real-world geospatial data into a robust game engine, developers can create hyperrealistic simulations and fully immersive experiences. They can build new classes of applications beyond the world of gaming. With ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0,

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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. . Xsens also offers an additional mocap solution referred to as the MVN Awinda.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 6, 2022

TL;DR: The 2022 Complete Game Developer Bundle worth $2,000 is on sale for just $29 (that's 98% off) The best way to truly learn a new skill is to try it yourself. That’s why this Complete Game Developer Bundle takes you along for the ride with 15 hours of hands-on content that will have you building games of various types.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For reference, the Quest Pro features 10 cameras; five inside and five outside. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X This includes spatial audio, which allows users to track their head movements, and the latest version of adaptive noise cancellation, which can be used in games.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 10, 2022

TL;DR: The 2022 Complete Game Developer Bundle is on sale for £22.05, saving you 98% on list price. That’s why this Complete Game Developer Bundle takes you along for the ride with 15 hours of hands-on content that will have you building games of various types. 2022 Complete Game Developer Bundle. Get Deal.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. Long story short, all games that manage to have more than a certain number of downloads and revenues are subject to a per-install fee. per install.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Qualcomm’s latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces ‘Positional Timewarp’, reveals new Oculus Go details, and Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing demo. Qualcomm’s reference VR headset supports Vive Wave.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2019

Vertical Robot’ s acclaimed indie game Red Matter has just been ported to Oculus Quest and the title has already got a lot of interest. I have been so lucky to have the possibility of trying the game in preview , so here you are my review of Red Matter on Oculus Quest! The game is all about solving puzzles.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

Robo Recall , one of the best looking games available on a VR headset today, actually cost a lot less to produce than the rumored $10 million. It’s certainly a compliment to the small team at Epic Games responsible for the game that the notion of a $10 million production budget was so widely spread and accepted.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. 10 minutes of Youtube video have been enough to make all game developers hype. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond is a mediocre game. We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. Other relevant news. Well, we were wrong.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

In the gaming industry, however, this movement to open-source started to make sense when a wave of user-generated content evolved into some of the most successful versions of modern gameplay. Famous PC game mods that have more recently made headlines include Skyrim (with over 40,000 mods), Fallout 4, Doom, Half-Life, and Counter-Strike.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. We have a couple of projects underway that are very exciting for us, in terms of creating some sort of game-type metaverse which can have collaboration with other parts of Sony,” Ryan added.

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Voices of VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This adds interactive capabilities to glTF objects that are similar to Unreal Engines Blueprint system, Unity’s Visual Scripting Language, and NVIDIA Omniverse’s Omnigraph systems. see reference implementation here). see reference implementation here). jpg format for 3D objects). jpg format for 3D objects).

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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 - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Sony customers also leverage the widely adopted Unreal Engine, a powerful real-time 3D engine that can create immersive environments. So that was one idea behind the Virtual Production Toolset was to create a virtual Venice camera that can be loaded inside Unreal Engine. Let him use his traditional tools to access Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. A reference guide published by Khronos Group gives a high-level technical overview of the API’s structure. OpenXR 1.0 is now available on GitHub.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Reuters report suggested “the injunction could limit the number of games available for sale for Oculus’ Rift VR headset.” Referring to the $500 million award, ZeniMax argued: “The jury’s damage award here, however substantial, is an insufficient incentive for Defendants to cease infringing.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The company is today announcing TouchSense Force, a combination of development software and hardware that it hopes will enhance haptic feedback in both existing game controllers and new devices to make for better VR experiences and other content. Touch technology company Immersion wants to bring that work to the next level.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link]. There are several communities of gamers willing to test games. Inclusion refers to diversity in gender, socio-economic status, disability or other needs.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Kimball said that the Unity and Unreal engine integrations for Magic Leap do much of the core balancing optimizations (between the available A57 cores and Denver 2 core) for developers already. SEE ALSO Echoing Apple's iPhone Launch, Magic Leap Taps AT&T for Exclusive US Distribution. and Vulkan.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

New The Walking Dead games were revealed, Bethesda clarifies VR platform exclusivity stance, we go hands-on with Ace Combat 7, and try out DisplayLink’s XR wireless solution for the HTC Vive. Multiple The Walking Dead VR Games in Development: Image courtesy AMC. DisplayLink XR wireless tech hands-on: Photo by Road to VR.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

With that, it's good to keep in mind that each day this article ages this list will become more and more outdated, but most of these players have been in the game for some time and will continue to be important contenders! Refer to my medium article?—? Unity // Most people's intro to game dev! What is Social AR? —?if

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

With the rising popularity of PC gaming and VR, there’s never been a better time to start building with one of the world’s most powerful game engines. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin.

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Upload VR

MAY 31, 2023

These "disputes" likely refer to the lawsuit Epic Games filed against the company in 2021 , in which Epic alleged that it was “no coincidence” that Nreal’s name “looks and sounds virtually identical” to its Unreal game engine.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2022

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Though the new version brings improvements in many areas, its most notable features are Lumen (global illumination) and Nanite (micro-polygon geometry), which could be game-changers for VR immersion.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The works also engage visitors by responding to their interactions, allowing them to participate in games and stories. Artists have used the advanced tool to create adverts, major films, and video games rendered on Redshift. Teams using Epic Game’s Unreal Engine designed the greenhouse metaverse setting.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. John Lewis is an Environmental Artist for Obsidian Entertainment , developers behind games such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

References to realityOS were found in App Store upload logs and Apple code earlier this year, and an Apple linked shell company trademarked RealityOS last week. Kuo claims claimed this headset will weigh less than Meta’s Quest 2, feature dual 4K OLED microdisplays, and use a new chip with “similar computing power as the M1 for Mac”.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

Faster reference image loading. From Apple’s description, RealityKit almost sounds like a miniature game engine, including “photo-realistic rendering, camera effects, animations, physics and more.” Motion capture. Auto-detect image size. Visual coherence. More robust 3D object detection. People occlusion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Producer Artem Kovalchuk told UploadVR that the team spent a long time studying technical documentation and references in order to pull off the level of detail seen here. The piece was developed in Unreal Engine 4. He also revealed that the game consists of two modes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In part one the outspoken founder of Epic Games warned us how dangerous collectivization could be for virtual reality; in part two he gave us our best look yet at how much Oculus is spending to fund VR content and now, in part three, Sweeney is setting his sights on the Internet’s champion himself: Elon Musk. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Facebook has pledged to spend at least another $250 million on content development in the coming years and, according to Rubin’s post, $50 million of that will now be devoted to “exclusively fund non-gaming, experiential VR content. We want to wish them all the best of luck in their future pursuits.

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