article thumbnail

Unreal and Unity Both Commit to Google Daydream

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Middleware makers Epic Games and Unity Technologies have been working on every major VR HMD revealed to date, so it’s no surprise to hear that both are involved with Google’s new Daydream platform. The post Unreal and Unity Both Commit to Google Daydream appeared first on UploadVR. Unity Engine Unreal Engine Daydream Epic Game google daydream Unity Technologies unreal engine 4

Unreal 152
article thumbnail

Unreal Engine 4.18 Update Brings Native Support for ARKit and ARCore, SteamVR Support for Mac

Road to VR

Epic Game’s Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18 update, now including official support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore software dev kits, and support for SteamVR on Mac. Epic has however provided experimental support in their game engine for ARKit since Unreal Engine 4.17, but the new 4.18 ” Unreal Engine 4.18 The post Unreal Engine 4.18

Unreal 169
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Unreal Engine 4.20 Ships With Native Mixed Reality Compositing for VR, New AR/VR SDKs

Road to VR

Unreal Engine 4.20 and Google’s ARCore 1.2, Unreal Engine 4.20 For developers using Unreal Engine to build titles for the Rift, UE 4.20 As with the Oculus Runtime, Apple and Google have since updated their ARKit and ARCore SDK—the foundation for building AR applications on those platforms—and the newest versions are now available with UE 4.20: ARKit 2.0. We’ve added support for Google’s ARCore 1.2, The post Unreal Engine 4.20

Unreal 120
article thumbnail

59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers. He said developers have made more than $10 billion to date with Unreal games. “We

Unreal 189
article thumbnail

Unreal Engine 4.12 is Out Now, Gets ‘VR Editor’, OSVR and Google VR Support

Road to VR

Epic Games’ popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12 now sporting Google VR ‘Daydream’ and OSVR native support. Allowing developers to build virtual reality applications from within VR itself is one of Epic’s many goals to help accelerate and drive forward immerse creativity with its Unreal Engine – and from what we’ve seen so far, they’ve done a hugely impressive job. The post Unreal Engine 4.12

Unreal 108
article thumbnail

Unreal announces Google Daydream support!

Cats and VR

Daydream is Google's new Android-powered VR platform, and Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4 support for it. Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. Daydream integration is available now on GitHub (login required), and it's coming to the binary tools in the full Unreal Engine 4.12 Technical Director Nick Whiting discusses several details on the Daydream VR plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal 100
article thumbnail

Start Developing For Google Daydream VR Right Now if You Have a Google Nexus 6P

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Yesterday, at Google I/O, the company unveiled the first details of its new virtual reality platform, The post Start Developing For Google Daydream VR Right Now if You Have a Google Nexus 6P appeared first on UploadVR. Development Google Cardboard VR Industry News Daydream development devkit google ndk SDK unity Unreal

Google 162
article thumbnail

Spatial Beats: Snap, Google & Digilens

AR Insider

This week, we dive into Snap’s new AR Spectacles, Google I/O takeaways and Digilens’ new reference frames. On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion.

Google 290
article thumbnail

Epic Announce Android Daydream VR Support in Unreal Engine, Available Today

Road to VR

Epic Games’ Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google’s I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what’s more is that it’s available right now. Epic Games have been a constant in VR technology adoption since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, with the company’s Unreal Engine 4 consistently one of the first to deliver integration for a myriad virtual reality technologies.

Unreal 100
article thumbnail

Google Releases ‘Resonance Audio’, a New Multi-Platform Spatial Audio SDK

Road to VR

Google today released a new spatial audio software development kit called ‘Resonance Audio’, a cross-platform tool based on technology from their existing VR Audio SDK. Google’s spatial audio support for VR is well-established, having introduced the technology to the Cardboard SDK in January 2016, and bringing their audio rendering engine to the main Google VR SDK in May 2016, which saw several improvements in the Daydream 2.0 Image courtesy Google.

Google 198
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world.

Google 468
article thumbnail

How Epic Games’ Lawsuit Against Apple Could Impact The Future Of VR/AR

VRScout

Apple threatens to withhold support for ARKit and upcoming VR technology on Unreal Engine. Less than an hour after having their game removed from the App Store, as well as Google Play on Android, Epic responded with a prepared lawsuit against Apple in the U.S.

Apple 433
article thumbnail

Google Daydream SDK Launches Out of Beta, Adds Unity Integration

Road to VR

After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google’s platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has now combined both Cardboard and Daydream development into the Google VR SDK. ” See Also: Google’s (Day)dream: ‘Hundreds of Millions of Users in a Couple of Years’.

Unity 213
article thumbnail

Google ARCore Brings Augmented Reality to Android

VRScout

And as developers continued to experiment with the ARKit platform, creating some pretty killer apps , it left us scratching our heads wondering where Google fell into this mix now. Google has been investing heavily on the hardware side with Tango, requiring specialized devices to augment our reality. It looks like Google had something up their sleeves the whole time. Image Credit: Google. News Android AR ARCore Augmented Reality Google MobileAR is happening.

article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.21): Google is building an AR OS, Nike acquires RTFKT, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future.

AR 335
article thumbnail

Google Releases ARCore for Android, The Company’s Answer to Apple ARKit

Road to VR

In an answer to Apple’s recently released ARKit , a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore. Google prides itself on its stewardship of Android, the largest mobile platform in the world with over 80 percent of the mobile market share in 2016, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.

Google 222
article thumbnail

Enklu Launches San Francisco’s First AR Maker Space

VRScout

The CEO of Enklu often refers to it as “Google Docs for AR” because of the ease of collaboration and file-sharing.” . To add some extra value, E.den will host a number of premium interactive multiplayer AR worlds, such as ‘The Unreal Garden’, ‘Mystic Grove’, and ‘Dark Matter’—all of which featured at E3, Outside Lands, and Onedome throughout the year. Memberships and day passes are now available to west coast developers and players.

article thumbnail

‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

This is Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. According to Mike Podwal, project manager for Google Earth VR , “ 94 percent of the world’s population is covered in this experience. Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight.

Google 280
article thumbnail

Google’s Daydream VR gets a heavyweight partner: Epic Games and its Unreal Engine 4 toolkit

VR Game Critic

One of gaming’s leading design toolsets is throwing its support behind Google’s new virtual reality project. Epic Games announced during the Google I/O event today that it is launching support for its Unreal Engine 4 game-design suites for Google Daydream, the company’s new mobile virtual reality platform

Unreal 60
article thumbnail

Google Stays Nimble with ARCore 1.4 Update, Bringing Passthrough Camera Auto-Focus & Wider Availability

Next Reality AR

Google's ARCore team is staying busy, as evidenced by yet another update of its augmented reality toolkit. Available as of Friday on Google Play, version 1.4 New SDKs are also available for Android, iOS, Unity, Unreal Engine. Video: Along with the update, Google has extended ARCore support to new devices from Huawei, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Vivo, and Xiaomi. In addition, Google has enabled support for select Huawei and Xiaomi handsets for the China region.

Unreal 187
article thumbnail

Khronos Gains Epic Games Support For VR API Standard

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

He also believes having the creators of the Unreal engine behind them “would enable wider adoption of the standard”. Epic is a massive company to get support from considering their Unreal game engine is such a pivotal part of the VR industry, but they’re not the only ones supporting Khronos’ efforts. Tagged with: API , Epic Games , khronos , Unreal. Development VR Industry News API Epic Games khronos Unreal

Unreal 275
article thumbnail

‘Industrial VR’ Is Like ‘Google Earth’ For Iconic Engineering Sites

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google Earth VR has shown us the wonders of visiting real world locations as a towering giant in VR, and now Industrial VR looks to do the same. It almost looks as if someone has gone back into Google Earth and given some areas a bit of spit and polish. The piece was developed in Unreal Engine 4. This new experience from the development team of the same name recently passed a Steam Greenlight campaign.

Industry 192
article thumbnail

These Apollo 11 Augmented Reality Experiences from Google, USA Today, Time, & Smithsonian Will Fly You to the Moon

Next Reality AR

Don't Miss: Microsoft's Live HoloLens 2 Apollo 11 Demo Didn't Take Flight, but You Can See It Thanks to Unreal Engine's Video The John. Unless you've been hiding under a (moon) rock for the past month, you already know that Saturday, July 20 is the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing. And while it has been 50 years since man first visited the moon, no human has set foot on its surface since 1976.

article thumbnail

Unity Native Support for Google Daydream VR Coming in Summer, Plugin Out Now

Road to VR

Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin. Unity is the most popular game engine for mobile game development, so it makes sense that the company would be on board from the beginning of Google’s new push into the immersive technology space. The post Unity Native Support for Google Daydream VR Coming in Summer, Plugin Out Now appeared first on Road to VR.

Unity 101
article thumbnail

Unity Rolls Google Daydream VR Support Ahead of Launch

VRWorld

One of the leading platforms for software development added improved support for Google’s upcoming Daydream VR platform. The new Google VR SDK 1.0 Google said that it has partnered with Unity and Epic Games, creators of two of the most popular third-party gaming engines, so developers can use the game-building tools they already know well. We have also made it easy to switch in and out of VR mode so that your applications can easily expand to the Google VR audience.”

Unity 61
article thumbnail

Dedicated VR World Engine Neos Is Now Available

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Game engines such as Unreal engine, Source, and RPG Maker provide the framework for visual, aural, AI, and other crucial elements for many of the games we play today. Via the website , the mantra is to create a platform with the ease of use of Minecraft , the collaboration of Google docs, the ecosystem of Youtube, and intuitive controls that mirror real life interaction. Development VR VR Industry News development engine game Source Unreal World

Unreal 200
article thumbnail

Virtual Truth for Architects

VRGames

Videos Architects Architecture augmented reality Design Google htc htc vive Interior Design Nottingham RIBA sketching Tiltbrush Unreal Engine Virtual Reality vr vr headset

Unreal 52
article thumbnail

A Tour of the Mytaverse Enterprise Immersive World

ARPost

About this time last year, the company hosted a Pepsi-led event focused on innovation that brought over 300 representatives from Google, Adobe, IBM, Salesforce, Amazon, and others into the platform for the first time.

Immersion 352
article thumbnail

Daydream 2.0 Platform Update to Bring Major Improvements to All Daydream Devices

Road to VR

In a AR/VR press briefing, Google told us there are a number of new systems the update will add across all Daydream headsets, regardless of whether they’re standalone or smartphone-based. To make the upcoming Android ‘O’ OS more VR-friendly, Google is integrating some things you might think are pretty basic, but in the end are intended to give VR users the tools they need to manage the ‘always in VR’ nature of standalone headsets. image courtesy Google.

Unreal 167
article thumbnail

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

AllThingsVR

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.

article thumbnail

Cool AR apps to try with Apple’s new phones

Hypergrid Business

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. The developer kit works on Unity, Unreal, and Scenekit engines. ” Google’s ARCore to compete with ARKit. Google’s recently announced ARCore development tool is similar to ARKit.

article thumbnail

On the ground with TechCrunch at GDC 2019

TechCrunch VR

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia. And I could just see over my shoulder just all of these, the Google execs and then the PR people, they were just like kind of making low chit chat like, “Oh s**t.” TC GDC 2019 google stadia unity unreal Virtual reality

article thumbnail

Did Seebright Just Launch Google Cardboard for AR?

VRWorld

It was no other than Google that delivered the first “million unit VR headset” By launching Cardboard VR application and the headset made out of… cardboard, Google set the stage for massive adoption of VR among developers, and the company isn’t stopping anytime soon. Next iteration of Google Android OS will feature Daydream UI and we feel it might be the main feature of upcoming Android.

article thumbnail

Google releases new SDK for immersive audio

VRWorld

In an effort to assist developers in creating more immersive audio experiences in AR/VR environments, Google has today released a new spatial audio SDK called Resonance Audio. Building upon their Google VR Audio SDK, Resonance Audio is intended to provide improvements in modelling of complex sound environments, audio performance, and cross-platform functionality. Integrations span Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS and Linux and include Unity, Unreal Engine, FMOD, and Wwise.

article thumbnail

Star Wars ‘Mos Eisley’ Realised in Staggering Detail on UE4, VR Version Coming

Road to VR

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. In addition to just being a bunch of super Star Wars nerds, several of us have been wanting an excuse to learn Unreal 4 for some time now, so we figured that this was a perfect opportunity.”

Unreal 120
article thumbnail

OVER’s Map2Earn Beta Program to Make the Creation of 3D World Maps More Accessible

ARPost

See Also: ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment. To access the Beta program, download the OVER app on Google Play or the App Store and follow the directions, which you can find under “Map2Earn”.

Unreal 402
article thumbnail

Stories You Might’ve Missed: Star Wars Ray-Tracing Demo and Google’s Maps API at GDC

VRWorld

Image Credit: Unreal Engine’s YouTube channel. Unreal Engine shows off a stunning Star Wars real-time ray-tracing demo. Nvidia is pushing real-time ray-tracing for its next-generation Volta GPUs, and this Unreal Engine demo was created as a demonstration of what the tech could be capable of. Google providing their Maps API for mobile game developers- expect more titles like Pokémon Go.

Unreal 45