Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2017

The result is a rather stunning representation of Seymour—rendered at 90 FPS in VR using Epic’s Unreal Engine—standing up to extreme scrutiny, with shots showing detailed eyebrows and eyelashes, intricate specular highlights on the pores of the skin, and a detailed facial model.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

And it was all surprisingly lifelike for something rendered in the Unreal Engine, led by a motion captured performance of Marshmello behind the turntable. Apart from hardware and imagination limits, digital creators are unrestricted by the mundane; thus, this space is rife with a wealth of unexplored possibilities.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I also use technologies such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine , motion capture (mocap), and Disguise Designer to produce my VNCCII XR stage shows. XR Today: As an end user of Unreal Engine, have any changes to it provided you with more empowerment and ease of use within your enterprise?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? HTC launches Vive XR Suite. Learn more.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

For the first time, thanks to the new hardware, players could lean into the table to see the tiny characters up close. ‘Showdown’, one of Epic’s VR tech demos build on Unreal Engine. It was a memorable scene, its impact increased due to the decision to play it out in slow motion. Apparently not.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

What is important is that companies such as Emteq are able to garner enough support from developers and produce the required plugins for game engines such as Unity and Unreal to unlock its true potential. The post Emteq Aims to Humanize VR by Capturing Your Facial Expressions appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. What is the most used Gear VR device?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2020

So it is not advised to just shoot like crazy a la Unreal Tournament : you also need some strategy and think when to use the grenades or the explosive barrels that are scattered all around the levels. The problem is more on the hardware side than on the software one : I mean, after hours with a headset on my head, I started feeling some ache.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta. And in general, the world of cinema and of “gaming” will converge always more and in the end, we’ll have movies that will be realized with game-engines like Unity and Unreal Engine. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Considering that Quest has sold at least 3M units now, this means more than $300M of losses from the hardware sales for Facebook. Huawei is a very important hardware company and its glasses have a very sleek design, so I think it’s very important to keep an eye on them! Decamove attracts $350K in its preorder campaign.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 14- Kai Liang. 34- Nick Cherukuri.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

After laying the groundwork with history and definitions in the first four chapters, in Part II of his book Matthew Ball discusses in seven chapters the various components which he feels go into the building of a metaverse: networking, computing, virtual world engines, interoperability, hardware, payment systems, and blockchain technology.

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