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Apple Sets Stage For VR; Shows Off Star Wars Vive Demo

VRScout

.” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system.

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‘Red Alert 2’ In VR Is Historical Fiction We Can Control Directly

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Video games are often ways for us to escape reality for small chunks of time and strategy games tap into that in different ways. Red Alert 2 is one of the most popular strategy titles, a real-time strategy game that had an incredible historical fiction of its own for us to navigate, and it’s being recreated in a VR environment.

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Fan Remake Of ‘Silent Hills P.T.’ Now Available In VR

VRScout

Developed by independent developer @RadiusGordello , Unreal P.T. Unreal P.T. If you have trouble progressing through any of the convoluted puzzles, he’s included both a control manual and strategy guide within the main directory. Image Credit: Radius Gordello. is a near identical recreation of the original P.T.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

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Some of the exhibitors who will present new devices and technologies to the public are 8th Wall, Nreal, Unity, Unreal Engine, Pico Interactive, Atheer, Holoptic, Varjo, Cleanbox Technology, LetinAR, and Vuzix. We start our list of XR events in 2021 with AWE Asia because of the sheer size of the opportunities to explore and network.

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‘Space Junkies’ to Rocket onto PSVR, Vive & Rift Next Month, Trailer Here

Road to VR

Space Junkies , the upcoming Unreal Tournament -style VR shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, is headed to all major VR platforms starting March 26th. If that tickles your latent Unreal itch, check out a full match in closed beta to see just what’s in store.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

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Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. What is interesting for us is the last line “adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team”. You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen.

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OpenXR 1.0 Released, Microsoft Supports on HoloLens & WMR, Oculus Plans Rift & Quest Support

Road to VR

Simply put, OpenXR is a technical foundation for interoperability, but business decisions still dictate content, device, and platform strategy. support in Unreal Engine and plans to update the engine for the 1.0 OpenXR 1.0 is now available on GitHub. Epic says that it has previously implemented OpenXR 0.9

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