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Unreal Engine Gets OpenXR Improvements Just in Time for Oculus Development Shift

Road to VR

The latest version of Unreal Engine 4, version 4.27, brings “production-ready” support for OpenXR. The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. That makes Unreal Engine 4.27

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Oculus is “All in on OpenXR,” New Developer Features Will Come to OpenXR Only

Road to VR

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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Open-Source VIRTUOSO SDK for Unreal Engine – a Standard Framework for XR Development

ARPost

And it is made possible by VIRTUOSO , an open-source SDK created by Charles Rivers Analytics, which is now available for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest.

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Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year

Road to VR

Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. Technical Product Manager of AR/VR at Unity. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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Ambitious XR Headset From Walker Industries in Crowdfunding Stage

ARPost

What about Walker Industries? Walker Industries is … let’s call it “the startup’s startup.” While that funding campaign still has a ways to go and we’re an estimated month away from a functioning XR headset demo, Walker Industries founder, Herman Remy, reached out to ARPost to talk about his company and his passion.

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Axon Park To Offer Expert Level In-Headset VR Design Course

VRScout

Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Courtesy of VR education startup Axon Park , the ‘Unreal Engine VR Master Class’ will debut in VR this autumn. Axon Park holds that there are some prerequisites to consider when applying for the Unreal Engine VR Master Class.

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Meet The Forge: A Metaverse XR Studio System by Prox & Reverie

ARPost

A new XR studio system is aiming to revolutionize the entertainment industry. This studio system contains the latest interactive production tools, such as Oculus, Manus, Vive , Faceware, Varjo , and Xsens motion capture. Virtually all industries have been thrust into an accelerated pace of change in the past couple of years.