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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, then took to the stage to say that Unreal Engine 4 support would also be arriving on the HoloLens 2. First shipments will begin this May in the United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand.

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How accurate is 'The Northman' to Viking history? Well, it’s a Robert Eggers film.

Mashable VR

Over decades of bloody revenge plans, The Northman moves through impeccably detailed Nordic locations (notably built and filmed in Northern Ireland), with wooden buildings decked out with shields, garments, and carts, inspired by various artefacts and literary sources. “Timber is very expensive in Ireland. Credit: Aidan Monaghan.

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FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549

Road to VR

The company has already released their SDK which allows developers to integrate FOVE support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine. The company, now headquartered in San Francisco, will be showcasing the final version of the headset during the Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) this week in San Francisco.

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Big News from XR Awards, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony

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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped the tech giant with a massive sanction, marking the most significant fine against any Big Tech firm in history. A press release cited Meta Ireland’s alleged failure to safeguard data transfers from the EU to the United States. Meta is required to pay roughly €1.2

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). University College Cork, Ireland. image courtesy VR First. State University of New York at Oswego, USA. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. University of Florida, USA.

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