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Game On! The Top 10 Video Game Trends In 2024

Bernard Marr

However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming. This is a trend that we can expect to continue through 2024. Remakes of games that were popular with previous generations – such as the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – will also be a key trend.

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Big XR News from Unity, PIXO VR, and Microsoft

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

XR Today recently marked this period with an XR Trends series, which brought together some of the best minds in the industry to share AR/VR/MR insights. During the XR Trends conversation, Dr Chris Parkinson also stated that XR devices would “get smaller, lighter, [and] faster.

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The Benefits of Microsoft Mesh and What is Still Limiting the Mixed Reality Industry

ARVR

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Enter The Monarchy 3.

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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

ARPost

Given that our technological advancements, consumer behavior, and tech trends continue to evolve at breakneck speed, being aware of metaverse and XR predictions can help you better prepare for the future. An iteration of Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 5) is already being used to develop applications for a range of VR devices.

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Microsoft backs Epic in dispute with Apple, says Unreal Engine is critical tech

Digital Trends

A court filing says the banning the engine will 'harm game creators and gamers'.

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The AR Space Race, Part IX: Epic Games

ARVR

In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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