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The company also presented the HP VR Launch Kit for Unreal Engine, a system co-developed with Epic Games, that is intended to “dramatically stream[line] VR development for design visualization.”. MORE
Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2. MORE
The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. MORE
Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers. He said developers have made more than $10 billion to date with Unreal games. “We MORE
Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms. MORE
So at some point, I switched to using the Microsoft HoloLens to create sketches in space, and took documentation screenshots and videos on there. I tested my augmented still life website in the Microsoft Edge browser within the HoloLens and discovered an interesting AR-within-AR world! MORE
Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. MORE
Other sessions during the two-day span include a Bethesda Software panel (maybe Fallout VR will be shown,) Epic Games panel (Unreal Engine is heavily involved with VR, as well as titles such as Robo Recall,) and a panel focused on Microsoft’s Scorpio, which could have information about VR capabilities. This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is unique in that the general public was allowed to purchase tickets to gain entrance to the event. MORE
Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) reality I hold in my hands what looks and feels like a wand from a Harry Potter film. MORE
Sony has also positioned the opportunity for its large install base of indie Unity and Unreal developers to design and publish their games directly to PSVR. 2015 is a memorable year for Virtual Reality (VR). MORE
Developer Human Interact announced this past week that they are collaborating with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services in order to power the conversational interface behind their Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, interactive narrative title named Starship Commander. MORE
This means the game he’d worked so hard with Microsoft to bring to the fledgling Oculus mobile platform didn’t have an audience with the right controller. Epic builds both the Unreal Engine toolset — used by game designers globally to build virtual worlds — as well as its own games, like the cross-platform battle royale leader Fortnite. MORE
In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. Playing with it is great, it is a bit like playing Unreal Tournament. MORE
And i’m not talking about Microsoft’s marketing use of the word “mixed reality” to describe their product line. Now Unreal Engine developers can finally open up their projects to mixed reality capture with a new plugin created by HTC Vive developer Foo Hoang. MORE
Vizard isn’t a game development engine like Unreal or Unity but instead a scientific-grade platform designed to create VR applications with a range of headsets and peripherals such as eye-tracking cameras or hand-tracking gloves. MORE
Even Microsoft uses the concept of “ Boundaries ” on PC with its inside-out tracking system to define play areas that are clear from floor to ceiling. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is not one to mince words when it comes to these kinds of questions because his company makes both games, like Fortnite, and the tools for other developers to make games, namely Unreal Engine. MORE
” See Also: Microsoft is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates. Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. MORE
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Microsoft aims to hit this growth spurt at just the right time, and pick the perfect sweet spot for its VR gear that could leave competitors in the dust. MORE
After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. MORE
Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone, and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not stopping one company from using the cloud to unlock the power of its tools. Gaming and the fabled power of the cloud has had a checkered history. MORE
Both Unity and Unreal Game engines tried their hands at creating a development environment in VR. Between these two, the Unreal toolkit is a little further along, but both need a lot of design and improvement and neither of these seems like it has surpassed the productivity of a traditional development environment. Microsoft’s Hololens Project X-Ray demonstrated this year how gaming and software elements can interact with furniture and architecture. MORE
Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. MORE
We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. MORE
A mention of the UK-based studio is dropped right at the end of the press release , simply stating that developer ILMxLAB is “proud to be working with Ninja Theory, an award-winning developer in the UK, and Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine.” MORE
Last year we took a tour of Dimension, an amazing new volumetric capture studio that utilizes Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture tech, located in London. That means content creators that shoot at the studio will be given tools, plugins and documentation to start integrating their captured performances into apps built with either Unity or Unreal Engine 4. MORE
These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. E3, Gamescom, TGS, PAX are all great shows for exhibiting VR content. MORE
The platform, which was announced at GDC last year, will be shown running an Unreal Engine VR demo inside both the StarVR and Microsoft’s Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR headsets at the event in Vancouver, Canada, from August 12th – 16th. Khronos Group’s anticipated VR/AR standard API, OpenXR, is finally getting its first ever public demo at Siggraph 2018 this week. MORE
So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions. MORE
RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. MORE
Thanks to recent platforms such as Apple’s ARKit and hardware like Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, AR has been on the rise as of late with zero signs of slowing down anytime soon. A new depth camera scans the real world and maps it in real-time. MORE
The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications. MORE
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%). MORE
It was formed by Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy who have spent time working on Microsoft’s HoloLens, Oculus Rift, Xbox One, and Unreal Engine 4, as well as games such as Gears of War , Doom 3 , Halo 4 , and Bullet Train. MORE
The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the HTC Vive’s roomscale virtual experience, you should check the Microsoft, Game Stop, or Micro Center location closest to you! MORE
What to Expect from Microsoft. With 2017 now in full swing and Microsoft moving their conference to a full day earlier at E3, we can expect that Scorpio and its VR functionality are likely being saved for that show too. Also, we know Microsoft is partnering with several manufacturers on VR headsets of its own, so we may learn more about some of those as well. We’re still waiting for an Unreal Tournament or Gears of War-caliber game from Tim Sweeney and company. MORE
without limitation, Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Valve, Steam, HTC)”, venture capital, or crowdsourcing. MORE
Nvidia is among a consortium of major players—including Valve, Oculus, AMD and Microsoft—which are collaborating to make the connector the future of VR headset connectivity. MORE
At the Unreal Engine presentation at GDC 2018 today, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri introduced several projects highlighting the scalability and performance of Unreal technology, including a partnership with ILMxLAB and Nvidia. MORE
Microsoft locates first VR/MR incubator in China’s Jiangxi ( China.org ). Onedome Opens ‘Unreal Garden’ Augmented Reality Art Exhibit in San Francisco ( Variety ). Catch up on the latest XR highlights, funding news & launch announcements – week of Oct 22. By Tom Emrich. MORE
Similar to Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens, the device can project virtual images into the real world that you can interact with using a remote-like controller (though HoloLens uses gesture controls). The device will support apps made on both Unity and Unreal game development engines. Nearly four years after it was first teased to the world, the first Magic Leap augmented reality headset is now on sale to developers. MORE
The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Thanks to RTX, that is supported by Direct X’s Ray Tracing API DXR, that have been announced by Microsoft in the same days, we can have real-time photorealistic renderings. MORE
The Machines is an upcoming concept from Directive Games that was made using Apple’s ARKit and Unreal Engine 4. I know I can’t be the only person that loves playing tabletop games but hates the setup, cleanup, and organizational headache they often cause. MORE
The company’s latest move allows people using development software like Unity and Unreal to easily bring 3D objects into their projects from a growing crowdsourced library. Google is taking its biggest step yet toward becoming an important service provider for immersive computing. MORE
Using the Unreal Engine 4, NASA has created an extremely detailed and realistic VR model of the interior of the ISS, and astronauts use the Manus gloves in the model for training simulations. MORE
Road to VR
MARCH 21, 2018
At the Unreal Engine presentation at GDC 2018 today, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri introduced several projects highlighting the scalability and performance of Unreal technology, including a partnership with ILMxLAB and Nvidia.
VRScout
JUNE 8, 2018
And i’m not talking about Microsoft’s marketing use of the word “mixed reality” to describe their product line. Now Unreal Engine developers can finally open up their projects to mixed reality capture with a new plugin created by HTC Vive developer Foo Hoang.
UploadVR
MARCH 5, 2017
Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers. He said developers have made more than $10 billion to date with Unreal games. “We
UploadVR
JUNE 8, 2017
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Microsoft aims to hit this growth spurt at just the right time, and pick the perfect sweet spot for its VR gear that could leave competitors in the dust.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 13, 2017
The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 11, 2017
Developer Human Interact announced this past week that they are collaborating with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services in order to power the conversational interface behind their Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, interactive narrative title named Starship Commander.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 29, 2018
RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it.
UploadVR
OCTOBER 1, 2018
A mention of the UK-based studio is dropped right at the end of the press release , simply stating that developer ILMxLAB is “proud to be working with Ninja Theory, an award-winning developer in the UK, and Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine.”
Road to VR
JANUARY 19, 2018
without limitation, Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Valve, Steam, HTC)”, venture capital, or crowdsourcing.
VRWorld
JUNE 8, 2016
Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately.
AWE Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Microsoft locates first VR/MR incubator in China’s Jiangxi ( China.org ). Onedome Opens ‘Unreal Garden’ Augmented Reality Art Exhibit in San Francisco ( Variety ). Catch up on the latest XR highlights, funding news & launch announcements – week of Oct 22. By Tom Emrich.
UploadVR
AUGUST 8, 2018
Vizard isn’t a game development engine like Unreal or Unity but instead a scientific-grade platform designed to create VR applications with a range of headsets and peripherals such as eye-tracking cameras or hand-tracking gloves.
VRScout
DECEMBER 3, 2017
Thanks to recent platforms such as Apple’s ARKit and hardware like Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, AR has been on the rise as of late with zero signs of slowing down anytime soon. A new depth camera scans the real world and maps it in real-time.
Super Reality
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Sony has also positioned the opportunity for its large install base of indie Unity and Unreal developers to design and publish their games directly to PSVR. 2015 is a memorable year for Virtual Reality (VR).
Road to VR
JULY 3, 2017
” See Also: Microsoft is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates. Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise.
UploadVR
AUGUST 13, 2018
The platform, which was announced at GDC last year, will be shown running an Unreal Engine VR demo inside both the StarVR and Microsoft’s Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR headsets at the event in Vancouver, Canada, from August 12th – 16th. Khronos Group’s anticipated VR/AR standard API, OpenXR, is finally getting its first ever public demo at Siggraph 2018 this week.
UploadVR
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Even Microsoft uses the concept of “ Boundaries ” on PC with its inside-out tracking system to define play areas that are clear from floor to ceiling. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is not one to mince words when it comes to these kinds of questions because his company makes both games, like Fortnite, and the tools for other developers to make games, namely Unreal Engine.
The Ghost Howls
AUGUST 22, 2018
In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. Playing with it is great, it is a bit like playing Unreal Tournament.
UploadVR
OCTOBER 26, 2018
This means the game he’d worked so hard with Microsoft to bring to the fledgling Oculus mobile platform didn’t have an audience with the right controller. Epic builds both the Unreal Engine toolset — used by game designers globally to build virtual worlds — as well as its own games, like the cross-platform battle royale leader Fortnite.
UploadVR
APRIL 24, 2018
Last year we took a tour of Dimension, an amazing new volumetric capture studio that utilizes Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture tech, located in London. That means content creators that shoot at the studio will be given tools, plugins and documentation to start integrating their captured performances into apps built with either Unity or Unreal Engine 4.
UploadVR
MARCH 4, 2017
Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone, and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not stopping one company from using the cloud to unlock the power of its tools. Gaming and the fabled power of the cloud has had a checkered history.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I.
AllThingsVR
JUNE 17, 2017
Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) reality I hold in my hands what looks and feels like a wand from a Harry Potter film.
Road to VR
AUGUST 13, 2018
Nvidia is among a consortium of major players—including Valve, Oculus, AMD and Microsoft—which are collaborating to make the connector the future of VR headset connectivity.
UploadVR
AUGUST 8, 2018
Similar to Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens, the device can project virtual images into the real world that you can interact with using a remote-like controller (though HoloLens uses gesture controls). The device will support apps made on both Unity and Unreal game development engines. Nearly four years after it was first teased to the world, the first Magic Leap augmented reality headset is now on sale to developers.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 15, 2018
So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions.
UploadVR
JULY 24, 2017
The Machines is an upcoming concept from Directive Games that was made using Apple’s ARKit and Unreal Engine 4. I know I can’t be the only person that loves playing tabletop games but hates the setup, cleanup, and organizational headache they often cause.
Road to VR
APRIL 13, 2017
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%).
UploadVR
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The company’s latest move allows people using development software like Unity and Unreal to easily bring 3D objects into their projects from a growing crowdsourced library. Google is taking its biggest step yet toward becoming an important service provider for immersive computing.
UploadVR
OCTOBER 30, 2016
Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2.
UploadVR
DECEMBER 16, 2016
It was formed by Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy who have spent time working on Microsoft’s HoloLens, Oculus Rift, Xbox One, and Unreal Engine 4, as well as games such as Gears of War , Doom 3 , Halo 4 , and Bullet Train.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 15, 2018
We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 26, 2018
The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Thanks to RTX, that is supported by Direct X’s Ray Tracing API DXR, that have been announced by Microsoft in the same days, we can have real-time photorealistic renderings.
UploadVR
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. E3, Gamescom, TGS, PAX are all great shows for exhibiting VR content.
eleVR
APRIL 28, 2017
So at some point, I switched to using the Microsoft HoloLens to create sketches in space, and took documentation screenshots and videos on there. I tested my augmented still life website in the Microsoft Edge browser within the HoloLens and discovered an interesting AR-within-AR world!
UploadVR
JUNE 8, 2017
Other sessions during the two-day span include a Bethesda Software panel (maybe Fallout VR will be shown,) Epic Games panel (Unreal Engine is heavily involved with VR, as well as titles such as Robo Recall,) and a panel focused on Microsoft’s Scorpio, which could have information about VR capabilities. This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is unique in that the general public was allowed to purchase tickets to gain entrance to the event.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Using the Unreal Engine 4, NASA has created an extremely detailed and realistic VR model of the interior of the ISS, and astronauts use the Manus gloves in the model for training simulations.
Infinityleap
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Both Unity and Unreal Game engines tried their hands at creating a development environment in VR. Between these two, the Unreal toolkit is a little further along, but both need a lot of design and improvement and neither of these seems like it has surpassed the productivity of a traditional development environment. Microsoft’s Hololens Project X-Ray demonstrated this year how gaming and software elements can interact with furniture and architecture.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp.
VRScout
JUNE 10, 2016
The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the HTC Vive’s roomscale virtual experience, you should check the Microsoft, Game Stop, or Micro Center location closest to you!
UploadVR
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
What to Expect from Microsoft. With 2017 now in full swing and Microsoft moving their conference to a full day earlier at E3, we can expect that Scorpio and its VR functionality are likely being saved for that show too. Also, we know Microsoft is partnering with several manufacturers on VR headsets of its own, so we may learn more about some of those as well. We’re still waiting for an Unreal Tournament or Gears of War-caliber game from Tim Sweeney and company.
VRWorld
JULY 19, 2017
The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications.
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