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MAY 26, 2017

During a week where Unity gained a $400 million influx of investment capital, it’s chief rival Epic Games is working to spend $5 million of its own money to facilitate game development for the Unreal Engine. Earlier this year, Epic announced that it would be dolling out $5 million total in grants to up and coming Unreal devs.

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VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

The Lord of the Rings auteur is using Apple’s ARkit to unlock new levels of storytelling immersion in augmented reality. The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises.

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GizModo VR

MAY 26, 2021

The answer is they’ll be starting next month in New Zealand—and it’ll premiere on HBO Max. Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell can finally stop answering the question they’ve gotten for almost 30 years: “When are you going to make Evil Dead 4 ?” Read more.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

Apple Trademarks XR Operating System Apple has filed a trademark for “ xrOS ” with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office, further teasing its upcoming MR headset. Apple initially filed the base xrOS trademark with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office earlier this year.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

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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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. Or maybe with the same money, they can directly go to New Zealand (Image by Road To VR).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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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