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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

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Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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Made with (Dis)Unity? XR World Reacts to New Runtime Fees

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Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community. Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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Epic Games, Unity & Microsoft Have Cancelled Their Attendance at GDC 2020

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Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Microsoft’s Game Stack team have all issued statements announcing their withdrawals from March’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020. . Over on Unreal Engine’s Twitter account , the company said: “Here at Epic we were excited about participating in GDC 2020.

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Unity Hires VRML Co-Creator Tony Parisi In Bid For VR Dominance

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Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Over the past year he’s served as Vice President of Platform Products at WEVR but, most recently, he was planning a San Francisco-based startup, FormVR.

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Big XR News from Unity, PIXO VR, and Microsoft

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Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. Parkinson also noted other major trends would involve the “expansion of display technology” as well as further AI integrations.

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XLA Unveils Metasites Framework at GDC 2023

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Alexey Savchenko, XLA Chief Product Officer , demoed the solution at the event in San Francisco as the firm addressed audiences in a speech on the Metaverse and synthetic media. The platform incorporates metaverse, cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to power community-driven video game and entertainment creations.

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5 Talks You Won’t Want to Miss at VRDC This Week

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The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. The two-day event is essentially a mini-GDC, focused exclusively on VR headsets and related technologies. October insanity might be over, but there’s no rest for the VR industry this week.