article thumbnail

Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine

ARPost

From Real to Unreal and Unreal to Real. ej Dobruský, Victoria VR blurs the line between the imaginary and real worlds by building its metaverse platform on Unreal Engine , the gaming engine of choice for most developers. Unreal Engine has the capability to render real-life photos into photorealistic graphical images.

Unreal 448
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

Apple 307
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

BMW Unveils Mixed Reality Driving Experience

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. A qualified safety engineer supervised the entire experience, which leverages hand and eye tracking to simulate the virtual, parallel racing space. With Epic, we have found the best possible partner.

article thumbnail

A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) realityI.

AllThingsVR

It was 3D-printed right here, in the high-tech workshop where I’m standing. In the industry, this type of game is still considered blue-sky thinking—experiences tend to be segmented into AR or VR—but students vying for Full Sail’s Simulation and Visualization bachelor degree, launched in 2016, are encouraged to think big.

Florida 70
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc…. Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

article thumbnail

4 Ways The Metaverse May (Positively) Impact Your Business Operations

Bernard Marr

Then, they could give AR-enhanced instructions to help the customer fix the issue themselves – no need for the customer to send the product away or take it to a workshop or for technicians to make house calls. Thanks to metaverse-building tools like Unreal Engine 5, it’s easy to build your own virtual world where colleagues can collaborate.

article thumbnail

WorldViz VR solutions help university research

Hypergrid Business

Huge Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE) of Miami University is a 1,000 square meters virtual reality environment, and is used for the university’s research work such as spatial cognition and medical training simulations in nursing programs. Pre-Board Lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Running NextGen Simulation.

Miami 69