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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games has finally released the latest iteration of its popular game engine: Unreal Engine 5. This means that while great, Unreal Engine 5 is not disruptive for us VR users and developers, yet. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high.

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Generative AI and Virtual Worlds

Building the Metaverse

A few days ago, my team won grant prize the LA AI Virtual Worlds hackathon during the a16z Tech Week by creating a roleplaying game in one day. A big part of that is generative AI — as well as the work we’re doing at Beamable to enable you to get the servers set up for entire worlds setup on “day zero.”

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Luma AI to Accelerate NeRF XR Content Creation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This Monday, Luma AI debuted a plugin for NVIDIA NeRF, a volumetric capture and immersive content creation suite which enables developers to run their designs on Unreal Engine 5 as a real-time render. The update allows Unreal developers to run Luma AI volumetric renderings locally.

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Space Invaders Celebrates 45th Anniversary With a New AR Game

ARPost

Space Invaders is a shooting video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 and manufactured and sold by TAITO. It was the first fixed shooter video game and is considered one of the most iconic arcade games ever. Players can defend their real-world neighborhoods from 3D invaders emerging from nearby buildings and landmarks.

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The Direct from Imagination Era Has Begun

Building the Metaverse

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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NVIDIA’s Dave Weinstein: AI integration will be fundamental for the future of XR

The Ghost Howls

I think there is a lot of confusion in the communities about it… Omniverse is a simulator of 3D virtual worlds. To use an analogy, Omniverse Nucleus – the platform’s collaboration engine – is like the ‘Git’ of 3D assets and these virtual worlds. Why is a solution like Omniverse important?

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Apple Embraces VR: Every Virtual Reality Announcement From Today’s WWDC Keynote

Road to VR

Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets. The demo was shot against a green screen so that it could be composited together with the virtual world, offering a mixed reality view for the audience. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.