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Meta Quest Gets Unreal Engine 5 Support Minus Two Headlining Features

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Meta is transitioning its support from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.1 Software ray tracing can be done on NVIDIA GeForce GTX-1070 or higher cards, while hardware ray tracing must be on NVIDIA RTX-2000 series or higher, or AMD RX-6000 series or higher. for apps built for the Quest platform.

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Space Invaders Celebrates 45th Anniversary With a New AR Game

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For example, if it’s raining, the virtual environment may also show rain, and if there’s a tall building at the player’s location, there will also be a tall building in the AR realm where an Invader may emerge from. The most remarkable update, however, is the real-time response to location-specific patterns and nearby buildings.

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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

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As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. These collaborations are also a result of the need to create an open and interoperable metaverse.

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Steam Audio Promises More Realistic Sound For Games And VR

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The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as a player moves around a virtual room. The tech supports PC, Mac, Linux and Android.

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Top 5 XR Innovations to Invest in During 2022 and 2023

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Creating a phenomenal XR experience requires the careful alignment of software and hardware solutions. Often combined with RT3D engines, photogrammetry is a technology designed to help content creators and innovators construct digital twins for the virtual environment. Edge and Cloud Computing. Photogrammetry.

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Sony Establishes Virtual Production Collaboration Centre

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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The XR Eye & Hand Tracking Vendors for 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.