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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Today Oculus released new development tools which add experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 applications built with Unity.

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JUNE 2, 2020

An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal Engine 4. At the time, the company had only added support to the Oculus Unity integration, meaning that developers building apps in Unreal Engine didn’t have access to the feature.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Meta released a new mixed reality showcase for Unreal Engine developers that ought to help kickstart some Quest projects that use your room in fresh and interesting ways. Phanto for Unreal, an open source port of the previously released Phanto project for Unity , was recently launched for Unreal Engine 5.3.

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MAY 14, 2020

The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn’t the only news Epic Games revealed today. Alongside the reveal of Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games today also announced a change to the pricing of Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine is also free for personal use, free projects, and linear content creation.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Meta is transitioning its support from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.1 Granted, many VR creators opt to develop in Unity thanks to its relative simplicity for smaller teams and greater overall market share, meaning more assets and general know-how to go around. for apps built for the Quest platform.

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APRIL 28, 2022

At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for Unity & Unreal Engine. Unity & Unreal On the Way. The post Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned appeared first on Road to VR.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unity has officially launched 1.0 support for visionOS, making its now Vision Pro-compatible game engine available to all Unity Pro, Enterprise, and Industry subscribers. Some of the key features of its Unity’s 1.0 The post Unity Releases 1.0 Check out the full guide here.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Praydog’s Universal Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod. This mod opens the door for VR enthusiasts to play heaps of AAA games in VR ( here’s a list of just a few of them ) by making it easy to add initial VR support to games built with Unreal Engine. but it makes most Unreal Engine games quite fantastic to play in VR out of the box!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

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. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. Top news of the week.

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JULY 4, 2023

According to job postings published this year , the studio has been seeking to fill various roles to work on an “unannounced VR game using the Unreal Engine.” The mention of Unreal Engine (specifically UE4, as noted in some listings) is certainly interesting.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

And it is made possible by VIRTUOSO , an open-source SDK created by Charles Rivers Analytics, which is now available for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. This inflection point has accelerated our efforts to enable OpenXR in Unity,” writes Matt Fuad , Sr.

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JUNE 22, 2022

This is what the collaboration between Esri and Unity brings to the world. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0 Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity enables developers to integrate ArcGIS directly into the Unity platform.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meta Quest developers looking to port their Unity-based apps to Google’s newly unveiled Android XR operating system shouldn’t have a tough time of it, Unity says, as the game engine creator today released all of the tools devs need to get cracking. “This is as simple a port as youre ever going to encounter.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Unity VR Developer. Organization: Unity. Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. The Unity organization is keen on training and certifying professionals who will put their tool to the best possible use. Before you take the exam, you can use the Unity Learn platform for practice.

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APRIL 9, 2020

One of the coolest parts of developing with Unity or Unreal Engine is the ability to instantly hop into your VR headset and view 3D creations at scale. The ladder even has a VR mode that lets you build in-headset using the Unreal Editor tool set. Users will soon be able to view their 3D scenes in VR.

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JULY 28, 2021

While both Unity and Unreal Engine—the two most commonly used tools for building VR applications—offer some degree of support for OpenXR, neither have shifted to OpenXR as the default for building new VR applications. In Unity, OpenXR support is still considered “experimental.”

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APRIL 6, 2022

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Available as of this week for all developers , Unreal Engine 5 promises to usher in a new era of game development which makes it easier for developers to create games with extremely high quality assets and realistic lighting.

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JULY 31, 2024

Released in the Audio SDK for Unity and Unreal, the new Acoustic Ray Tracing tech is designed to automate the complex process of simulating realistic acoustics which is traditionally achieved through labor-intensive, manual methods. You can find out more about Meta’s Acoustic Ray Tracing here.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Supported Platforms : Android, iOS, Unity, and Universal Windows Platform. Pricing : Free. Google ARCore.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. . Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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JUNE 26, 2024

for Unity-based apps which support Meta’s Presence Platform capabilities, such as hand tracking, passthrough, spatial anchors, etc. for similar Unreal-based apps will also arrive, with official release of both Unity and Unreal versions coming sometime in Q4 2024.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2020

Each team member can be seen operating the body of their own unique avatars in a custom tech demo environment built on the Unity platform. The content for the technical demo was created in Unity. Image Credit: Antilatency). Antilatency’s full-body tracking is available for purchase now via antilatency.com.

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JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab , the platform that lets you view, share, and download 3D models via traditional monitors and AR/VR headsets, today announced its been acquired by Unreal Engine creators Epic Games. Sketchfab says it will continue to support other game engines, Unity included.

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JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi took the stage and confirmed that “Valve is bringing SteamVR to Mac.”

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JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Unity is popular for its accessibility and beginner-friendly features. Unity is popular for its accessibility and beginner-friendly features. However, each option has its own unique pros and cons to consider.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Image Credit: Diver-X. An official Kickstarter for the headset will launch this November. The base model will cost around $700, followed by the full set for $1,100 and the varifocal lens model for $3,900.

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JUNE 30, 2019

Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Courtesy of VR education startup Axon Park , the ‘Unreal Engine VR Master Class’ will debut in VR this autumn. Axon Park holds that there are some prerequisites to consider when applying for the Unreal Engine VR Master Class.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Alongside its proprietary 20/20 eye tracker and 60-PPD Bionic Display with “human-eye” resolution, the VR-1 also features support for a large helping of photorealistic virtual workflows, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk, VRRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue.

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JUNE 28, 2020

The data can then be exported into all typical formats used to create visual effects such as FBX and BVH, and can be streamed directly into Unity, Unreal, and Autodesk, where you can then add custom visual details. You can see a much more detailed breakdown of how the suit works, here. .

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2021

feet (74 x 66 cm) Weight: 110 lbs (50 kg) Communication: Wifi, LAN Wifi Setup: Bluetooth setup by Yaw2 app General setup: Yaw2 app for android, iOS, Windows SDK: unity, UNREAL Emulator: android, iOS, Windows. Image Credit: Yaw VR.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Meta's Interaction SDK now supports Unreal Engine, and the Unity version now supports non-Meta headsets. 0:00 / 0:07 1× Previously, Meta Interaction SDK was only available for Unity. It's now available for Unreal Engine too. However, the Horizon OS UI Set isn't yet part of the Unreal Engine version.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

In terms of compatibility, the XR-3 plays nice with major software such as Unity, Unreal Engine, OpenXR, Autodesk VRED, Lockheed Martin Prepar3d, VBS BlueIG, and FlightSafety Vital just to name a few. Varjo’s VR-3 features the same specifications as the XR-3 with a few additional goodies.

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JULY 20, 2021

If you are a Unity developer like me, you can use the awesome Unity Recorder package to shoot videos of your experience, both 2D videos and 360 videos. Basically in most cases, you set the Recorder settings, you play your game inside Unity, and you have the video ready without any hassle. Surreal Capture.

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APRIL 7, 2021

According to HP, these new features can be used by developers working in both Unreal Engine and Unity to create “hyper-personalized” training solutions for various types of professional enterprises.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To bring its new-and-improved avatars to even more apps, Facebook plans on introducing Avatar SDK support to Unity in December, with Unreal Engine 4 to follow. . Earlier this year, the company began rolling out its new Avatars, starting with a handful of apps. Feature Image Credit: Facebook (Meta).

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Meta released an XR UI kit for Unity, which some Quest developers have been requesting for years. But until recently , the only way to build XR apps for Meta's headsets was with a game engine, such as Unity or Unreal, and Meta didn't provide any kind of UI framework for either. Meta has finally released a solution to this.

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