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ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment

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AUGUST 15, 2022

From real to unreal, from unreal to real. ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine 5 is now enhanced with the dynamic global illumination power of Lumen.

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Meta Quest Gets Unreal Engine 5 Support Minus Two Headlining Features

Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2023

Meta is transitioning its support from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.1 for apps built for the Quest platform. Two of the engine’s headlining features aren’t designed for mobile though, so it’s doubtful we we’ll ever see them on Quest.

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Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine

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MAY 24, 2022

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.

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Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real

Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. Unreal Engine 5 launched earlier this year, but unfortunately its two new key features—Lumen for global illumination lighting and Nanite for micro-geometry—weren’t supported for VR out of the gate.

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Unreal Engine Gets OpenXR Improvements Just in Time for Oculus Development Shift

Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The latest version of Unreal Engine 4, version 4.27, brings “production-ready” support for OpenXR. You may recall news back in May that the early access version of Unreal Engine 5 includes improved support for OpenXR. That makes Unreal Engine 4.27 Epic says that the OpenXR support in Unreal Engine 4.27

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Unreal Garden Returns With Updated Hardware and New Narrative Elements

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Unreal Garden introduced many people to location-based augmented reality. In case you missed your chance the first time , what is Unreal Garden? “We If the original Unreal Garden was like the original NES game console, the new Unreal Garden would be like the Nintendo 64,” said Kallmeyer. How to Visit the Unreal Garden.

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Deadmau5 Shares Mysterious VR Project Being Developed With Unreal Engine

VRScout

JULY 20, 2020

In a video posted to Instagram earlier this week, Grammy-nominated DJ/producer Deadmau5 teased a new VR project being developed alongside game art studio Upsurge Studios and game technology studio Geodesic Games using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. No word yet on when we can expect to learn more about this mysterious virtual endeavor.

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Unreal Engine 5: A Tutorial for VR Designers

XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 14, 2023

Unreal Engine, one of the leading creation tools in the digital development market, has its own selection of valuable VR modes and technologies specifically suited to virtual reality. The latest version of Unreal Engine, UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) shipped in April 2022 this year, after an initial period of early access in 2021.

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Unreal Engine 5 Launches in Early Access with New VR Template Built on OpenXR

Road to VR

MAY 26, 2021

Epic Games today announced that Unreal Engine 5 is now available in early access, including a new template for VR projects built on OpenXR 1.0, Epic Games is bringing heaps of new features and improvements to the latest version of its game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Windows Mixed Reality.

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Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse

Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Epic Games, the company known for its hit battle royale title Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine, has managed to attract a stunning $1 billion in its quest to establish a metaverse of linked games and services. The post Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse appeared first on Road to VR.

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

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. It’s going to be very interesting and very busy… I hope to meet you in Laval!

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Unreal Engine’s New Virtual Production Tool Is Reshaping Cinematography

VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2019

Unreal Engine is changing how filmmakers and advertisers are making movies and commercials with a new virtual production tool that allows them to add special effects in real-time. With Unreal Engine’s new production tool, the entire scene, including all the special fx, can be changed live on set in real-time. Image Credit: Epic Games.

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Unreal Engine Apps Can Now Be Built with Quest Hand-tracking

Road to VR

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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Epic Releases Unreal Engine 5 But Its Headlining Features Aren’t Ready for VR

Road to VR

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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Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed

Road to VR

MAY 13, 2020

Epic Games today revealed a PS5 tech demo built with Unreal Engine 5, the next-gen version of the company’s game engine. With new features for advanced lighting and unprecedented geometric detail, Unreal Engine 5 hopes to enable a generational leap in real-time graphics. While UE 4.25 Image courtesy Epic Games.

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Unreal Engine is Now Royalty-free for the First $1 Million in Revenue

Road to VR

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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Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025

Road to VR

MAY 20, 2020

With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app revenue, we were reminded of a similar program for VR apps based on Unreal Engine 4 that Oculus established back in 2016. SEE ALSO Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed.

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Adding Mixed Reality Capture Support to Unreal Games

VRScout

JUNE 8, 2018

Now Unreal Engine developers can finally open up their projects to mixed reality capture with a new plugin created by HTC Vive developer Foo Hoang. Developers who enable the Unreal Engine Mixed Reality Plugin for their applications will allow fans like us and other content creators to capture gameplay in an entirely new way.

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Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine

VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Rather than developing a mod for the original 2007 release, however, Loan is constructing the entire experience from the ground up in Unreal Engine, resulting in higher quality visuals as well as a new range of possibilities. The post Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine appeared first on VRScout.

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Optim Turns Unreal Engine Enterprise Projects into VR-capable Apps for Collaboration & Review

Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2020

Optim is a tool designed to make Unreal Engine more user-friendly for enterprise use-cases like design, visualization, and review. While Unreal Engine is a popular game engine, the tool is also increasingly being used for things like architecture, visualization, training, planning, and even filmmaking. Image courtesy Theia Interactive.

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Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned

Road to VR

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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Firewall Ultra Is Being Developed In Unreal Engine 5

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

First Contact Entertainment reveals Firewall Ultra is one of the first PSVR 2 games running on Unreal Engine 5. Asked about Early Access Unreal Engine 5 VR development for Firewall Ultra , First Contact detailed the challenges involved: It’s fair to say, it’s uncharted waters.

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The Unreal Garden AR Environment Was A Much Needed Escape From The Chaos Of E3

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JUNE 15, 2019

The Unreal Garden, a large-scale multiplayer AR experience from The Entertainment Software Association and Onedome, offered E3 2019 attendess an escape from the chaos, turning 6,000 sq. “The Unreal Garden @ E3 provides a world-class opportunity for E3 attendees to explore the intersection of technology and human experience.”

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Open-Source VIRTUOSO SDK for Unreal Engine – a Standard Framework for XR Development

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. This is the big news the XR development world was waiting for for a long time. VIRTUOSO SDK (VSDK): Making XR Development More Streamlined.

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Unreal Engine 4.25 Improves Support for HoloLens 2, Magic Leap, Adds Azure Spatial Anchors

Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine 4.25 Unreal Engine is one of the most popular game engines for building XR content. This week Unreal Engine 4.25 Epic Games says that Unreal Engine now offers production-ready support for HoloLens 2. On the VR side, Unreal Engine 4.25 The post Unreal Engine 4.25 Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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Unreal Garden AR Experience Opens to Visitors with Epson Laser Projectors

ARPost

JUNE 20, 2019

One of the big events at this year’s E3 was the Unreal Garden and, if you weren’t at E3, you may still be able to see it. What Is the Unreal Garden? The Unreal Garden is an AR experience developed by onedome. It’s been around for a while and has a couple of experiences other than the Unreal Garden. What Makes It Special?

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Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants

Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2019

At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. The post Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants appeared first on Road to VR.

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Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite & Lumen Now Work With VR

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite & Lumen now work with virtual reality. Lumen and Nanite running in VR w/ Unreal Engine 5.1 But with Unreal Engine 5.1 The public Unreal Engine 5 GitHub build works for PC VR, but Meta has its own UE5 branch it recommends for native Quest 2 development. at 90 fps and no crashing.

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ESI Design Uses Unreal Engine To Create An AR-Inspired Lobby Experience

VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A two year renovation has transformed The Crossroads lobby into an interactive digital experience powered by Unreal Engine. For the woodland creatures that roam inside of the digital windows, the design team turned to Unreal Engine’s AI-driven animations to bring the animals to life and have them respond naturally to your presence.

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Unreal Engine 4 Now Available for Microsoft HoloLens 2

Next Reality AR

JUNE 3, 2019

Native support for Unreal Engine 4 has arrived for the HoloLens 2 via early access on GitHub (login required). A major software tool first promised during the reveal of the HoloLens 2 earlier this year is finally available.

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Watch: ILMxLab’s Star Wars Real-Time Ray-Tracing Demo on Unreal Engine is Stunning

Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

At the Unreal Engine presentation at GDC 2018 today, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri introduced several projects highlighting the scalability and performance of Unreal technology, including a partnership with ILMxLAB and Nvidia. This was the first live demonstration of interactive, real-time, ray-tracing with Unreal Engine.

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Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2018

Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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Marc Petit, Unreal Engine at Epic Games

Everything VR & AR

APRIL 14, 2022

Marc Petit, VP of Unreal Engine Ecosystems at Epic Games, shares his journey that started with his career in early graphic content creation in the late 80s and has now led to the creation of immersive content at Unreal Engine.

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Oculus Will Cover Unreal Engine Developer Fees Through First $5M in Revenue, Per Game

Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any Unreal Engine applications on their store, up to the first $5 million in gross revenue.

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Unreal Engine 4.18 Update Brings Native Support for ARKit and ARCore, SteamVR Support for Mac

Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Epic Game’s Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18 Epic has however provided experimental support in their game engine for ARKit since Unreal Engine 4.17, but the new 4.18 ” Unreal Engine 4.18 ” Unreal Engine 4.18 The post Unreal Engine 4.18

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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

Road to VR

JANUARY 14, 2022

Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. BRUNNER Elektronik – Unreal Engine Integration for NOVASIM Flight Simulator. In 2021 the program awarded grants to 31 XR projects.

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NASA Needs Your Help Building A VR Mars Simulator

VRScout

MAY 5, 2022

Built using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, the Mars XR Operations Support System is a virtual environment developed by NASA in collaboration with Buendea that simulates life on the planet Mars. ” Credit: HeroX.

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A Tour of the Mytaverse Enterprise Immersive World

ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The update brought Unreal Engine 5 to the platform (Did we mention that Unreal is a tech partner?), See Also: ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment. All of this is made even more impressive by the first major update to the Mytaverse platform, partially funded by a recent $7.6M

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3 Unreal Engine 5 features PC gamers need to know about

Digital Trends

APRIL 5, 2022

Epic finally released Unreal Engine 5, but we're still waiting on games that use the new engine. Here's what PC gamers have to look forward to.

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Unity, Unreal Engine & Mozilla Partner with Magic Leap as SDK Rolls Out to Developers

Next Reality AR

MARCH 19, 2018

Following the surprise release of Magic Leap's SDK on Monday, March 19, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Mozilla followed up by announcing official partnerships with the company. "We We are proud to partner with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity," Unity announced on its official blog.

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Metal Gear Solid In VR Looks Like A Good Time

VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2022

Another developer going by the name of Vapor Cephalopod on Twitter is also working on a VR remake of the game using Unreal Engine. MetalGearSolid #UnrealEngine5 #VR #RTX This is my communitie's MGS remake in unreal engine 5 which supports third person and VR work in progress. More information on that here.

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Epic Games Gives $80,000 To Unreal Devs Including SculptrVR

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JULY 2, 2016

Epic Games has given out $80,000 as part of its Unreal Dev Grants program, which rewards indie developers that use the company’s game-making Unreal Engine 4 tools. The post Epic Games Gives $80,000 To Unreal Devs Including SculptrVR appeared first on UploadVR.

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Unreal Engine 4.17 Adds VR Spectator Screen, ARKit Support

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.17 Unreal Engine was powering the Wingnut AR demo we saw during ARKit’s reveal earlier this year, but now all Unreal developers can get to grips with it. update is here , and it’s got some great new features for VR and AR lovers. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Unreal Engine AR Development: A Deeper Dive

Program Ace

JULY 20, 2022

The post Unreal Engine AR Development: A Deeper Dive appeared first on Program-Ace.

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ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment

Meta Quest Gets Unreal Engine 5 Support Minus Two Headlining Features

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Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real

Unreal Engine Gets OpenXR Improvements Just in Time for Oculus Development Shift

Unreal Garden Returns With Updated Hardware and New Narrative Elements

Deadmau5 Shares Mysterious VR Project Being Developed With Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine 5: A Tutorial for VR Designers

Unreal Engine 5 Launches in Early Access with New VR Template Built on OpenXR

Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse

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Unreal Engine’s New Virtual Production Tool Is Reshaping Cinematography

Unreal Engine Apps Can Now Be Built with Quest Hand-tracking

Epic Releases Unreal Engine 5 But Its Headlining Features Aren’t Ready for VR

Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed

Unreal Engine is Now Royalty-free for the First $1 Million in Revenue

Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025

Adding Mixed Reality Capture Support to Unreal Games

Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine

Optim Turns Unreal Engine Enterprise Projects into VR-capable Apps for Collaboration & Review

Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned

Firewall Ultra Is Being Developed In Unreal Engine 5

The Unreal Garden AR Environment Was A Much Needed Escape From The Chaos Of E3

Open-Source VIRTUOSO SDK for Unreal Engine – a Standard Framework for XR Development

Unreal Engine 4.25 Improves Support for HoloLens 2, Magic Leap, Adds Azure Spatial Anchors

Unreal Garden AR Experience Opens to Visitors with Epson Laser Projectors

Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants

Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite & Lumen Now Work With VR

ESI Design Uses Unreal Engine To Create An AR-Inspired Lobby Experience

Unreal Engine 4 Now Available for Microsoft HoloLens 2

Watch: ILMxLab’s Star Wars Real-Time Ray-Tracing Demo on Unreal Engine is Stunning

Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

Marc Petit, Unreal Engine at Epic Games

Oculus Will Cover Unreal Engine Developer Fees Through First $5M in Revenue, Per Game

Unreal Engine 4.18 Update Brings Native Support for ARKit and ARCore, SteamVR Support for Mac

Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

NASA Needs Your Help Building A VR Mars Simulator

A Tour of the Mytaverse Enterprise Immersive World

3 Unreal Engine 5 features PC gamers need to know about

Unity, Unreal Engine & Mozilla Partner with Magic Leap as SDK Rolls Out to Developers

Metal Gear Solid In VR Looks Like A Good Time

Epic Games Gives $80,000 To Unreal Devs Including SculptrVR

Unreal Engine 4.17 Adds VR Spectator Screen, ARKit Support

Unreal Engine AR Development: A Deeper Dive

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