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

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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. Esri , the world’s largest GIS software firm, recently released version 1.0 of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

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

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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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A Tour of the Mytaverse Enterprise Immersive World

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There are a number of great virtual world platforms out there – and a smaller number of those are dedicated to enterprise use. Mytaverse is an enterprise-only platform with special tools for digital twins and virtual assets, and I got the world tour. seed round. Navigating Within the Platform.

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Unreal Engine 4.20 Ships With Native Mixed Reality Compositing for VR, New AR/VR SDKs

Road to VR

Unreal Engine 4.20 Mixed reality video compositing for VR allows applications to pull in video from the real world and mix it with the virtual world, which can lead to a really cool footage, like the work done for the Fantastic Contraption (2016) trailer ; it’s also the preferred way for streamers to show themselves in VR.

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VLGE opens SDK for its no-code virtual world builder aimed at fashion, beauty and art industries

TechCrunch VR

What would happen if this thinking were applied to metaverse-style virtual worlds? Crucible, a metaverse company that creates tools for game developers, recently launched its Emergence software development kit (SDK) for Unreal Engine, for instance). What would be built? VLGE isn’t the only one banking on an SDK strategy.

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How Sound Design Can Add Texture To A Virtual World

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Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. In the real world, this would be impossible, since there are no walls or anything in the space that suggests there should be reverb.