An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal Engine 4. Oculus released controllerless hand-tracking on Oculus Quest as a beta feature back in late 2019. At the time, the...

Optim is a tool designed to make Unreal Engine more user-friendly for enterprise use-cases like design, visualization, and review. The latest version allows businesses to easily turn their projects into collaborative apps, allowing multiple parties to remotely step into...

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...

The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn't the only news Epic Games revealed today. The company also announced a change to the pricing structure of Unreal Engine which waives royalties on the first $1 million of project...

Unreal Engine 4.20 officially launched today with heaps of updates. In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. On the AR front, UE...

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...

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...

Epic Game's Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18 update, now including official support for Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore software dev kits, and support for SteamVR on Mac. 'Production-ready' support for...

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. As an active supporter of VR and head of one of gaming's most important VR-compatible game engines, when Sweeney speaks, we tend...

Epic senior designer Nick Donaldson schooled us on some of the intricacies of Unreal's new VR Editor, modifying a pre-built demo scene using the Oculus Rift and Touch controller in the Epic booth at GDC. The Unreal VR Editor announced just last month...

At Epic's Unreal Engine presentation at GDC, the team demonstrated their forthcoming Unreal VR Editor working with both the Oculus Rift VR Headset and the Oculus Rift motion controllers. On stage at Epic's Demonstrated full editor menus represented, content browser,...

Epic's presence at GDC and VRDC reflects it's importance in this next phase of virtual reality application development as it's Unreal Engine drives a significant number of new games and applications in the VR space heading into 2016. Watch...

Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here's what it looks like. The VR renaissance has inspired...

Epic's Bullet Train was one of the highlights of last month's Oculus Connect developer conference, being one of the first triple-A titles to demonstrate ground-up support for Oculus' new VR controller, 'Touch'. This short film charts the final stages...

There are few games which stir gaming passions or memories as strong as Half-Life 2. Valve's Source Engine powered sequel was a masterpiece of emergent first person shooter design and ushered in a new era of gaming for many. Well,...