Unreal Engine 4
This Star Trek Enterprise Virtual Tour is VR Ready and Absolutely Incredible
We've already seen a fair few fan-made virtual reality recreations of popular sci-fi franchise, but this latest recreation of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Enterprise-D starship will redefine your expectations from future efforts.
It stands to reason that for people...
‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux’ is Out, Bringing VR Support
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a critically acclaimed, story driven mystery from developer 'The Astronauts'. It's a game which always seemed ideal for virtual reality and now, with the release of the game's Unreal Engine 4 'redux', VR support is...
Oculus Story Studio Talks Tooling, Using “out-of-the-box tools as much as possible”
Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use.
Story Studio has the funds, and...
Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus
Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from.
Showdown was created...
Epic’s Big Data VR Challenge Winner Will Take Home $20,000 Next Week at Develop: Brighton Conference
Epic Games' Big Data VR Challenge has been underway since March and is coming to a close next week. With luck, the teams have created some entirely new ways of visualizing complex data sets in a VR space so that their hidden...
New Oculus 0.6 SDK Built Into Unreal Engine 4.8 Preview 3, Available Now
With the exciting new developer features revealed with the Oculus SDK 0.6 earlier this month, it's great to see Epic working diligently to bring the new version to Unreal Engine 4. The first integration of 0.6 for UE4 comes...
Epic’s ‘Showdown’ Demo Runs at 60 FPS on Morpheus After UE4 Optimizations
Epic's high fidelity Showdown demo was only barely able to hold framerate on one of the most powerful GPUs in the world when it debuted last September. But now, after optimizations for Unreal Engine 4 on PS4, the demo runs on...
Unity and Unreal Engine Now Both Support HTC Vive Development
The industry's two largest game engines, Unity and Unreal Engine, are now both officially supported by SteamVR, Valve's full-featured 'room-scale' VR experience. The integration of the two game engines will allow developers to immediately begin developing for HTC Vive.
Unity and Unreal Engine now both...
First-Time Reactions from Oculus’ Crescent Bay and HTC’s Vive VR Headsets, 24 Hours Apart
After months of hearing about Oculus' latest prototype VR headset, Crescent Bay, and pining after a session with the bleeding edge device for so long, I finally secured a demo with the Crescent Bay prototype at this year's GDC. What I...
NUREN is First VR Project to Receive Unreal Dev Grant
: The New Renaissance is the first VR project to get a slice of Epic Games' development fund, coming to the tune of $18,000 worth of "no strings attached" funds to further the development of the virtual reality experience.
Last month, Epic Games announced...
Valve Presents – glNext: The Future of High Performance Graphics – Live Blog @ 10am PST
"Join us for the unveiling of Khronos' glNext initiative, the upcoming cross-platform graphics API designed for modern programming techniques and processors. glNext will be the singular choice for developers who demand peak performance in their applications. We will present...
Unreal Engine is Now Free for Everyone
In a surprise move, Epic has announced that its cutting-edge 3D engine 'Unreal' is now free to everyone who wants it. So what's the catch?
Well, in short it seems there really isn't one. Epic's ethos is now "We succeed...
This Stunning Virtual Realisation of Venice is Available for Oculus Rift Now
Virtual Architectural Visualisation is one of many non-gaming applications for virtual reality, and one that's seeing growth.
UE4Arch is a company dedicated to creating and selling hyper-realistic virtual creations that can be experienced in virtual reality. The company works in Unreal...
Epic Games Offering up Cash from $5 Million Fund to ‘Anyone Making Cool Things with UE4’
Epic Games is offering developers a "no strings attached" piece of their recently established development fund, a financial grant pool that tops out at $5,000,000 worth of cash. The funds are earmarked for projects with working prototypes, that are...
Next Major Version of UE4 to Include Samsung Gear VR Support and Latest Oculus Runtime
Epic Games, creators of the Unreal Engine game authoring software, plan to include support for Samsung's new Gear VR headset in the next major version of the software.
Unreal Engine is one of two big game authoring engines with support...



















