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

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Though the new version brings improvements in many areas, its most notable features are Lumen (global illumination) and Nanite (micro-polygon geometry), which could...

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

The latest version of Unreal Engine 4, version 4.27, brings "production-ready" support for OpenXR. The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it's fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development...

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

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

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...

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

Unreal Engine 4.25 launched this week bringing a host of improvements to the engine's XR functionality. HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap saw the most attention, including the addition of Azure Spatial Anchors, Microsoft's cross-platform system which enables shared augmented...

Open Source Game Engine ‘Godot Engine’ Gets VR Support

The full release of Godot 3.0 is now available, bringing VR support to the engine via a lightweight, 3DoF, ‘Cardboard-like’ solution, and OpenVR support through a GDNative-based plugin. The multiplatform Godot Engine is an open source, non-profit project available...
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Watch: Latest Unity VR Editor Shown Off at Unite, Releasing in 2016

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR, which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the...

Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market....
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