Unreal Engine 4

Virtual Production Takes Center Stage in ‘The Midnight Sky’

Digitized shots of Icelandic snow, glaciers, and misty weather, coupled with real-time camera tracking and Unreal Engine, meant high-resolution environment projections, and lighting, could be captured in-camera to provide unprecedented realism for onstage shooting, in George Clooney and Netflix’s Oscar-nominated sci-fi drama.

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HBO and Framestore Release ‘His Dark Materials: My Daemon’ Interactive iOS App.

New augmented reality app connects users with their own Daemon, fueling further fan excitement over the Season 2 debut of ‘His Dark Materials’ coming to HBO and HBO Max on November 16.

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Adobe Releases Substance Painter Update

New 3D paint tools optimize creative workflow allowing users to paint across UV Tiles, import UDIM images from existing sources and export easily to renderers or engines that supports UDIMs.

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Platige Image Releases ‘Koala’ Unreal Engine 4-Powered Short

As part of its ongoing R&D efforts, studio creates animated short showcasing new UE4 real-time technology, including ray tracing and rendering innovations.

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NVIDIA Announces Creator Ready Driver Program at GTC 2019

NVIDIA supercharges creative workflows with RTX GPUs and Creator Ready Drivers to improve performance and reliability in creative applications.

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Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 4.21

New release adds increased mobile optimizations to Android and iOS, up to 60 percent speed increases when cooking content, and more power and flexibility in the industry-leading Niagara effects toolset for real-time VFX.

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Epic Games Releases Final Set of Free Paragon Hero Assets

New batch of 19 AAA-quality characters now available free-of-charge to Unreal Engine 4 developer community.

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Is NVIDIA’s New RTX Real-Time Ray Tracing Technology Really a Game Changer?

Industry analyst Jon Peddie weighs in on the significance of NVIDIA’s recently announced Turing GPU architecture and AI-enhanced photorealistic rendering.

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Epic Games Introduces Unreal Engine Online Learning

New learning platform for Unreal Engine 4 users illustrates common workflows across Game Development, Architecture, Industrial Design and Media and Entertainment.

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Vicon Introduces Shōgun 1.2 at GDC 2018 with a Virtual Escape Room

Daily presentations with new Unreal Engine 4 content project and a multi-person virtual escape room take center stage at Vicon’s GDC booth.

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Epic Games, NVIDIA Deliver VR Development Platform

Unreal Engine 4 with NVIDIA Quadro brings proven reliability and performance to manufacturers, designers, content creators.

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Polygon Pictures Launches Official ‘Airtone’ Site

PPI’s Yuki Moriyama provided character design for main character, Neon.

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Xsens Helps The Imaginarium Go High-Tech for ‘The Tempest’

The Imaginarium Studios partners with the Royal Shakespeare Company to create a digital avatar projected in real-time utilizing Xsens motion capture technology.

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Epic Games Awards $100,000 in New Round of Unreal Dev Grants

Six recipients awarded a total of $100,000 in the latest round of $5 million program created to aid outstanding developers with no-strings-attached funding for their projects created in and around Unreal Engine 4.

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Unreal Engine 4 Powers Real-Time Cinematography at SIGGRAPH 2016

Groundbreaking real-time cinematography demonstration from Epic Games receives the SIGGRAPH award for Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity at Real Time Live!

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Virtual Reality Headline News

Xsens Announces Integration with Unreal Engine 4 at GDC 2016

Xsens GDC booth to feature full-body immersive VR Experience with The Virtual Dutch Men and presentations with Autodesk, Faceware, and Manus VR.

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Virtual Reality Headline News

‘Giant’ Delivers Cinematic VR Experience at Sundance

Five-minute VR film experience created by developers Jack Caron, Todd Bryant, Omer Shapira and Uros Otasevic and shot in 6K is rendered using the Unreal Engine 4 game engine accelerated by NVIDIA Quadro M6000 GPUs.