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Epic Games acquires 3D content library and publishing platform Sketchfab

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Time Stamp: July 21, 2021 7:26 PM - Modified On: July 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality News July 21, 2021 – Epic Games, a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of its ‘Unreal Engine’ 3D engine technology, has today announced that it has acquired Sketchfab, a 3D content library and publishing platform. Sketchfab allows users to discover, edit, buy, and sell 3D content directly through its web-based service, and is home to 4 million 3D assets, according to the company. Its technology has integrations across every major 3D creation tool and publishing platform and is compatible across all major browsers

Ordnance Survey partners with PRELOADED to create world-scale Augmented Reality game

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Time Stamp: July 19, 2021 3:24 AM - Modified On: July 19, 2021 - Published By:
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In Augmented Reality News  July 19, 2021 – Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping service, has recently formally announced that it is working with London-based games studio PRELOADED to develop a world-scale Augmented Reality (AR) game that will be designed to engage family audiences with the outdoors.  The game will be built upon Ordnance Survey’s extensive mapping and will use geospatial data to deliver contextual experiences that drive exploration of the world. We covered the contract award, which was announced in November last year, however this is the first time

Resolution Games closes $25M Series C funding round to dedicate more to existing titles and deliver additional live VR games

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Time Stamp: July 14, 2021 7:32 AM - Modified On: July 14, 2021 - Published By:
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In Virtual Reality News July 14, 2021 – Resolution Games, a Virtual Reality (VR) games studio known for titles including Demeo, Blaston, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale and others, has today announced it has closed a Series C funding round of USD $25 million, bringing the company’s total funding to USD $38.5 million. The round was co-led by Qualcomm Ventures LLC and BITKRAFT Ventures, followed by Knutsson Holdings AB. Prior investors who also took part in the round included GV, MizMaa, GP Bullhound, Partech, Creandum, Initial Capital, Bonnier Ventures and Sisu

AWE 2021 announces 250 speakers and exhibitors for its November face-to-face event

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Time Stamp: July 13, 2021 3:40 PM - Modified On: July 13, 2021 - Published By:
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In Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality News July 13, 2021 – Augmented World Expo (AWE), the worldwide events series focused exclusively on the business of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Extended Reality (XR), has today announced the first wave of sponsors, speakers and exhibitors participating in AWE 2021. According to AWE, since its inception in 2010 more than 5,000 companies and 50,000 professionals have relied on AWE as their primary venue and community to connect, learn and grow their businesses throughout the XR hardware and software

Warner Bros. reportedly looking into selling NetherRealm Studios, TT Games, and other studios

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Time Stamp: July 10, 2021 2:48 PM - Modified On: July 10, 2021 - Published By:
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The Warner Bros. gaming division may reportedly still sell off some portions of its gaming division despite the recent Warner Bros. Discover merger, according to Jez Corden, a Senior Editor for Windows Central who focuses mostly on gaming-related content. Corden has reportedly seen documents that mention WB is considering selling off both NetherRealm Studios and TT Games, studios best known for developing Mortal Kombat and multiple Lego titles, respectively.  On his podcast, The Xbox Two, Corden revealed that he saw internal documents that mentioned NetherRealm and TT among the studios

Heroic: “We’re no longer satisfied with being a top-ten team, we’re aiming at the title every time”

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Time Stamp: July 9, 2021 6:00 AM - Modified On: July 9, 2021 - Published By:
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Heroic are about to enter the opening round of IEM Cologne, which will see the Danish side attempt to prove doubters wrong after a vocal part of the community has been questioning the Danish team's improved results over the past year since the competition moved online. Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller & co. are set on a collision course with Spirit in a match scheduled for Friday at 13:30 in the opening round of Group B, which also features Natus Vincere, Renegades, FURIA, Vitality, Astralis, and FaZe. Heroic enter Cologne on the

Harena Data introduces its new ‘COGNISAT’ cognitive Virtual Reality analytics platform

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Time Stamp: July 8, 2021 3:29 AM - Modified On: July 8, 2021 - Published By:
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In Virtual Reality News July 8, 2021 – Harena Data, an esports community aggregator, has recently revealed its new cognitive analytics platform ‘COGNISAT’. The platform combines sport specific virtual reality- (VR) based analytics with video game metrics from GYO Score (an esports and gaming data analytics platform) and computer-based soft skill cognitive metrics and performance profiling into a common data set. According to the company, the data set provides a comprehensive cognitive view of a traditional or virtual athlete and helps athletes, recruiters and coaches to better understand the athlete

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Now Supports DualSense Features on PC

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Time Stamp: July 5, 2021 10:20 AM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Over a month ago, Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition became the first game to fully support the DualSense on PC, with features such as its adaptive triggers and haptic feedback having been implemented in the game. That paved the way for others to follow, it seems, and now, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has followed in its footsteps. As reported by VGC (and pointed out on Twitter by editor Andy Robinson), Ubisoft have updated Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and the game now supports adaptive triggers and haptic feedback on PC when played with a DualSense controller. Check out the clip

Pro Evolution Soccer 2022 Will be Free-to-Play – Rumour

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Time Stamp: July 5, 2021 10:01 AM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Konami’s seemingly got a lot going on these days, having recently signed a deal with Bloober Team to spark speculation about Silent Hill, and with reports suggesting that Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania revivals could also be in the works. But of course, the one series that they’ve been actively working on even while all those franchises were dormant is Pro Evolution Soccer– and it seems that’s in line for some major changes as well. In a recent VGC podcast, editor Andy Robinson stated that based on what he’s heard, Konami’s changing things up for the series

Dice-rolling mechanic receives support in MTG Forgotten Realms

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Time Stamp: July 1, 2021 4:31 PM - Modified On: July 1, 2021 - Published By:
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Delina, Wild MageThe Deck of Many ThingsContact Other Plane Dice rolling is a key part of Dungeons & Dragons gameplay but has only appeared in Magic: The Gathering through -Un sets, which are white-bordered “fun” sets. But in the D&D crossover Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, rolling a d20 is now in black-bordered Magic. The inherent randomness of rolling dice is an adjustment non-Red players will have to get used to. Red is full of random mechanics, but other colors typically give you more information on the actions you’re about