At Unreal Fest in New Orleans, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that the company will soon begin to charge for using Unreal Engine for non-gaming applications, such as virtual production and the creation of digital twins. Currently, in gaming, they operate a revenue sharing model. Elsewhere, use of Unreal Engine is free, though, […]
It’s the most anticipated venue and technical launch for as long as anybody can remember and there’s no bigger act in the world to open the MSG Sphere than U2, who already have a long history with the city of Las Vegas. The day before their much talked-about show, Bono and The Edge gave CBS […]
If technical colleagues mention APIs in meetings and you don’t know what they’re referring to or you just need a refresher on the detail, here’s a helpful recently-published introduction by Tam Nguyen on The Conversation. Tam, who is an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton describes APIs (application programming interfaces) as “the gateways to […]
One of the more interesting panel sessions on offer at IBC in Amsterdam last weekend took place on the ETC stage on the Z by HP stand in Hall 7. The session covered “how the shape of the VP industry is changing, and how the development of smaller Virtual Production Studios are opening the technology […]
Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it is investing £400 million in an expansion of its Leavesden Studios complex in Hertfordshire that will include 400,000 square feet of new production and support space. Work is expected to begin in Q2 2024. When completed in 2027, the studios will have 29 stages and 1.78 million square […]
If you have seen the latest (final?) instalment of the Indiana Jones tales, you’ll be aware that it’s about a race to prevent the Antikythera Mechanism falling into the wrong hands and really, really bad stuff happening. The device, which was discovered in the wreckage of a sunken ship off the coast of Greece in […]