Following an Epic Games event at the recent Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco that included a slew of announcements: animation tools for virtual humans a merging of its digital asset stores into one huge marketplace a new Fortnite creator economy, an Unreal Engine-powered creation tool for Fortnite The Verge’s Andrew Webster spoke to CEO Tim […]
The media and entertainment metaverse will be a unified space that brings multiple virtual worlds together on a single, interoperable M&E-focused platform. It will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. These multiple, interconnected immersive virtual spaces are going to change […]
Universal Scene Description (USD) was invented by Pixar to help them assemble and interchange movie scenes. Since Pixar open-sourced USD in 2016, it has grown to become the interchange format that brings consistency and interoperability to 3D artists when building three-dimensional and immersive locations, scenes or environments, including multiverses and digital twins. A USD layer […]
As more and more fashion brands begin experimenting with the metaverse, AR, VR and NFTs, market research firm Technavio reports that the global fashion metaverse market with grown by almost $7 billion between 2022 and 2026, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 37%. According to the report, the growth, 38% of which will […]
The new Beta release of NVIDIA Omniverse includes a host of updates to make it faster, more accessible and more flexible for developers, creators and users of all abilities. Omniverse can now ingest large, complex scenes from multiple third-party applications, and take more advantage of real-time rendering, path tracing, and physics simulation. Omniverse Nucleus, the central database […]