Unity has been promising the arrival of its Reflect platform for AEC visualization for several months. The game engine company and Autodesk had announced plans to collaborate in a marriage of game engine technology and BIM in 2017. The deal was made manifest in June at the AIA conference in Las Vegas with demonstrations of Unity’s Reflect plugin. The plugin started shipping in … [Read more...] about Unity Reflect for AEC
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Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Ray tracing optimization and new ‘Chaos’ Physics and Destruction System are now available. Like previous updates, Unreal Engine's latest release has arrived with a long list of the updates. Epic says that this release includes 192 improvements submitted by the very active community of Unreal Engine developers on GitHub. At the Game Developer Conference, Epic revealed new … [Read more...] about Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Nvidia’s Q2 FY20 results
$2.58 billion in sales, $552 million profit, up 40% from last quarter. Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.1 billion, up 4% from last quarter, but down 21% from last year. “We achieved sequential growth across our platforms,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “Realtime ray tracing is the most … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q2 FY20 results
Living the fantasy: B.S.B.B. MKII: Call it art
A random sighting at GDC 2019 reveals an interactive art project by Bay Area filmmaker David Shuff, who built the Big Steel Battalion Box as an experiment in immersive gameplay. We came across the B.S.B.B. MKII while wandering aimlessly around GDC. Cordoned off, alone in the exhibit area, a man sat in the control center barking orders, or receiving them, we’re not complexly … [Read more...] about Living the fantasy: B.S.B.B. MKII: Call it art
Unity acquires Vivox
The latest acquisition adds to Unity’s tools for connected games. Is there a game, aside from Monopoly that is, that celebrates the cutthroat nature of capitalism pitting competitors against each other in a fight to bankruptcy and turning allies against each other? Probably. The game is being played out in full force by Unity Technologies and Epic as both companies fight to … [Read more...] about Unity acquires Vivox