GameDev News - Week Ending July 28, 2017
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
* Unity 2017.1.0p2 / 5.5.4p2 * Unity 2017.2.0b4 * How to integrate 360 video with Unity * Animating Inside VR: Mixing motion capture and keyframes - CryEngine
* CRYENGINE 5.4 Preview released today, including over 620 improvements * CRYENGINE GitHub pull requests are go – here’s what you need to know * Crytek's CRYENGINE goes all-in on Substance – Find out why - VR/AR
* Introduction to 360 Video For Gear VR * Creating Spatial Audio for 360 Video using FB360 Spatial Workstation - Other
* Is Your Code Ready to Prevent the Nedelin Catastrophe? * Faceware announces new real-time tracking SDK for its Faceware Live soloution * Here be dragons - multiple implementations of the same 3D scene, using different APIs and frameworks on various platforms * Games on GitHub
- Unity
- Industry News
- VR/AR
* VR growth steady as she goes - HTC * Oculus: The Climb is Rift's best-seller to date * HTC is creating a standalone VR headset for the Chinese market - Other
* Mobile and console boosted digital market 12% in June - SuperData * Research finds people who play games are more culturally engaged * No, digital isn't cannibalizing retail - NPD * Nintendo Switch hit 4.7 million shipped in fiscal Q1 * Flash support will end in 2020, Adobe says * UK women to spend over £1bn on video games - Barclays * Live services power EA to Q1 growth
- VR/AR
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting