NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Android
Check out promising free 3D scanning app Display.land
Free iOS and Android app generates 3D scans of entire environments for use in games and AR experiences.
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Wacom launches $400 Wacom One pen display
Cheapest Wacom pen display yet connects to your Android phone as well as Windows and Mac PCs.
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Free 3D viewer Emb3D adds option to display models in AR
iOS and Android model viewer gets augmented reality support, plus new web app and cloud services.
Monday, September 30th, 2019
See every new Unity feature from Unite Copenhagen 2019
Check out our handy run-down of the new simulation, graphics and AR tools announced at this week's Unity user event.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
Unity 2019.2 ships
Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Rokoko launches facial capture add-on for its mocap systems
New iPhone X app lets you capture facial animation alongside full-body data and stream it to UE4, Unity or MotionBuilder.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
BrioVR lets you build VR and AR scenes in your browser
New cloud-based platform lets users turn standard 3D models into interactive VR and AR experiences.
Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Nvidia open-sources PhysX, unveils PhysX SDK 4.0
Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Check out the new features in Unreal Engine 4.21
Highlights include updates to the Niagara FX and animation tools, and a new 'Pixel Streaming' system.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018