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Game engine gets support for multi-bounce lighting, OpenXR, and USD export. Free for use on projects earning under $100,000/year.

Tuesday, August 20th, 2024

Read our pick of the new features in the latest version of Unity, from improvements to rendering to new generative AI animation tools.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Discover the key features in the new stable version of Unity, including better water, hair, skin and lens flares.

Thursday, July 6th, 2023

Free browser-based AI mocap platform now supports animation style transfer and motion blending.

Sunday, January 29th, 2023

Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2022

First public beta of Nvidia's latest Omniverse app lets users review production-complexity USD scenes in virtual reality with full ray tracing.

Monday, June 27th, 2022

Discover who Adobe and Autodesk have just bought, Intel's move into pro GPUs - and the 'world's smallest workstation'.

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022

Neat free Unreal Engine project lets you navigate to anywhere on the globe in augmented reality.

Tuesday, October 5th, 2021

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 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