Adobe buys Mettle's SkyBox Suite of VR tools
Popular After Effects and Premiere Pro plugins for creating 360° video now available free to Creative Cloud subscribers.
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
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Khronos Group adds PBR materials to glTF 2.0
Open format for exchanging 3D assets between game engines or web apps now supports physically based rendering.
Saturday, June 17th, 2017
Wireshape needs beta testers
New online marketplace for scanned 3D assets is offering $50 in model credits of anyone accepted for its beta program.
Monday, June 12th, 2017
UE4, Unity add support for Apple's new AR and VR tech
Find out how to get Unity and Unreal Engine running with iOS 11's ARKit and High Sierra's macOS VR.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray software development kit
VRay AppSDK is intended to accelerate penetration of V-Ray into new markets: from augmented reality to bath design.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.16
Big update to game engine adds volumetric fog; plus new physics, animation and VR editing features.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Andrew Hazelden releases KartaVR 3 for Fusion
360-degree VR content creation tool gets option to stitch footage from PTGui project files, direct Oculus Rift support.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Get Epic Games' free volume modelling plugin for UE4
Download this nifty new tool to paint volumetric objects directly in VR, complete with fluid velocities.
Monday, May 8th, 2017
Foundry releases Modo 11.0
New modelling options and support for OpenSubdiv 3.0, but the main news this time round is the new rental and maintenance plans.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.
Friday, April 21st, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for SketchUp
Update adds new UI, new library of 200 physically based materials, V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
OptiTrack launches its first active optical tracking system
New LED-marker-based OptiTrack Active system is aimed at 'theme-park scaled' VR projects.
Monday, February 27th, 2017