Unreal Engine 4.8 Available, Features Integrated Support for SteamVR

Epic Games confirmed last week that the latest update to Unreal Engine development suite, 4.8, would feature integrated back up for the SteamVR platform. The latest version of the engine is available for download at present for free, under the new terms established by Ballsy Games back in March.

Virtual Reality engineering science is evolving rapidly and becoming more powerful and immersive by the day. Even if you're starting with a simple projection to learn VR or AR, build your team, your assets and your workflow effectually a engineering that can evangelize on your creative vision - now and in the future.

From students just starting out and minor teams of veteran developers, to earth renowned VFX houses and Hollywood storytellers, you'll never outgrow Unreal Engine iv.

To create immersive experiences that are believable to the human being mind, VR requires scenes to be complex scenes rendered at very high framerates. At that place are no shortcuts.

Because it was designed for demanding applications such as AAA games and photoreal visualization, at its core Unreal Engine four meets these requirements and provides a solid foundation to build upon.

Rendering pipeline that gets yous to 90 Hz stereo framerate or faster at loftier resolutions, no lawmaking changes required.

Tools that scale from simple to extremely complex scenes, environments and characters.

Advanced cinematic, post processing and PBR capabilities out of the box.

Plug in your dev kit and become. Low friction startup and rapid iteration.

Frequent updates that take reward of rapidly evolving hardware.

Back up for all the latest VR hardware including Oculus Rift,Samsung Gear VR, Steam VR, Jump Motion, and Sony Project Morpheus.

The latest update for Unreal Engine iv is just in fourth dimension for E3 where VR volition accept a major presence, and post-obit the annunciation earlier today that the long-awaited consumer version of the Oculus Rift would launch early on in 2022.

We will bring you any new information on Unreal Engine 4 and VR Support as soon as it becomes available. Be sure to check out our previous coverage on Unreal Engine 4 projects, here and here.