Facebook considered buying game engine maker Unity Technologies back in 2015, according to claims made in a new book. Called ‘The History of the Future’ by Blake Harris, the book tells the story of ...

Epic Games and Unity Technologies are in a battle for the hearts and minds of game developers. At a time when game budgets are soaring — even for mobile titles — developers rely on the engine makers ...

A peculiar but predictable thing is happening with VR and AR. As with any sci-fi technology, opportunists are spinning them out into la-la land; not quite mainstream or even there yet today, but truly ...

IBM and Unity today announced a partnership to bring Watson’s AI functionality to the world’s most popular gaming engine, with built-in VR/AR features. The IBM Watson Unity SDK, available for free on ...

Less than a year after making a $3 billion investment into the future of virtual reality with the purchase of Oculus VR, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was considering another multi-billion-dollar bet ...

The Unity game engine released a preview for “XR Interaction Toolkit,” which handles some core interactions for VR and AR. Like most optional Unity features, you can download and activate the XR ...

Epic Games today announced that Unreal Engine 5 is now available in early access, including a new template for VR projects built on OpenXR 1.0, the industry-backed standard for building ...

Unity Software Inc. is set to list on the New York Stock Exchange this month, following its S-1 filing two weeks ago. The 16-year-old tech company is universally known within the gaming industry and ...

Meta (META) has backtracked on its decision to shut down the Horizon Worlds platform for its Quest virtual reality headsets ...

Additional reporting by Alex Calvin. For developers just starting in the industry, the task of choosing the best game engine can be daunting. Here, we'll try to address many of the issues concerning ...