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Report: Facebook wanted to buy Unity game engine to drive VR and AR business

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 ...
VentureBeat

In the game engine wars, Epic and Unity aim at enabling VR

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 ...
SiliconANGLE

VR optimism helps game engine maker Unity raise $400M in private equity

Unity Technologies Inc., the maker of the video game industry’s most popular third-party game engine, has raised an impressive $400 million in funding from private equity firm Silver Lake. According ...
Road to VR

Godot Gets Big OpenXR Update Aiming to Attract XR Devs from Unity

Godot, the open source game engine, has included basic OpenXR support for a number of years now, allowing developers to easily publish their apps across a variety of XR headsets. Now, Godot just an ...
VentureBeat

Unity gets toolkit for common AR/VR interactions

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 ...