You’ve likely heard of game designers “digitizing” places and objects to use in video games, right? That’s called photogrammetry, and it’s basically using 2D images to create a 3D object in a virtual space. Photogrammetry is a lot more complic📖ated than just putting polaroids into a scanner and then having a 3D model pop out, but that’s the general idea.
Capturing Reality, makers of RealityCapture software, are market leaders in the business of photogrammetry. And now they’re owned by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Epic Games, who plan to int🍃egrate Capturing Reality’s software into Unreal Engine to make it easier♏ than ever to create immersive and realistic worlds.
"The Capturing Reality team is made up of some of the most impressive experts in the field of photogrammetry,” said Epic’s Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine. “The team has built a powerful solution with RealityCapture, and we're fortunate to have them as part of the Epic Gam✤es family."
Epic's purchase of Capturing Reality , although the purchase price was not disclosed. The first order of business will be to integrate RealityCapture with Unreal Engine to allow "developers to upload images and create photorealistic 3D models in inst💎ants."
For developers, this means that someday soon you’ll be able to upload a pi🐻cture of an object you want to have in-game rather than create that object from scratch. This has the potential to save enormous quantities of man-hours in game develop🌌ment.
And for exist𒈔ing Capturing Reality customers, it also means a bit of a discount (with details over on their website ).
This marks the second developer in recent memory that Epic has snapped up. Mediatonic's game division--makers of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout--168澳洲幸运5开奖网:was purchased by Epic just last week. The likeliest outcome of that deal will be some Fall Guys/Fortnite crossovers,🅘 and maybe an eventual Fall Guys 2 will turn out to be an Epic exclusive.