Porting to Meta Quest | Starloop Studios

Virtual reality gaming has been growing steadily for several years. It’s now a multi-billion dollar industry in its own right, separate from the gaming industry as a whole. Bearing this in mind, developers and publishers are more than ever looking into game porting services for VR.

 

Porting games to more traditional platforms has a host of challenges, which can vary wildly depending on what platform the original game was built for, where it’s being ported to, and the target platform’s power. These are important considerations no matter what the game porting project is, but there are more intricacies when it comes to porting to VR platforms to VR platforms like Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2.

The Meta Quest Platform

Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2, formerly known as Oculus Quest 2, are popular virtual reality headsets created by Meta Platforms. Along with PlayStation VR and Valve Index, the Meta

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Get to know Unity’s Employee Resource Groups and the steps they’re taking to foster inclusion

Artwork created to represent the Caregivers ERG internally at UnityThe mission of the Caregivers ERG is to partner with Unity to advance understanding and inclusion for employees who find themselves frequently in a caregiving role, be it for children, parents, or for other meaningful relationships in their lives. Founded this year, the group hosted a virtual volunteer event in partnership with our Social Impact team to send care packages to children in hospitals this holiday season. Balancing the care of others with impactful, meaningful work can be taxing for employees, and this ERG is dedicated to bringing resources, policies, and appreciation to its community so that, as a company, Unity is better able to retain, support, and provide equal opportunities for caregiving employees.

Employee feedback: “I want to thank everyone for joining the kick off meetings this week. It’s really nice to meet new people at Unity and feel less alone.”

Unity currently offers a variety of benefits for

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Tips for Effective UI Design in Console Game Development

For something purely visual, UI design is absolutely integral in a good gaming experience. Effective UI design in console game development can be the difference between a player enjoying their time with your title and them never picking it up again.

 

That might sound dramatic, but effective UI design is a fast track for game information. It is the information highway that connects game knowledge and information directly to the players. And understand good UI design for console game development is important for any good designer and artist.

 

We’ve talked before about the importance of UI and UX on other platforms and discussed some tips for developing console games for Unity. Now, we’d like to jump into effective UI design and talk about some fundamental tips our UI designers consider for console game development projects and more.

 

Understand the purpose of UI Design

When considering UI design in console

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Top 7 Web app development frameworks for 2023

deWeb frameworks have changed the dimensions of websites in every way. In the earlier days websites used to be simple and static. However, now with all the technical improvements, web app development frameworks make sure users get the best experience while browsing a website. 

Apart from this, time-to-market is another thing many companies are craving these days, isn’t it? Yes, web frameworks have eased the way of online marketing as well. To understand this more precisely, we need to have a look at how web frameworks have changed the quality of marketing digitally. We are talking about the use of digital marketing with the help of different tools, techniques, and frameworks. Let’s find out some of the top web frameworks to use in 2023. 

So, what is a web framework? 

A web development framework can be defined as a well-structured software platform used for developing web applications and websites. It

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Accelerating player builds with an incremental build pipeline

The build graph described here includes all the steps for building players that can be run as external tools with clearly defined dependencies, such as:

  • Script compilation
  • Il2CPP conversion and C++ compilation
  • Code stripping via UnityLinker
  • Burst compilation
  • Code signing
  • Packaging and compression

It also includes many platform-specific tools. It does not, however, encompass the serialization of scenes and assets into player data files (which is currently done by native code in-Editor).

Unfortunately, there’s more to building a fully incremental data build pipeline than adding nodes to a build graph. Due to the nature of Unity’s data file layout, each scene depends on all previously built scenes, so we cannot simply extract small changes to build independently of everything else. This is a shortcoming that is being addressed by other teams at Unity, and we hope to see significant improvements in the coming years.

But even with these constraints, our

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Features of Unreal Engine 5 That Will Revolutionise the Gaming Industry

The gaming industry is on the precipice of a major change. The next generation of consoles have arrived, and with them, a new era of gaming. We’ve seen glimpses of what the future holds and it looks amazing with incredible load speeds and graphical capabilities.

One of the most impressive things to come out of this new era is the release of Unreal Engine 5. This game engine was revealed by Epic Games at The Game Awards 2019, and it is set to revolutionise the gaming industry. While the engine is being explored by the developers of the gaming and entertainment worlds, let’s look at some of the features of Unreal Engine 5 that will change gaming as we know it.

Photorealistic Graphics

Unreal Engine is known for its photorealistic graphics, and the latest version of the engine is even more realistic than ever before. With the new Real-time Ray

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Top 8 Android App Development Trends

In the current mobile market, if there is one operating system that provides flexibility to the next level and has a vast user base, that is Android. It is developed by Google and over 70% of android smartphones run Google’s ecosystem whereas some come with vendor-customized UI such as One UI by Samsung. Android has been the best-selling OS since 2011 and has over 3 billion monthly active users which are the largest for any operating system. So, having such a vast user base for a long time indicates that Android has some outstanding features. In this blog, we will discuss the top android app development trends that are handy in day-to-day life. 

The android app development industry is growing at a rapid-fast pace. A report by Statista states that there are 3.2 billion smartphone users in the world today. The remote work trend has further increased the demand for

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Screen Gaming Setups Put Under The Microscope, Deemed An Attainable Luxurious

Gaming SetupToday I’ll speak about gaming keyboards. I put a number of hours into GTA V and Batman: Arkham Origins, both of which ran rocksteady with none additional setup or settings tweaks. Contemplating all the thrill although, I spent most of my time with the Shield poking world wide of Witcher 3, and that is where some points began to pop up. Identical to watching streaming movies, though, quality can differ pretty dramatically depending on how a lot oomph your community has. Steering Geralt around Witcher’s insanely huge world often looked pretty great (I might nonetheless peg it at Xbox 360-high quality), but these occasional flare-ups of network congestion meant picture quality might get smeared and blocky. Thankfully, none of the games I tested ever, ever floor to a halt because of network points, so there’s a minimum of that.

Regardless of the occasional community slowdown – a problem that roughly …

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