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Disney can bring a LOT of content, so long as they can actually make it half decent content and not shit the bed like they did with EA.
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> Epic games has the potential to be the virtual Disney World - just available to everyone on the planet instead of those with enough money to visit a park IRL. How? EPIC doesn’t have a VR platform at the moment. The deal still makes sense though. Disney needs to control a video game platform.
1.) Unreal Engine can be used in VR... 2.) Virtual worlds don't need to be VR
> Virtual worlds don't need to be VR
Yes, but flat pancake games are even poorer at simulating a Disney theme park IRL than VR. It doesn’t even come close to a substitute, especially for the rides.
That's probably the first thing i've heard about Epic Games that makes me think it'll still be around 5-10 years from now. Disney can bring a LOT of content, so long as they can actually make it half decent content and not shit the bed like they did with EA.
Well now.. it is not like I need another reason to avoid Epic, but.. I am obviously not the target demographic here. I personally think, from Disney's perspective, this is not a wrong move to make.
I find the prospect of Disney characters shooting at each other with guns mildly disturbing.
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Do they still? They used Unreal for the virtual sets in The Mandalorian S1, but for S2 they switched over to a different solution. https://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-mandalorian/ > For season one of the series ILM StageCraft utilized Unreal Engine to perform the real-time render https://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-mandalorian-season-2/ > The real-time render engine called Helios was specifically developed by ILM engineers > Ctrl-F…
StageCraft IS Unreal Engine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StageCraft ILM used Unreal Engine to make StageCraft and kept iterating on it until it’s the awesome tech that it is. They have a vested interest in seeing the underlying engine continue to prosper.
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/02/disney-epic-interoperable-...
Roblox should start sweating. Then again, so should anyone who's created Disney-themed fan content on Rec Room, VRChat, etc.
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My kids already think many recent Fortnite collabs (Star Wars, Marvel, etc) are lame. Hasn't stopped them from playing though. https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/every-fortnite-collab-cross...
I had the same reaction 20 years ago to Kingdom Hearts. Disney is definitely at risk of becoming irrelevant with their stale IP.
I'm sick of them being allowed to increase their entertainment monopoly on children instead of being told to just create new original works. It's not like they have a shortage of talented people...
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No, Disney uses Unreal for their rendered real-time sets. This is about more than just Fortnite.
Do they still? They used Unreal for the virtual sets in The Mandalorian S1, but for S2 they switched over to a different solution. https://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-mandalorian/ > For season one of the series ILM StageCraft utilized Unreal Engine to perform the real-time render https://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-mandalorian-season-2/ > The real-time render engine called Helios was specifically developed by ILM engineers > Ctrl-F…
Thank you.
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> get back in to gaming FTFY. They had their own game publishing arm since 1988, Disney Interactive Studios, and owned first-party studios like Avalanche Software, which was sold off to Warner Bros. They shut it down in 2016.
Don't forget Lucasfilm Games, nee LucasArts. They published a lot of games, both star wars properties and otherwise. They're now owned by Disney as well.