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VR GAMES IS DAMN HARD.
Introducing VRAF : a next-gen VR framework for Unreal Engine 5.
Introducing VRAF : a next-gen VR framework for Unreal Engine 5.
Building a true VR game has little in common with its flatscreen counterparts. It takes bold ideas and real innovation to fully harness the medium’s potential. Players are hungry for standout VR titles - but they’re rare and often feel unrefined.
A decade into VR gaming, creating high-quality experiences feels harder than ever. We’ve seen studios forced to constantly reinvent the wheel - tools are lagging, support is scarce, even as adoption continues to rise (1 in 3 US teens now own a headset).
VR Studios need a leg up to move faster, reduce costs and spark real innovation.
That’s why we’re building VRAF: a modular Unreal Engine 5 framework packed with premium, ready-to-use tools and features for creating standout VR content straight out of the box.
Explaining what it takes to create a great VR experience isn’t easy - there are countless challenges unique to the medium. The good news? We’ve faced a heap of them. VRAF is built to save you time and money, while giving you access to high-quality tools and features that let you focus on what matters most: bringing your vision to life.
VRAF allows VR developers to enter the VR games market and hit the ground running with a set of unique, premium tools and systems. VRAF combines years of VR research and development, ideation, design and production.
Our system goes beyond hand and head movement; capturing eye, eyelid, and soon mouth movement for unparalleled immersion. Our advanced AI anticipates and adapts players’ leg movements for enhanced realism in actions like climbing, leaning, and crouching. Compatible with any MetaHuman and it can easily be switched to hands-only mode.
An advanced mobility system enables players to explore worlds with diverse actions such as climbing, swinging, jumping, crouching, ledge pulling, and swimming, fostering a sense of intrepid adventure. The system also adapts for comfort modes (teleport vs locomotion etc) scaling back where required.
Our ClashForge system layers combat fidelity for hostile NPCs, ranging from unarmed “boxing” to melee weapons and ranged combat. Specifically designed for VR inputs and mechanics, ClashForge contains custom tools for crafting and designing VR combat scenarios.
Unlike flat screen gaming, VR requires dynamic responses to an expanded range of player inputs, including eye tracking. With our new system, NPCs can observe what you’re carrying, react to your gaze, respond to interactions with your hands, and adjust based on the player’s threatening or dangerous behavior.
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Physics play a crucial role in VR, enhancing the sense of realism in a game. Our new system simulates real-world mass and velocity for items made of different materials. While players may not physically feel the weight, it creates a realistic impression, anchoring both the world and items, enhancing overall immersion. Enabled by our full-body avatar system, this feature allows developers to fine-tune object parameters relative to the player avatar’s strength for a more grounded experience.
Our VR system enables developers to craft impressive socketing actions, where items can authentically feel ‘latched’ and demand force for removal. It also supports rails and angle of acceptance for smoother and more seamless socketing motions.
With our new player avatar system players can embody avatars of all shapes and sizes. This means hand variation is vast! We’ve created a new grab system that allows for almost ‘infinite’ hand sizes that a player can now have and we’re also able to create poses for grabbing objects that can scale and adapt for the large variations in hand sizes.
Object-driven games like Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate pose challenges in creating a persistent world across numerous levels. Similar issues are encountered in larger-scale games. We’ve developed a persistence engine that tracks every object’s position, rotation, state, physics-based inputs, and NPC states in each level. This ensures a seamless experience, maintaining continuity and immersion as players navigate between different worlds or, in this case, time eras.
We’re battle-testing V 1.0 of VRAF on the development of Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate. This has given us a live, real-world environment to test and prove its capabilities.
What’s next? VRAF isn’t vaporware - you can experience it in action today by playing Wanderer: TFOF. It’s not ready for commercial release just yet. We're gathering feedback and insights and preparing for the next stage of it's development with a focus on bringing it to other developers
Get in touch to find out how you can get exclusive access to the VRAF early beta and unleash the potential of VRAF or to find out more about investment and/or partnership opportunities.