Epic continoues their crusade to make the perfect middleware, a holy graal for the industry, and millions of dollars for them. Their recent update was by implementing OC3 Entertainments FaceFX into the Unreal Engine 3. FaceFX is a tool for advanced facial animations and lip synchronization, including lip-sync on the fly through voice input based on voice recognition software.
Earlier this year Epic also purchased Reality Engine from Artifical Studios, and hiring their chief architect Tim Johnson. The reason wasn't to implement Reality Engine into the Unreal Engine 3, but to take it apart and look for features that may come in handy for them. Also, they sort of took care of their biggest competitor...
Unreal Engine 3 to Include FaceFX
Unreal Technology, Unreal Engine 3
Epic Games purchase Reality Engine
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