Epic Games headed to VRLA

Epic Games headed to VRLA

Should be a good show for them. Check out the details below.

ROBO RECALL PANEL + HANDS-ON WITH MODS
Epic Games developers will host a postmortem “Robo Recall: An Epic Journey in VR” on the recently launched Robo Recall, the critically-acclaimed VR shooter hailed for its arcade action and creative combat using Oculus Touch on Saturday, April 15 at 1:30pm. The dev team will share war stories on the game’s evolution from Bullet Train demo to a fully-featured Unreal Engine 4 game complete with full source mod support, all released for free to the community.

Speakers:
Evan Champlin, Senior VR Designer
Jeff Farris, Technical Lead
Pete Hayes, Senior Artist
Chance Ivey, Senior Community Manager and Robo Recall Modding Lead
Tommy Jacob, VR Producer
Seth Weedin, Audio and Gameplay Programmer

In addition, attendees are invited to stop by Epic’s booth at VRLA to get hands-on with the game and will also be able to try out the game’s mods released to date. The team will also have Unreal Engine tools available to check out their workflows and ask any questions.

VR MASTERCLASS WITH LUIS CATALDI: MAKING QUALITY VR WITH UNREAL ENGINE
Luis Catadli, computer graphics veteran and Director of Education and Learning Resources for Epic Games, will host an Unreal Engine workshop on Saturday, April 15 from 4:00-6:30pm to showcase how to profile and optimize a visually stunning Unreal Engine environment. Participants will develop a better understanding of the technical design processes for building locomotion and interaction mechanics using Blueprint visual scripting. Hands-on learning will include modifying the content pipeline to build a mini-game and bring the experience together in VR.