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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)

While I don't doubt the intention to buy Epic, I doubt the main interest is because of gaming. Unreal Engine is making massive inroads into film production, see https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/forging-new-paths-for-filmmakers-on-the-mandalorian

[–] srecko@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That can't be the reason to buy a company that is worth 20+ billion dollars. Gaming industry is bigger than movie industry and games are raking in huge ammounts of money. Shooting in unreal movio studio is nice thing to have but not really game changing, you could probably build a blender pipeline for it for a several million dollars.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

That can’t be the reason to buy a company that is worth 20+ billion dollars. Gaming industry is bigger than movie industry and games are raking in huge ammounts of money.

I didn't claim that gaming plays no part in that. My personal opinion is just that it's mainly (but not solely) an investment into lucrative industry applications of UE. See also @4am@lemmy.zip who noted the use in medical.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

It’s also being used in medical fields. My dentist has a scanning camera tool that creates a 3d textured model and uses Unreal for rendering.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

/AFK (on yt) make some great vids