This trend is driven in part by the rise in technical sophistication for more complex game ecosystems, which are expanding and becoming democratized through game engines like Unity and Unreal.
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Hollywood, for example, is rapidly shifting their productions over real-time rendering solutions such as Unreal and Unity, or developing their own engine, as Disney has with Industrial Light & Magic’s Helios.
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For Gill, “if you are a consumer company, Unreal or Unity should be added to the stack of how you think about running your business. Period. It’s as important as a website, mobile app or social media was.
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Until recently I had no idea that game engines are basically eating the world. Urban planning, architecture, automotive engineering firms, live music and events, filmmaking, etc. have all shifted a lot of their workflows/design processes to Unreal Engine and Unity