Hololive company Cover has a new Virtual Live performance project using Unreal Engine
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Cover Announces New Virtual Live Project Using Unreal Engine

Cover Corporation announced that it started developing a virtual live performance project using Unreal Engine that is tied to Hololive Production and its Vtubers. The company also opened a new job listing for programming engineers who are well-versed with Epic Games’ engine.

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The company promises an annual salary of at least seven million yen (~$45,800) for this full-time job position. However, it will require aspiring applicants to have actual experience in programming with C++ and C# languages for at least a whole year each. In addition, Cover also requires them to have experience in using both Unreal Engine and Unity for two years each in game development or 3D virtual content creation.

Cover will task the hired programmer(s) to develop a studio broadcast and live performance system with top-quality graphics shown on high-end computers by using features from the specified engines, such as ray tracing. It will also task them to develop augmented reality features and other tools that improve efficiency in the overall software development. The job listing also confirmed that this Unreal Engine project will be directly related to Hololive Production and its Vtubers.

The Japanese announcement tweet, which also includes a teaser trailer for the project, is available right below:

Cover Corporation will reveal more details about the new Unreal Engine-powered virtual live performance system at a later time after it has hired suitable programming engineers and made more progress in its development.


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