Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), th… ...

VIVERSE is the only platform to support the most widely used game engines without proprietary tools – making it the premier destination for hosting and discovering 3D content.

For instance, everyday users could generate home design and small art projects using the tool. With its new fundraise, Intangible plans a June launch for its no-code web-based 3D studio, it says.

However, that might change soon as Amazon is rebranding it and opening it up. Now called the Open 3D Engine, it's become an open-source project and part of the recently formed Open 3D Foundation.

Why it matters: In a world dominated by powerful GPUs from Nvidia and AMD, one self-taught coder is demonstrating that it's possible to create impressive 3D graphics from scratch. Alex Fish has ...