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Practical guidance, project lessons, and company news from Theia Interactive.
How to Scope an Enterprise Training Simulation
The decisions to make before estimating an interactive training simulation, from learning objectives and source material to deployment and measurement.
By Matt ShouseRead moreHow CAD and BIM Data Becomes an Unreal Engine Experience
What happens between receiving engineering or building data and delivering a real-time Unreal Engine application that people can use.
By Matt ShouseRead moreDigital Twin vs. 3D Visualization: Which One Do You Need?
A practical way to decide whether your project needs a connected digital twin or a focused real-time 3D visualization.
By Matt ShouseRead morePepsiCo, GM, and Unilever Put Digital Twins Into Production
Recent programs from PepsiCo, General Motors, and Unilever show how digital twins are moving into factory planning, production, and global content operations.
By Matt ShouseRead moreUnreal Engine at CES 2026
Unreal Engine showed up across multiple automotive booths at CES 2026. Sony Honda's AFEELA 1 runs its entire cockpit HMI on UE5. AMD and Epic demoed a full digital dashboard from a single engine instance at 60fps.
By Matt ShouseRead moreSAS and Epic Games Partner on AI-Powered Manufacturing Digital Twins
SAS and Epic Games announced a partnership combining SAS Viya AI analytics with Unreal Engine for manufacturing digital twins. Georgia-Pacific is piloting the technology at its Savannah River Mill.
By Matt ShouseRead moreTheia at GDC 2025
The team attended GDC 2025 in San Francisco. Epic presented UEFN roadmap updates, UE 5.5 workflows, and confirmed Epic Account Services has reached 850 million players.
By Matt ShouseRead moreA Decade as Unreal Engine Service Partners
Since 2015, we've held Authorized Unreal Engine Service Partner status with Epic Games, giving us direct support channels and early access to new features.
By Matt ShouseRead moreUnreal Engine 5.5 Ships with MegaLights and MetaHuman Audio
Epic released UE 5.5 with MegaLights, audio-driven MetaHuman animation, and the Mutable character customization system. We've been testing MegaLights in active projects already.
By Matt ShouseRead moreTheia at Unreal Fest 2023
COO Matthew Shouse was on two panels at Unreal Fest 2023, one on selling cars in the metaverse and another on what it takes to run an enterprise metaverse studio.
By Matt ShouseRead moreTheia Interactive and Mytaverse Partner to Create Digital Replicas and Virtual Worlds for Enterprise
Theia Interactive announced a partnership with Mytaverse to build digital replicas and virtual worlds for enterprise customers using Unreal Engine.
By Matt ShouseRead moreMetaSpaces Webinar: Collaborative and Interactive Experiences for the Metaverse
Theia Interactive hosted a webinar exploring collaborative and interactive experience design for metaverse platforms using Unreal Engine.
By Matt ShouseRead moreTheia and Epic Games Named 'Best of Autodesk University 2022'
Theia Interactive and Epic Games received the 'Best of Autodesk University 2022' recognition for their joint presentation on real-time visualization.
By Matt ShouseRead moreWorldbuilding Webinar Presented by Theia and Epic Games
Theia Interactive and Epic Games co-hosted a webinar on worldbuilding techniques using Unreal Engine for interactive and immersive environments.
By Matt ShouseRead moreFeatured on NVIDIA Developer Blog for DLSS and RTXGI Integration
NVIDIA wrote up how Theia replaced pre-baked lighting with real-time ray tracing in their configurators. Lighting iterations went from two days to live.
By Matt ShouseRead moreClaria Biometric Tracking Tool Launches for HP Reverb G2
Claria tracks heart rate, cognitive load, eye movement, and more while someone is in VR, then plays it back as heat maps so you can see what actually happened.
By Matt ShouseRead moreSecond Epic MegaGrant Awarded for BigRoom Collaborative VR
Epic Games gave Theia a second MegaGrant for BigRoom, a collaborative VR tool where headset and desktop users review Unreal Engine projects in the same room.
By Matt ShouseRead moreHP Tech Ventures Invests in Theia to Expand Unreal Engine Tooling
HP Tech Ventures invested in Theia to grow Optim, the studio's 3D creation tool for getting complex data into Unreal Engine without weeks of manual prep.
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