I am in the same boat. I have been using Quixel with my Year 10 students for the last few years and Quixel Bridge has always made a difficult process easier and more fun. I have designed my projects around the use of Quixel Bridge and this is going to make the VR games they create so much more difficult and the end product will not be anything like what they are currently.
It would be awesome if Epic Games reversed the decision to charge educational institutions. We don’t have the budget to pay for individual assets and it is purely for educational purposes. I don’t have any students that are creating a marketable game.
Even if it was a matter of creating templates, I don’t have the time to do that between now and the end of 2024. I would be happy for there to be a range of free templates available that feature something other than the default VR scene but that then means that someone has to create them and Epic Games need to make them available. Is this something that Epic Games could offer in the future @skfabby ? Teachers need to plan for these things, sometimes years in advance as if it is not available, I need to come up with something else to avoid being a deer in the headlights in front of my students.
Thanks
Mark Gregory