Will Unreal Engine 4 support Windows 10's Universal Platform?

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UWP seems to be a significant way forward now Microsoft has revealed that all tech will use the UWP. Also, having access to building for the UWP would allow a massive reduction on labour and development time if we can create for Windows, XBox One, and Windows 10 Mobile all at once with just really minor adjustments.

Other companies are starting to work on -type technologies (some without the glasses) - although it is still more at patent stage than anything concrete. Something tells me that Microsoft’s UWP compatibility is going to be very much at the forefront of the usable apps in these areas given their years of work ahead of the others in this field.

Microsoft are already recommending Unity as the development platform of choice for , and it would really behoove Epic to consider the potential past the first versions of and ahead into the next few years. As VR headsets become more advanced and start to use ‘see-through-the-headset’ tech, as well as reduce in size and weight, they’ll become more AR capable as well, and between all the large companies interested in developing such technologies, it would seem better to have large amounts of capable and practiced developers all well practiced and versed in making products for such technologies.

But it seems it’s not worth there effort right now for them. It’s not like Epic is not interested in (i don’t know what they think about it either way;p), but shifting Windows support to UWP seems to be too much of a task and UE4 it self has lot of more important stuff to be done, theres Nintendo NX coming which maybe Epic will want to provide engine for it (UE3 got Wii U support at the end of it lifetime) and probably will be more impotent, as bigger developers that already have UE4 games may want to “port” them to NX, and they can’t do that without Epic (lot of them shifted to UE4 to not need to deal with such stuff). UE4 runs the best on Windows, why would they need rebuild it to UWP right now? UWP seems as good goal for UE5… or else there some barriers i don’t know about as i don’t know much about UWP myself, but indeed it seems to to be a future for Windows devlopment… but Unreal is not yet ready for that.