Note: in particular, this is effectively "reversing" the aquisition of the Weta Digital people who were hired in Jan 2022 (Purchase of Weta Digital happened December 2021), as well as the Software IP that Weta Digital R&D had written over the years that they took over rights to at the time.<p>Disclaimer: I'm one of those affected.
Another of Unity’s big plays goes up in flames. I must admit I really didn’t understand what the plan was for Weta. At the time of the deal it sounded like in five to 10 years Unity would become a realtime movie effects company competing with Unreal.<p>When I think of where Unity is heading, I suspect I’ll be using a different tool in a couple of years. But for now I’m sticking with it and making my code run as much outside the engine as possible.