Unreal Engine 5 Development
XR · Real-Time 3D · Virtual Production
Frame Sixty is a US-based studio for Unreal Engine development. Hire senior Unreal Engine developers for high-fidelity XR, real-time 3D visualization, and virtual production — as a project team, a dedicated squad, or staff augmentation. Our team has shipped 100+ apps across headset, mobile, and desktop platforms.
01 — Services
High-performance real-time engineering matched to your visual and architectural requirements.
We build Unreal Engine applications for Meta Quest and PC VR where visual fidelity leads the requirements. Our XR work in Unreal covers full-body interaction, physics-driven environments, and enterprise experiences that need to look photoreal in the headset.
Our developers create real-time architectural and product visualization in Unreal Engine 5, using Lumen global illumination and Nanite geometry for photoreal walkthroughs that run interactively rather than as pre-rendered film.
We design and ship Unreal Engine games from prototype through store launch. Our game work pairs UE5's rendering with disciplined performance budgets, so visual ambition survives contact with real hardware.
We build Unreal Engine scenes for virtual production and real-time cinematics, including MetaHuman characters and camera-ready environments that let teams shoot, iterate, and render in real time.
We develop Unreal-based digital twins and simulations for enterprise: photoreal facilities, physics-accurate equipment behavior, and Pixel Streaming delivery so stakeholders access them from a browser.
We profile and optimize existing Unreal projects and port them across platforms. From draw-call and shader cost reduction to memory budgets, we bring UE builds to stable frame rates on target hardware.
02 — Engine Room
Our Unreal work runs on Unreal Engine 5 and covers Lumen, Nanite, Niagara, Blueprints and C++, MetaHuman, and Pixel Streaming. We ship to Meta Quest, PC VR, desktop, and the browser, and we recommend Unreal when visual fidelity is the requirement that decides the project.
Cinematic fidelity. Production architecture. Stable delivery.
03 — Pipeline
The engagement starts with platform and performance — not with a generic staffing form. We align on what must be built, where it must run, and which team structure gives the project the clearest path to production.
30 minutes to align on the use case, target platforms, visual requirements, interaction model, and performance constraints.
Frame Sixty proposes the engagement model, team shape, architecture direction, milestones, and delivery approach that fit the scope.
The first week establishes architecture, backlog, repositories, build environments, asset workflow, and the initial validation plan.
The team works in visible sprints, demonstrates progress, profiles on target hardware, and iterates toward launch or deployment.
A Frame Sixty Unreal Engine developer can typically start within one to two weeks.
Start with a Discovery CallWhat you pay depends on the engagement model, the seniority of the developers, and the scope of the work. Project-based engagements are quoted as a fixed bid after discovery, so the full cost is clear before development begins. Dedicated teams and staff augmentation are billed as a simple monthly rate. Read our guide: How to Hire VR Developers.
Engagement Models
Work with us as an Unreal Engine development company in three ways. Each model gives you the same senior developers — what changes is who owns the scope, the roadmap, and the day-to-day process.
Best for: a defined product with a deadline.
Best for: ongoing products and multi-phase roadmaps.
Best for: adding Unreal depth to an existing team.
04 — Use Cases
Where teams put real-time 3D to work, and what it changes about the way they sell, train, and operate.
Developers sell units before ground breaks. A real-time walkthrough lets a buyer step into an unbuilt apartment, swap the finishes, and move the sun across the sky — running interactively in the sales gallery instead of as a fixed render, and shipping from the same scene to a headset or a browser.
Operators need practice on equipment that is dangerous, expensive, or simply never offline. A simulation reproduces the machine’s behavior and the plant around it, so a trainee can make a costly mistake safely and repeat it until the procedure sticks.
A photoreal configurator lets a customer build the exact vehicle or product they want and see it lit correctly from every angle. With Pixel Streaming the render runs on a server and arrives in an ordinary browser tab — no download, and no demand on the customer’s hardware.
Venues use real-time 3D to put visitors somewhere they could not otherwise go — a reconstructed site, a scaled solar system, a story staged around them. The rendering carries the spectacle; the engineering is what keeps it running all day on venue hardware.
05 — Proof
Real-time 3D work should be judged by the problem solved, the target platform, the role of the team, and what actually shipped.
Radiologists read MRI and CT studies as flat slices. Frame Sixty built an interactive viewer that reconstructs those scans as a volume you can orbit, scale, and cut through by hand on Apple Vision Pro — built for radiology review, training, and case discussion.
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Frame Sixty produced Logitech's immersive Vision Pro experience, shooting the Muse in spatial 3D on the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive — a world-first commercial at 90fps, delivered through a WebXR and HLS pipeline built for 16K playback.
Built on Vision Pro's hand tracking, this app reads signs as they are made and translates them in real time — designed to open up everyday conversation between Deaf and hearing people.
Advanced Unreal Engine game development workflows, tooling, and the performance strategies that keep an ambitious build shipping at frame rate.
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A still image runs $250–$5,000 in 2026 and animation $500–$50,000+ per minute, while real-time interactive 3D is quoted as a build rather than per frame.
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VR training reaches cost parity with classroom delivery at 375 learners and runs 52% cheaper at 3,000 — with the comparison worked through in full.
Continue ReadingStraight answers to the questions we hear most from teams hiring Unreal Engine developers.
The cost of hiring Unreal Engine developers depends on the engagement model: project-based work is a fixed bid quoted after a discovery call, while dedicated teams and staff augmentation bill monthly. Seniority and scope set the rate, so a 30-minute discovery call is the fastest path to an accurate number.
An Unreal Engine developer from Frame Sixty can typically start within one to two weeks. After a discovery call we propose the developers and engagement model that fit your scope, then begin with Sprint Zero — architecture, backlog, and environment setup — in the first week of the engagement.
Staff augmentation places individual senior Unreal developers inside your team, using your tools and your process. A project team is a complete Frame Sixty squad that takes a defined scope from design to launch with a single point of contact. Choose staff augmentation to add depth; choose a project team to ship a defined product.
Choose Unreal Engine when visual fidelity decides the project: real-time visualization, virtual production, and cinematic-quality environments. Unity usually wins for cross-platform XR and mobile apps that ship to many devices from one codebase. We build in both engines and recommend one during discovery based on your platforms and performance targets.
Yes. Our Unreal work runs on Unreal Engine 5 and uses Lumen global illumination, Nanite geometry, and Niagara effects where the target hardware supports them. For headset and lower-power targets we profile early and choose the rendering features that hold a stable frame rate.
Yes — we build Unreal VR applications for Meta Quest and PC VR. Unreal fits VR projects where visual fidelity leads the brief; standalone headsets have tighter performance budgets than PC, so we set rendering targets during discovery and validate them on device from the first sprint.
Frame Sixty is based in Clearwater, Florida, and our Unreal Engine developers work US time zones. That means real-time overlap for standups, demos, and reviews rather than overnight handoffs, along with US contracts and straightforward communication throughout the engagement.
You own the code and the Unreal project — our contracts assign full IP ownership to you, including source, assets, and build configurations. We sign NDAs before discovery when needed; confidentiality is standard practice across our enterprise work, so protecting unreleased products is routine for the team.
Frame Sixty pairs senior Unreal Engine talent with a shipping record: 100+ apps across headset, mobile, and desktop platforms, 10M+ downloads, and top ratings on Clutch. You hire developers who have taken real-time 3D products through store review, enterprise deployment, and scale.
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