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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

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Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

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A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. See Also: The Future of XR’s Remote Events in the New Normal. ICHVR 2021.

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The Best Photogrammetry Solutions in 2023

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RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Epic Games: Reality Scan In 2021, Epic Games acquired photogrammetry solutions provider Capturing Reality, with plans to integrate the firm’s digital twin production tools into the Unreal Engine.

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The Best Photogrammetry Solutions in 2022

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RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Google first introduced RawNeRF in 2020 as an automated photogrammetry tool that can simulate the real-world lighting of a scanned object. Sony is also empowering the emerging industry 4.0

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CES 2021 Goes Virtual

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(Image courtesy Sony) Finally, while not exactly “consumer electronics”, Sony announced plans for a series of immersive, VR concerts this year, initially kicking off with a Madison Beer concert available later this year for Oculus, Playstation VR, and others.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

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Per se, this is not a surprising news (all companies are working on next iterations of their devices), but what is surprising is the timing that the report suggests: a new Oculus Quest should have been announced at the end of 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will come in 2021. Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

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In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Do you want to know the best XR events of 2020?