The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

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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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Scraper: A Novel About Punk, is a great book about a young rocker in the early 80s and his band. I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. I wanted a well-known sci-fi author to help with the book. No relation at all.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. We should stop forcing developers to be joined in some sort of weird way just because they both use the same tool, Unity or Unreal Engine. Is VR going to turn into AR?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man.

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