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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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Japanese electronics giant Sony recently bought out Beyond Sports, allowing the former to build massive metaverse content for sporting events. Beyond Sports develops real-world data for 3D animations, and its technologies will seamlessly integrate with Sony’s growing portfolio of immersive solutions. it announced this week.
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AR Insider
OCTOBER 31, 2019
It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. .
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 7, 2021
Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.
Upload VR
JANUARY 18, 2024
Saudi Arabia-owned Magic Leap took $500+ million more from the "sovereign" investment arm of the state to continue developing its technologies for transparent optical AR. Microsoft formally killed its PC VR platform. A few researchers at Meta, and maybe Google or Amazon, are likely waiting for those exact same benchmarks.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Image by Sony). Sony shows prototype headset with dual 4K display. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
Also keep in mind that there are plenty of private companies worth investing in, and some public companies listed below have invested in them like Magic Leap who has investments to the tune of $1.39 Sony – NYSE: SNE – VR Console, VR Games & VR Headset. Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR Content & Game Engine.
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