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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B This shows us that XR is the future of Facebook, but the present is still 2D social media and all its marketing power. was a lot of money?).

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Apple's passthrough magic might help explain why the industry is making such big shifts before this $3,500 spatial computer even ships. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

Microsoft has presented a paper on a way to record this kind of data so that it is impossible to reconstruct pictures of the original places from it. New interesting patents by Sony comes to light. Sony is working on the Playstation 5 and next gen PSVR. Does Magic Leap want to create a big reality show?

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