Cats and VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Many gaming pundits have been saying the PSVR has been missing from Sony's long term battle strategy due to a lackluster presence at both E3 and Tokyo Game Show. Despite the over 1 million PSVR units sold and the acclaim of content like Resident Evil 7 it does not seem to get the credit that the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift get.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. If you want my help in organizing your VR event, please reach out to me … Waiting to meet you in VR, let’s talk about some news…. Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2019

Sony, MWM Immersive, and Tequila Works today announced that their upcoming VR adventure Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son is set to launch next month, which includes support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PSVR. Image courtesy Sony, MWM Immersive, Tequila Works. Image courtesy Sony, MWM Immersive, Tequila Works.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2018

Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Image courtesy Sony.

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VRScout

JUNE 16, 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming VR will be available for free across all major VR platforms, including PlayStation VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, starting June 30, leading up to the July 7 theatrical release of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Back in March, we got a preview of Sony’s Ghostbusters VR experience that launched on PlayStation VR.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 19, 2016

HTC VP On VR’s Biggest Rivalry: “Oculus Is Not Our Competition” “Oculus is not our competition,” Pao said. Much has been made about our two companies but at HTC our chief concern is to see virtual reality grow into the next great computing platform for the entire world. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

The typical summer week has passed by, with some interesting XR news, but mostly no amazing event to talk about. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2017

Here are the latest PlayStation VR games Sony teased at E3. With other VR military shooters such as Onward and Pavlov gaining much attention by Vive and Oculus owners as of late, Bravo Team could be just what the PSVR needs to further expand its community. The post Sony Reveals 7 New Titles Coming To PSVR appeared first on VRScout.

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JUNE 13, 2017

We’ve seen a routinely strong showing for the tech at the games industry’s biggest event over the past few years, but it hasn’t yet truly dominated the conversation. Couldn’t we have had at least something in the way of new Oculus and Vive Studios games?

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

HTC today announced a partnership with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to bring the HTC Vive to sites in Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Sanya. More interestingly, they’ll also be able to try some of the content from HTC’s Viveport storefront in their own rooms. In a prepared statement, Alvin W.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 21, 2016

History of Recent Events: the War on VR Exclusivity Following the week of E3, the VR community is enraged at the amount of exclusives entering into the ecosystem and fear that it will lead us down the same, bloody path as the console wars. You see Sony investing in their content the same way,” he said. So what is really going on?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The event takes place at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis this week on December 7th and 8th. Speakers from leading companies including Oculus, Intel, Ford, HTC, Paramount, Google, Epic Games, Walmart, Qualcomm and many more, will be present at the event. Keep your eyes on Road to VR for coverage from the event.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

” A message posted to the official E3 website today announced the cancellation of the long-running games industry event which has been held annually in Los Angeles. We are very disappointed that we are unable to hold this event for our fans and supporters. Updates will be shared on E3Expo.com.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. million units sold in its first three months.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Last year, the AIS announced the VR Society, a division dedicated to virtual reality, at their VR on the Lot event at Paramount Studios. A Sundance favorite from Oculus Story Studio this year, Dear Angelica won for showing how powerful storytelling in VR can be. HTC Vive CEO, Cher Wang, on a red carpet full of 360 cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Top news of the week.

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MAY 2, 2017

Last week we broke news that , for the first time in a while, Oculus isn’t set to attend E3, at least not on an official basis. The alien logo ringing out across the various other stalls and rows is arguably now as identifiable as the designs sported by Microsoft for its Xbox and Sony for its PlayStation.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2019

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. AIXR has announced the 2019 nominees for their third annual international VR Awards , an event dedicated to celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 1, 2019

There’s a lot going on over at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) currently, with the company currently shaking up its promotional events by hosting State of Play broadcasts and not appearing at events like the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It’s not just Shawn Layden leaving Sony.

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VRScout

MARCH 21, 2017

Sony has answered our call, bringing the first in a series of VR Ghostbusters episodes to PlayStation VR today. During a press preview event on the Sony Pictures lot in LA, where even Dan Aykroyd made a surprise appearance, I got an early look at the Ghostbusters VR experience. Well now you finally can—in VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to HTC, most everyone’s mind is on the Vive Pro. With GDC being the last major event in Q1, hosted just a week before the end of the quarter, and given the presence of HTC at GDC in years past, it certainly seems like the appropriate place and time to reveal the price and release date of the Vive Pro, if not a delay.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Vive is the ‘room-scale’ VR system created by HTC and Valve. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location. HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

We've seen Tupac Shakur and Amy Winehouse take the stage as a hologram at live events after their passing Click To Tweet. We’ve seen games like Pokémon GO send players hunting virtual monsters in the wild, and we’ve seen Tupac Shakur and Amy Winehouse take the stage as a hologram at live events after their passing.

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MAY 7, 2017

There will be plenty of fresh faces at E3 this year but, as usual, most eyes will be locked on one of the show’s most battle-hardened veterans: Sony. Sony’s press conference has been one of, if not the, biggest events at E3 for the past several years. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Plus, if you are in Karlsruhe, I’ll be attending the LEARNTEC event and I’ll be there on Thursday morning… if you’re there, we can meet! That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. One of the reasons that HTC VIVE is an ARPost perennial favorite headset manufacturer is because the company doesn’t turn out a headset every day. Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there.

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MARCH 19, 2017

GDC 2017 is starting to fade into the distance and the VR industry is settling down again once more before the next big week of events. Oculus Touch Doubles Rift Steam Users. We don’t have a lot of numbers for VR headset sales yet; Sony is the only one to provide official data of the three high-end headset makers.

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VRScout

MARCH 11, 2020

COVID-19 claimed yet another victim this morning as E3 event organizers Entertainment Software Association announced the cancellation of this year’s conference due to fears of a potential coronavirus outbreak. . Organizers hope to provide an ‘online experience’ this June.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). Thanks to the Halloween festivities, that have attracted more users to the platform to attend the dedicated virtual events, and to the sales of the Quest 2, that have added many new users, VRChat has reached a new spike in usage, reaching 24,000 concurrent users. Top news of the week. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

It seems that GDC was one of the events to be to create connections with the VR gaming ecosystem. The sad news is: it was not a meaningful event for announcements. Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. NVIDIA had its GTC event.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. With the launch of the Rift only a few months under their belt, don’t expect anything new in the hardware department from Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. The first news comes directly from an AI event that Meta has organized for this week. HTC released a trailer about his vision for the metaverse.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Looks like Sony is feeling pretty bold. At the upcoming Paris Games Week event, Sony will be unveiling 7 new games for the PS4, and at least a few of them are very likely to be PSVR titles. Since the release of the PSVR, Sony has become one of the biggest names in the industry. Source: PS Blog.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Last year, going into the event, the only headsets we had commercially available to us were powered by smartphones. HTC/Valve/Vive: The double threat of VR companies, HTC and Valve worked together to release the Vive VR headset. Sony: Sony is a GDC veteran. Before you answer let’s consider your options.

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