The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Sony has acquired Insomniac Games. Sony has acquired Insomniac Games , one of the most talented game studios among the ones focused on Virtual Reality. The studio will so become part of the Sony Worldwide Studios. MRTK, not to be confused with VRTK, is the official SDK to develop for Microsoft HoloLens and HoloLens 2.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are expected to reduce the prices for their game products in the coming years.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We honestly believe any studio could take a good shot at bringing their game to Sony’s headset regardless of features and, with an install base of over 40 million PS4s, it’s in their best interest to. Tilt Brush, from Google. Fantastic Contraption, from Northway Games. DiRT Rally, from Codemasters. This is a no-brainer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For example, companies will need to develop and deploy benchmarks and evaluation standards. For example, NVIDIA has long remained associated with AI , namely, as it continues to refresh its portfolio of solutions for immersive collaboration and design.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

The event sees leading XR firms such as Meta, Google, and Magic Leap actively participating in many of the event’s esteemed keynotes and exhibition spaces. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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JULY 24, 2017

Since then standalone VR has moved even closer to reality; Google is releasing a line of WorldSense devices with partners like HTC Vive later this year. Are Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headsets any good? Microsoft seems like the wild card in VR right now. What role with Google’s WorldSense headsets play?

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows Holographic VR headsets are going to run the gamut of specs like input, field of view, and resolution. Lenovo’s headset looks very similar to the white device here seen at Microsoft’s announcement last year. Lenovo’s offering sounds like it might sit somewhere in the middle.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. For example, the anatomical features of the human body, the work of various mechanisms, etc. See Also: 4 Inventive Examples of Virtual Reality in Education. Visibility.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, say you’re working on a 360° video. Increasing a headset or experience’s ability to induce feelings of presence is a major concern for the corporations driving VR’s growth such as Facebook, Google, Sony and Microsoft. .” As a C- math student, just reading that made my palms sweat.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. For example, the last time we covered one of their reports it was an industry survey with Perkins Coie. About the “Thinking Ahead About XR” Report.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Another slightly different example is when they acquire a game studio like Beat Games and they say that “Beat Saber will continue being supported on all current platforms” And this is 100% true. On the web, Google has similar behaviors. The tech world domination.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The startup was competing against Jaunt, Littlstar and giants like Google’s YouTube to host 360-degree immersive content. It is not the last, however, as startups will begin running out of money in a highly competitive market now being overtaken by heavy hitters such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft formally killed its PC VR platform. Samsung (with Google) and Sony have chosen Qualcomm's XR2+ Gen 2 as the engine of their upcoming headsets, after Samsung reportedly went back to the drawing board after seeing Vision Pro announced. From what I saw of the provided example videos, they succeed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Partnership with Microsoft. Highlights of the partnership between Meta and Microsoft. Meta and Microsoft worked together to integrate Quest Pro into the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft 365 is coming to Quest Pro! Meta partners with Microsoft (Road To VR). Partnership with Microsoft and Accenture.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…). More info.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

However, while rivals like Google , Microsoft and Sony are already well on their immersive way, Apple remains silent on what its immersive projects may be. It seems fairly clear from rumors , industry insiders and a spat of recent acquisitions that the gargantuan corporation is working on something in the VR/AR space.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. The modality to ask for the adapters is not clear yet, though.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

For example, a real-time strategy game like Command & Conquer might feel amazing on the hardware. And if you stack the billions spent there against Sony, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Google, Apple and others, are all these executives investing too much on AR & VR, or too little?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The Daily Beast reported that Luckey raised money for a pro-Trump non-profit called Nimble America, which is dedicated to influencing politics by trolling and bringing Internet memes to real world situations (an example is a billboard in Pittsburgh featuring a cartoonish image of Hillary Clinton, with the caption “Too Big to Jail”).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google). Alex Lee (Google). Room 3009, West Hall.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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MARCH 26, 2017

For example, let’s say you bought Gears of War 2 in November 2008 when it launched. And that’s a conservative example. Then consider their platforms, made by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Then look at the names of the best sellers: Job Simulator , Tilt Brush , Google Earth, Raw Data , Land’s End , Onward , etc.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Image by Microsoft). Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. News worth a mention.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.:

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JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? 1) I believe the virtual reality market will continue to have steady sales reaching over 2 million HMD’s between Sony, HTC and Oculus.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Nintendo's own Switch console has been a level-up moment for mobile gaming, but its brand-burnishing hits like Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild don't go toe-to-technical-toe with the visual splendor of something like Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn. Credit: Adam Rosenberg / Mashable.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: I mean, something like VRChat, for example, I know– I believe they just raised another round, was it? So they have a platform on their own app and Sony PlayStation’s, as well. And Sony has been a great partner for the company. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. That’s basically in LA.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: I mean, something like VRChat, for example, I know– I believe they just raised another round, was it? So they have a platform on their own app and Sony PlayStation’s, as well. And Sony has been a great partner for the company. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. That’s basically in LA.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: I mean, something like VRChat, for example, I know– I believe they just raised another round, was it? So they have a platform on their own app and Sony PlayStation’s, as well. And Sony has been a great partner for the company. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. That’s basically in LA.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

All the big names in tech are working on their own devices, including Apple, Sony, Samsung, and Google. Even Microsoft decided to join the club. While having a clear example to work towards helped us avoid many common mistakes, we still encountered plenty facepalm moments. 2015 is going to be an exciting year!

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