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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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Big XR News from Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap

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The company faces increased competition from other VR and AR companies, such as Sony and Apple. Magic Leap Natively Backs OpenXR This week, Magic Leap announced increased compatibility with OpenXR for its Magic Leap 2 AR headset. ”

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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

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Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. We now know how much Sony has paid for Insomniac Games. More info (Use Google Translate).