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. Developer Phasedragon has developed a VR experience where you hold a virtual smartphone in your hand.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Working closely with Valve, Sony, and Meta, Cloudhead is best known for their title Pistol Whip and has shipped four popular VR titles ( Pistol Whip , Valve’s Aperture Hand Labs , Call of the Starseed , and Heart of the Emberstone ). When introducing users to a radically different medium like VR, convention & feedback matters.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The headset's visionOS displays this content on a giant virtual screen, giving you a choice between your real room (optionally darkened) or a virtual environment. Watching traditional media and playing traditional games was one of the core use cases for Vision Pro pitched when it was introduced at WWDC back in June.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity. That is, outside of the testing environment in the developer’s app for Quest.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

The international media conglomerate is in the headlines this week with its Holotile breakthrough, a prototype device that acts as a VR input treadmill, allowing various users to walk around a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Virtual reality is commonly associated with the gaming industry, as major companies like Meta, HTC, Sony, and others are creating VR-based video games , which typically appeal to a younger audience. Users from every age group can use VR but may use it for different purposes. How Children, Adults, and Seniors Benefit From VR.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Perhaps teleportation could serve as a nice middle ground between the two options, allowing players to move freely throughout their virtual environments while maintaining the classic stand-and-shoot combat mechanic. Sony paid $5 million USD for RE7 VR/timed DLC/demo exclusivity. Resident Evil 4 // Credit: Capcom.

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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. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week. But features tell only a part of the story.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Project Morpheus prototype | Photo courtesy Sony. Marks thinks that a voice-enabled VR environment, perhaps in the form of a procedurally-generated sandbox, where practically any element could be changed at the user’s command, “doesn’t seem very far away.” That’s why I see it as the holodeck.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. In case you are in need of a solid team able to build a high-quality XR virtual environment, please let me know.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Now Google is going beyond what’s already available, announcing further partnerships with manufacturers to enable their upcoming devices this year, including Samsung, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, ASUS, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia, ZTE, Sony Mobile, and Vivo. Even China will have more access to AR. New Immersive Content. The post Google Announces ARCore 1.0

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2023

The researchers even claimed the resulting accuracy and jitter are superior to worn IMU trackers – devices with only an accelerometer and gyroscope such as Sony's Mocopi. Secondly, the furniture and objects used were manually scanned and positioned in the virtual environment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Additionally, the firm incorporated a Lenovo ThinkSmart Teams Room device, Crystal Vox Loqui 1 Speaker, a Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling mic, and a Sony digital camera. Igloo Vision used six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III) in this room.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

For example, Sony Music is recruiting a team “dedicated to reimagining music through immersive media” that will leverage Sony Music’s catalog and impressive roster of artists to implement a new category of music experiences using the Unreal Engine. 5G and virtual music concerts.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Last Friday , AltspaceVR announced that will be shutting down its virtual environment in March. AltspaceVR was a consumer-focused immersive space that could be accessed either via the desktop or through a virtual reality headset. Apple, Sony, Meta — they’re still pouring in the cash. million in 2022.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky (sport broadcasting tech could come from the acquisition of NextVR) Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Additionally, the room incorporates a Lenovo ThinkSmart Teams Room device, Crystal Vox Loqui 1 Speakers, a Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling mic, and a Sony digital camera. Also, it revealed how users could incorporate Meta Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets into the immersive space via the company’s Connec2 XR collaborative platform.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 10, 2023

While the process worked extremely well for me, it totally failed for one attendee (whom I suspect was a higher-up at Sony’s VR division, but his experience seemed genuine) who said that the optical approach was at odds with his own vision impairment, and turning the feature on actually made everything look worse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

VR movie apps like Plex VR and Bigscreen support consumers in bringing movies and shows developed with immersive tech into their homes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

a robot that can assist people at home), the best is always to do that in the real environment, with the real conditions, but it is, of course, a slow and expensive process. The best idea is to train the AI algorithm inside a VR virtual environment so that you can do all the tests that you want really fast and without breaking things.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2024

The glasses feature Micro OLED panels, created by Sony, with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels per eye. At CES 2024 , XReal laid out a demo environment with a set of cardboard controllers that the glasses could recognize. Fortunately, XReal might have finally discovered how to address this problem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. This will enable more immersive experiences for users, allowing them to interact with virtual objects in a way that feels natural and intuitive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. This will enable more immersive experiences for users, allowing them to interact with virtual objects in a way that feels natural and intuitive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Capcom’s latest entry in the iconic, long-running survival horror series was first unveiled at Sony’s E3 press conference this year, at which point it was also revealed the entire game would be fully playable using the PS VR headset. So, we knew we couldn’t tackle this alone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. ” XR Device Dilution Many major hardware vendors, including Apple and Sony, plan to enter the XR device market in 2024 and beyond.South Korean company LG is rumoured to join the race this year with a XR headset.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Sony’s new VR peripheral, the PSVR Aim , launches today alongside Farpoint , a sci-fi VR FPS that was specially made with the controller in mind. Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment. Can Farpoint and PSVR Aim avoid repeating history? Can Farpoint and PSVR Aim avoid repeating history? Read on to find out.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Movement within virtual environments is a hard problem, and while VirZOOM addresses some of the challenges of VR locomotion, people who are sensitive to simulator sickness will likely still have issues with some of the games developed by VirZOOM.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Fancy virtual environments are left as an exercise for the reader. Even with those caveats, the experience was worlds removed from the torture of trying to watch a movie in my Sony HMZ-T1. For one, the Sony isn’t technically a VR headset, and for two, I never finished watching a movie in it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

All of them have the same problem — they are limited in terms of how you interact with a virtual experience and by the quality of the phone’s hardware. So all in all a full virtual reality system from Sony costs around $800.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2018

Another interesting comment on my post has been this one: Neither Htc nor Oculus nor Sony have done studies of how Vr affects the human brain, we have done them and the result is the following: the vision of a child is not fully formed until 7 or 8 years, as well that the Vr could atrophy a part of its formation.

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VRWorld

JULY 14, 2016

The idea of a virtual environment in which virtual grinders can zoom into the game using a gyroscope allowing them to read the bluff on an opponent’s face, shuffle their chips, and check the leader board. All from the comfort of your own room.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The general idea is the same: calculate how much of a virtual 3D environment can be seen by a user. However, unlike in a real 3D environment, light from a virtual environment does not arrive at the viewer’s eye from all possible directions. Numbers indicate azimuthal angle away from the forward direction.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). On the display, Dade is able to fly through the low poly virtual environment of the Gibson.

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AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Not only did this satisfy the reward for watching element that was missing for virtual audiences, but it also allowed greater engagement within a virtual environment. New eSports fans can be found in the Metaverse and introduced to more eSports through events and competitions held in virtual worlds.

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