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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Epic’s powerful technology in areas such as graphics places them at the forefront of game engine development with Unreal Engine and other innovations.

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TSMC to Build Japan's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab

Anand Tech

The semiconductor manufacturing facility will focus on mature and specialty fabrication technologies that are used to make chips with long lifecycles for automakers and consumer electronics. "This fab will utilize 20 nm to 28 nm technology for semiconductor wafer fabrication," Wei added. "Fab

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ONYX BOOX Tab Ultra ePaper Tablet Launches with Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

Anand Tech

While there are many vendors attempting to make a mark in the technology required in this space, E-Ink's offerings have ruled the roost. The most popular category of products using E-Ink's technology has undoubtedly been eBook readers. The Sony DPT lineup ( review ) became one of the leading products in this category.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The company has been driving their product forward for a few years and led an unsuccessful Kickstarter in 2013, so this is a big deal for Tactical Haptics in their quest to commercialize haptic feedback technologies. NOKIA AND SONY GET TOGETHER FOR 360 VIDEO. …and more. GET A 3RD ARM IN VR WITH STANFORD RESEARCH TEAM.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Waveguides are not a new technology, per se. Waveguide displays are made using the same technology that allows a unidirectional wave of light to be guided down a fiber optic cable. Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Waveguide Basics. DigiLens is a sleeping unicorn.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. We’ve also seen smartphones with depth cameras, for instance from Lenovo and Asus with Google’s pre-ARCore Tango technology.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Kshitij Marwah is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review Most Innovator Under The Age of 35. He has a special interest and focus on emerging technologies including #VR #AR #MR #AI. 3- Ayden Ye.