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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. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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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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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

The human eye is a wonderful and complex thing, and it’s a technological feat just to even come close to its natural revolution. Let’s talk about your technology and how you guys ended up at this place. There’s been so much research done on that, Unreal Engine and Unity are really pushing towards that.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

The human eye is a wonderful and complex thing, and it’s a technological feat just to even come close to its natural revolution. Let’s talk about your technology and how you guys ended up at this place. There’s been so much research done on that, Unreal Engine and Unity are really pushing towards that.

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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.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo's XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

The human eye is a wonderful and complex thing, and it's a technological feat just to even come close to its natural revolution. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens.

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