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Sony Hosting an Official ‘Sword Art Online’ Exhibition in VR Through March 10th

Road to VR

Sony is hosting an official Sword Art Online fan exhibition in VR from today through March 10th. First aired in 2012, the fictional events of the show were set in the year 2022. Image courtesy Sony. Image courtesy Sony. Image courtesy Sony. Tickets to the event are priced at about $33 (¥3,800).

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Sony to Debut Anime Studio with VRChat Watch Party

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Under its new studio, the collaboration with Sony will debut in the virtual world ‘Nostalgia1999,’ which features concepts from a Japanese six-tatami room from July of the same year. Fans can view the messy Otaku character with Sony’s world-renowned anime shows. / Let’s watch 90’s anime together on VRChat!

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Sony To Close ‘RIGS’ Developer Guerrilla Cambridge

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Guerrilla Cambridge, the UK-based developer behind the high-profile multiplayer FPS, is to close, owner Sony has confirmed to UploadVR today. ” RIGS was one of the biggest games of PlayStation VR’s launch line-up, and one of the few to be developed internally at Sony. .”

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Epic Games Acquires Sketchfab, the Massive 3D Object Library Compatible with AR/VR Headsets

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Founded in 2012, Sketchfab plays host to over 4 million 3D assets, all of which are accessible through its web-based platform across PC, mobile, and immersive headsets. The acquisition no doubt comes as a direct result of Epic securing a $1 billion financing round back in April, $200 million of which came from Sony Group Corporation.

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The Amazing Spider-Man Got There, In the End

GizModo VR

Back in 2012, Sony returned to Marvel Comics’ most popular hero with The Amazing Spider-Man , a reboot completely separate from the original Sam Raimi trilogy , for better and for worse. It isn’t just Transformers that’s celebrating a milestone this holiday weekend. And ten years later, the two-film franchise (well, … Read more.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

Road to VR

Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation. Guest Article by Denny Unger Denny Unger is CEO and CCO at Cloudhead Games.

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

Tech Trends VR

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.