VRScout

JULY 16, 2018

Biba partners with Sony Picture Animation to bring Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation to smart playgrounds across the US. Since its founding in 2014, the folks over at Biba Ventures has dedicated themselves towards integrating AR games and mobile apps into interactive playgrounds across the United States.

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MAY 11, 2016

However, according to sources in the know, this placeholder has another existing customer, whose name is SONY. ” At the same time, we managed to learn that SONY ran into a roadblock with their original PlayStation 4 plans. The post AMD Confirms Sony PlayStation Neo Based on 14nm CPU and Polaris? 120-220 million).

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MAY 29, 2019

When Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014, many were curious as to why a social media company, whose track record with hardware included a phone that failed just a year prior to the Oculus purchase, would be interested in buying the plucky VR startup for over $2 billion dollars. That’s where Facebook comes in.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

According to a Homido representative, the company has collectively sold approximately 557,000 HMDs since 2014. Homido isn’t a household name around the world like Facebook, Google, Sony, or Samsung, but it has carved out a niche in the mobile HMD market over the past two years.

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MAY 26, 2016

See Also: GDC 2014: Sony Announce ‘Project Morpheus’ PS4 VR Headset. Ever since Sony announced at GDC 2014 they would be bringing a native virtual reality platform to their PlayStation 4 console, then called Project Morpheus, now PlayStation VR (PSVR) the VR world has been waiting to see Microsoft’s next move.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Looking at all PS4 games ever , Astro Bot ranks #23, alongside titles like Monster Hunter: World (2018) and Fez (2014). For those who haven’t been convinced, Sony has announced plans to launch an Astro Bot demo on October 16th. SEE ALSO New PlayStation VR Bundles Now Available: 'Creed + Superhot' & 'Astro Bot + Moss'.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

To many, the question of an Apple AR or VR headset has become a “when” rather than an “if” The President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios thinks 2017 is the year that Apple introduces its first immersive device. But exactly when that time is has been up for debate. Let us know in the comments.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It’s not the first Final Fantasy VR demo to never see the light of day either, as back in 2014 Sony showcased a demo of Final Fantasy XIV running inside its headset too (yes, the MMO). Let me make that clear; I don’t mean Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV, which was revealed at E3 2017 in June.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Zenka feels the same way about VR and AR headsets as we start to see more patents like Sony’s smart eye contacts or Google’s cyborg eye implants. — Sebastien 'Cb' Kuntz (@SebKuntz) March 31, 2014. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Ellis: the first HMD was invented by Galileo ! pic.twitter.com/eAO1tk6y5v.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

But there’s no way of seeing the 2014 film without having the image of Jamie Foxx’s surprisingly Doctor Manhattan -like spin on Electro… Read more. Between The Amazing Spider-Man 2 's so-so plot and unwieldy embarrassment of characters, it’s surprisingly easy to find one’s self unable to recall many of the movie’s finer details.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A partial list of exhibitors includes: AMD Studios, Barco, Create VR, Dell, Google, HP | Nvidia, Intel, Koncept VR, Legend, LOOT Interactive, Lytro, Positron, Sony Music, Technicolor, Time Inc., A post shared by The Lot (@thelotstudios) on Jun 21, 2014 at 7:53pm PDT. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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JULY 24, 2019

Before the game’s total shutdown, the studio had proposed the idea to the game’s publisher Sony of possibly including an offline mode that would populate the game with bots, however the same spokesperson says that the decision ultimately was rejected. million in backer funds.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Bloomberg reported that Sony could announce its oft-rumored Spartacus subscription service as early as the end of March. As Sony gets ready to jump into a competition where it's already years behind, these are the most important things (within reason) that we want and expect to see out of Spartacus when it makes its official debut.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The first brand to deploy the new Snapchat feature was Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) who released a campaign to promote their latest thriller called ‘Don’t Breathe’. Sony created this initial video with the help of AvatarLabs , a Los Angeles based digital agency.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. The next year, that number would cap at 2.4 It’s growing.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

When Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn’t know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not shipped yet, and so he was able to build a VR game using his soccer experience to head soccer balls into a goal.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to the regulators, Meta launched a “campaign to conquer VR” in 2014 after buying out VR headset manufacturer Oculus. The FTC has also filed anti-competitive lawsuits against the deal involving Sony Corporation, potentially derailing the latter’s future tech products.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

There are some tricky wires to handle and space requirements to clear, though, which Sony detailed in a new video series below. It’s the end of a long chapter in the headset’s history, having originally been revealed all the way back in March 2014 under the code name of Project Morpheus.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Image by Sony). It is not clear, and we hope that Sony will clarify his.(Theoretically Theoretically yes, but Sony always talked about the compatibility of old games with PS5 + old PSVR, not also about new games). I’ll leave it for you in the links so that you can participate in the discussion as well. Other relevant news.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Facebook’s billion-dollar acquisition of Oculus in 2014 more than showed Zuck’s hand, though it would be another seven years until the pivot actually happened. In the years directly after the Oculus acquisition, there was a flurry of investment in VR across the industry.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Lifelogging was the tech trend of 2013 and 2014 but quickly disappeared under the weight of privacy fears. But that didn't stop us from becoming lifeloggers.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook paid $2 billion for Oculus in 2014, and although sales figures have not been released, many analysts believe the headset is lagging behind similar offerings from HTC and Sony. This isn’t the first price drop by Oculus this year: The package was trimmed to $499 on March 1. In July the price went down for 33% to $399.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

As announced over on the PlayStation Blog , Darknet , the developer’s futuristic hacking-based puzzle game, is making its way from Gear VR and Oculus Rift over to Sony’s system at some point in early 2017. The experience has you accessing nodes to strategically take them over.

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MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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JUNE 7, 2023

We felt like VR had been going upwards but relatively slowly since 2014-2015 and we really felt it taking off with Quest 2 ," says O’Luanaigh. We had an opportunity with Sony to do something kind of exclusive to the headset that really pushed it."

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JULY 7, 2016

Google searches for “Oculus Rift” have enjoyed steady popularity since 2013 with major spikes hitting after the company’s announcement that it had been acquired by Facebook in 2014, and as the headset finally opened for pre-orders earlier this year.

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MAY 30, 2017

Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. Luckey stuck with Oculus under Facebook for several years, but after the reveal of a polarizing political stance and a major lost lawsuit —brought by a company which Oculus was involved with in its early days— news broke that he had left the company in March.

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JUNE 2, 2016

In an interview with Bloomberg TV back in November 2014 , Zelnick voiced concerns over the long term comfort of the then emerging Oculus Rift headset (before the HTC Vive had appeared on the scene). “We are concerned that you’ll play our games for a long period of time — we don’t want people getting nauseated.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014. Several of the world’s biggest tech giants, including Meta Platforms, Sony, Agora, HTC VIVE, Unity Technologies, Qualcomm, Magic Leap, Lenovo, and many others joined the event.

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JUNE 18, 2016

They may be late following Sony’s forward-looking entrance all the way back in 2014, but Microsoft’s announcement that the more powerful ‘Project Scorpio’ Xbox will feature “high fidelity VR” is one of the biggest validations the VR industry has seen. Microsoft / Xbox.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

In 2014, Fallon demoed Sony’s PSVR (back when it was still called ‘Project Morpheus’) on The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR. As far back as 2013, when Fallon was hosting Late Night , he saw a pre-DK1 version of the Oculus Rift that was held together with gaffers tape.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Untold Games had lofty ideals with its first made-for-VR title Loading Huma n, a title we first covered back in 2014. Now, Untold Games via publishers Maximum Games have announced that Loading Human is to become one of the first games available on Sony’s PlayStation VR headset.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

As a related sidenote, two new phones boast the spec requirements to run Daydream : the Moto Z and Moto Z Force from Lenovo (in a somewhat ironic twist, Lenovo actually bought the the Motorola Mobility brand from Google in 2014). The slashed projections’ biggest loser is Sony’s PlayStation VR, with unit sales predictions downgraded from 2.6M

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

I’ve had my head in every iteration of PlayStation VR since it was announced all the way back in 2014 (back then called ‘Project Morpheus’). Sony somehow managed to nail this right out of the gate. Sony’s approach is very different.

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