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DECEMBER 10, 2017

Golem , a forthcoming PSVR title that’s been in the works since 2015, has resurfaced this weekend at Sony’s PSX event. Golem was first announced way back in 2015, and after surfacing briefly in 2016, few concrete details have emerged from the studio since.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Apple will likely require appointments for purchasing, he wrote, as it did with the original Apple Watch in 2015. Vision Pro is reportedly the "most complicated" device Apple has ever designed, and Sony can reportedly only make enough ultra-high resolution microdisplays for less than half a million units per year.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Apple will likely require appointments for purchasing, he wrote, as it did with the original Apple Watch in 2015. Vision Pro is reportedly the "most complicated" device Apple has ever designed, and Sony can reportedly only make enough ultra-high resolution microdisplays for less than half a million units per year.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The music experience was created by Brighton, UK-based HelloEnjoy , an indie studio known for their commercial 3D work across a range of big names including Disney, Sony, Samsung, Swarovski, Absolut, Interscope, Lexus, Nissan and Peugeot.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Now it appears PAX East-goers will get a fresh whack at the game, which was unveiled way back in 2015. In case you’re attending, here’s the seven titles Sony is trotting out at PAX East: Ghost Giant. Falcon Age. Jupiter & Mars. Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash! Trover Saves the Universe. Vacation Simulator.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Sony shared the top 10 downloads for February on PlayStation VR (PSVR) and, despite releasing in October last year, Job Simulator continues to be a leader on the system. Keep Talking originally released all the way back in 2015 but became a viral hit as it worked outside VR headsets as well.

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APRIL 23, 2020

This article is actually a throwback to an article I wrote with the same premise back in 2015. And if you happen to own a PS4, Sony’s PSVR [Amazon] is an aging but still impressive add-on which can be found on sale for $250. Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments.

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JULY 2, 2016

Sony’s The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. For more context about how open standards usually thrive off of proprietary competition, then be sure to listen to my 2015 interview with Khronos Group’s Neil Trevett. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Ready At Dawn, the developer behind 2015 PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 , just teased that it will be revealing a new VR game at the developer conference in San Jose. Ready At Dawn was confirmed to be one of the Oculus Studios partners back at E3 2015. Ready At Dawn (@RAD_Studios) October 5, 2016.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are expected to reduce the prices for their game products in the coming years. billion and $9.6

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The young organization managed to carve out a name for itself during the early days of the emerging VR industry and that first to market approach earned it a $65 million fundraising round in 2015 that was led by none other than the kingmaker of modern media itself: Disney. Tagged with: jaunt , playstation , PS VR , sony.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Before the calendar ever turned over from 2015 to 2016 people were already dubbing this as the “year of virtual reality.” The best and most recent estimates sales for the “big three” headset manufacturers at about 350,000, 450,000 and 750,000 for Oculus, HTC and Sony respectively.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Exclusive to this Los Angeles theater location, the VR Zombie game created by Fisherman Labs is being demoed in conjunction with the Sony Pictures release Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. We are excited to partner with Sony and Fisherman Labs on this amazing VR experience at LA Live: A BARCO Innovation Center.”.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Sony has appended a 12+ age restriction for PlayStation VR. Oculus has included similar warnings, as their guidelines for both Rift and Gear VR is set at 13+, although Oculus ex-CEO Brendan Iribe admitted back in 2015 that Oculus adopted Facebook’s the 13+ age requirement when they were acquired.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Both studios are best known through David Jaffe, the creator of Sony’s God of War series who left Eat Sleep Play back in 2012 as the studio shifted to mobile development. All of these moves have been made after the company raised $15 million back in 2015. We don’t have an exact release date or price for the kit yet.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Since launch in 2015, YouTube has been using equirectangular projection, which renders pixels best at the top and bottom of an image, where a user normally isn’t looking, and has lower quality pixels closer towards the center of the screen, where they usually are looking.

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AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015. Previous AWE Asia conferences have featured sessions from senior leadership at organizations such as #Intel, #Qualcomm, #Microsoft, #HTC, #Lenovo, #IEEE, #Sony, #Niantic, #Walmart, #Oppo, #Unity, #Baidu, and #PTC.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

The game has actually been in development for some time, starting life as a PS3 title with PlayStation Move motion controller support before being reannounced for Sony’s newest console in 2015 under a new developer, Granzella.

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JULY 7, 2016

. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015. Search volume is a good indicator of relative brand awareness, more so than purchase intent or attitude toward the product as even negative events can generate search interest.

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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. Snapchat integrated AR overlays after acquiring Looksery in 2015.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy. Now, that number hovers around 10.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Its call for focus and optimization is likely to be cited countless times internally at Meta in the coming years, but his words also point to opportunity at companies like Sony, Pico, HTC, Valve, Apple, and Google. “The issue is our efficiency.” “So they refresh 60 times a second.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google. billion yuan ($236 million) in 2015, and is expected to rise to more than 5 billion yuan ($753 million) this year. Worldwide shipments of VR hardware is set to skyrocket in 2016, with some estimates pointing at volumes of 9.6

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MARCH 19, 2017

Despite Sony being pleasantly surprised by its official PSVR sales figures – with the nearly 1 million units sold since its October 2016 launch – it’s difficult to get a handle on market penetration for VR hardware to date.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Guerrilla Cambridge, the Sony-owned developer behind PlayStation VR multiplayer FPS, RIGS: Mechanised Combat League [ Review: 8/10 ], was confirmed to be closing just a few months on from the game’s launch last October. I was one of the first people to play RIGS following its reveal at E3 2015.

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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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JANUARY 2, 2017

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. Homido mini (pocket-sized solution, first released in 2015) has sold 244,000 units total.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Emteq Ltd was founded in 2015 to improve lives through the development of facial sensing healthcare solutions and is applying its technology to VR. He was tech lead on the BAFTA-award-winning Monument Valley (2014) and co-directed Gear VR hit Land’s End (2015). Solomon Rogers – Founder, REWIND. Pete Short – CTO, Breaking Forth.

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MARCH 3, 2017

It was one of the first studios to get to work with PSVR, announcing RIGs at E3 2015. Though you can still play the game online, Guerrilla Cambridge was shuttered by owner Sony earlier this year , and any plans for future support were scrapped. Although RIGs was a pretty great online arena shooter, it sadly didn’t have long legs.

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MAY 28, 2017

We don’t think so and believe that in the next couple of years major organizations such as Sony and HTC will start producing advertisements to be shown in virtual reality. This is proven by the fact that in a 2015 study, 72% of millennials said that an experience is more important than having physical items.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The studio’s growing visibility and size culminated in Everybody’s Gone To Rapture , a 2015 exploration game created in collaboration with Sony’s Santa Monica Studio. And, in 2015, Samsung’s Gear VR nabbed Land’s End from Ustwo (makers of the hit mobile game Monument Valley).

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JUNE 14, 2017

VR gets Western release: image courtesy Sony Japan Studio, Acquire. While it missed the main ‘PlayStation VR Game’ segment of Sony’s keynote, another PSVR title was announced at E3 this week – the quirky Japanese real-time strategy game with the unusual title V! No Heroes Allowed!

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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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JUNE 12, 2017

Another Bethesda title, Doom VXR however, is coming to Sony’s VR headset and you can read all about it here. The game itself offers the full Fallout 4 game as released toward the end of 2015 plus “all-new combat, crafting, and building systems fully re-imagined for virtual reality.”

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Its history is synonymous with Sony’s console. Having hit Japanese arcades in early 2015, Tekken 7 is now on its way to consoles. I have fond memories of the early days of the PS1, button mashing my way to victory in Namco Bandai’s famous fighter. We may not know much about it, but that makes it all the more exciting.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The service shut down yesterday — it had launched in beta in March 2015 and raised $2 million total. The startup was competing against Jaunt, Littlstar and giants like Google’s YouTube to host 360-degree immersive content.

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