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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Work together with friends to rid Ginza Sony Park of a ghostly threat. Beginning this weekend in Tokyo, Japan, Ginza Sony Park will be hosting Ghostbusters In The Park , a massive live event celebrating the historic 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters. Image Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony. “Be Feature Image Credit: Sony.

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JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. The Rift CV1 is still their flagship product and is likely to remain that way through holiday 2016 and beyond. Sony PlayStation.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Sony have confirmed 10 PlayStation VR titles to be playable on the show floor at E3 this year including the return of some old favourite franchises, Psychonauts and Rez. To that end, Sony have announced 10 of the titles that you can expect to be playable at their booth. Find more details on that over here.

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MAY 23, 2018

Sony Japan Studio today announced a new platform action game for PSVR starring the cute little robots made famous in Sony’s The Playroom (2013) and The Playroom VR (2016). Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. SEE ALSO Sony: PS4 Enters "final phase of life cycle," Next PlayStation to Come in 3 Years.

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JUNE 14, 2016

When we first broke the news that PlayStation VR would be coming this Fall , we still had no idea what date or even what the price of Sony’s VR headset would end up at. Now, announced at a press conference during E3 2016, the long-awaited PlayStation VR release date was revealed for North America: October 13, 2016.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

While understandably less visually detailed than its PS4 counterpart, the PSVR missions aim to ramp up the game with greater immersion. Despite some clear advantages to player immersion, in our time demoing Ace Combat 7 we foresaw a few other potential hitches that might have made the time investment less worthwhile.

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MAY 9, 2017

A few weeks ago we reported that Sony was planning to bump up production of its PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset around E3 time. Following PSVR’s launch in October 2016 some have struggled to find stock but hopefully this increased production cycle will bring about an end to those issues.

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JUNE 7, 2016

With things already heating up for this year’s E3, Sony has today announced a new addition to the PlayStation VR lineup— Tethered, an impossibly cute strategy game from UK-based studio Secret Sorcery. ” Tethered is Secret Sorcery’s debut title, and is slated to arrive alongside PlayStation VR in Autumn 2016.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Roundup: PSVR E3 2016 Announcements & What It Means For VR 1. Launches on October 13, 2016 The PSVR, which will work on every PS4 console, will launch on October 13 for $399. By the end of 2016, Sony says 50 games will support VR on the PS4.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

” 2016 was considered to be the year that VR finally made the transition from science fiction fantasy to a real consumer product available at your local Best Buy. With a plug-and-play install base of around 50 million PS4s, and the monolithic might of Sony behind it, it was the best bet the VR industry had. Cambridge Closing .

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MAY 21, 2016

The Augmented World Expo, one of the longest running immersive technology events, is back for a 7th year and it’s bigger than ever. On June 1st for 2 days, AWE 2016 will kick off with its biggest show yet, held at the the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. AWE 2016 Discount Tickets. Just a Few AWE 2016 Highlights.

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APRIL 25, 2023

That bump lets developers create even more immersive and graphically intense games than we’ve ever seen on PS platform, like Horizon Call of the Mountain (2023), or the remastered version of Song in the Smoke , the latter of which rivals even the PC VR version of the game. My advice is to ask Sony for help early. File tickets!

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JUNE 5, 2019

In the upcoming sequel to 2016’s The Angry Birds Movie , The Angry Birds Movie 2: Under Pressure , the beloved franchise heads in a bold new direction when a terrifying new foe threatens to destroy both the Bird and Piggy Islands, forcing both sides to come together in order to save their respective civilizations. Image Credit: Sony.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Image courtesy Sony.

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JULY 19, 2021

Founded in 2016, the company is made up of eight subsidiary companies focused on XR. Glimpse companies include Adept Learning, D6, Foretell Reality, Immerse Health Group, Post Reality, and Early Adopter. Free roam VR is only true, fully immersive VR experience you can have, replete with natural locomotion and spatial props.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

This Sunday marks the three-year anniversary of PlayStation VR, Sony’s console-based answer to at-home VR entertainment. In celebration of this milestone, Sony is launching a handful of new titles on the PS4-powered headset, as well as a huge sale on over 70 PS VR-compatible experiences. Image Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Sony Pictures Entertainment experiences are coming to a headset or location near you. Characteristic of Sony Pictures to release a VR adaptation for feature film releases that make sense in VR, teleporting yourself into the world of Jumanji thanks to VR is a dream come true for so many.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Hailing from ROM: Extraction (2016) developers First Contact Entertainment , Firewall Zero Hour launched on August 28th, giving it only four days to vault to the top spot in August , where it surpassed long-time chart toppers Job Simulator (2016), SUPERHOT VR (2016), and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A beautiful experience created by the New York Times for their celebration of The year’s best actors in 2016. In partnership with award-winning violinist and Sony artist Joshua Bell, Sony Playstation brought to life a live studio performance of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. Best Journalism Experience: Take Flight.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Sanzaru’s first VR title was Ripcoil (2016) , built as an Oculus Rift launch title back before the headset was bundled with its ‘Touch’ motion controllers. The studio began working with Facebook’s Oculus before the company even shipped its first consumer headset. Going forward, the plan is to be fully focused on VR.

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JULY 10, 2020

Yesterday, Superhot Team announced a direct sequel to its time-bending 2016 hit which is scheduled to arrive later this month on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. On the bright side, those who own a copy of the 2016 original will receive a copy of Mind Control Delete 100% free-of-charge. No plans for VR at this time.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Firewall Zero Hour (2018) , the tactical team shooter from ROM: Extraction (2016) developers First Contact Entertainment , has apparently celebrated some serious notoriety since it launched late last month on PlayStation VR; Sony has ranked it the top most downloaded PSVR game of August. Oh, and it’s a pretty great game too.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

And while those other less immersive accessories today cost over $500, most of the time requiring a new, expensive device, we’re announcing today that these Creators Update accessories will start at just $299.” Back at Gamescom 2016 Oculus VP of Product Nate Mitchell dodged our questions as to if Rift could work with the console.

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MARCH 19, 2017

.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. ” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

The Last Guardian (2016) is getting a standalone PSVR experience to let players interact with the majestic Trico face to face. After years in development hell, the long awaited game finally launched on PS4 in 2016. After years in development hell, the long awaited game finally launched on PS4 in 2016.

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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. Secondly, consider the scope.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016 it released a compact smartphone-tethered headset for viewing 360° videos, to terrible reviews, and in 2017 it showed off a PC-tethered SteamVR headset prototype that it never shipped. Cho told The Guru that LG Electronics has moved XR device development into the division of the company that makes its TVs to "speed up development".

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JUNE 7, 2017

IDC started to collect market share data for VR and AR shipments since Q1 2016 and just reported their Q1 numbers for 2017. For Q1 IDC reported 2,241,000 headsets being sold, that is lower than the 3,825,500 headsets sold in Q4 of 2016. However, compared to Q1 of 2016, it is a 69% increase from 1,321,300 units to 2,241,600.

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MAY 24, 2016

Even for most consumers who will never get the privilege of stitching GoPro footage, this camera will seem simple to them and make shooting immersive video accessible to a whole new world of creators. Back in February, Samsung announced that the Gear 360 would be shipping sometime in Q2 2016. There is one problem though.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) looks set to kick things up a notch next month, as anticipated new games finally arrive for the platform. This promising new puzzle game from Sweden-based developer Tarsier Studios was announced just ahead of E3 2016 last June, and we’ve kept an eye on it ever since. One such title is Statik.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Ghostbusters World is an opportunity for 4:33 Creative Labs to partner with Sony Pictures Entertainment along with Ghost Corps — the entity that handles Ghostbusters properties. . The only thing you’ll need to supply is a smartphone and an (optional) Ghostbusters uniform.

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JUNE 20, 2017

During Black Friday in 2016 for the PlayStation VR (PSVR) in particular it was especially difficult to find headsets for under the listed $399 price tag. With over one million sold so far already, Sony isn’t exactly eager to cut profits. Discounted prices for headsets in and of themselves though have been a rare sight.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

It was confirmed back in April that Sony’s upcoming next-gen console would include support for the current-gen PSVR. SEE ALSO Sony Announces 4.2 ” To demonstrate, Sony’s Japan Studio put together a few short demos—the same team behind The Playroom VR (2016) and Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018).

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JANUARY 4, 2017

What We Know: In our world its easy to forget sometimes that Sony is much more than just a gaming company. What To Expect : This year at CES, as with previous years, Sony is expected to focus primarily on its ever-expanding catalog of televisions. How will this year’s CES factor into the incredible VR narrative of 2016?

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MARCH 5, 2018

Bravo Team is a promising new title for PSVR from developer Supermassive Games, the studio behind VR titles Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016) and The Inpatient (2018). ” Image courtesy Supermassive Games. ” Image courtesy Supermassive Games. Luckily, the game will also support the PS4 controller.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Back at E3 2016, Microsoft’s Head of Xbox Phil Spencer announced on stage that the Xbox One X (then ‘Project Scorpio’) would become the industry’s next VR-compatible console, positioning the platform to compete with Sony’s PSVR with what Spencer called “high fidelity VR.”

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JUNE 13, 2016

A new Batman experience is on its way exclusively to PlayStation VR, as announced on stage at Sony’s pre-E3 PlayStation event, it’s called Batman: Arkham VR and it’s developed by franchise veterans Rocksteady Studios. Interactive Entertainment. Road to VR is at E3 all week bringing you the latest VR news.

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