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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.06.17): E3 VR, Vive Cosmos reveal and much more!

The Ghost Howls

There is a rumor about NVIDIA going to release a new series of RTX graphics cards dubbed “Super RTX” that will represent an improvement of the past-generation RTX graphics cards announced in 2018. New interesting patents by Sony comes to light. Sony is working on the Playstation 5 and next gen PSVR.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. February 2016. September 2016.