The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

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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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ». Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We now know how much Sony has paid for Insomniac Games.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. billion before it fell into administration in 2018 after an investor dispute prevented it from raising emergency funding.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. The money is said to help in manufacturing and launching the secretive augmented reality company’s first product. The headsets are likely not going to be available to consumers until 2018.

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