Remove 2018 Remove Sony Remove Unreal Remove Virtual Reality
article thumbnail

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.

Sony 402
article thumbnail

Gamescom 2018 Day 2: NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti video, Ubisoft believes in VR and much more

The Ghost Howls

It is a Korean company producing haptic devices for virtual reality. I tried it in a paintball gaming against Stuart, the guy of bHaptics stand, and I had tons of fun: haptics really add a new dimension to virtual reality , that lets you feel it more real. But he clearly specified “ We believe in virtual reality.

Video 164
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. See Also: The Rise of Virtual Reality in Automotive Retail. Rising VR Company. VR in Healthcare.

article thumbnail

Scraper: First Strike looks like an interesting VR action game

The Ghost Howls

A standalone game, Scraper: First Strike, Episode I, will premiere on all four major VR platforms in late 2018 , in advance of the full Scraper game scheduled for a 2020 release on console and PC. We had to get dev kits from Sony, Oculus, Vive and WMR. Then it was building the main stream in Unreal and branching off when needed.

Gaming 187
article thumbnail

Is Oculus Quest killing PC VR?

The Ghost Howls

No wait, is 2017… or maybe 2018, ah no, VR is dead… in 2019 there is the Quest, so VR will be mainstream! The new Unreal Engine 5 lets you import graphical assets of whatever quality and they get downgraded on the fly on the target platform, depending on its horsepower. The new upcoming PS5 (Image by Sony).

Oculus 544
article thumbnail

Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

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. 14- Kai Liang.