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Has Sony Captured 30% of VR Hardware Revenues?

AR Insider

Sony is the market share leader for VR hardware revenues according to the latest report from Strategy Insights. That includes Google (11 percent) Samsung (5 percent) and others (6 percent). Google saw the biggest YoY drop from 21 percent to 11 percent. Header Image Credit: Sony. PSVR has better specs but less portability.

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What Made VR Gaming Highly Popular

ARPost

The ecosystem of digital game development is all about using the latest technologies to attract and engage gamers all over the world. Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. By the end of 2019, it had been expected to reach $15.1 VR In Gaming.

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‘Zombieland: Headshot Fever’ Studio Raises $7M to Continue Development on XR Games

Road to VR

XR Games, the indie VR studio behind Zombieland: Headshot Fever (2021), announced it’s secured $7 million (£5.9m), something the studio says will used to grow both its team and intellectual property as it continues to develop new XR games. This puts the studio’s lifetime outside investment to £9.9 million ($11.8m).

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. VR Game of the Year. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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Editorial: This VR cycle may take more time than expected

The Ghost Howls

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2.

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Xbox Error Message Refers to VR Headset, Microsoft Says VR Still Not a Focus for Console

Road to VR

Others, who probably ran the message through Google Translate, chalked it up to a simple typo tantamount to mistakenly adding the letters ‘VR’ in front of ‘headset’ It’s not a typo though. I have some issues with VR — it’s isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience.

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Facebook’s Customer Base Spells Success For The Oculus Quest

VRScout

May 21 st , 2019 will go down in history as an incredible day for VR. Oculus’ whirlwind Kickstarter success led many to believe that established entertainment companies such as Sony, Microsoft, or even tech giant Google might look to buy the company, but Facebook’s decisive choice wasn’t something anyone could have predicted.

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