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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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PlayStation Store ‘End of Year Sale’ Brings Steep Savings on 29 PSVR Games

Road to VR

It’s that time of year—in addition to Cyber Monday deals on PSVR , Sony is offering an ‘End of Year Sale’ in the PlayStation Store where you can find discounts on 29 PSVR games. Apex Construct. $8. Sony says these End of Year Sale deals will be available until December 23rd at 8AM PT. PlayStation VR Worlds. $10.

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ICYMI This Week: Medieval Dynasty, Onward, X8 & More

Upload VR

Quest 3 and Pro can now use hand-tracking and controllers simultaneously , Meta's looking at neural wristbands , while Sony confirmed PC support is coming for PSVR 2. As for VR gaming, we reflected on PSVR 2's debut year as Sony announced Little Cities: Bigger! Zombie Army VR and a The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood port.

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Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes in Parts of the UK

GizModo VR

Now, new housing construction could be banned for more than a decade in some neighborhoods of the UK’s biggest city because the electricity grid is reaching capacity, as first reported on by the Financial Times. Data centers have caused skyrocketing power demand in parts of London. The reason: too many data centers… Read more.

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Rafi Nizam Shares XR Creative Journey with NVIDIA Omniverse

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Based in London, the creative has previously collaborated on massive projects with major entertainment firms such as BBC, Sony Pictures, and NBCUniversal. Doing so will provide companies with cutting-edge tools for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals developing hyperrealistic immersive experiences on AWS.

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Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

VRScout

I got the opportunity to catch up again with Ivon, this time over email, about his perspective on VR, his love of science fiction, and the future of the IP that he and his team are painstakingly constructing from scratch. Sony has done an amazing job with the PSVR and is headed towards 4 million units sold.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

I can give you an example in construction. We work with some construction companies. And then the model made by the construction company is not the same. Back to construction. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. You can show the model designed by the architects.

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