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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.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 7, 2021
The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. It is a bit disappointing that it just has 2 tracking cameras, but the controllers are tracked with ultrasound beacons, so the tracking FOV should be good. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.
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Robert Scoble
MAY 15, 2021
I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. Disclaimer.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 31, 2019
It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. . Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic. Putting it All Together.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. This offers a window to HTC and Valve making the Vive the only room-scale hand-controlled VR platform on the market for most of 2016. Google transitions Clay Bavor into a position as head of VR. February 2016. April 2016.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 17, 2019
New interesting patents by Sony comes to light. Sony is working on the Playstation 5 and next gen PSVR. HP is investigating and has announced that the device will be available on HP website, Amazon and other retailers in July. Does Magic Leap want to create a big reality show? Some XR fun. Funny link.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 13, 2021
This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Image by Sony). Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.
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