ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There are and will be games for PCs, consoles, mobile devices, VR, and AR. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AltspaceVR. Microsoft again, because some time ago they bought AltspaceVR , a VR social platform that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Roblox (Nasdaq: RBLX) for Decentralized Gaming Creation. Infrastructure.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Amazon’s US store is either the first, or the only retailer currently to offer the Oculus Rift for its Black Friday-reduced price of $350, a $50 discount off the now normal MSRP of $400. The post Amazon Deal Sees Return of Rift’s $350 Black Friday Price Cut appeared first on Road to VR. Photo by Road to VR.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

SAVE $10: Amazon , Walmart , GameStop , and the Microsoft Store all had the Xbox Series S on sale for $289.99 If you've been following gaming console restocks, you probably know very well by now that the Xbox Series S isn't suffering from the same supply woes as the flashier Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. Credit: Microsoft.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This week Facebook announced the launch of cloud-streamed games from Facebook Gaming. These are games which are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to your computer. Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Together with this announcement, Sony has also announced 11 new games that will be compatible with the console, including 4 titles that have never been released before. Since PSVR 1 games won’t be compatible with PSVR 2, Sony has to build a content catalog for this headset from scratch, and this will require time, money, and commitment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Because it is true to say that, to date, it is the gaming consumer that has driven the success and growth of VR. Johannes Stettmeier, Business Development Manager for AR/VR Technologies at Lenovo , also took the stage to explain how some of the most fruitful use cases for XR exist in the enterprise, not in consumer or gaming.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Like flatscreen cloud gaming, XR streaming promises is to remove the high barrier of entry by rendering resource-intensive visuals on virtual machines in the cloud and serving them up to typically less powerful host devices like PCs, smartphones, or standalone VR headsets. Machine Image (VMI).

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The new division aims to address a wide range of sectors including automotive, gaming consoles, data centers, telecom, and others that could benefit from tailored silicon solutions. And since Windows runs on Arm, NVIDIA has a shot at Microsoft. "NVIDIA was in the first Xbox, and in PlayStation 3.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Xbox Game Pass. Amazon Prime. If there’s one thing we could do without next year besides, well (gestures at everything), it’s subscription services. Adobe Creative Suite. Apple Arcade. CBS All Access. Even our shoes aren’t safe from monthly payments. Kind of… Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 24, 2017

The bundle will be available in “select territories” through Amazon and NewEgg. With it, customers can get a Rift headset, the Oculus Touch controllers, an ASUS VivoX PC , and four free games for the total price of $1300. Facebook’s Oculus VR team is announcing a new bundle for its Oculus Rift VR system.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The new Amazon Halo View looks almost exactly like a Fitbit Charge 5. Announced as part of Amazon’s devices and services event, the $80 tracker adds a color AMOLED display and two new fitness and nutrition modes for its Halo service. No, you’re not seeing double. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Seagate wants a piece of that and has hopped on the PlayStation 5 train with the new Game Drive PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD series, officially licensed for Sony's current-generation gaming console. Unlike Microsoft, which uses a proprietary SSD expansion card for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, Sony opted to employ a standard M.2

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

Road To VR published some statistics comparing the sales of Quest and PSVR 2 on Amazon US over the holiday season, and the proportion of sold Quests to sold PSVR 2 is 30 to 1! Anton Hand, the developer behind Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades confirmed that he did not do a port of his popular sandbox game for the same reasons.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 18, 2021

LEGO Minecraft The Pig House | $40 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Trading Post | $16 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Abandoned Mine | $16 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Bee Farm | $16 | Amazon Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 9, 2022

Microsoft announced a lot today regarding the “ future of gaming ” for its Xbox cloud gaming platform. There’s plenty of good news for anyone who is even a little bit curious about venturing into the cloud and likes the Xbox library of game titles.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). 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 long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2021

Deep in a blog post summing up Sunday’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase at E3, Microsoft casually mentioned it plans on bringing next-gen Xbox games to Xbox One consoles via Xbox Cloud Gaming. Great news, if you’ve been struggling to find a new Xbox Series S or Series X. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

More info (Quest v55 performance boost) More info (Quest Pro getting better eye tracking) More info (The new taskbar capabilities of the Quest runtime) Hexa brings 3D visualization to Amazon pages Amazon has partnered with the startup Hexa to add 3D capabilities to its store pages.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 14, 2022

Not even the best smartphone is a replacement for a full-blown console, but it can become a capable gaming machine with the right accessory. Now that there is a way to play big, AAA first-person shooters and story-driven RPGs with the help of cloud services like Amazon Luna and Microsoft Game Pass, it’s time to… Read more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2020

With the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx , VR has been thrust into the spotlight of the mainstream gaming audience. But Index is the Ferrari of the VR world, and there’s many other headset options that cost less than half as much but play all the same games. That’s like investing in a new game console!

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GizModo VR

MAY 9, 2022

Microsoft could soon remove the biggest barrier standing between gamers and its popular Xbox Cloud Gaming service. The company will reportedly release a streaming stick—described by VentureBeat as possibly resembling an Amazon Fire Stick or Roku-like Puck—that would remove the need to buy a console, a barrier to entry… Read more.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Microsoft’s tagline: “Work smarter with mixed reality.”). These don’t even have a display.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world. The concept of the metaverse is not new to gamers either – persistent, avatar-driven digital environments and even digital currencies have long been accepted as part of mainstream gaming.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On day two, Pico’s Elaine Wong will also sit on a panel discussion, “This is How We Play: The Role of Gaming in the Metaverse.” Microsoft, Google, the XRA – and That’s Just One Talk. Other big companies include HTC Vive , HaptX , Niantic , and Amazon. So Much More to See at AWE EU 2022.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Foursquare Enters the Audio AR Game. There continues to be competition for consumer mindshare from search, social, Amazon, or a brand’s own apps and properties. Microsoft will kill Slack, Asana, and Zoom to dominate the future of work. How do you see this playing out?

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AR Insider

MARCH 11, 2020

After examining Amazon and Microsoft , it’s time to zero in on Google. ’ Google’s motivations for wearables are similar to Apple, Amazon and Microsoft: to protect and future-proof its core business. So widening the funnel for bringing people into search is the name of the game. Highly Motivated.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 22, 2021

Microsoft is currently in discussions to potentially buy the chat platform Discord, according to a new report from Bloomberg News that cites unnamed sources. The sale, which is far from a done deal, could be worth over $10 billion but Discord is just as likely to go public if it doesn’t get an acceptable offer,… Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2019

Referencing emails sent to Oculus developers by Facebook, it’s been suggested that the Rift S will make an official appearance at this year’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, alongside the Oculus Go and upcoming Oculus Quest headsets. Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Oculus.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 4, 2020

Featured Deal: Halo: The Master Chief Collection | $20 | Amazon Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 14, 2022

To do all of that, MLB uses a range of technology from customized video search and Statcast for advanced statistics to streaming and mobile apps and games for its fans. The league is already welcoming NFTs and looking at AR and VR as it tries to take advantage of whatever tech is out there that makes sense for baseball.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. And its latest update, dubbed the “Mixed Reality 2.0

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

HTC Vive Finds New VP of Marketing in Former Xbox, Amazon Executive The HTC Vive has been on sale for a few months now, and the team behind the kit is growing. Joining that team this month is a former executive from both Microsoft and Amazon. Sandil will also help to attract new developers to the platform.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Series X | $499 | Amazon , Best Buy , Walmart , GameStop , Microsoft , Target , StockX (Price Varies) Series S | $299 | Amazon , Best Buy , Walmart , GameStop , Microsoft , Target , StockX (Price Varies) Read more.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With no need for external sensors and a pair of tracked motion controllers already in the box, the only thing you need to get up and running is a computer capable of playing its games and apps. You can find this deal through official online retailers such as Oculus.com , Amazon , Best Buy , and NewEgg. Photo by Road to VR.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

BUNDLE AND SAVE: The Xbox Series S Fortnite and Rocket League Bundle was in stock at Amazon , Best Buy , and the Microsoft Store as of Feb. Microsoft's managed to keep it in stock across multiple stores in recent months, and even popped out its first Series S bundle in December : the Fortnite & Rocket League Bundle.

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