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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. Learn More.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.07): PSVR 2 will cost $549, HoloLens are probably dead, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony announces price and release date for PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord , the game announced by Meta and Sony Pictures, is coming in 2023. Learn more.

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Sony’s Richard Marks Expects Natural Voice Input to Play Major Role in VR’s Future

Road to VR

Project Morpheus prototype | Photo courtesy Sony. SEE ALSO On the Hunt for VR's Killer App with Sony's Head of PlayStation Magic Lab, Richard Marks. during last week’s I/O 2017 conference, which was heavily focused on machine learning. That’s why I see it as the holodeck.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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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. The award-winning artist is tapping extended reality (XR) and virtual production tools to build creative content with bespoke, streamlined 3D pipelines.

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The Top 5 Cloud Computing Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are provided as cloud services because few businesses have the resources to build their own AI infrastructure. The AI and ML-powered cloud. Low-code and no-code cloud services.

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

VRScout

It’s drawing from a philosophically introspective yarn, exploring the what-ifs of humanity giving society over to intelligent machines. I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. Anyone who reads will have a great foundation for the game.”.