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! Probably this is the final nail in the coffin of tethered VR, at least for what concerns broad consumer adoption.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Sony announced a $100 discount on all PlayStation VR bundles as well as the PlayStation 4 1TB consoles. Shop on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.” Wait, what???

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

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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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

Originally released on PC back in 2018, Green Hell drops you dead center of the Amazon Rainforest where you’re tasked with surviving the elements, including wild animals, tropical sickness, and crippling loneliness. Air guitar simulator Unplugged looks like an absolute riot. Hitman VR arrives Q3 2021 via PlayStation VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Basically every VR experience will allow the user to feel as though they are in this simulated world and look around it, while more advanced systems allow for movement and interaction. Sony Playstation VR. from Amazon. Another app, Oculus Prologue, comes free with the Gear VR and will guide you through your first VR experience.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Apple and Sony have brilliant scientists talking and working with open-minded product and designer teams. This approach brings to the fragmentation shown in the next figure Adding on this, no haptics technology can solve the haptics perceptual problem, which means perfectly simulating reality.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a future update, Meta will use the tracking cameras to track the full body of the user and provide a decent estimation of the pose of the torso, the elbows, and the arms, and a simulated pose for the legs. More info Some news about content Sony has announced a few new games for its PSVR 2 headset.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2019

HTC’s most recent addition to their Vive lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, is also receiving some love with a $100 discount available through Amazon and Walmart. Amazon is currently selling the Oculus Rift S headset for $350 –that’s $50 off its normal retail price. The Climb Onward Defector Job Simulator GORN Seeking Dawn.

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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. You could do some sick simulations and distortions of the real world. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Using the new Siri you will be able to ask “how much are 20 of these on Amazon?”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Sony) Sony shows the behind-the-scenes of PSVR 2 In a recent blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment has shown the internal evolution of PSVR 2, from the initial experimentations to the final release. I suggest you take some time and read this post, because it has very cool insights.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Pimax 5K+ on Amazon?—?affiliate

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

And, as we found in our full review , we weren’t big fans of Quest 2’s soft headstrap, so we’d highly recommend dropping the extra $50 for the Elite Strap accessory [Amazon] if you’re serious about playing PC VR games. Image courtesy Sony. PSVR Specs. Resolution. 960 x 1,080 (1.0MP) per-eye (RGB OLED).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

PSVR RISE TO GLORY & SUPERHOT VR BUNDLE ($249.99) : Normally $349.99, the “Rise To Glory and SUPERHOT VR” bundle includes the HMD, Playstation Camera, and two Move controllers, along with a copy of boxing simulator Creed: Rise to Glory , as well as the uber popular time manipulation title, SUPERHOT VR.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2021

For those unfamiliar with Green Hell , this psychological survival-horror experience drops you in the center of the Amazon rainforest where you’re tasked with surviving everything from tropical diseases to deadly wildlife using only your wits and whatever tools you can craft using the natural environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Regarding the Valve Index , GabeN explained that it went out of stock because one of the needed components came from Wuhan (yes, exactly that city…) and during the pandemic, Sony and Microsoft got all the supplies , so Valve had enormous problems in manufacturing the device. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon acquires Umbra.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Stormland’s Innovative Open World and Developer Acquisition by Sony. And if you happen to have a gaming PC anyway, Quest also doubles as a PC VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

HTC’s Marios Bikos: “The HTC VIVE Tracker allows you to not only track objects in VR (getting tracker pose in real-time) but also use the POGO pins to simulate input buttons (Grip/Trigger/Trackpad/Menu) as if you were using a Vive controller.”. The AIM controller was a very cool peripheral built for Sony’s PSVR system.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It’s a good analogy of the flight simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He's worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you're saying is you've created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It's a good analogy of the flight simulator. Christophe: No.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It’s a good analogy of the flight simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It’s a good analogy of the flight simulator.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The engine is able to build and simulate cities automatically by just having some parameters provided by the developers. Image by Sony). Sony shows prototype headset with dual 4K display. During the Sony Technology Day showcase, Sony has shown a prototype of a headset with two 4K micro OLED displays.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

This was the final big surprise of the event: Sony Pictures and Meta, in partnership with nDreams, will bring the famous franchise to virtual reality. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Even if Sony has not confirmed a release window for PSVR 2 , I believe that it will be launched in 2022, probably in the last part of the year , in time for the Winter Holidays. Meta and Sony will bring new great games to XR.

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