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The VOID’s Latest Location-Based VR Experience Is A Jumanji-Themed Jungle Heist

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Image Credit: The VOID, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality. What’s more fun for moviegoers than to have the chance to live in VR as the characters they love – and, like in the movie, players will have to work together as a team to win the game and save Jumanji,” added Jake Zim, SVP, virtual reality, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “We

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

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More info (Quest 3 to feature color passthrough AR) More info (Quest 3 will not feature face tracking) Sony may be disappointed by PSVR 2 preorders A report by Bloomberg affirms that Sony is disappointed by the current preorders of the PSVR 2 and now plans to ship only 1.5M headsets in the next year. Don’t miss them!

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

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PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade. But before, let me list the most important XR news of the past week. (PS Last week, people said January.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

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The North-America-only limitation is quite a bummer for us Europeans, but honestly, as a developer, I understand the will of making an incremental deployment to be sure that everything works before expanding the product to many countries. Image by Sony). Sony shows prototype headset with dual 4K display. News worth a mention.

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The 2022 Auggie Awards

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Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” Accepting the award was Americas General Manager Tristan Cotter. “We

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

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While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Image by Sony). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. News worth a mention.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

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Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). Haptic gloves: Similar to the gloves attached to the cabinet, the at home version exoskeleton design brings hand tracking and touch to VR.