GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Ever since Sony switched away from the Cell processor architecture it used on the PS3 and adopted x86-based chips and AMD GPUs for current-gen consoles, the PS4 (and the Xbox One for that matter) have been viewed by many as dumbed-down PCs. That’s a line of thinking that never really made sense to me. But on the new… Read more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2021

The new funding round, which was announced early last week, includes an additional $200 million strategic investment from Sony Group Corporation. Still, Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games such as Farpoint , Moss , Firewall: Zero Hour, and many more.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

While it wasn’t until last week that we got the full PS5 reveal , Sony announced the console’s technical specs in a blog post back in March. ” As far as Sony has indicated, this includes PSVR titles as well. Sony says it is testing games to look for backwards compatibility issues.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And while Alyx is packed full of detail, much of the game’s scenery is dilapidated buildings & debris or brutalist sci-fi architecture—not exactly the prettiest stuff to look at. When talking about the best graphics in VR I’d argue the top title is certainly Half-Life: Alyx.

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VRWorld

MAY 11, 2016

However, according to sources in the know, this placeholder has another existing customer, whose name is SONY. if the Radeon would be the only product family where the Polaris GPU architecture would make an appearance. .” if the Radeon would be the only product family where the Polaris GPU architecture would make an appearance.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2020

DigiLens most recently closed its Series C financing back in May 2019 to the tune of $50 million, which saw Samsung Ventures join alongside UDC Ventures, Niantic, Continental AG, Sony Innovation Fund, and Diamond Edge Ventures, the VC arm of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation as investors.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2020

AR has penetrated almost all the industries: automotive, professional services, education and training, retail, architecture, and healthcare. Already, several top-level companies like LG, Apple , and Sony are joining the market of AR hardware producers, dominated so far by Microsoft and Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

One of them was the Immersive Visualisation Room, which had a 5 x 5-metre space where users display 360 videos, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 12, 2020

We have some top-line performance numbers and general architectural information from Microsoft and Sony, but not quite a full spec sheet.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

.” Launched at last year’s F8, React VR was used to create web-based content for brands and intuitions such as National Geographic , British Museum , the Global Seed Vault , and Sony Pictures. The post Oculus Replaces ‘React VR’ Framework With Rebranded ‘React 360’ appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2018

Continental first invested in DigiLens in 2016 alongside Sony, Panasonic, Nautilus Venture Partners, Foxconn, Dolby, Bold Capital Partners, and Alsop Louie Partners – an investment of $22 million in its Series B. Including the Series C announced today, DigiLens claims a total investment of $60 million.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Sony claims its FFR saves around 60%, while its ETFR saves around 72%. This is probably down to the vastly different GPU architectures of consoles and PC GPUs compared to mobile GPUs, as well as the higher resolution. On PlayStation VR2 the claimed performance benefit of foveated rendering is greater.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

Moreover, throughout the three-day event, other XR speakers from firms such as Digilens, Sony, General Motors, MicroOLED, Microsoft, and EndeavorXR will present expert insight into the XR and display market. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. It’s the “convergence of gaming, film, and music” part which speaks to where the long-term synergies between Sony and Epic lie.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the past the company has worked with brands like Coca-Cola and Sony Pictures to create AR advertising campaigns, while its platform can also be used for architectural apps, and educational experiences. This content can be accessed by scanning a QR-like code found on products in the real world.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Sony recently unveiled Spatial Reality Display, a 15.6-inch In contrast to the $3,000 Looking Glass Holographic Monitor , which is decidedly much chunkier due to its optical array and light field rendering tech, Sony’s Spatial Reality Display is attacking the problem of 3D viewing from a different angle.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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AR Insider

APRIL 27, 2020

Demand is be attributed to Quest’s quality architecture and content library. Sony [PSVR] is making the same play… Oculus could tap into that market with something that’s even more convenient.”. Demand exceeding supply is the inverse of what we and most industry watchers have expected for the VR hardware marketplace.

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VR Bites

MAY 26, 2016

” the CV1 is otherwise a direct copy of the architecture of the 1080p Steam Sight prototype Valve lent Oculus when we installed a copy of the “Valve Room” at their headquarters. Sony will release in October this year their own VR headset for PlayStation 4. Both Oculus Rift as HTC Vive are now available.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 10, 2021

Nintendo gift cards and the PS5 DualSense lead Wednesday’s best deals. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sony has been awfully busy so far in 2016. I played Shadows of Mordor and The Last of Us Remastered a bit on the new PS4 Pro that Sony sent me for review because I’m as excited about 4K gaming as the next guy, but that’s not what the bulk of my assessment was focused on. GHz, compared to the standard PS4’s 1.4

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

NVIDIA says its NeRF solution applies to more than just XR design, explaining how it can enhance verticals like automotive, robotics, manufacturing, and architecture. Sony is also empowering the emerging industry 4.0 landscape with drone-based photogrammetry solutions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

NVIDIA says its NeRF solution applies to more than just XR design, explaining how the solution can enhance verticals like automotive, robotics, manufacturing, and architecture. Sony is also empowering the emerging industry 4.0 landscape with drone-based photogrammetry solutions.

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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. Doing so will provide companies with cutting-edge tools for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals developing hyperrealistic immersive experiences on AWS.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The company has continued to build upon the success of its Zen architecture-based CPUs and APUs in both the client and server spaces, as well as a full year’s revenue for the APUs powering the hard-to-find Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Rumors earlier this year suggested Sony, the company responsible for making Apple’s OLED displays, can only produce up to 200,000 displays per quarter. We also know the Apple Vision Pro will come with its proprietary software stack and an Apple silicon architecture. The lights will also power Optic ID, Apple’s version of Face ID.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Driveclub VR is fully playable on Sony’s headset currently, although it is mostly just a ported and slightly expanded version of the previous game. ” Ultimately, this means Gran Turismo Sport is the latest in a long line of games adding small, vertical slices of VR gameplay to their otherwise non-VR architecture.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

The company is building its strategy on the only possible growth plan – building the fastest technology their engineers came come up with, and then produce the silicon which will come to market branded either as AMD, an AMD-THATIC joint-venture or as Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony… and a new mysterious client for the semi-custom business.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. More info (GDC roundup 1) More info (GDC roundup 2) More info (GDC roundup 3) More info (Moss to be published on many platforms) More info (Manus Quantum Metagloves) More info (Sony showcasing PSVR).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. At this point, I wonder if GDC may be canceled as the MWC.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 15, 2017

But then at Sony’s press conference the following night we learned that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is also getting the full VR treatment, this time coming first to the PlayStation VR (PSVR.). The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is still, to this day, one of my all-time favorite games.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 11, 2020

Today during Sony’s “The Future of Gaming” show where the company and its partners revealed a slew of next-generation game titles, we also had a first glimpse of the physical design of the new PlayStation 5. Edit: Sony also showcasd the console in a horizontal position for a split second in the outro section of the show.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

With DesignWorks, Littlstar streams video from major brands like Sony Music, The Economist, CNN and Showtime. Littlstar uses dual Pascal architecture-based NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators and the NVIDIA DesignWorks Video Codec SDK to compress source footage into multiple formats, resolutions and bitrates.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 5, 2017

Behind the scenes, companies like Valve and Sony were trying to figure out what the VR medium would look like and began to get products into the hands of developers. We also switched to an architecture where we weren’t developing for a mobile chipset. NB: There’s no room for shovelware in Sony, right.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2016

Today, both companies make x86 RISC processors, and Intel was even forced to adopt AMD’s x86-64, 64-bit architecture which is now present in almost every processor Intel makes. Back in August 2005, AMD moved to acquire ATI after a fallout between Hector J. Acquiring the company could happen for approximately $1.0-1.5

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XROM

MARCH 2, 2023

We want to take a lot of the comfort things from Quest Pro and how it sits on your head and the split architecture and bring that in for comfort.” Apple is expected to announce a high-end virtual reality headset sometime this year, while Sony just released the well-received PSVR 2 for console gamers.

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