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JANUARY 23, 2023

In total, I counted something like 32 games, which is ok to start with, but then Sony should be fast in collecting more content to not make the PSVR2 players get bored fast for the lack of playable games. But still, the fact that all the PSVR 1 content won’t be available for the new headset gives Sony a good challenge on the content side.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. More info (NVIDIA CloudXR upgrade) More info (NVIDIA CloudXR on Tencent Cloud) More info (NVIDIA VRSS v2) More info (DLSS integrated inside Unity) More info (Jarvis) More info (NVIDIA RTX cards shortage). billion valuation.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. BETTER WEED WITH AUGMENTED REALITY.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. The reason is that Sony has already announced that it will launch PSVR 2 only after the PS5 , to not confuse its buyers by selling too many things together. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

WMR headsets could have represented a revolution for virtual reality because of their cheap price and ease of use (they didn’t require the installation of any base stations). Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year. This is great also because you don’t have to wear any trackers The second one is Standable Full Body Estimation, a plugin to estimate the full body of the user just by the position of the headset and the controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). David of Upload says that thanks to its big boost in specifications , PS5 can offer an amazing flat screen experience : better resolution, better framerate, better graphics, better load times, better controller. Thank you all for making me feel your warmth, you are an amazing community! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. We now know how much Sony has paid for Insomniac Games. Google Chrome now supports WebAR. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. More info Sony Mocopi seems to be good for full-body VR Thrillseeker, the superstar VR Youtuber, is experimenting with Mocopi, the lightweight full-body VR kit by Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Image by Sony). It is not clear, and we hope that Sony will clarify his.(Theoretically Theoretically yes, but Sony always talked about the compatibility of old games with PS5 + old PSVR, not also about new games). I’ll leave it for you in the links so that you can participate in the discussion as well. Other relevant news.

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MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. It is 6DOF and lets you enjoy both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. Top news of the week. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info Rokid is now a unicorn Chinese manufacturer Rokid , who produces augmented reality glasses, just received a huge investment round of $112M to help the development of its XR products. Who will it be… Sony or Meta? We don’t know, but this shows that the Korean company is still committed to XR developments.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands. 749 for just the headset, $1399 for the full bundle with the headset, wands controllers, and base stations. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Using the algorithms acquired with 6D.ai, Niantic can so finally let developers offer augmented reality experiences that are shared and persistent in a location, that is exactly what we need for our mixed reality future. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

and this means that in certain niches there is a lot of interest for virtual reality. Sony reveals finger tracking technology for controllers. In a research paper released by Sony and presented at CHI2020 it is possible to see the work that Sony is doing in finger tracking inside VR controllers. More info.

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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. Someone has disassembled the Index Controllers. More info (Teardown of Knuckles) More info (X-ray vision of the Index Controllers). I really hope so….

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The new controller, the Touch Plus, seems also to track very well, and has the interesting feature that they have better tracking performances than Quest 2 ones around the torso of the player. The Crystal-Sim is an update to the Pimax Crystal, without controllers, and a lower refresh rate option.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony aims at hybrid games for the PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has had a virtual summit with developers about its plans for the PSVR 2 because it is looking for content for its upcoming headset. Top news of the week. It will be so overly important for Google Lens , for instance.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Sony announces new games for PSVR. More info (All announcements by Sony) More info (Doom 3 VR) More info (After The Fall) More info (After The Fall on announced platforms) More info (Fracked). Sony seems to be patenting bananas as controllers for the next-gen PSVR! I can’t wait for them to hit the market. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Quest Pro is also receiving a special hybrid mode, where both controllers and hands are tracked at the same time. More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon.

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MAY 10, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Take, for example, Lufthansa – they train their aircrew through a VR application created by NMY Mixed Reality Studio.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. Sony has already clarified that it won’t sell the PSVR 2 together with the launch of the PS5.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. This offers a window to HTC and Valve making the Vive the only room-scale hand-controlled VR platform on the market for most of 2016. March 2016. April 2016. HTC also announces a $100 million VR investment fund.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

nReal has just a 3DOF controller (that can also just be your smartphone), but it has just announced that you can pair it with Finch controllers or Black Shark gaming kit to play 6DOF games all around your home. In fact, also its controllers don’t look very sexy, but they are really ok for enterprise use.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. At first, we had good news: Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools: Muse, which lets you create assets (textures, animations, code) directly in the editor using textual queries.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). Real Reality or Virtual Reality, this is the question. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

What is worrisome the most is that it is unclear what will happen to all the other amazing XR projects that Mozilla was managing like the WebXR framework A-frame or the WebXR exporter for Unity. Is The Sony XRperia coming? Sony has just published a job offer looking for professionals to build an XR headset. News worth a mention.

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