The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

Zuck has defined them as “A stepping stone towards full augmented reality glasses”, even if they will be nothing more than smart glasses that enhance the functionalities of a phone. In Japan, the number is around 80K. Sony has sold 10M PS5 worldwide.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Sony creates an AR headset for LBVR. Sony is offering a Ghostbuster AR experience in Ginza, Japan, and for this it has manufactured an AR headset. To have more details we have to wait for the reviews of people that will actually go to Japan to try this experience…. New Rumors on Half Life VR. PSVR Halloween sale.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Qualcomm and Niantic bet on the future of augmented reality with AR2. At it, it announced the Snapdragon AR2, a new chip optimized for augmented reality glasses. AR2 is a chip thought so that you can have a pair of lightweight augmented reality glasses that work by being wirelessly connected to your phone via Wi-Fi 7.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

The nominations for this year’s BAFTA Game Awards have been announced , and Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is once again leading the charge for virtual reality. Brilliantly, Sony Japan’s excellent party game, Playroom VR , is also nominated in the Family category.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2018

Sony Music partners with the David Bowie Archive, Planta, and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to deliver an incredible VR/AR retrospective of David Bowie’s career. This fall, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., The David Bowie is tour has ended, but the show must go on!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Apple Inc has reached out to Chinese manufacturing firm Luxshare to develop its upcoming augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday. Furthermore, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Sony Japan develop AR micro-OLED displays for Apple , namely for its upcoming mixed reality (MR) headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image by Sony). Sony unveils affordable Mocopi tracking system. Sony has just announced a new affordable tracking system. Header image by Sony). Upload VR) More info (Apple renaming its MR operating sytem to xrOS?—?Yahoo!) More info (Apple headset delayed to H2 2023) More info (Apple adding features for StableDiffusion).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Sony has just clarified that VR “games with unlocked framerates or dynamic resolution up to 4K may see higher fidelity” on PS5 , and some games like Blood&Truth and Firewall Zero Hour have been patched to introduce this feature, but it is not enough for the PSVR community. Nreal launches Nreal Light in Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Learn about the m**averse in Japan. Mogura VR , one of the most important magazines about VR in Japan, has organized an event hosting a few important Japanese VR professionals to discuss the m**averse in Japan. Japan is a country always devoted to innovation, and at the forefront in some technological fields like robotics.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Regarding the last point, the company highlights that the glasses use waveguide optics to provide better augmentations, even if this leads them to have just 40° FOV. AR Insider has analyzed the augmented reality market and it predicts a big growth of mobile AR for this new year. Mobile AR will reach 800 million users in 2021.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 4, 2023

.” Moreover, according to Jin, 85 countries have signed up for the firm’s upcoming Xreal Beam product – which the firm announced at AWE 2023 – with the primary audiences stemming from the US, Japan, South Korea, and China. Specifically, China accounts for less than a third of Xreal sales.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

More info Japanese companies create the “Japan Metaverse Economic Zone” Around 10 major Japanese companies (including Mitsubishi and Fujitsu) partnered to create the “Japan Metaverse Economic Zone” , an infrastructure for the open metaverse.

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VRWorld

MAY 20, 2016

With the dawn of digital realities overlapping the real world, there are more and more artistic and industrial concepts on how the future is going to look like. Japan is often seen on the forefront of new technologies, regardless of are we talking about weblogs or blogs, phones with cameras, gaming consoles or public transportation system.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. Header Image by Sony). Thank you all for making me feel your warmth, you are an amazing community!

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Meanwhile, Sony, Oculus , and HTC continue to dominate the VR hardware marketplace, with an 86% combined market share. For example, in Japan, VR experience zones appear to be driving further uptake of consumer VR headsets. Sony is well placed to take advantage of this increasing interest in VR,” said Canalys Analyst Jason Low.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

to eventually release an augmented reality device eventually. SONY PARTNERS WITH CONTENT STUDIO REALITY ONE. As more than 60% of the 13-to-34-year-old smartphone users are on Snapchat, and the platform boasts 150M daily users – this stylish device will no doubt have an active userbase. Will you get a pair?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. In Japan, new PSVR bundles will include an adapter in the box, while in the West the adapter won’t be included, but it will be given for free to existing PSVR users.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 25, 2016

The reality of augmented and virtual reality venture capital Chatting with VC and corporate friends in Sand Hill Road, Hollywood, London, China, Japan and South Korea, a taxonomy emerged for AR/VR investors: Yes: Dedicated AR/VR funds (mainly angel, seed and Series A). Maybe: Mainline VC firms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

Some surprises may arrive from Sony (I hope so, but I don’t believe so), but for the rest, I’ve mostly heard about news from secondary operators. But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. But some of them are really intriguing.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

As consumers become increasingly receptive to sharing wearable-generated biometric data and are exposed to augmented reality via smartphones; ideas like replacing traditional travel documents with personal wearables and implementing AR wayfinding in airports seem less and less far-fetched.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We’re going to talk about Disney vision, the 90s, immersive entertainment, dream craft, driving go-karts in augmented reality, Great Wolf Lodge and magical wands. Kevin: Well, that’s part of the reason why I’m so passionate about augmented reality and virtual reality being used in out-of-home entertainment.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We’re going to talk about Disney vision, the 90s, immersive entertainment, dream craft, driving go-karts in augmented reality, Great Wolf Lodge and magical wands. Kevin: Well, that’s part of the reason why I’m so passionate about augmented reality and virtual reality being used in out-of-home entertainment.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We're going to talk about Disney vision, the 90s, immersive entertainment, dream craft, driving go karts in augmented reality, Great Wolf Lodge and magical wands. Kevin: Well, that's part of the reason why I'm so passionate about augmented reality and virtual reality being used in out-of-home entertainment.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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