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The 2022 Auggie Awards

ARPost

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.” Founders are the heartbeat of this industry,” said Haynes. “We Best Art or Film.

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Beloved former Nintendo prez craps all over Facebook and the metaverse

Mashable VR

At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

Road to VR

People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Sony announced sales of PlayStation VR in January 2020: 5 million headsets over the last four years. It’s difficult to get real data on the VR consumer market.

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$3 Million Milestone: Owlchemy’s ‘Job Simulator’ Is One of VR’s Best Selling Games

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The Austin-based startup raised $5 million in August after developing a number of fundamental interaction technologies for its Vive-bundled launch title Job Simulator: the 2050 Archives. .” It was also the most downloaded PS VR game in all of 2016 on Sony’s online PSN Store.

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The Best 360º Cameras: VR Professionals Weigh-In

VRScout

They produce the best auto-stitch in the industry, in my opinion, but the lack of bottom cameras is problematic for the type of work that I do.”. Created VR for Samsung, Sony, Sky, U2, FX, Warner Bros, and more. Four Sony a7S II cameras, four 8mm Samyang FE lenses, and rig?—?$12,000. Lewis Smithingham , President of 30 Ninjas.

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My experience at SXSW 2022: expect the unexpected

The Ghost Howls

Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of the most important events about creativity and technology in the USA. It gathers people from the tech industry, from movies, from music, all in the same place for 10 days. I saw that there were people from Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel

VRScout

The story of the IP centers around a distinctly futuristic version of Austin, TX in the year 2076, after humanity has willingly given itself over to AI entities called the “Humechs”. How closely does Scraper’s inspiration come from classic cyberpunk thrillers like Blade Runner or (in the games industry) System Shock and Deus Ex?