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

Road to VR

We’ve seen over 100 VR titles break $1 million in revenue, growing the total VR software market by 3x in 2019. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Tracking VR Software Sales. VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest.

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Creepy VR Films Coming to Fantastic Fest Next Month

VRScout

The Austin-based film festival will be premiering VR content for the first time. For the first time, virtual reality will be making its debut at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas September 22-29. The VR sound is powered by Mach 1, Bošnjak’s proprietary spatial sound software.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold. I’m back in Italy!

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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 VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

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. Well, a recent announcement addresses that very problem– Facebook is releasing 360 video recording software to developers.

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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”. Max Preussner was a senior software engineer for Epic Games. Sony has done an amazing job with the PSVR and is headed towards 4 million units sold.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It is now shipping the devices in a number of markets, and it is rolling out software and services to stoke the fledgling market for VR cameras. These are software packages we license to companies in order for them to build their own VR players with a higher quality, or to live stream the signal that’s captured by multiple Ozo cameras.