Road to VR

JULY 3, 2023

Apple’s China-based contract manufacturer Luxshare, allegedly the sole assembler of the device, is now preparing to make fewer than 400,000 units of Vision Pro in 2024, according to the report, which cites “multiple people with direct knowledge of the manufacturing process,” including sources close to Apple and Luxshare.

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MARCH 22, 2017

PlayStation VR (PSVR) is set to have a busy few months with big releases like Farpoint and Starblood Arena, but Sony is also looking ahead, today revealing a new slate of VR titles coming from Chinese developers. These games are all being created under Sony’s China Hero Project, which supports developers in the country.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

On Monday, Google updated its ARCore Supported Devices page to include the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Tab S4, the Sony Xperia ZX2 line of handsets, and the Nokia 6.1 Video: Since launching ARCore 1.0

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APRIL 8, 2024

The biggest issue with the VR users figure in the Steam Hardware Survey is that it includes China. The most popular PC VR headsets and SteamVR games aren't officially sold in China, and the number of Chinese users on Steam has gradually increased each year.

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JULY 23, 2021

Where: Chengdu Marriott Hotel Financial Centre, Sichuan, China. One of the biggest international events dedicated to the augmented and virtual reality will take place at the beginning of September in Chengdu Financial City in Sichuan, China. When: September 2 – September 3. AWE USA 2021. When: November 9 – November 11.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony announces price and release date for PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. China aims at investing in XR in the upcoming years. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I said that the winner of the 2016 match has been HTC, but actually, the real winner of the tethered headset market at that time has been Sony , with the PSVR headset exploiting the existing Playstation 4 userbase to sell more devices than the others.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The company, which is split between San Francisco and Hangzhou, China, says in a tweet that production of the Nreal Light developer kit has been halted. The Coronavirus, a novel respiratory virus, began in China with the first reported case on December 31st, 2019. Delays are said to affect the most recent batch of backers.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2022

In short, Kuo posits that Meta is slowing down investment in VR hardware due to looming economic recession, but this will provide others opportunity to play catchup as market share shifts away from Meta to companies such as Sony, Valve, Pico, and HTC. It’s not VR, its Meta’s core business that’s taking a hit.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. ” In many regards, China is leading the way for VR innovation and adoption. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Walkabout Mini Golf is coming “soon” to Sony’s PS5-powered VR headset, developer Mighty Coconut confirmed today. While Viveport and Pico in China also offer Walkabout, there’s no timeline on either platform for the DLC courses and China-based players can’t play with those outside the country.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

If developers are not interested, and Sony is not willing to invest in exclusive great content for its immersive console, PSVR 2 is going to have a very troubled (and probably short) life. Anton Hand told me on X that “it’s already a dead platform”.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today Gurman cites "people with knowledge of the matter" as saying that production is now ramping up in China, with the goal being for units to be ready in January to be sold to buyers in February. Gurman reliably reported many details of the upcoming headset before it was officially revealed or even acknowledged to exist by Apple.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

This week, we look at Sony’s tease for PSVR2, new features in Snapchat’s Lens Studio, and a whole slate of new AR glasses emerge. Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Will it be this year? Will it be next year? You can make your own here.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Just the time to eat some homemade pasta and I got a cold, which mixed with the jet lag of the trip from China, means that I’m truly having some great days But nothing can stop me from writing the roundup of the best AR/VR news of the week for you, my lovely readers! I’m back in Italy!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Coronavirus, a novel respiratory virus, began in China with the first reported case on December 31st, 2019; health organizations have since designated the strain as ‘COVID-19’ for specificity. Facebook and Sony today announced they won’t be attending the annual GDC conference in San Francisco next month over Coronavirus concerns.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Sony, Microsoft, EA, and several other major names are reportedly skipping this year’s conference as well. Facebook’s decision to cancel F8 comes on the heels of news that Oculus would be backing out of this year’s Game Developers Conference over similar concerns.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Now Google is going beyond what’s already available, announcing further partnerships with manufacturers to enable their upcoming devices this year, including Samsung, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, ASUS, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia, ZTE, Sony Mobile, and Vivo. Even China will have more access to AR. The post Google Announces ARCore 1.0

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

The Coronavirus, a novel respiratory virus, began in China with the first reported case on December 31st, 2019; health organizations have since designated the strain as ‘COVID-19’ for specificity. COVID-19 has now spread to 114 countries and territories, with China, Italy, Iran, and Korea seeing the greatest number of cases so far.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Qualcomm announced that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and Sony's enterprise "spatial content creation" headset. Is It Quest Pro 2 In Partnership With Meta?

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

For later in 2024, Gurman reported Apple was "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and was working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Image Credit: Sony. Regarding inclusivity, on April 4, 2019, the USPTO published a new patent for Sony that was filed in December 2017. Image Credit: Sony/USPTO. The highest number of VR and AR patents have been filed in the United States, followed by China and Europe. Patent for wireless PSVR technology.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For later in 2024, Gurman reported Apple is "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and was working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In China, speed is always a paramount factor, but for these investments patience is key and we all should admire the persistence of Zuck on the topic, for instance. Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade.

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JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. With 688 million Internet users in China alone, BAT already have a massive audience for VR content consumption.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Other Asian firms such as China Mobile, Agora, and Sony reach the list. According to JPMorgan, China’s metaverse market would reach $27 billion USD for business services with an additional $4 trillion USD in digitised goods and services. China’s Metaverse Ambitions.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

More info (Pico teasing a launch in China) More info (Pico announcing the launch of the new device in the West). Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). VR in China is growing, but still is behind the West. IDC has released some interesting statistics about VR in China. The WTF of the week comes from China.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 28, 2023

The company will transfer its patents and R&D operations to Japan Display Inc and will shut down its manufacturing, affecting makers of high-end OLED-based displays and TVs, including Asus , Eizo , LG, and Sony. Also, JOLED sold its panels to Sony and LG and marketed them under its own OLEDIO brand.

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JULY 7, 2023

UploadVR David Heaney For later in 2024, Gurman reports Apple is "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and is working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Last Tuesday, China Daily interviewed the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). In the chat with China Daily Reporter Ma Si , Tim explained: I am incredibly excited about AR as you may know, and the critical thing in any technology, including AR, is putting humanity at the center of it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. Pancake 1C: 1600×1600 resolution, 2,999 yuan ($444), preorder August 26, shipping September (China). Upload VR).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

According to five anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the company recently acquired China’s AR powerhouse in Shanghai, which Taiwanese firm Pegatron previously owned. The decision is the first for the MacBook and iPhone maker since choosing China to supply an inaugural device. The Price is Right?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Investors included iDreamSky, a China-based app developer, along with Hargreave Hale and You & Mr Jones, an investor in Pokemon Go developer Niantic. With iDreamSky’s help, China should be one of those regions. Today, it’s raised a significant amount of funding to help it do so.

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JUNE 12, 2017

We’re just a few hours away from Sony’s highly anticipated E3 2017 conference, where we’re expecting to see plenty of new PlayStation VR (PSVR) games. The UploadVR team is currently waiting to be let into Sony’s show in LA but, as usual, the company has lined up a bunch of games to check out in the meantime.

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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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GizModo VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Little more than a week after Shanghai, China crawled out of one of the most severe and taxing covid lockdowns anywhere in the world, the city is once again on notice for covid spread while millions are being told to hole up and prepare for mass testing. Read more.

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MAY 13, 2021

The succinct announcement did not mention whether the tie-up is for content development or Xbox’s console distribution in China but said more details will be unveiled for the “deep partnership” by the end of this year. Sony’s Playstation 5 just hit the shelves in China in late April.

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