TechCrunch VR

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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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is a perfect strategy, that makes NVIDIA able to offer very comprehensive end-to-end solutions (e.g. Image by Sony). Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th). Even Apple uses modified ARM chips.

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MARCH 19, 2017

We don’t have a lot of numbers for VR headset sales yet; Sony is the only one to provide official data of the three high-end headset makers. Vive Ecosystem Conference Hits China Soon. HTC may not have a big conference like Oculus Connect over in the west, but over in China it makes headlines with its Vive Ecosystem Conference.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. The Metaverse hype is growing strong also in China.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

In China, it will be sold as a consumer device for around $400 , with two SKUs, one with 128GB storage, and the other one with 256GB. China has never had a “Quest moment” and this new headset with good content and an affordable price can be the kickstart of the consumer market there. Slides of the presentations during the trial).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Among other things, I have written a fantastic post about the VR concerts worth millions of dollars that Pico is doing in China ; I have been interviewed in a podcast by Moonbase ; and this Saturday I will be close to Turin (Italy) speaking at a science and technology festival about my work in immersive concerts.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

It has basically created a whole ecosystem of its own through strategic investments : I’m very curious to see what is the final goal of this strategy. 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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Speaking today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, SuperData analyst Stephanie Llamas said that the company scaled back its forecast for PSVR because of scarcity of supply at the initial launch and the lack of marketing Sony put into the headset’s October debut. SuperData scaled back its forecast from 2.6

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

It is not clear what HTC’s strategy will be: we had a leak about a new XR2-powered standalone headset by HTC some months ago and now we have this statement about an all-in-two device. Reading a report from IDC, I’ve got to know that VR is growing everywhere, even in China. So, what will be the HMD that HTC will launch this year?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. PSVR2 will surely have its dedicated controllers, but since Sony is trying to guarantee retro-compatibility of games (especially gems like AstroBot), this headset should also be able to work with the DualSens controller. Google releases Chrome 81.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Key to HTC and Valve’s strategy was handing out Pre kits for free: I still remember the cheers when Valve told everyone at the Vision Summit a few months later that they would be getting a free Vive, and I still see people using the Pre today. Take the recent announcement that HTC helped establish a $1.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

It will be forced to do that, because on one side, the Quest is stealing it the gamers’ customers, and on the other side, the new Pico Neo 2, more powerful and less expensive than the Focus+, is stealing its enterprise customers (also in China). It’s time to upgrade this old system (Image by Sony).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

There’s been a lot of talk lately (including from yours truly), about the impressive comfort of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, but Idealens K2, a mobile all-in-one VR headset out of China, features a promising new ergonomic approach that might be the most comfortable I’ve ever worn.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

I think this news is very interesting because we finally see an entrant in the XR space also from India , after so many headsets manufactured in the US, Europe, and China. At CES, it continued with this strategy, and it announced a few new games coming for the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. On the software side, HTC has just launched in China Vive Sync , a solution for remote meetings in VR that may help a lot the Chinese people that are forced to work from home.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

While it may have been delayed by the China-based Snail Games from the previously slated late 2017 release, the mix of dinosaur-themed factual and fictional elements has certainly tickled our curiosity. Sony’s London Studio first released Blood and Truth’ s spiritual predecessor with the first PSVR demo disk; London Heist.

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MARCH 30, 2017

When it comes to tower defense games Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) has been surprisingly lacking. The developers of the game, the China-based TIGames, have likened Ancient Amuletor to a MOBA in terms of how it deals with hero-based gameplay. Mixing it Up.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Written By: Eddie Avil. 4- Kshitij Marwah. Ceo-Founder Tesseract/#Jio Glass.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

As such, there’s a sense of the developer taking off its VR training wheels and going at it alone here, which is exciting territory for a team that also handles ports and spin-offs for publishers like Sony and Ubisoft, such as with Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Nikk Mitchell, the great guy with which I made this review of the Huawei 6DOF glasses , has made a review video about the consumer Pico Neo 3 that is on sale in China. It is sold by Sony, but actually, the idea behind it comes from Impulse Gear , that studio that developed Farpoint.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This time around, the location is Shenzhen, China – also known as the hardware design capital of the world. This way, Microsoft will one-up the competitors from Sony, who only support their own PlayStation VR platform. In just a few days time, Microsoft will host WinHEC , its annual hardware / platform conference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The Quest Pro fits very well this strategy since it is a headset made for professionals. One of my predictions for Meta Connect was that Meta was going to define better its enterprise strategy. Productivity for Meta means in particular making the job done, that is giving the tools to professionals to do work on the headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. So when they’re talking to Chinese company Shin, which is one of the largest creator of a theme park in China. So they– sunshine actually invested in them, and also they had a big agreement for the contents of distribution in China.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. So when they’re talking to Chinese company Shin, which is one of the largest creator of a theme park in China. So they– sunshine actually invested in them, and also they had a big agreement for the contents of distribution in China.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. So when they’re talking to Chinese company Shin, which is one of the largest creator of a theme park in China. So they– sunshine actually invested in them, and also they had a big agreement for the contents of distribution in China.

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