VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2016

Advertisers and agencies will soon have another way to market their content through the use of bite sized 360-degree video on the increasingly popular application known as Snapchat. Sony created this initial video with the help of AvatarLabs , a Los Angeles based digital agency. What Snapchat will do next is entirely a mystery.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The first ever Develop:VR conference debuts in London tomorrow, December 1st. Produced by the same company responsible for the popular Develop:Brighton conference, Develop:VR is drawing top VR creatives from across the UK to share insights learned from the rapidly evolving virtual reality landscape.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

The post is full of fluff, but it is interesting for two reasons: It explains very well how the Insight technology works , with a very explicative video; In the end, it teases a possible future use of Insight for “trendy AR glasses”. Sony has acquired Insomniac Games. The studio will so become part of the Sony Worldwide Studios.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2019

Microsoft HoloLens 2 patent. The right conferred by a patent grant is “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or importing the invention into the US. Image Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony/USPTO. WHAT IS A PATENT? THE MAJOR PLAYERS.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

All these four awards are decided at the conference. Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. This award is for Breonna Taylor and her family,” said Popper, who will be traveling with the project to Taylor’s hometown following the conference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Quest Pro announcement video. Don’t expect the passthrough to be like your normal vision, though… it is a bit like seeing reality through a video (washed-out colors, a bit of blurred resolution, etc…). Partnership with Microsoft. Highlights of the partnership between Meta and Microsoft.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 29, 2023

OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, now operates partially under Microsoft, bringing a mass wave of developmental resources to the conversational AI space – especially for enterprises with the rise of CoPilot. With Project Starline, Google aims to redefine remote work by significantly increasing immersion and engagement during video calls.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

The events that took place online, which were seen by many more people than would have participated in person, suffered from the same lack of presence and commitment that derails all virtual conferences. Sony unveils a new virtual concert experience at CES. Hot topics included Healthtech, foldable screens and 5G (yes, again).

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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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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

Moreover, throughout the three-day event, other XR speakers from firms such as Digilens, Sony, General Motors, MicroOLED, Microsoft, and EndeavorXR will present expert insight into the XR and display market. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. We are organizing the Future Business EcoLink Conference 2022 and the 7th Golden Gyro Award. We have video live streaming or VR live streaming for each summit.

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VRWorld

JUNE 13, 2016

At it’s pre-E3 2016 conference, Microsoft announced the long awaited shift of its console model. Microsoft did not disclose the exact refresh cycle strategy, but we would not be surprised if the company decides to use E3 as the place where their annual or bi-annual refreshes will be announced. PC lives forever, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. And again… is it possible that this headset can accommodate both forms of tracking ?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2023

It read that Apple designed the device jointly with Sony Group Corp, which will feature high-resolution displays and augmented reality (AR) full-colour passthrough. Sony recently unveiled plans to debut its PlayStation VR (PSVR) 2 in early 2023. The headset will incorporate FaceTime for video chatting and conferencing.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft. To continue providing users with seamless software experiences and improved productivity and collaboration capabilities, Microsoft and Meta have teamed up to bring Mesh for Teams to Meta Quest headsets.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Major gaming industry players brought the noise to this year’s E3 conference. The PSVR unit will work with the PlayStation 4 and Sony says they’ll have 50 games ready to go at launch.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. We are also all waiting for news on a Quest 2 Pro… I wonder if Facebook will ever launch two devices during the same conference… it looks like a suicide move, so probably one will be announced (Quest 2 Pro) and the other launched (AR glasses).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A truly engaging virtual, augmented, or mixed reality interaction relies on more than just phenomenal video. billion by 2026, and many leading companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Sony are already getting involved. Sound is also a significant component in how we understand a space, or interact with content.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. ICYMI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM FACEBOOK’S F8 CONFERENCE.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; A 5G modem ; 8K videos playback at 60fps; Accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. There is not much to say, but there is a lot to see… so click on the below links, watch the videos and let them inspire you!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this. We use the MDK ourselves and share our strategy with external studios building video games for Nex Playground. It also contains lots of tools for building motion games more easily.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Conferences are returning to digital.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. A huge month for VR occurs around the Game Developers Conference and newly created Virtual Reality Developers Conference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

It’s a crazy period for me: I’m going to depart soon for China to showcase our game at the WCVRI in Nanchang and so I’m crazy busy finalizing the demo for the exhibition and at the same time arranging the talks that I’m having there and at the View Conference soon after. The PS5 will have some nice features. Not bad at all. It’s something.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

This is not the first time I see a similar box (I remember having tested something similar connected to the Vive Focus Plus at Vive Ecosystem Conference in 2019), but it is one of the first times that I see something similar to be actually released in the market. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). News worth a mention.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. Not only was Oculus VR company purchased by Facebook, but Sony announced their VR headset for the PS4 under the name ‘Project Morpheus’. 2014 was an exciting year for the VR community.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Oculus has announced the all-new standalone named Oculus Quest at 5th annual Connect developer conference. The authenticity of NPC is always a problem to generate the real-world experience in the video games. Minecraft is a 2009 sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: VR Park is this crazy– it’s like a video arcade that got carried away. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. So talk to us about them. Teppei: Sure yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: VR Park is this crazy– it’s like a video arcade that got carried away. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. So talk to us about them. Teppei: Sure yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Alan: VR Park is this crazy– it’s like a video arcade that got carried away. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. So talk to us about them. Teppei: Sure yeah.

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