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Is Sony Accelerating Digital Twin Content Creation?

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This week, Sony officially entered a partnership with GeniusXR and The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation and Sony exemplifies our commitment to pushing the boundaries of Virtual and Augmented Reality. This partnership with the Alan B. John Wensveen , Ph.D,

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.

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Jim Ryan Appointed President & CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment

Road to VR

Sony has officially announced that John Kodera has stepped down as president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), making way for previous SIE deputy president Jim Ryan to take the position. Like Kodera before him, Ryan will report directly to Kenichiro Yoshida, president and CEO of Sony Corporation.

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The Headset Manufacturers Making the Best AR and VR Accessories

ARPost

Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. Of course, the biggest downsides are that these VR accessories aren’t exactly meant to be compatible with other hardware offerings and PlayStation itself hardly leads the industry in terms of consumer content.

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ICYMI This Week: Medieval Dynasty, Onward, X8 & More

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Looking for this week's VR games and hardware news? There's been interesting developments across VR hardware recently. Quest 3 and Pro can now use hand-tracking and controllers simultaneously , Meta's looking at neural wristbands , while Sony confirmed PC support is coming for PSVR 2. Here's our latest roundup.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It has been a watershed moment, because before this week many people were skeptical about Mojo Vision since they thought the hardware was cool but there was no way it could work safely inside a human eye. It’s incredible how we will have the first smart contact lens product before 2030… it seems like hardware coming from a sci-fi movie!

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

The Ghost Howls

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. However, something changed in the industry, including market construction. Also, It will be a great chance to communicate with them directly.

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