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

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Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable. Meta adds video recording settings on Quest, at least for developers. Video that explains this partnership. After many promises, we are seeing the first step in this sense.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

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Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Header image by Sony).

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This Immersive Workplace Solution Stunned ISE 2024 Attendees

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One of them was the Immersive Visualisation Room, which had a 5 x 5-metre space where users display 360 videos, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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Igloo Vision Stirs XR World With London Open House Demo

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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Microsoft’s Activision acquisition can help move it forward towards the metaverse

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Microsoft ‘s purchasing of Activision Blizzard was the largest sale in the history of video games at US$68.7 billion dollars making the company the third largest gaming company after Sony and Tencent. (Image courtesy World of Warcraft.).

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The XR Week Peek (2019.14.09): a new powerful Vive Focus appears, Facebook Connect is coming, and more!

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In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! Facebook and Virginia Tech University have just proposed a technology called “Flow-edge Guided Video Completion” that aims at reconstructing missing regions of a video. Top news of the week. Image by Qualcomm). Some news on content.

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