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Microsoft’s Project Scorpio, an upgraded version of its Xbox One console, is coming to market later this year, but we still don’t know much about it. Microsoft is positioning its new beast to push 4K gaming (a 4K UHD Blu-ray optical drive is included) but, as we all know, the system is also going to host VR experiences.

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MAY 25, 2024

Microsoft is bringing volumetric apps to Quest , Oculus Go owners are reporting errors with launching apps and the Quest v66 public test channel has been datamined. Showcasing Quest 3 gameplay against PSVR 2, the team advised the PC VR version features similar visuals to Sony's headset. Searching for this week's biggest VR news?

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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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MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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JUNE 14, 2016

I watched all of the press conferences from Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, and Oculus’ appearance at the PC Gaming Show in order to capture audio highlights of all of the VR news that was presented. Farpoint is a sci-fi VR thriller that uses a new PSVR Aim controller. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Sony PlayStation. Of the ‘big three’, Sony has the most on the line at E3 2016. See Also: Sony – ‘PSVR Breakout Box is Not a Crutch for PS4′.

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Sansar will so become a sister platform for Somnium Space, and in the upcoming months, it will implement all features present in Somnium. 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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Another Bethesda title, Doom VXR however, is coming to Sony’s VR headset and you can read all about it here. in-game movement akin to the traditional game, without teleporting) is present and correct. Update: A previous version of this article stated that Fallout 4 VR was on the way for the PSVR, this is incorrect.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Microsoft has enabled a long promised feature for their games console the Xbox One, the ability to stream games into a VR environment via a headset attached to a PC. Microsoft has been making significant strides to strengthen its offerings and stance on immersive technologies.

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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. For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. More info (GDC roundup 1) More info (GDC roundup 2) More info (GDC roundup 3) More info (Moss to be published on many platforms) More info (Manus Quantum Metagloves) More info (Sony showcasing PSVR).

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MAY 10, 2021

connector with OTG 3 Physical IPD adjustments Optical Positional tracking, with 4 tracking cameras Cameras have 400×400 resolution and run at 120Hz Maximum 10m x 10m tracking area and mm-precision accuracy Optical Tracked Controllers, with 32 tracking points All-PU materials fabrication, for easier sanitization 5300 mAh battery, for around 2.5–3h

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Home console manufacturers such as Sony, Microsoft, and especially Nintendo have established IPs that they can rely on for the launch of a new system. Somebody’s gotta take that risk and put in the millions of dollars on that killer app, which will bring VR to the next level, both in terms of innovation and presentation.

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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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MARCH 6, 2019

Switch, despite being substantially underpowered compared to the latest consoles from Microsoft and Sony, has sold tremendously well since its March 2017 launch, reaching 32 million unit sales by the end of 2018. Image courtesy Nintendo.

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On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. The launch will happen at a new online event dubbed Vivecon, which is going to start on May, 11th at 5 PM BST (British Summer Time, that is, present-time London time). billion valuation.

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JULY 21, 2019

The most interesting news of the whole week has been the presentation of the hard work of Neuralink by Elon Musk, that is technically BCI and not VR, that I have detailed in this post of mine. Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. Microsoft has showcased a great holographic translating technology. Image by Capcom).

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MAY 11, 2020

Also, new more ergonomic controllers, that solve the flaws of the current design, will be part of the package. These controllers should be compatible with the current Quest. Microsoft presents VROOM, a solution that mixes AR and robotics to let you have a telepresence robot with your AR avatar during meetings.

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Sony also had no public presence – VR or otherwise – at Gamescom this year. Indie studio Capricia Games presented us with a hallway demo of Outta Hand , a fantastic first-person platformer that takes the Gorilla Tag movement system and evolves it once again with some added fresh mechanics.

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Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. In Europe, they are still not so present how they should be. It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft. It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles.

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JUNE 15, 2020

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. The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. Top news of the week. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Many great XR games are controlled by Meta. Image by Sony). All this uncertainty is what is preventing Sony from announcing a sure 2022 release date.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The new controller, the Touch Plus, seems also to track very well, and has the interesting feature that they have better tracking performances than Quest 2 ones around the torso of the player. So while the technology is amazing, it’s important we also tune our expectations: this is a vision of the future, not of the present of XR.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. Someone has disassembled the Index Controllers. More info (Teardown of Knuckles) More info (X-ray vision of the Index Controllers). I really hope so…. Some news on VR content.

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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” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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MAY 17, 2021

base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands. 749 for just the headset, $1399 for the full bundle with the headset, wands controllers, and base stations. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Later during testing, I received the SteamVR “lighthouse” faceplate , letting me enjoy the precision of sub-mm room-scale tracking, whilst enabling the use of Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Pimax Sword controllers, as well as Vive and Tundra trackers. Within minutes, I was happily drawing squiggles. My three 2.0

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JANUARY 20, 2021

And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet. Pico Neo Eye 2 and controllers. Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism announced ahead of the Sony conference that their VR rhythm game is on its way to PlayStation VR later this year. The game sold over 100,000 copies in its first month of availability on PC VR devices, and is set to launch on Sony’s platform with a new song, and potentially more content.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Not that that’s a problem for Sony, with a tidy 50 million units sold in just over three years on the market. But all the shrewdness Sony has displayed in the past few years makes the risk of PlayStation VR all the more baffling. Sony had its work cut out if it was going to get the ball rolling, and E3 was only a few months away.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Following the revelations from the Microsoft and Bethesda presentations , this is a second roundup of news from E3 2017, currently taking place in Los Angeles. E3 technically starts today, but here’s what happened yesterday, with announcements from Intel, Ubisoft and Sony. An early access beta weekend starts June 23rd.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. It is a bit disappointing that it just has 2 tracking cameras, but the controllers are tracked with ultrasound beacons, so the tracking FOV should be good. It looks like a refreshed Vive Focus Plus. was a lot of money?).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

VR Development 2000- Present. . Not only was Oculus VR company purchased by Facebook, but Sony announced their VR headset for the PS4 under the name ‘Project Morpheus’. In 2017, Sony bundled PS4 consoles with PSVR headsets in order to attract more users. 2017 is also the year that Microsoft entered the VR industry.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Only a minimum of the data should be shared with the online servers and most of them should be handled locally; the applications and the communications should be secure; the user must have all the control among what data of his/hers gets shared and what not. This explains the shortage of Valve Index headsets in all these months.

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APRIL 22, 2023

But not much for the rumored specifications of the device, but more for the applications that were reported to be present at the launch. Siri voice control is also present. Also the control scheme would be voice+hands like the Hololens. Let me explain to you why. Camera app : can take pictures from the headset.

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Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. We’ve also enabled our hand tracking on cameras that can be shared for SLAM and controller tracking.

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