Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

This enables ultra high resolution headsets with relatively slim designs - and of course OLED's signature infinite contrast. micro-OLED displays from Sony are used in Apple Vision Pro. UploadVR David Heaney While Sony's display in Vision Pro reportedly outputs a brightness of 5000 nits, LG is claiming 10,000 nits. Currently 2.5K

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

If anybody can do it, it’s probably Sony. Ever since the Playstation was first launched – if, like myself, you’re old enough to remember it, you may pause a moment here to consider your own age and mortality – Sony has been in the business of reinventing gaming. Easier said than done… This isn’t your regular video streaming of course.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. I’m pretty sure that Sony is waiting the next few months to make some moves, there’s still the Black Friday and the Christmas Holiday that have to happen, but at the moment I do not see this device as disruptive to our ecosystem.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2019

While E3 2019 may officially be in the books, it appears as though Sony is only just getting started. Also launching tomorrow is Mini Mech Mayhem , an adorable, pint-sized strategy game from developer Futurlab in which teams of four work together to plan and execute different strategies on a tabletop battlefield.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This strategy enables them to cut costs as well as tailor capabilities and power consumption of their hardware to their particular needs. Sony's custom OS would not be much of a challenge for NVIDIA." "NVIDIA was in the first Xbox, and in PlayStation 3. . "NVIDIA "NVIDIA was in the first Xbox, and in PlayStation 3.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Using expanded and refined methodology which we detailed last month , Road to VR estimates that works out to just over 700,000 VR users on Steam over the course of November. SEE ALSO Pressure Mounts for Xbox's Missing VR Strategy as PSVR Revenue Tops $1 Billion.

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ARPost

MAY 27, 2020

Of course, there wasn’t really an Inbar of the Future. SVP of Emerging Technology and Innovation Strategy Tony Driscoll, Sony SVP of VR Jake Zim, Paramount Futurist Ted Schilowitz, and Arcadium President Marcie Jastrow. Of course, an event like AWE isn’t just important because you get to listen to the experts.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2023

Pretty much par for the course for the platform’s aging game library, it seems. Sony has also publicly announced a handful of PSVR 2 titles which may be strong contenders for the top spots in the coming months and years. PSVR 2: Shifting to a More Experienced VR Gamer? In the end, it’s hard to say how things will shake out.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

Many magazines wrote that Meta is abandoning the “metaverse”, but actually, the famed M-word appeared two times in the statement that Mark provided his employees about the new course of the company. First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

This is the first day of this sunny season (if you live in my same hemisphere of course), and I hope that you won’t have any Summertime Sadness like Lana Del Rey, but you all will enjoy the sun, have some relax, and forget for a moment all the hard times we are living in. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Happy VR Summer!

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Upload VR

MAY 25, 2024

With VR gaming, Walkabout Mini Golf is preparing an Elvis Presley course. As for UploadVR, we recently announced a revised approach to our reviews strategy that includes more reviews-in-progress. Showcasing Quest 3 gameplay against PSVR 2, the team advised the PC VR version features similar visuals to Sony's headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Quest 3 launch is approaching Meta is following a strategy for the launch of the Quest 3 that is very different from the one that it used for the previous headsets. I just think that Meta is trying a new strategy to keep the hype high until September.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

According to an official press release, starting March 7th , that list of support platforms is expanding to also include Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR). Both are excellent in their own way and all three of his games maintain an iconic visual style.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

In his report, he states that Taiwanese lens manufacturer, Yujingguang is working on next-generation lenses, and these could be installed in the upcoming next-gen PSVR and next-gen Quest (Quest 3 or Quest 2 Pro, depending on Facebook’s strategy). And thanks to the new lenses, they should feature improved clarity and FOV. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. I suggest everyone consider the possibility of harder times coming when defining the strategy of his own company. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. The second is that “mistaken model of the strategic motivations”, which seems to aim at the fact that Meta has a clear strategy that is not (only) about data mining this time.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

I don’t know how many of them will prove to be true, but for sure they all can be something that can inspire you to define your XR strategy for this year. In this blog, I told you about the Finnish Metaverse Strategy , but I’ve heard that also The Netherlands and Korea are bullish on this new technology. Of course not.

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AR Insider

APRIL 27, 2020

That flows from a long-term platform strategy that sacrifices near-term margins for long-term market share. Of course, this only represents a segment of the VR market, but is one that’s prominent and representative, given that Quest accounts for a leading share of consumer VR new device sales. Image Source: UploadVR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Rumors earlier this year suggested Sony, the company responsible for making Apple’s OLED displays, can only produce up to 200,000 displays per quarter. This is similar to the strategy Apple took with the first generation of the Apple Watch. The company isn’t planning on simply allowing consumers to grab the item off the shelf.

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2023

The researchers even claimed the resulting accuracy and jitter are superior to worn IMU trackers – devices with only an accelerometer and gyroscope such as Sony's Mocopi. But of course we can put legs on other people, that you can see, and it doesn’t bother you at all. That’s our current strategy.”

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. It’s the “convergence of gaming, film, and music” part which speaks to where the long-term synergies between Sony and Epic lie.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

We are all curious to see how this strategy will pay off. The situation has now changed and the sales that will happen in the next weeks will tell us if that was the case, or it is just that this console is too expensive for taking off (and in this case, Sony should consider offering a discount).

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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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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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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2022

What’s worth recalling is why Meta pursued the strategy of selling headsets at-cost to begin with. That was, of course, a piece of hardware that necessitated a gaming PC and was one with close competitors at similar price points. Meta’s efforts aren’t taking place entirely in solitude.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Typically, it refers to production strategies used in the entertainment industry to boost audience engagement, through the use of extended reality, metaverse environments, and 3D content. The impact of immersive technologies can be seen throughout the entire entertainment landscape. What is Immersive Filmmaking?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Through comprehensive media services (mainly including media coverage, expert consultation, data research, and event and public relation management), it helps entrepreneurs with idea incubation, financing, strategy consultation, and publicity. and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

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. The reason is that Sony has already announced that it will launch PSVR 2 only after the PS5 , to not confuse its buyers by selling too many things together. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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Upload VR

APRIL 28, 2024

Something we never intended, and something we would of course be very sorry to have caused. Of course, when the doors finally open and I make my way to the Oculus booth, it’s totally empty. Of course, as we now know, other than one small blip later in the day, the Oculus VR booth would remain unstaffed. I was crushed.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

More info (Vive Cosmos Elite launch) More info (New offerings of Vive Pro Eye) More info (Ben Lang’s editorial on HTC’s strategy) More info (Vive Sync launch). Of course I’m talking about a potential AR glass, the iGlass , that could so exploit the computational power of the phone without needing a cable to be connected to it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

They were mostly made by Italian indie developers and startuppers , but there was also the presence of some big brands like Sony that made people try Astro Bot and Moss with PSVR. Not the best strategy ever, I know, but it worked. This is, of course, another company highly focused on location-based virtual reality entertainment.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Like with Meta (formerly Facebook), plans to create its version of the metaverse have remained fairly nebulous—par for the course since the concept of ‘the metaverse’ was co-opted to mean any virtual world, a summation of virtual worlds, or a monolithic virtual platform (metaverse with a capital ‘M’).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

This VR multiplayer/singleplayer real-time strategy game comes from Hidden Path Entertainment , the minds behind Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition (2016) and Age of Empires II: HD Edition (2013). Sony’s London Studio first released Blood and Truth’ s spiritual predecessor with the first PSVR demo disk; London Heist.

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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. Surviving on Steam.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 5, 2017

Behind the scenes, companies like Valve and Sony were trying to figure out what the VR medium would look like and began to get products into the hands of developers. That’s really incredible and do you foresee implementing these tactics these new strategies into titles in the future? NB: There’s no room for shovelware in Sony, right.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

It’s February 2 nd , so of course that means Groundhog Day. In homage to the greatest movie ever made, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality – the VR arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment – has developed a virtual reality game that puts you in a Punxsutawney time loop. And don’t forget your booties cause it’s COLD out there… .

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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. We don’t know much about this upcoming content, though.

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