Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Platform : PSVR, Oculus, Steam (Spring 2018). Platform : Oculus, Steam (Early 2018). Platform : Oculus (February 28, 2018). Platform : Oculus (2018).

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

in the morning, but in the end, the first alpha demo is over and it will launch as promised on June, 16th! According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. Oculus Quest increments its tracking area to 15m x 15m.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Speaking today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, SuperData analyst Stephanie Llamas said that the company scaled back its forecast for PSVR because of scarcity of supply at the initial launch and the lack of marketing Sony put into the headset’s October debut. SuperData scaled back its forecast from 2.6

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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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. On Quest, there are some nice demos and games with MR features, but nothing more. On the Vision Pro, many of these apps are basically 2D screens.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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JULY 24, 2017

One of the most interesting VR narratives of 2017 so far has been the pricing strategy of Facebook’s Rift. What’s the latest on Oculus’ standalone headset(s)? Facebook and Oculus are insistent that 2017 is all about content; we won’t see any new hardware released in the remaining five months of the year.

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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. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

As late as October, the market researcher thought Sony would ship 2.6 Brendan Iribe, the fearless CEO of Oculus, stepped aside from that job to run the PC VR division of Oculus, which could be perceived as a step down. Oculus is searching for an overall leader again, and that comes after a rocky year.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Vive XR Elite is a headset that is very lightweight, and many people that tried it at CES reported that it felt very comfortable for the time of the demo. At CES, it continued with this strategy, and it announced a few new games coming for the headset. And it left many journalists impressed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Image by Sony). Sony aims at hybrid games for the PSVR 2. Regarding the software it is looking for, it seems that Sony is very interested in AAA games with added VR support.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. It has also partnered with various Chinese phone carriers , so that the device will be used to perform 5G demos.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. PSVR2 will surely have its dedicated controllers, but since Sony is trying to guarantee retro-compatibility of games (especially gems like AstroBot), this headset should also be able to work with the DualSens controller.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

For example, a real-time strategy game like Command & Conquer might feel amazing on the hardware. ” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? ” Yup.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

I have also to say that I am a bit concerned: Nanite is cool, but adding unoptimized assets to a project is not always the wisest thing to do, and in fact, the demo scene created by Epic is 100 GB big. In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive. Supported Headsets: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR. Metro developer 4A Games makes its VR debut with this Oculus Studios shooter that doesn’t look a whole lot different from its last post-apocalyptic shooter. Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear. I’ve heard this demoed and it’s amazing, even for old music. But I hear it is years ahead of what Facebook is building in its Oculus Quest standalone VR headsets. Put it all together and you can see Apple is about to unleash a new paradigm-shifting strategy.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

So an Apple TV user can easily put on the Reality headset and watch a football match there, but no one is currently an Oculus TV user unless it has a Meta headset. Meta is trying to build everything from scratch, usually through partnership. Which is much harder. Then we don’t know how the market will react to it.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

During my demo session with Smashbox Arena , I got to try out several of the game’s levels within the core competitive team-based gameplay. The development team at BigBox VR has worked on several AAA video games, from Team Fortress and SOCOM to Marvel: Avengers Alliance for companies such as Valve, Sony, and Disney.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Sony is going to try to put PS VR’s in 53 million homes this year too and the price of PCs capable of running nausea-free room-scale VR will undoubtedly continue to drop. The same event equipped with Oculus Rifts would’ve required a minimum of eight sensors wired to each of the PCs.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Though Climax has already worked on four VR games, this is its first to land on the HTC Vive, as well as the Oculus Rift. It’s also only releasing on Steam for now and not on the Oculus Store, where all its previous releases have hit. ” As you can tell, the joke went down pretty well. I, for one, hope it gets that chance.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. And Sony has been a great partner for the company.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. And Sony has been a great partner for the company.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. And Sony has been a great partner for the company.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Or better, maybe it’s not totally merit of HTC, it is mostly the fact that everyone is hoping for a good headset that can compete somehow with the Oculus Quest , even just in the prosumer segment. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps its march towards 10M users. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps selling incredibly well. This is amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There is a tech demo (that you can see in the GIF here below) where you have in front of you a fantasy face that makes your same expressions, and it is quite cool for those who have tried it. Meta is also offering demos of the device in physical stores to let people try the headset before buying it. USD / £89.99 GBP / €99.99

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