Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

We clicked the moment we met with them – the team literally started on go-to-market strategy during our first meeting. Tech Crunch got a hands-on with an early demo of Varjoi’s tech back in June, which packed a pair of high-resolution Sony MicroOLED displays measuring 0.7

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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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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 Photo Credit: Dean Takahashi.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

VR gets Western release: image courtesy Sony Japan Studio, Acquire. While it missed the main ‘PlayStation VR Game’ segment of Sony’s keynote, another PSVR title was announced at E3 this week – the quirky Japanese real-time strategy game with the unusual title V! No Heroes Allowed! What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?

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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. Upload did some much-appreciated legwork to break down these titles by category and format, finding that 113 are games, 50 are apps and 7 are demo versions of paid apps (see chart below). Image Source: UploadVR.

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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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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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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). Already offering a wildly successful demo the ninja assassin-style Budget Cuts puts heavy emphasis on stealth combat. Brass Tactics.

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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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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. Steam Next Fest will let you play for free demos of upcoming games (VR and not).

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

This may be Apple’s strategy to make people wear something on their head while they wait for a more complex headset. The first apps supporting it will be Elixir (a tech demo also showcased at OC6), Waltz of the Wizards, and the Curious Tale Of Stolen Pet. Iron Man VR demo has been released! We’ll see…. Some news on content.

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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). A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking.

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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. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) and upcoming PSVR 2 are examples of such designs. Enhance training and development strategies. Also, VR can engage customers with immersive demos and provide customers with support and service walkthroughs. This specific format can: Align teams across geographies using holograms.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

The startup’s experimenting with machine learning as well, focusing on the tech’s ability to create visuals and 360-degree videos for product demos. On the horizon for Emperia are new verticals and better personalization tools, Dogadkina says.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 30, 2017

When it comes to tower defense games Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) has been surprisingly lacking. Thankfully, I played the demo with another person, and it made for a better playing experience. Switching between them is fairly quick and can be done mid-game, allowing you to invoke different strategies as the situation calls for.

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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. The action part of the demo was a simple zombie’s waves shooter. Twin Wolves Studio.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game - October 5 (PC VR, PSVR 2) 0:00 / 1× Previously available on Quest 2 and Pico, Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game is an action roguelite spin-off to the popular grand strategy game by Paradox. A free demo is available now on AppLab and SideQuest with 20 tracks.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 24, 2017

One of the most interesting VR narratives of 2017 so far has been the pricing strategy of Facebook’s Rift. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t expect any demos of future devices in prototype form. Hopefully we’ll find out in the coming months. Will HTC cut Vive’s price?

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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. Within weeks, we started to see a frankly overwhelming supply of indie games.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Whereas those other two, more powerful, PC-based VR devices see multiple releases per week and several shovelware tech-demo style launches every day, each and every PSVR release feels like something worth taking note of. It’s at once a real-time strategy title while also satisfying the tower defense itch so many people have.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Samsung (with Google) and Sony have chosen Qualcomm's XR2+ Gen 2 as the engine of their upcoming headsets, after Samsung reportedly went back to the drawing board after seeing Vision Pro announced. 0:00 / 0:19 1× Apple representatives told me I needed to stay on path during my second demo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

As late as October, the market researcher thought Sony would ship 2.6 And the AR industry took a major blow when The Information published a well-reported but speculative story saying that Magic Leap’s technology is not likely to live up to its demos. But I think the worst strategy in this new medium is to slow down and be cautious.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

The headset will be much better than Quest, but its problem will be that it won’t be able to have the same great library of content of the Quest , so probably this will become an enterprise headset as well; Sony will tease PSVR 2. Sony has already clarified that it won’t sell the PSVR 2 together with the launch of the PS5.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony aims at hybrid games for the PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has had a virtual summit with developers about its plans for the PSVR 2 because it is looking for content for its upcoming headset. A free demo of the game will be available this week for every one of you to try! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

It has also partnered with various Chinese phone carriers , so that the device will be used to perform 5G demos. Regarding content, nReal has showcased some nice demos like an AR application that shows you how we will buy clothes in the future and a clone of Fruit Ninja in AR. I think that Pimax has to completely rework its strategy.

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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. Put it all together and you can see Apple is about to unleash a new paradigm-shifting strategy. In the back of every Apple store is a million-dollar 8K TV that is about 30 feet across.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

For example, a real-time strategy game like Command & Conquer might feel amazing on the hardware. And if you stack the billions spent there against Sony, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Google, Apple and others, are all these executives investing too much on AR & VR, or too little?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

I wonder if it could make sense to make things clearer to just dedicate the Quest to gaming (and transform it into a console) and then launch a totally different device just dedicated to becoming the “new smartphone” A bit like Sony has PSVR 2 but is rumored to work also on another more general-purpose headset.

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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. It is sold by Sony, but actually, the idea behind it comes from Impulse Gear , that studio that developed Farpoint.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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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 2, 2017

Epic Games has a gift for all Oculus Touch owners next year, moprhing its impressive Bullet Train demo into a bigger, much funnier game in which you battle malfunctioning robots with guns and, sometimes, their own legs. Now that Arizona Sunshine is out, we’re hoping to see this intriguing turn-based strategy from Vertigo Games next.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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. Demos shown by HTC at CES include tracking a wrist and glove combo for hand tracking, as well as a fire hose and gun.

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