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Toei Animation & Sony Music Solutions Bring The 90s To VR

VRScout

Toei Animation, the Japanese animation studio behind popular series such as Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon , has teamed up with Sony Music Solutions to develop a series of virtual worlds available via the popular VR social platform VRChat. Credit: Toei Animation, Sony Music Solutions Inc. Credit: Toei Animation, Sony Music Solutions Inc.

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Sony Patent Reveals VR Controller Design Seemingly Inspired by Valve Index

Road to VR

Sony Interactive Entertainment recently published a patent for a VR motion controller that look suspiciously similar to Valve’s Index controllers, aka ‘Knuckles. Image courtesy Sony Interactive Entertainment, WIPO. Image courtesy Sony Interactive Entertainment, WIPO. Here’s to hoping.

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‘Beat Saber’ Reportedly Generated Over a Quarter Billion Dollars in Lifetime Sales

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Citing documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal , Meta has allegedly generated over $255 million as of October 2022. The Journal maintains the documents included another staggering figure: Beat Saber was played by 1.47 Beat Saber (2018) , the popular block-slashing rhythm game, has undoubtedly been a standout success for VR.

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Epic Court Documents Show How Google Pays Competitors to Not Compete

GizModo VR

For a platform long heralded for being open and promoting choice, the tea spilled from the unredacted documents presented in the Epic v. Google case reveals the search giant has an anti-competitive side. Read more.

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Documenting the Evolution of VR Headsets with Zenka’s Sculptures

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The artist Zenka has been documenting the evolution of virtual reality by making raku sculptures of VR headsets. Zenka feels the same way about VR and AR headsets as we start to see more patents like Sony’s smart eye contacts or Google’s cyborg eye implants. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR.

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Sony to Discuss PlayStation 5’s System Architecture Tomorrow

Peter Graham

Over the past year, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has released various snippets regarding its next console, the PlayStation 5 (PS5) but nobody knows what it looks like. It’ll be interesting to find out whether PlayStation VR will see any notable visual enhancements from the new console.

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Report: Apple Acquires VR & AR Eye-tracking Company SMI

Road to VR

The publication uncovered documents signed by Gene Levoff, Apple’s vice president of corporate law—representing a company called Vineyard Capital Corporation—which signed over power of attorney to German law firm Hiking Kühn Lüer Wojtek to handle the acquisition of SMI by Vineyard Capital Corporation.