VRScout

JUNE 25, 2019

Available for free via SteamVR and PlayStation V R, Spider-Man: Far From Home Virtual Reality puts you in the boots (onesie?) In breathtaking virtual reality, you’ll finally have the chance to scale and swing from the highest towers in Manhattan. Image Credit: Sony / CreateVR. Image Credit: Sony / CreateVR.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

It’s undoubtedly at the absolute pinnacle of performance for modern virtual reality headsets. However, a good majority of that content is unfinished, early access, and lacking the level of polish that its competitors at Oculus and Sony are providing for their respective platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

This is noticeable especially by two things: The Meta Quest smartphone app , which is fundamental to configure the headset, has been the most downloaded app on the whole App Store The applications on the Meta Quest store have all seen a spike in usage these days. For instance, Gorilla Tag has now 2.5x

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

PlayStation VR launched just last month, and now Sony has shared which games players have downloaded the most so far. Sony has added a new PSVR section to their monthly ‘ PlayStation Store Top Downloads ‘ posts, revealing the top 10 most downloaded games for the company’s new headset so far: 1.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

If developers are not interested, and Sony is not willing to invest in exclusive great content for its immersive console, PSVR 2 is going to have a very troubled (and probably short) life. per-install tax after the first 1M of downloads. per-install tax after the first 1M of downloads.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2018

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a massive, and desperately needed, hit for Sony Pictures. Its tie-in virtual reality experience is…not. This is a huge win for Sony Pictures which is best known today for butchering surefire franchises like Spider-Man and bringing us one step closer to Raganorock with The Emoji Movie.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2017

The experience (read: not game) was developed by CreateVR and Sony’s in-house VR production studio, and is entitled Ghostbusters VR – Now Hiring, Act 1: Firehouse. Ghostbusters VR – Now Hiring, Act 1: Firehouse will be available for download from the PlayStation Store for $6.99 starting today.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

More info (PSVR 2 sales — Road To VR) More info (PSVR 2 sales — Upload VR) Sony announces many new pieces of content at its Gaming Showcase A few days ago, Sony held its Gaming Showcase event, where it announced some cool pieces of content arriving for PSVR 2. The VR community answered, and she got a few XR mermaid-themed experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

The first one is Altspace VR, one of the first social VR spaces of this new Virtual Reality era. In total, I counted something like 32 games, which is ok to start with, but then Sony should be fast in collecting more content to not make the PSVR2 players get bored fast for the lack of playable games.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

The “big two” is now the “big three” in the world of virtual reality headsets. On October 13, however, a third fighter entered the ring: Sony’s PlayStation VR. Although the Rift and Vive have enjoyed a six month head start on the PS VR, Sony has the opportunity to catch up quickly.

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MAY 10, 2017

This year’s report is indicating that the demand for and awareness of virtual reality hardware has gone up significantly in the past 12 months. Unsurprisingly, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset is continuing to grow in popularity. To find out more you can download the entire report here for free.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

The entire community is completely getting crazy for it and you must download it from SideQuest, and try it out. More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). And no, I’m not writing it because I’m the lead developer of the game. Absolutely not.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia and Toho have announced, a Godzilla virtual reality experience that will launch on October 13 in Japan as a free for a limited time download on the PlayStation Store. No word on if this will launch in other regions. No word on if this will launch in other regions.

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JANUARY 29, 2017

Virtual reality may be one of the newest arenas for these types of competitions, but it already has gladiators ready to do battle. There are a handful of major players already cutting their teeth in VR including Google, Sony and Samsung; but the two titans sitting at the top of the heap are Oculus and HTC.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

The pre-show press conferences have already begun and that means the big virtual reality news is already breaking. Listen or download below to be fully briefed on all of this year’s major expectations/predictions while you drive home from work or enjoy your lunch. Vive (HTC). — What do you think?

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2017

A new report from Nielsen suggests that not only is public awareness of virtual reality at record levels, it’s nearly doubled year on year. You can download the full U.S But just how much is VR on people’s radar? SEE ALSO 2017 VR Industry Report to Bring Data-driven Insights & Forecasts That Cut Through the Hype.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Ah, and of course, since traveling to Japan may be difficult for us in the Western world, if you can’t go to the physical event, remember that you can still go to the virtual edition of the Tokyo Game Show, which is available on App Lab and PCVR. Let’s start with some images!

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Speaking at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality last month, Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google stated that a beta version should launch in December 2016 followed by a stable launch in January 2017. As reported by Road to VR , Google recently confirmed that the latest iteration of the framework, WebVR 1.1,

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JULY 6, 2020

Virtual reality is something that has been a concept since the 1800’s One of the original Stereoscopes made. Stereoscopy Some of the original attempts at virtual reality include the stereoscope. Since around 2010 modern day VR has come out through the companies of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Sony Playstation VR.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Releasing on February 22, 2023, all you need is a copy of Resident Evil Village (or its Gold Edition) to access the free VR Mode DLC as a separate download on PlayStation Store. The reveals didn’t stop there, as Sony outlined six newly confirmed PSVR 2 games in a separate PS Blog post.

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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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DECEMBER 2, 2022

One particular item of interest for my experiments is the render model reference (in the orange section), because it tells SteamVR where to look for a file stored on the host PC that provides the render model that is seen as the virtual representation of your device in VR. ’s config onto a 2.0 and now SteamVR won’t find the 2.0

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Jaunt is a Palo Alto-based company that is currently one of the leading providers of 360-degree virtual reality content. The only notable exception to Jaunt’s availability on the various hardware platforms was Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Tagged with: jaunt , playstation , PS VR , sony.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This week I’ve anyway found the time to enjoy the artistic piece Finding Pandora X and to work on organizing my session at the Virtual Reality Day (more on this later on in this newsletter). In the communication, it is emphasized that it is able to work with 5G phones from different brands like Sony and Samsung. More info.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Sony had a handful of VR surprises for us at their Pre-E3 event last night and one of them will be very welcome to survival horror fans. At this early stage, one of the criticisms levelled at virtual reality in general is that there isn’t enough fully fledged, long form gaming content available.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

You can download the app for free from the Oculus Store ( Rift , Go , Quest ) or Steam (Rift, Vive, Index, Windows VR). We’re hoping Sony doesn’t put up any more roadblocks than necessary, as PSVR is essentially the only major VR headset not to have Bigscreen support.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

Sony Pictures’ Jumanji: The Next Level web AR promotion resulted in consumers spending over 5 minutes in AR. Web-based augmented reality has unlocked the AR opportunity for brands and marketers to engage consumers wherever they are with no app required to download,” 8th Wall founder & CEO Erik Murphy-Chutorian told AR Insider. “In

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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. Head to SideQuest and try to download an indie game from there and if you liked it, share a social media post about it. The whole indie VR community will appreciate that.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. But now you can: Download the mesh , so that you can use it for instance inside game engines or animation movies; Use a code-free visual editor to add content (e.g. Learn more.

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APRIL 19, 2021

The fitness application goes from costing $30 upfront to be free to download and costing $10/month after a trial. This new money, that has been given by Sony and other investors, has been explicitly gathered to build the blocks of the future Metaverse. We can rejoice: Virtual Reality has a new unicorn company that proves its success.

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JUNE 14, 2021

That day be sure to download it from SideQuest and please also make some noise on social media to support us indie VR developers! 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. More info (OpenBrush) More info (Virtual Desktop).

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APRIL 5, 2021

Here’s the latest list… (Announcements happened in Q1, though some track prior-period activity) Usage Milestones - Resolution games saw a 500 percent boost in downloads for its casual games (e.g. TouchCast raised $55 million to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform. - Oculus’s Android App?—?an

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

At a time when modern VR was finding its feet, Sony championed the potential of console-based virtual reality with PlayStation VR on PS4, housing an impressive library of exclusive games like WipeOut: Omega Collection , Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Blood & Truth. Like its predecessor, PSVR 2 sits in a unique position.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2017

203 (Sony Booth). Cell reception can be spotty in the packed Washington State Convention Center, so attendees may want to download the official PAX West 2017 guidebook (and a copy of this article) ahead of time. Oasis Games. Light Tracer. Multiple games). Westin Hotel, 4th Floor. PlayStation. 100, #103, #109, #203, #209. Oculus, Vive.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Created VR for Samsung, Sony, Sky, U2, FX, Warner Bros, and more. Currently, most clients we work with ultimately choose a custom camera configuration during pre-production, opting for picture quality and a mono footprint (such as the Sony a7s or the Blackmagic cams) over a fully spherical camera format. Freedom360 Explorer & H6?—?$3,000.

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