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JUNE 13, 2017

Just like any other VR headset, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) leaves plenty of room for improvement, and the company’s R&D division has a few ideas on where to take it on both a software and hardware level. Mallinson isn’t ruling out hardware upgrades though. “But in VR that doesn’t happen today.”

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2019

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. The award ceremony recognizes multiple achievements in VR, such as hardware advancements, gaming, film, social experience, and marketing to name a few. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. Emblematic Group.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

Disney Research, a group the firm uses to develop innovative emerging technologies, highlighted the device in a YouTube video this weekend. Since 2022, Disney worked on various XR initiatives to help build start-ups and to assist with the firm’s own R&D into Disney-branded XR entertainment services.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). At the end of this year or the beginning of the next one, Sony is going to launch its new gaming VR device, dubbed PSVR 2.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. More Widespread Use of VR for Location-Based Entertainment According to Vindevogel, VR technology will continue to evolve and become more widely adopted.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 28, 2022

Tencent Holdings is set to build an extended reality (XR) unit, its immersive wing tasked with developing hardware and software for future metaverse solutions, Reuters reported last week, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them. Make Real uses VR technology for tools and entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the enormous influence in the XR industry, VRTUOLUO has set up dozens of industry communities (such as the Industry Executives Association, VR Game Developers Community, VR Education Community, Financing and Investment Community, Offline Entertainment Group, etc.) Why and how has it started?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

Some of the very first mainstream examples of augmented and virtual reality were delivered directly to the entertainment world, and many were met with significant levels of demand. Location-based entertainment venues and arcades can offer immersive experiences and “escape rooms” for users with Mixed Reality.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Augmented reality glasses group CastAR is looking to build up its profile ahead of launch next year, and today it’s got another big hire to share. Eat Sleep Play itself was formed almost a decade ago, and was comprised of members of Incognito Entertainment, the studio behind PlayStation 2-era Twisted Metal games and Warhawk.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2021

I had the great pleasure to interview SVP of VR at Sony Pictures Jake Zim on his experience with developing, producing, and launching VR games inspired by Sony Pictures’ movies Spider-Man , Jumanji , Groundhog Day , and most recently, Zombieland. Here at Sony Pictures, we publish VR games and experiences across all platforms.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2017

We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. Of that group, 69% were men, 31% were women. Nielsen’s ‘ U.S

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Peter Dille, Former Senior Vice President of Marketing and PlayStation Network at Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment); Mel M. Heydari, Lead Recruiter for Technical Operations at Google; and Arnie Sen Senior Director of Hardware at Activision, have all joined the augmented reality company.

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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. PCVR keeps remaining stale, and I don’t see fewer complaints from the PCVR community since the launch of the Sony headset, showing that it had no relevant impact on other sectors of XR. Let me tell you why.

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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. There’s no better example of this than the revolutionary entertainment experience, Fortnite. Going Beyond Gaming.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

We chose to host AWE Asia 2023 in Singapore not only because of its convenience for our diverse group of participants who join us from across the globe, but also in recognition of the growth of the extended reality industry in Singapore and across Asia. link] "Innovation in XR requires cross-border collaboration.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Both Apple and Google already have very popular stores , they have full suits of tools (think about the Google Docs suite) and entertainment channels (think about Apple TV), and they have enormous expertise in building hardware and operating systems. Google may use its existing partnerships it has on the smartphone sector (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.”

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Peter Dille, Former Senior Vice President of Marketing and PlayStation Network at Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment); Mel M. Heydari, Lead Recruiter for Technical Operations at Google; and Arnie Sen Senior Director of Hardware at Activision, have all joined the augmented reality company.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In the VR space we had little news apart from the Facebook Connect, so this roundup will be very short… but we had enough news with the Connect that they were enough to keep us entertained for the whole week . Image by Sony). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

The startup is building what it calls a “new type of portable hardware device that might be considered a hybrid between a powerful smartphone and a gaming console.” The group boasts a fairly eccentric group of investors, including Kevin Spacey, a couple of football players and, yes, Shakira.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

“Although Google Tango also offers six degrees of freedom on mobile phones with a world of, primarily, augmented reality capabilities, it also requires special hardware, such as a motion camera, structured-light projector, and an IR camera,” she added. “Jay” Jayaram as the speakers.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

He’s someone who has worked on games early in his career at Lucas Arts and has always been tied to the entertainment industry. We have a super group, and I feel very lucky to be working with them on a daily basis.”. Sony has done an amazing job with the PSVR and is headed towards 4 million units sold.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Research firm SuperData released a new consumer VR report that claims the global VR hardware revenue will be $3.6B SuperData also predicts that hardware will keep making more money than software, or at least until 2020. SuperData also predicts that hardware will keep making more money than software, or at least until 2020.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

This Thursday, October 13th, Sony is launching the PlayStation VR worldwide. With this hardware launch, virtual reality will be making a larger push into people’s homes through the familiar path of their game consoles. John Koller, VP of Marketing at Sony PlayStation // Image Source. PlayStation VR is no different.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 18, 2023

The group will be managing the fund provided by SideQuest, which planned for the program as part of the company's Series A investment. It is an invitation to step back into our bodies and make our entertainment, play, and digital socializing more active and engaging.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Visual augmented reality became mainstream with Pokemon Go (2016) and Snapchat filters, but its use cases are now moving beyond gaming and entertainment. This means that the wireless noise-canceling headphones from Sony not only let users stream music but also handle calls and get information on demand.

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AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Through the 1980s, companies such as Nintendo increased accessibility to eSports with products such as the Nintendo Entertainment System. Speaking to Forbes , Founder of eSports Group Alex Fletcher, said: “Once blockchain or third-party entities allow the games to talk to each other, then video games may begin to connect to the metaverse.

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AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Through the 1980s, companies such as Nintendo increased accessibility to eSports with products such as the Nintendo Entertainment System. Speaking to Forbes , Founder of eSports Group Alex Fletcher, said: “Once blockchain or third-party entities allow the games to talk to each other, then video games may begin to connect to the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Superdata reported about a -72% in revenues for out-of-home VR entertainment , and there is the common consensus that “LBVR is dead “ Pretty ironic, considering that when at-home VR was considered “dead” by many mainstream journalists, LBVR was considered the only VR sector that could succeed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More info (Windows 10 update improves the visuals of the Reverb) More info (The cable clip of the headset is easy to be broken) More info (Sebastian Ang explains some problems of the tracking of the controllers) More info (A redditor writes his first impressions on the headset) More info (Cas and Chary’s review) More info (Tom’s Hardware review).

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Delta Reality was also nominated in the same category for The Metaverse Park and was up for Best Enterprise Solution and Best in Location-Based Entertainment. The group won over Mutienliao , Oregon Shakespeare Festival , and Ferryman Collective. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) PlayStation VR 2 has been launched This has been the week of PSVR2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has started shipping the headset , and many people in the community started sharing pictures of them using this new device. The result is quite nice.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

The rest is our long story… Well, I have time for a long story… Our story began in 2016 when Tao Hu, our founder, and CEO, left Oculus and started the company with VC seed funding and a group of like-minded geeks. Tao Hu, founder of Moon VR (Image by Moon VR). In the beginning, we had several VR projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences. Also, the hardware will follow this trend: at CES, in fact, we have seen mostly the launch of new enterprise headsets (Pico Neo 2, XTAL 8K, etc…). Sony has already clarified that it won’t sell the PSVR 2 together with the launch of the PS5.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? They are going to come from unexpected places and they are going to be software not hardware. 2) Costs need to be reduced dramatically.

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