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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

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Japanese electronics giant Sony recently bought out Beyond Sports, allowing the former to build massive metaverse content for sporting events. Beyond Sports develops real-world data for 3D animations, and its technologies will seamlessly integrate with Sony’s growing portfolio of immersive solutions. it announced this week.

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Upcoming Angry Birds PSVR Game Will Include Couch Co-Op

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Team up with friends in this frantic local multiplayer experience based on the upcoming film. Image Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony. ” Image Credit: Sony. “At At Sony Pictures VR, we believe that VR should be social, cooperative and fun,” added Jake Zim, senior VP of VR at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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The 2022 Auggie Awards

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Best Art or Film. Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” All these four awards are decided at the conference.

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What is the Influence of Major Corporations in XR and Spatial Computing?

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The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. Magic Leap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

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Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. More info (News on filming) More info (A shot recorded by a fan). More info (Use Google Translate).

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A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship

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As free promotion for hardware startups go, one would be hard pressed to point to something better than a $175 million Spielberg film. “It The move is especially interesting in light of the relatively recent shift toward enterprise customers that’s been explored by Meta, Magic Leap and HTC. It was actually Warner Bros.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.01): Quest 2 price raise, PSVR 2 passthrough, Pico 4 leaks, and more!

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Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. Venice Immersive is the VR branch of the Venice Film Festival. Upload VR). Other relevant news. How much does it cost?

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