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29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to.

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29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to Virtual Reality Kojima, 29, is convinced the technology will become commonplace in VR devices. Fove ran a Kickstarter campaign, raising $500,000, and eventually got $13 million in financing from investors including Samsung Electronics Co., game maker Colopl Inc.,

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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

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With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. As it turns out, investment is still flowing into the Chinese VR industry. million). So, no, the Chinese VR industry is not imploding or crashing and burning.

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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

Road to VR

Focused on harnessing immersive technologies to deliver groundbreaking VR, AR, Animation, DOOH, VFX and 360 degree video projects for some of the world’s largest brands including Sony, BBC, Red Bull, Microsoft and Lexus. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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Learn about Headsets

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Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Samsung Odyssey Controller. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Not supported.

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

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Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Samsung Odyssey Controller. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Not supported.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

2015’s CES was the first for Samsung’s ‘Oculus powered’ mobile VR headset ‘Gear VR’ having been unveiled and impressing a few months earlier at IFA Berlin. Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later. The Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype.