XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. ” GeniusXR partners with Sony to create a Volumetric Capture Studio Sony has recently partnered with GeniusXR and The Alan B.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Not HTC, which has very little money compared to Facebook/Meta; not Valve, who is focused mostly on PC gaming; not HP which seems interested only in the pro/business market. No one can compete now.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Its new flagship Immortalis-G715 GPU will supercharge the Android gaming experience and among the list of features, it will include hardware-based ray tracing for the first time. Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. And is also clear that he’s hinting at the fact that they are going in that direction, in building a battery-powered device to play VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image by Sony). Sony unveils affordable Mocopi tracking system. Sony has just announced a new affordable tracking system. The data of all the sensors merged together can be used to reconstruct the pose of the user thanks to the wonders of machine learning. Other relevant news. Sidequest is now available for Pico 4.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

.” Much like HTML forms a sort of description of a webpage—being hostable anywhere on the Internet and retrievable/renderable locally by a web browser—USD can be used to describe complex virtual scenes, allowing it to be similarly retrieved and rendered on a local machine.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You can buy headsets at a discounted price, or accessories, or even lots of games on Steam, Viveport, and Oculus Store! The visuals would be provided by two 4K OLED microdisplays from Sony. Eye Of Temple is one of the most famous indie VR games on Steam, and it has just been launched out of early access.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR games to either recently surface or on their way imminently. That said, Futurlab ‘s virtual reality slot racing title Tiny Trax is still an unexpected title to find in the upcoming release roster for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Tiny Trax [Futurlab]. Theseus [Forge Reply].

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

Vivek Sharma, head of Facebook Gaming, will lead Facebook Horizon, while Jason Rubin, who has been head of AR/VR content, will lead the group’s content team. Because actually, as my meme mentioned above highlights, nowadays “metaverse” is used as a buzzword, to mean whatever thing from a multiplayer game to a social network.

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Upload VR

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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

New Technology Walkers (NTW) has released on SideQuest a free demo of HitMotion: Reloaded, a fitness XR game that was already one of the launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus. In this game, you have to punch some targets very fast while dodging bars that attack you, for a very intense training experience. Absolutely not.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Project Morpheus prototype | Photo courtesy Sony. SEE ALSO On the Hunt for VR's Killer App with Sony's Head of PlayStation Magic Lab, Richard Marks. during last week’s I/O 2017 conference, which was heavily focused on machine learning. That’s why I see it as the holodeck.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR games to either recently surface or on their way imminently. That said, Futurlab ‘s virtual reality slot racing title Tiny Trax is still an unexpected title to find in the upcoming release roster for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Tiny Trax [Futurlab]. Theseus [Forge Reply].

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

Oculus Home was a feature launched for the Oculus Rift CV1 that let people configure their own home with gadgets, collectibles, games, and much more, and then invite their friends there. The problem is that constructing the digital twin of a real person is very difficult because the body is a complex machine we still don’t know entirely well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The price is incredibly low: $299; Announced that in 2021 it will release a pair of smartglasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban; Teased the work it is doing in AR; Revealed that is working with Ubisoft for two AAA VR games developed around the IPs of Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed; Discontinued the Rift. Image by Sony).

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Upload VR

AUGUST 18, 2023

For existing VR makers like Pico, HTC, Meta, Valve, and Sony, a $3,500 headset-in-a-box might not be too threatening to their immediate positions, but what happens when Apple's less expensive follow-ups ship with much less bulk? But users will still be able to enjoy raycast controller-based content if they choose."

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The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. The bombshell comes directly from Jason Rubin, that interviewed from Kotaku, has clearly said that he wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. This would mean that some great Oculus exclusive games (e.g. Resident Evil 7) could be played on the Oculus platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This Saturday I have been to the Milano Games Week. If you don’t know what it is, I can describe it as the little Italian brother of the Gamescom: it is much smaller, but it features anyway a lot of games , both from popular major players and from indies. operate on industrial machines, etc…). AnotheReality.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google Earth in VR is a rush, Facebook analyzes your face w/ augmented reality, GE uses AR to talk to machines, the funding wrap-up, cure lazy eye with VR, and more…. GE USES AR TO TALK TO MACHINES IN MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP. …and more.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

It’s the prequel novel to not one, but rather an entire series of upcoming Scraper VR games, headed by the budding Labrodex Studios out of Jericho, NY. It’s drawing from a philosophically introspective yarn, exploring the what-ifs of humanity giving society over to intelligent machines.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters. It so seems that Sony told him about PSVR 2, but now, after Jim Ryan told him that probably PSVR won’t come to light in 2021, these plans have probably changed. Yes, but I can’t speak to them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

British 3D artist Rafi Nizam has opened a new animation with tools from NVIDIA’s Omniverse Create XR along with solutions from Epic Games, Autodesk, and Adobe, it was revealed on Friday. He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Going forward, we can expect to see it becoming an enabler of even more technologies, including virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), the metaverse , cloud gaming, and even quantum computing. Innovation and consolidation in cloud gaming. The AI and ML-powered cloud.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 15, 2017

Between Fallout 4 VR , which we already had very high up on our radar and the newly announced DOOM VFR , we didn’t think there was much room left for more from the ZeniMax-owned gaming powerhouse. After going hands-on with the game and awarding it our crown of Best PSVR Game at E3 2017 , the anticipation is mounting.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded). Meta has also released a small demo of a fitness game to prove how it works well. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. Additionally, engineers train Deep Learning algorithms to accurately detect markers in live video data. Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms make machine translation from one language to another possible.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Image by Fast Travel Games). I can say that this week we had no disruptive news about XR hardware or software , and most news that I’ve read on the most popular VR magazines have been about content, mostly games. On September, 17th , you will be able to buy this VR game inspired by the classic movie featuring Bill Murray.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2020

For many parents and guardians this means learning to work from home while simultaneously keeping their families safe, happy, and healthy under quarantine. VR Gaming Fun for Everyone. and Baby Hands will get families playing games or sports they know and love in zany new ways – no tokens or sports gear required.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. This is good news also for the developers: 120 titles on Quest store have made more than $1M , and 8 even more than $20M, proving once more that some studios can make a living out of VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The channel says that according to “credible sources”, Sony may launch PSVR 2 sometime in Q1 2023. Of course, take this rumor with a grain of salt: Sony could still decide to launch the new headset in 2022 to exploit the holiday season. It’s still a good multiplayer game, though.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. But this game engine is good for more than just the next top video game experience. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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