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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

Let’s dive in… Genvid Raises $113M to Build Out Massive Interactive Live Games , Taps Ex-Netflix Content Exec Cindy Holland as Adviser. The new new game studio pulled in an astonishing $113M Series C to produce what the company calls “massive interactive live events,” or MILEs. They have to.

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Official: Sony Sold Nearly 1 Million PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months, Despite Limited Stock

Road to VR

Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data.

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Is this the end of the metaverse?

Hypergrid Business

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. ” And it’s making money.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.08): Microsoft Teams gets immersive, Meta may open its stores, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. Other relevant news. I’ll let you travel with me….

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. The forced update has created a huge backlash from the PC community , the one that has made the game succeed in all these years.

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Reggie Fils-Aimé on turning happy accidents into magic at Nintendo

Mashable VR

I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games." At the time, we simply saw a bold and brash new attitude from the traditionally reserved company. On the other side, Disrupting the Game also offers practical advice for business-minded folk who'd like to learn from Fils-Aimé's success story.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.07): Valve Index shows thumbstick issues, Cosmos works with Wireless Adapter, WeChat introduces AR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Others can’t make most games to run on the PC because the 120/144Hz mode is too demanding. These can be games, applications, marketing experiences or whatever the developer wants. Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect. Microsoft is finally shipping its Azure Kinect devkits. Some people are even already returning the Index!

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