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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

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. million units sold in its first three months.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

After dodging questions for the first few days following the presentation, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, gave his thoughts on the games industry, the Xbox One X reveal, and Microsoft’s position in the VR space in a refreshingly candid interview with Giant Bomb’s Jeff Gerstmann last night. I love what we’re all try to go to.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. We have a couple of projects underway that are very exciting for us, in terms of creating some sort of game-type metaverse which can have collaboration with other parts of Sony,” Ryan added.

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Road to VR

JULY 16, 2016

Microsoft unveiled ‘Project Scorpio’ to the world at E3 this year, stating that it would provide the Xbox platform enough power to run high fidelity VR experiences. A clear response to Sony’s forthcoming high profile launch of its own PlayStation VR system in October this year.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Microsoft held a big debut for its refreshed Xbox One console, the Xbox One X , at E3 yesterday, but there was one piece of the puzzle missing: VR support. “This show right here was about consoles, it was about great games, that’s what’s important to us,” Spencer said.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

With great pleasure, I announce to you that we have updated our game HitMotion: Reloaded (the first mixed reality fitness game ) on Viveport, and now we have far better bonuses management, apart from having fixed lots of bugs. Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one?

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MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. Image by Microsoft).

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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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JANUARY 5, 2020

Some surprises may arrive from Sony (I hope so, but I don’t believe so), but for the rest, I’ve mostly heard about news from secondary operators. Superdata analyzes the market of VR games. It is possible to read very interesting data on AR/VR from the latest SuperData report on Gaming. But some of them are really intriguing.

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JULY 24, 2017

Are Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headsets any good? Microsoft seems like the wild card in VR right now. There’s a lot about Microsoft’s approach to VR that sounds too good to be true. Sticking with Microsoft, there’s still much to learn about its refreshed Xbox console, Xbox One X.

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. The good news for Valve don’t end here.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). But at CES, a new game for it has been announced: Horizon Call Of The Mountain, a game from the exclusive Horizon IP that has been built for the ground-up to showcase the innovative features of the PSVR 2 headset and controllers. Further references.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

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 popular multiplayer war game Onward has been finally ported on Quest, where it launched successfully, with very positive reactions and reviews.

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Mashable VR

MAY 3, 2022

I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games." But as Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo , his new book, reveals, the conscious construction of that line came to reflect the rebirth that was at hand under the former Nintendo of America president's leadership.

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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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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet.

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MAY 3, 2017

Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up. followups to their $30K reference camera blueprints that they released a bit over a year ago. raised last fall.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

The circle will close with the release of XR glasses, and we know that Niantic is also working on a reference system for them. This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The event kicks off at 10 am PDT and you can watch it here: [link] Besides Apple, very soon you will also discover new info about our game Hitmotion: Reloaded … this is more interesting than Apple glasses that may revolutionize all the XR sector of course… so stay tuned! This can be another cool feature for productivity on the Quest.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. Anyway, this seems to confirm that Valve is working on new VR games after the big success of Alyx. A new ID Software VR game is arriving.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. A game no one had ever hyped online.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. For reference, my head is 59cm meaning I take a medium-sized bicycle helmet, albeit at the upper end for medium.

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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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MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. These micro-ridges are referred to as a “surface relief” waveguide. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn. Lumus has more recently been the OEM supplier to both Daqri and Atheer. Holographic Waveguides.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. OpenVR support in Unity game engine (Image by Valve). And the same happens with OpenVR! Ok, and now what?

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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? ” Colin Northway, Co-Founder at Northway Games ( Fantastic Contraption ). 2) What NEEDS to happen to the VR AR market in 2017?

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Side Blockers make it very easy to see your keyboard & mouse in work-focused use cases, but nothing takes me out of immersive VR gaming more than seeing my bright carpet constantly below me. It even seems to make me feel slightly sick in games with artificial locomotion. I experienced this same dilemma with PSVR and Rift S.

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MAY 3, 2017

Oculus works with dozens of partners and has plans to release at least one high-quality game each month this year through Oculus Studios. What we’re asking: Vive has consistently shown a greater interest in announcing new hardware components for its VR platform than talking about new games or experiences. PlayStation VR (Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Innersloth has unexpectedly announced that the popular game Among Us is getting an official VR version. It will be developed with the support of Schell Games and have similar features to its 2D version: tasks to perform, sabotages, deceptions, emergency meetings, and sus people. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

This has led to long manufacturing delays and component shortages , especially for the silicon processors used in everything from electric cars and smartphones to game consoles and VR equipment. I was now officially a SteamVR developer, and free to build games or hardware for release on the Steam platform. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). In the USA, it is almost mainstream; in Europe, it is something for people that have some knowledge of gaming or technology; in South America, is very difficult to get a headset.

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