Move over, Bungie: New York Times acquires Wordle
Digital Trends
JANUARY 31, 2022
Wordle was purchased by The New York Times on the same day Bungie was acquired by Sony.
The XR Week Peek (2023.02.13): Quest 3 confirmed for 2023, 100+ games in the work for PSVR 2, and more!
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
More info (Quest 3 coming in 2023) More info (New layoffs planned at Meta) Other relevant news (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) New information on PSVR 2 is unveiled Sony Interactive Entertainment is keeping growing the hype for the upcoming launch of the PSVR 2.
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Grab Your Proton Pack: Ghostbusters Is Getting A Pokemon GO! Style AR Game
VRScout
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
style game for iOS and Android. . Right on the heels of Google’s recent ARCore update , comes an announcement by 4:33 Creative Labs: Ghostbusters World is a new AR game that will have you answering the call when there’s something strange in your neighborhood. Style AR Game appeared first on VRScout.
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Spider-Man: Far From Home VR Is A Fun, Free Web-Slinging Simulator
VRScout
JUNE 25, 2019
Sony’s free Spider-Man VR game is a quick, but surprisingly satisfying experience. Your time to swing through New York like Spider-Man has finally arrived! Image Credit: Sony / CreateVR. Image Credit: Sony / CreateVR.
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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass
AR Insider
JULY 19, 2021
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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Ghostbusters VR Arrives On PlayStation VR
VRScout
MARCH 21, 2017
Sony has answered our call, bringing the first in a series of VR Ghostbusters episodes to PlayStation VR today. During a press preview event on the Sony Pictures lot in LA, where even Dan Aykroyd made a surprise appearance, I got an early look at the Ghostbusters VR experience. Well now you finally can—in VR.
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PlayStation 4 Pro Unboxing: New Sony Console and New DualShock 4 Controller
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
When Sony debuted the console at its PlayStation Meeting two months ago in New York, everyone already knew what to expect and we were left a bit disappointed overall. While it would support 4K and HDR gaming, the supposed enhance ments for PlayStation VR [ device review ]content seemed lackluster.
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Insomniac's Next Spider-Man Game Will Bring Venom to the Party
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
By the end of Insomniac’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales , New York City could count on two Spider-Men to keep it ( relatively ) safe in a world teeming with supervillains. After reminding everyone what a joy its original, Peter-centic game was with a remastered version for the PlayStation 5, Insomniac came to this year’s… Read more.
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Official: Sony Sold Nearly 1 Million PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months, Despite Limited Stock
Road to VR
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.
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Sony Announces Powerful PlayStation 4 Pro with Enhanced PSVR Support
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
At a special event in New York today, Sony took to the stage to introduce it’s long rumoured, more powerful console, previously referred to as ‘Neo’ – it’s called PlayStation 4 Pro and it’ll have some interesting enhancements for the forthcoming PlayStation VR headset.
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Is Dwell Time AR’s Next Performance Metric? Part II
ARVR
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Next Level To accompany and market the film release of Jumanji: The Next Level, Sony Pictures was interested in creating an AR experience for prospective filmgoers. Partnering with AR-focused creative agency Trigger, it created a game to draw fans into the movie’s themes. compare to online video ads that average about 20 seconds.
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Sony announces new VR music campaign featuring Khalid
VRWorld
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Sony last week announced that it will be showcasing its technologies as part of a brand campaign centered on singer-songwriter, Khalid. A follow-on event will occur in New York in February, and at SXSW in March. A new VR music video will also be unveiled at SXSW.
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The highly anticipated and loved by everyone Ghostbusters remake to get VR tie-in. I ain't afraid of no trolls.
Cats and VR
MAY 9, 2016
I am not knocking the upcoming film at all but I have been dying to play a good Ghostbuster video game for years. In advance of the July 15, 2016 release of Ghostbusters, Sony Pictures, Madame Tussauds New York, Ghost Corps and THE VOID have teamed up to bring Ghostbusters to VIRTUAL REALITY! Cats And VR.
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Hollywood Embraces its Future in VR at the 2017 Lumiere Awards
VRScout
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
A beautiful experience created by the New York Times for their celebration of The year’s best actors in 2016. In partnership with award-winning violinist and Sony artist Joshua Bell, Sony Playstation brought to life a live studio performance of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. Best VR Game: Job Simulator.
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Watch Milla Jovovich Meet a Greater Rathalos in This Monster Hunter Clip
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Anderson is good at one thing: making self-indulgent video game movies with pretty big cult followings. During a new panel at New York Comic-Con 2020, Anderson showed up to talk about his films and share what we all want to see: some monster fightin’. Monster Hunter seems to be following suit. Read more.
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Palmer Luckey: “I’m still working in the VR industry on some very exciting things”
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Founder Backs 'Revive'—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding. Everything.
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Miles Morales Reforms Spider-Man's Relationship With the Police When It Needs to Be Abolished
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
He’s defending New York City on his own for the first time just as a bitter ground war breaks out between the nefarious Roxxon Corporation and the tech-powered Underground movement. New as Miles is to… Read more.
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Metaphysic Appoints Sam Head to Top Gen AI Role
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MARCH 2, 2023
The enterprise will discuss its collaborative work with generative AI for the gaming industry along with panel discussions, talks, and demos. Adoption rates for immersive solutions have seen a meteoric rise over the last few years, with multiple firms leveraging new Web3 tools to engage their viewerships.
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Keeping up with T-Mobile’s XR Accelerator Programme
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Moreover, in May, T-Mobile added another six international immersive technology firms to its programme, including Beem, Krikey, Mawari, Mohx-Games, Pluto, and VictoryXR. The Los Angeles-based firm designs social-AR experiences on Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, working with brands such as Sony, NFL, and Samsung.
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93 Sneak Peak:Ghostbusters:Dimension from The Void, Made with Unity.
Cats and VR
JUNE 29, 2016
Unity, the largest global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games and experiences, today announced a new and truly unique virtual reality (VR) experience "Ghostbusters: Dimension" has been built using the Unity Technologies platform.
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NHL, Roblox Team Up for Hockey Metaverse
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 27, 2023
National Hockey League (NHL) fans have received a virtual treat after the organisation launched its Roblox online gaming metaverse, ESPN reported on Thursday. NHL Blast is a new hockey-themed metaverse game where users can create bespoke team jerseys, socialise, and compete in the Metaverse.
Is this the end of the metaverse?
Hypergrid Business
JANUARY 25, 2023
Microsoft didn’t give the exact number, but news reports from the New York Times and Bloomberg have put it at $10 billion. The company will release a new headset in February, which Omdia predicts will sell 1.6 So what’s the good news? The good news is that companies are continuing to invest in hardware.
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Reggie Fils-Aimé on turning happy accidents into magic at Nintendo
Mashable VR
MAY 3, 2022
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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HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales
Road to VR
JULY 27, 2018
” Very few major manufacturers have released sales data on their VR headsets, with Sony being the exception when they said that PSVR had already sold over 2 million units back in December 2017. million units since December 2017. The post HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales appeared first on Road to VR.
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Labrodex’s Sci-Fi RPG Shooter Hybrid ‘Scraper’ Already Has Its Own Prequel Novel
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. As Labrodex’s founder, Jim Ivon, initially told me over the phone, Labrodex intends to release three Scraper games with five episodes of content per game.
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309 Inside The First IMAX VR Arcade
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The first arcade in Los Angeles is not connected with a multiplex, but future IMAX VR centers in Los Angeles, New York and overseas will be connected to movie theater locations. I tried a rooftop assault version of the John Wick Chronicles VR game in the headset with a realistic gun accessory tracked using PhaseSpace.
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250 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
JULY 7, 2019
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. It is more a game-oriented event, but there you can find some interesting VR experiences and hardware as well.
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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
AUGUST 3, 2020
OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.
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Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones review: New design and improved sound quality
Mashable VR
MAY 21, 2022
Sony stuck to tradition with its latest flagship headphones in that they have amazing sound quality and noise cancellation, but an absolute mouthful of a name. The WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones hit the market in May 2022 with an MSRP of $399.99, which is $50 more than their predecessor, Sony’s WH-1000XM4s.
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80 The Road Ahead in VR and AR Will Have Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
DECEMBER 18, 2016
It’s a complex market with winners and losers for a technology that could change the world and many industries beyond gaming. The New York Times is going to run that on the front page, right before Christmas, to p**s us all off. John Riccitiello (left), CEO of Unity Technologies, and Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games.
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10 best kids' movies on Netflix streaming right now
Mashable VR
JUNE 25, 2022
Sony Pictures Animation has given audiences such daring and dynamic animated movies as Surf's Up, Hotel Transylvania, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. — are threatened by an overzealous taxidermist (a gamely over-the-top Nicole Kidman), who is ruthlessly determined to make him her next specimen! Credit: Netflix.
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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple
TechCrunch VR
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Facebook will soon be the latest tech giant to enter the world of cloud gaming. Facebook is not building a console gaming competitor to compete with Stadia or xCloud, instead the focus is wholly on mobile games. Why cloud stream mobile games that your device is already capable of running locally? Image via Facebook.
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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!
The Ghost Howls
MAY 30, 2022
San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT.
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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC
Robert Scoble
MAY 15, 2021
A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. A new set of tools for developers to build all of this. New 3D services for things like music, fitness, education, and more. A new, portable, gaming device that will interact with this 3D world. A new 3D audio service. Leaks from 9To5 Mac about that just today.
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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 11, 2022
Now let’s dig into the best news! 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.
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Building Character: Didimo Expands Popul8 Gen AI Partnerships
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Avalon is a global, remotely-operated gaming studio staffed by some of the world’s top video game industry executives. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development. The gaming studio will leverage Didimo’s Popul8 platform to expedite character development.
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The Big List: 50 VR Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2017
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 2, 2017
Last year, we rounded off a list of 35 VR games we couldn’t have to play in 2016. We’ve had some great times playing great games, and last week we picked the best of the bunch with our 2016 Game of the Year Awards. So without further ado we present the 50 VR games we can’t wait to play in 2017.
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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 10, 2022
As I’ve said, I won’t focus this roundup on the announcements from CES, but for sure I can’t ignore the fact that CES happened, so let me tell you what has been in my opinion the most interesting news from there. I have to admit that I thought this CES wouldn’t have brought great news about XR, but actually, we had some nice announcements.
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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
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Talking about the future, a report from the New York Times, says that Meta is exploring the idea of opening its own stores. This can help in solving one of the biggest issues of the device, that is the too flat graphics of its games. I can’t wait to see if it will be able to bring games with richer graphics on the Quest Store.
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297 Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MAY 4, 2017
Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn. Some of the most basic waveguides were first commercialized by Lumus Optics (coming out of Israeli military-industrial research). While DigiLens’ work for the U.S.
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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. CCP Games, the maker of EVE: Valkyrie , Gunjack and other upcoming VR games, raises $30 million while NextVR gets $30.5
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Is IMAX VR the Ultimate VR Experience?
VRWorld
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
The fund will be utilized by top directors and studios such as ILMxLABs, Warner Brothers, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Westfield Corporation, Bold Capital Partners and Ubisoft are just some of the names mentioned in this context.
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Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui
XR for Business Podcast
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
You come from a gaming background. And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. And Sony has been a great partner for the company.
Investing in XR with GFR Fund’s Teppei Tsutsui
XR for Business Podcast
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
You come from a gaming background. And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. And Sony has been a great partner for the company.
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