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Sony Music Showcases Multiplayer VR Experience Using Vive, Not PSVR

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You’d think if a division of Sony was making a VR experience they’d be using the company’s own headset, PlayStation VR (PSVR). It’s surprising to learn, then, Sony Music Entertainment is working with a rival headset, the HTC Vive. But the Vive display isn’t the only VR installation from Sony at the show.

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Sony Pictures Teams With The VOID on ‘Jumanji: Reverse the Curse’, Launching November 27th

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Hot on the heels of Avengers: Damage Control , the next experience heading to VR attraction The VOID is Jumanji: Reverse the Curse , made in collaboration with the Sony Pictures Virtual Reality group. The title will come to select VOID locations starting on November 27th. Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California.

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Khalid Debuts Projection Mapped VR Music Video at SXSW

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Sony unleashes VR music video with projection mapping technology at SXSW. If you’re unfamiliar with the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, it’s basically a celebration of, well, everything. Image Credit: Sony. We wanted to bring together a completely new type of immersive experience to music lovers.”.

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Scraper: First Strike looks like an interesting VR action game

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Ivon, the CEO of Labrodex , an indie game studio that is working an interesting action VR game called Scraper: First Strike. I talked with him about the game and the hurdles of being an indie VR developer. We didn’t want to create just VR game, but a new IP. Each game will have 5 Episodes, or 15 in total.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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He has looked at over 5,000 companies in the space and has invested in 35, including the makers of hit VR games like Beat Saber , Rec Room , and Job Simulator. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. million in its first year.

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E3 2017: Hands-On With Playful’s Mysterious New Game — Star Child

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I met Paul Bettner, the CEO of Texas-based Playful Corp, and inside the Rift DK2 headset I met Lucky. I rushed through the doors this week at E3 and headed straight for Sony’s booth to find it. “The specific ‘staging’ techniques that Kynan and team have discovered to make a game in this genre (2.5-D

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Beloved former Nintendo prez craps all over Facebook and the metaverse

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At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg. He also says Facebook Portal , Meta's video calling device, "wasn't a big idea."