The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony announces price and release date for PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord , the game announced by Meta and Sony Pictures, is coming in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade. It’s very interesting to read such a diverse set of opinions about this game.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too. There is even Microsoft Word!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. Head to SideQuest and try to download an indie game from there and if you liked it, share a social media post about it. The whole indie VR community will appreciate that.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Japanese magazine Famitsu interviewed Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Hideaki Nishino and asked him many questions about PlayStation 5 and PSVR 2. This shows the commitment that Sony has toward VR; The lineup for PSVR 2 is not complete. Many people are complaining that the lineup of games for the launch of PSVR 2 is quite small.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

In total, I counted something like 32 games, which is ok to start with, but then Sony should be fast in collecting more content to not make the PSVR2 players get bored fast for the lack of playable games. Speaking to VentureBeat, developer Another Axiom has reported that the game earned $26 million from in-app purchases.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold. This shows that Sony is pretty bullish about its device, and it is confident that it will be appreciated by a good share of its base market. How ironic. So feel free to register, and enjoy GTC!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

One of the reasons for such low performances of Sony’s headset is the lack of content, and in fact, in the classifications of the most sold games on PSVR 2, there are mostly old games in the first places, showing how there has not been a proper injection of many new good pieces of content for this console.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

This is impressive Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Aerial View API instead lets you put inside your game (3D or VR) the 3D maps of the cities of the world, that is the 3D reconstruction of Google Earth. According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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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 ultra-popular indie game Gorilla Tag is finally coming to the Quest Store! Humble Bundle has a new Premier VR bundle with amazing games like Cosmonious High and After The Fall! Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

Apple wants to reduce the price of the display by a 50% factor and is also trying to have other suppliers of displays beyond Sony (e.g. The service offered users the possibility of playing PCVR games on their Quest via cloud streaming, paying a price between $1 and $3 per hour. BOE or SeeYa) to increase production.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

SEE ALSO: How to keep up with the news from Russia and Ukraine. Along with its latest decision to expand these restrictions, YouTube added that the site has seen more interaction with its monitored "Top News" and "Breaking News" homepage shelves — the pages have received more than 17 million views in Ukraine alone.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. This was expected… the game was already amazing on Steam.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Microsoft) Xbox executives are still not interested in XR Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has reiterated the fact that Xbox is not interested in implementing VR because it’s too niche. It is remarkable that there was no “VR category” this year, but VR was just a tag that games may have.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. deaf people) which were using mods to be able to use the application and communicate with other people in the game. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Roblox) Roblox Beta has been launched for Quest Some weeks ago I reported here the announcement by Meta about an upcoming launch of the popular gaming platform Roblox on Meta Quest. This week the application has been launched in Beta and is accessible via App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sony is finally accepting preorders for the PSVR 2 headset. People who expressed interest ahead of time via Sony’s official website received emails with pre-order windows, and many have already placed their pre-orders. According to a popular Rockstar Games leaker, Meta and Rockstar Games’ partnership goes beyond GTA V.

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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

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. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

It should launch with 41 new titles specifically made for it, so we can assume that finally, we will see some big new games from the studios that Meta acquired. More info Fanatical is offering a VR bundle Fanatical is currently offering a VR bundle in which you can pick games at a discounted price.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Upload VR Winter Showcase brought many pieces of news about VR games. Upload VR has organized another one of its amazing VR game showcases. Some of the most intriguing ones I’ve found have been: We have finally some new info about Behemoth , the new game by Skydance: Interactive, the studio behind the Walking Dead: Saint And Sinners.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony Interactive Entertainment has l et many famous journalists and influencers (like Mike Virtual Reality Oasis) try the new headset in dedicated sessions where they could play four upcoming games: Horizon Call of the Mountain, Resident Evil Village, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners?

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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. You can select 4 games for $40 , or make bigger bundles paying more money. Meta has silently ended support for Oculus Home on PC.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — CNET) More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — Hand Tracking) Sony to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC To celebrate the first anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony has written in blog post in which it talks about how it is improving the content catalog its users can access.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). It is now official: Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed on Instagram that the PlayStation VR 2 headset is going to launch in “early 2023”. Upload VR has reported that Capcom has revealed that the VR version of Resident Evil 8 will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show on PlayStation VR2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The reason for this operation is the fact that the game has now a not huge community (around 10K players) and RAD thinks it’s better to invest its resources on his next (unannounced) project. Games and products are just numbers in an Excel sheet that must produce some defined outcomes. RIP, you will be missed.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

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. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good.

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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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Digital Trends

MARCH 2, 2022

Russia's vice prime minister singled out Microsoft and Sony in a message, though it appeals to game development companies and esports platforms in general.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range. Per se, this is a piece of news no one cares about. They feature 1080p per eye, at 60Hz.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

the GPU power of the previous model , and the comparison of the various games in their before vs. after versions is impressive. Finally with this chipset, games don’t appear just as flat colors anymore, but some real-time lighting becomes possible. Meta has also revealed that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is coming to Quest in December.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Who will it be… Sony or Meta? More info Davigo is finally coming Asymmetric action game Davigo is finally launching on November, 29th , after a long alpha period. In this game, a VR user impersonates a giant that has to smash some normal-sized avatars armed with rockets that are controlled by flatscreen PC users.

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