Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ginza Sony Park, the Japanese tech giant’s Tokyo-based hub for Sony brand promotion, is now playing host to a new Ghostbusters -themed multiplayer experience using a newly revealed Sony AR headset prototype. And yes, they’re shooting proton energy from their hands. Otherwise you can sign up here (Japanese).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Following anticipation from fans, Sony announced on Wednesday the release window, price, and new features of its PlayStation Virtual Reality 2 (PSVR2) device. Sony is pricing the PSVR2 at $549.99 for the base model, letting customers get their hands on the sophomore product in February 2023. New Titles.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Working closely with Valve, Sony, and Meta, Cloudhead is best known for their title Pistol Whip and has shipped four popular VR titles ( Pistol Whip , Valve’s Aperture Hand Labs , Call of the Starseed , and Heart of the Emberstone ).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2022

In short, Kuo posits that Meta is slowing down investment in VR hardware due to looming economic recession, but this will provide others opportunity to play catchup as market share shifts away from Meta to companies such as Sony, Valve, Pico, and HTC. It’s not VR, its Meta’s core business that’s taking a hit.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

While Rec Room is available on most platforms, including flatscreen on PS5 and the original PSVR , it's been notably absent from Sony's latest headset. We’ve worked with Sony for years and have had a lot of successful collaborations there. We reached out to Sony for comment and will update this with any response.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Image Credit: The VOID, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality. What’s more fun for moviegoers than to have the chance to live in VR as the characters they love – and, like in the movie, players will have to work together as a team to win the game and save Jumanji,” added Jake Zim, SVP, virtual reality, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “We

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Last year VRChat added controller-free hand tracking support on Quest. Vive XR Elite also supports hand tracking, and HTC has been improving it with software updates , but VRChat on Vive XR Elite requires controllers for now. Creators can upload two versions of the same content, one for PC and another for mobile.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All are already included in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Regarding the current VR market, Eric Lempel from Sony Interactive Entertainment, has stated that Sony remains committed to virtual reality products, but he also added: “ I think there was a higher expectation generally for what VR would do to gaming”. Last week, people said January.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Interaction Mapping – Universal mapping of gestures to handle input across devices including controllers and hand tracking. Spatialized UI – Automatic translation of 2D web UI elements onto a spatial control panel when an experience is accessed on a VR or AR headset. Existing developers can simply log in and begin building.

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MAY 22, 2023

Just last summer The Information published a report citing “four people who have worked on the project” as saying the AR/VR team “almost never” mentions games in internal presentations and isn’t developing a tracked controller. Even on Meta's Quest platform today, a number of games support controller-free hand tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. Their goal is to transform how users interact with XR solutions and applications.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Gurman, Apple’s headset will use eye tracking and hand tracking technology in tandem to drive a system that “allows the wearer to control the device by looking at an on-screen item – whether it’s a button, app icon or list entry – to select it.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The entire industry owes it a debt of gratitude for what it’s pioneered with room-scale and hand tracked controllers. However, a good majority of that content is unfinished, early access, and lacking the level of polish that its competitors at Oculus and Sony are providing for their respective platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Experiments around MR and natural interactions We are in the middle of a paradigm shift: before the focus was on VR, while now is on MR. Before the focus was on controllers-driven interactions, while now natural interactions (like hand tracking) are getting always more important.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 29, 2023

Nvidia Sony Qualcomm Niantic Meta PICO Pimax HTC VIVE Nreal Nvidia Investing in everything from AR and VR streaming solutions, to cloud platforms for the modern metaverse, Nvidia has a range of options to offer gaming developers. Here are just some of the top vendors in XR focusing in the gaming landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Image courtesy Apple Despite its oddly latent love for gaming, the company still doesn’t make a controller phone case for iPhone; it’s allowed third-party creators to fill in the gap to great success, even going as far as officially selling Sony’s DualSense controller on the Apple Store rather than make its own of either solution.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Quest 3 and Pro can now use hand-tracking and controllers simultaneously , Meta's looking at neural wristbands , while Sony confirmed PC support is coming for PSVR 2. As for VR gaming, we reflected on PSVR 2's debut year as Sony announced Little Cities: Bigger!

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JANUARY 4, 2017

What We Know: In our world its easy to forget sometimes that Sony is much more than just a gaming company. What To Expect : This year at CES, as with previous years, Sony is expected to focus primarily on its ever-expanding catalog of televisions. Take any show floor demo you see, therefore, with a healthy grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Ultraleap hand tracking. Custom made eye tracking. 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. Wireless PC VR Streaming.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

Interacting with the in-game world can be done using the Touch controllers, though certain games and apps also feature support for Quest hand-tracking technology. Sony has also been teasing the arrival of PSVR 2, which will feature unique “Orb” VR controllers and potential haptic feedback support.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. Their wand-style hand-tracking controllers “Playstation Move” and gun-adapting “aim controller” make game play more natural and more immersive, while the PlayStation Camera aims to reinvent the ways in which we experience movement in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Since I’m not totally convinced that just a few LEDs in that position may alone offer realiable tracking, I would also speculate that maybe either data from the depth sensor or some hand-tracking data is involved in the sensor fusion to arrive at the final controller pose. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Magic Trackpad ($130) : Hand-tracking is also pretty great on Vision Pro, but you may not be somewhere you can ‘pinch to move’ a webpage or spreadsheet, like a crowded coffee shop or airport, giving a physical (and more precise) option the leg up.

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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. But still, the fact that all the PSVR 1 content won’t be available for the new headset gives Sony a good challenge on the content side.

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APRIL 13, 2024

Rogue Ascent , a hand-tracking VR roguelike shooter that launched on Quest last year, is getting a sandbox update next month to celebrate its 1st anniversary. Crazy Kung Fu was announced for PSVR 2, while Sugar Mess - Let's Play Jolly Battle will reach Sony's headset next month. Other Updates Looking for more VR news stories?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2023

Although, the device could provide a hardware benchmark with its hand-tracking, display resolution of 4096 x 5464 pixels, high-dynamic range (HDR), and wide colour gamut (WCG) outputs. Moreover, Apple works with major industry suppliers such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Sony for the Vision Pro market debut.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

Moreover, Apple expressed dissatisfaction with its Sony and TSMC suppliers around the time it hosted WWDC 2023. Moreover, Apple is working with other major industry suppliers such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Sony for the Vision Pro debut.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Waltz of the Wizard - October 3 (PSVR 2) Developed by Aldin, Waltz of the Wizard is an older experience we previously called one of the best Quest hand tracking games. But for Quest specifically, it's receiving a major update in time for the Quest 3 launch that adds two-player multiplayer and hand tracking support.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sony unveils a new virtual concert experience at CES. The product increases and improves upon haptic feedback, form factor, and hand tracking to enable a user’s feeling of shapes, textures, and resistance in VR. For audio, the product uses built-in headphones. They were also showing off their new HUD tech for vehicles.

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