VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung, Acer and HTC have combined their efforts in order to create a healthy and equal industry for virtual reality hardware and software to develop and expand. The post Google, Sony And Oculus Unite To Establish VR Industry Standards appeared first on VRScout.

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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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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day. Having participated in a VR tournament using this cutting-edge headset, I can honestly say that Oculus’ hard work is apparent.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. Sony promises amazing haptic sensations on the controllers, that should be able to provide “impactful, textured, and nuanced” sensations. Top news of the week. It will so have inside-out tracking. Enjoy some cool VR discounts.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2020

Oculus is reportedly readying a Quest successor which will iterate on the existing headset with a smaller form-factor, faster refresh rate, and new controllers. Rather than an outright Quest 2, it seems Oculus may be aiming first for a Quest S. SEE ALSO Oculus Reveals New VR Headset Prototypes with Major Advances in Optics Form-factor.

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MARCH 30, 2023

IDC told Bloomberg News that Sony is “ likely” to have sold only around 270,000 PSVR 2 units between launch and the end of March. In October, Bloomberg reported Sony was producing 2 million units for launch. Given the current inflationary period and associated cost of living crisis, will Sony be next?

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AR Insider

APRIL 27, 2020

Oculus Quest has been the accelerant that the VR industry needs. Demand exceeding supply is the inverse of what we and most industry watchers have expected for the VR hardware marketplace. The former stems from Facebook’s VR investments that yield hardware that’s cheaper than it should be.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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AR Insider

MAY 25, 2020

I t’s time for another round of our periodic exercises to zero in on Oculus Quest unit sales. As background, these exercises are compelled by the fact that companies in early-stage sectors like VR don’t disclose unit sales ( except Sony ). As mentioned, there were two recent clues from Oculus. Let’s dive in.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device.

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2022

Epic added stuff related to Oculus (Quest, Quest 2 & Mobile) in today's update. As for whether or not Epic can get the game up and running using Quest hardware is another matter altogether. References to the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 were supposedly found in the latest update for the game’s third season.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2020

In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2018

Sony’s PlayStation 4 is entering its ‘final phase’, according to a recent tweet by Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki, citing a talk with PlayStation Chief Tsuyoshi Kodera. Kodera says PSVR sales are growing, although it’s admittedly under Sony’s expectations.

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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2021

While Facebook has yet to reveal official unit sales figures for Oculus Quest 2, various data points the company has offered, along with data from developers, has allowed us to hone in on a reasonable estimate. While Oculus hasn’t offered up official sales figures for Quest 2 yet, two data points can help us reach a reasonable estimate.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2021

The popular military shooter draws in 3,000 new players after launching on Oculus’s experimental test channel. With its arrival on App Lab, you can now download Pavlov Shack straight from your Oculus Quest or Oculus Quest 2 headset, no additional setup or hardware required.

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The Ghost Howls

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. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2019

Oculus seems to be on a bit of a hiring spree as of late; its parent company Facebook is advertising over 400 positions dealing with AR/VR via its job portal at the moment. ” We knew Oculus was working on their own eye-tracking solution for a while now. Oculus ‘Half Dome’ prototype, Image courtesy Facebook.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

In addition to eye-tracking and foveated rendering, Sony is supposedly implementing something called “flexible scale rendering” (FSR) on PS5 for its next-gen headset. It sounds similar to Oculus’ fixed foveated rendering (FFR) technique, which automatically adjusts the level of eye texture foveation based on GPU utilization.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. The hardware itself is nothing short of amazing.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 17, 2020

This time we’re revisiting PSVR…but instead of hardware units , we’re looking at total revenue including software/game sales. As background, these exercises are compelled by the fact that companies in early-stage sectors like VR don’t disclose unit sales ( except Sony ). The math goes something like this: Hardware.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have made PC the go-to platform for a majority of AAA VR developers. Meanwhile, Sony is effectively dominating the console VR space with the Playstation VR. The latest upcoming addition to the Xbox hardware lineup. It appears as though Xbox is playing the long game.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

If anybody can do it, it’s probably Sony. Ever since the Playstation was first launched – if, like myself, you’re old enough to remember it, you may pause a moment here to consider your own age and mortality – Sony has been in the business of reinventing gaming. Click To Tweet. The same seems to be the case with VR.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

While the company usually rules the headlines on the Monday morning of the biggest week in gaming, this year it’s putting itself even further ahead of Sony’s traditional Monday evening conference (assuming it takes place at that time again), airing on Sunday, June 11th, at 2:00 PM PDT. But Sony isn’t defenseless, however.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $885 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. That total includes hardware and software. That makes hardware revenue $421.2 That yields $336.96

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ARPost

JANUARY 24, 2022

And we can already see the signs of a booming market – a lot of newcomers are getting into the VR hardware business, while established players continue to innovate and push the boundaries to performance. VR hardware is available in two versions: tethered and untethered. Sony PlayStation VR. A Few Tips Before Buying a VR Headset.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Even with viable hardware on your side, it’s not an easy thing to do. It was a good opening gambit to break up the Oculus/HTC Vive PC VR binary that had developed a year prior, although those Windows VR headsets weren’t just new hardware destined to hook into Steam content.

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JUNE 27, 2017

In a recent interview with German site Golem.de Sony Interactive Entertainment America President and CEO Shawn Layden noted that it will “probably be some time” before we see the next iteration of the console. Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is a great headset, but it’s definitely got issues.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2018

Oculus today announced plans to launch a new retail bundle which adds the upcoming Marvel Powers United VR to the usual retail box including the Rift headset and Touch controllers. The Oculus Rift Marvel Powers United VR bundle will launch on July 31st, priced at the usual $400, but with a copy of the game included for free.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

In 2016, hardware makers dominate the VR market. Sony (PSVR) is clearly leading and is taking one third of the whole market. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); Tagged with: facebook , market share , oculus , sony htc.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets from major hardware players. The hardware will not change.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Sony still isn’t releasing sales figures for PlayStation VR (PSVR) yet, but it does insist that it’s performing as expected. No statistics were revealed for the headset but Sony did reiterate that “PS VR is selling in-line with expectations.” Tagged with: PSVR , sales , sony. A total of 9.7

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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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. million units sold in its first three months.

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JULY 10, 2017

Starting today and running for the next six weeks, Oculus has announced that an Oculus Rift + Touch bundle will cost only $399. Oculus’ VP of Content, Jason Rubin, revealed the extended sale on a phone call with UploadVR last week as part of the company’s ongoing Summer of Rift promotional period.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

Unfortunately, there’s no mention of a new headset, though based on recent comments by nDreams CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh it sounds as though we shouldn’t expect any new hardware for awhile. Image Credit: Biohazard Cast / Sony PlayStation. ” Resident Evil 7 is currently available to play in VR via PSVR and SteamVR.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sony is about to bring the third weapon to the high-end VR fight, and it could have a major impact on the market. The combination of content, pricing, and simplicity may mean that Sony could take a dominant position in the market over competition like HTC and Oculus. VR for Everyone.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe , a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. ” The latter half of that mission statement is likely rendered moot now that The Eye Tribe has been acquired by Oculus. .” Before the Oculus acquisition, The Eye Tribe had managed to raise around $5.3

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