VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

One reason the Quest is special is that it is the first cost-effective, mass-consumer-focused, standalone 6DoF headset, effectively making it the most accessible form of immersive VR on the market. That in itself makes it a monumental success, but a well-built headset isn’t going to make historical waves. That’s where Facebook comes in.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Thanks to VR technology gaming content can be more immersive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In October, Igloo Vision , a major provider of immersive collaborative spaces, refurbished its demo centre in London to provide five novel immersive spaces for its Hoxton-based showroom. It also leverages technologies such as six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

It is an advertisement company, and we all knew since the beginning that it went to VR with the idea of profiling people and propose them immersive ads. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). This is very interesting: it means that Sony is leaving another year to Facebook to gain market shares with the Quest. Some XR fun.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts. 3-month subscription – Select 15 Apps for just $12.99 (35% savings).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. At the XR Access Symposium, Hyman moderated a breakout session focused on public policy.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Promising a more effective way to immerse users in digital experiences, spatial audio brings positioning and direction to the sound in MR, AR, and VR apps. Already, many leading digital brands have begun to invest heavily in spatial solutions from Apple and Varjo, to Microsoft and Sony.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. EX-HEAD OF SONY PLAYSTATION LONDON FORMS CROSS-PLATFORM VR GAME STUDIO. It’s too bad this just exists in a lab and we can’t play with it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. Header image by Megadodo Simulation Games).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft. Jay noted, “one of the biggest disadvantages here is, of course, it’s just flat on the ground,” Jay said, “it does not simulate that you climb.”

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Basically every VR experience will allow the user to feel as though they are in this simulated world and look around it, while more advanced systems allow for movement and interaction. Sony Playstation VR. Photo from Microsoft. from Microsoft. The Oculus Rift provides VR graphics that are notoriously immersive and smooth.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

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. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. Being that it was the first HMD both quality of the interfac e and realism of the simulation were rather low, and it weighed so much that it had to be suspended from the ceiling by metal cables. .

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Here are the adventure VR games you should play to get immediate immersion. Developer(s) : Mojang, Microsoft Studios , Sony Computer Entertainment. Platform(s) : PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality. Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-Ality. Minecraft In 360º VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. One of these people was Andrew Bosworth, which has rebuked the report , saying “not to believe everything you read”.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Elite: Dangerous was design to be the biggest space simulation in VR history, providing you free region in a universe of 400 billion star systems. This is more fun than it sounds, the game combines gorgeous, hyper-detailed scenery with immersive thrills. If you do, this is the must play game for you. Publisher : Warner Bros.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2. That year, SITA worked with Helsinki Airport to explore visualizing airport operations with the Microsoft HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens. Who will it be… Sony or Meta?

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VeeR VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Elite: Dangerous was design to be the biggest space simulation in VR history, providing you free region in a universe of 400 billion star systems. Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-Ality. Publisher : Mojang, Microsoft Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment Developer : Mojang Platforms : Oculus Rift, HTC Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The biggest change in recent years was the adoption of motion control: Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move, and then Microsoft Kinect. Luckily, Sony included a demo disc with PSVR that includes over two dozen demos, a huge variety to give you an idea of what is possible. But what about the virtual experience?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spital audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. And so we created for him this immersive environment with our partner ILM. What is a game?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. And so we created for him this immersive environment with our partner ILM. What is a game?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spatial audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2023?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The channel says that according to “credible sources”, Sony may launch PSVR 2 sometime in Q1 2023. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

While Microsoft and its other VR partners seem to have largely abandoned the Windows VR platform, HP surprised us in 2019 with the launch of Reverb, its second VR headset. In our review we liked the headset’s ergonomic design and high density displays but found some other display artifacts which limited immersion.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. And so we created for him this immersive environment with our partner ILM. What is a game?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

First of all, because, letting us become pilots in the Star Wars universe being really immersed inside the action. This week we had many interesting pieces of news on popular titles like The Walking Dead: Saint and Sinners, Vacation Simulator, Pistol Whip and had the announcement of new titles like Blaston by Resolution Games.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. This explains the shortage of Valve Index headsets in all these months. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. Image by Immersive Computing).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reverb G2 should be on your radar especially if you’re thinking of picking up a VR headset for seated PC VR games like driving and flight simulators thanks to its high resolution. Fortunately a free and official plugin from Microsoft also makes it compatible with SteamVR content. Image courtesy Sony. Content Compatibility.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2020

In addition to established players like Immersion Corporation , founded in 1993 and active working on haptics applications ranging from gaming and automotive to medical, mobile and industrial, Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Disney and Facebook each have dedicated teams working on new haptics products. billion by 2027.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator , a best-selling room-scale game. Sony is going to try to put PS VR’s in 53 million homes this year too and the price of PCs capable of running nausea-free room-scale VR will undoubtedly continue to drop.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next it’s the turn of consoles by Microsoft and Sont Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the latter of which has recently confirmed PlayStation 5 as the official name (as if it was going to be anything else) and new controller features. Which could all bode well for increased immersive gameplay on PlayStation VR.

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