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The Media and Entertainment Metaverse: What to Expect

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Epic Games, Unity, and others are facilitating the rise of serious gaming technologies. Additionally, motion capture (mocap) systems from Sony and Vicon will deepen realism for content creators developing characters.

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LG, Oorbit Partner for Smart TV Metaverse Solution

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft explained at the Immerse Global Summit’s Metaverse 2.0 The comments came just months after Microsoft announced it would acquire Activision Blizzard in a historic $68 billion deal. Meta Platforms and Microsoft have also boosted serious gaming tools in a massive collaborative effort for the Meta Quest Pro.

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What’s ‘Nex’ for the Immersive Gaming Industry?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this. Commonly used for creating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, motion capturing (mocap) has rapidly become a mainstay in the extended reality (XR) market, employed on the latest headsets.

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Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It read that Apple designed the device jointly with Sony Group Corp, which will feature high-resolution displays and augmented reality (AR) full-colour passthrough. Sony recently unveiled plans to debut its PlayStation VR (PSVR) 2 in early 2023. It also released LED displays for XR stages and other performance platforms.

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Faceware provided the awesome VR facial animations for Resident Evil 7 and Paranormal Activity VR, they also had dinosaurs and a tiny MR. T at their GDC booth.

Cats and VR

Faceware is the leading facial animation solution provider for clients such as Double Negative, Digital Domain, Blur Studios, Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar Games, Microsoft, 2K Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, Bethesda, Motion Theory and Moving Picture Company.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Sony). Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department. Learn more.

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