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The XR Week Peek (2023.01.23): Microsoft shuts down Altspace and MRTK, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.

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Vacation Simulator, Mars Alive, Four Other Titles Arrive On PSVR This Week

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While E3 2019 may officially be in the books, it appears as though Sony is only just getting started. Here’s what PSVR players have to look forward to this week: VACATION SIMULATOR from Owlchemy Labs. Originally released on SteamVR and Oculus this past April, Vacation Simulator arrives on PlayStation VR tomorrow ( June 18th ).

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Sony Has Now Sold Over 53 Million PlayStation 4 Consoles To Date After Big Holiday Push

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Sony’s PlayStation 4 continues to widen the gap between it and the Xbox One with a strong 2016. Over the holiday season alone in 2016 Sony announced that more than 6.2 During that same holiday time period, Sony stated that between both digital and retail, over 50 million games were sold.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.30): Vision Pro prepares to ship, PSVR 2 sales are stagnating, and more!

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If developers are not interested, and Sony is not willing to invest in exclusive great content for its immersive console, PSVR 2 is going to have a very troubled (and probably short) life. And he’s not the only believer: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated Mixed Reality as one of the top three trends to follow for 2024.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.26): Quest 3 page appears on Best Buy, Vision Pro SDK released, and more!

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On social media, people have already started sharing images from the simulator , which gives you a quick glimpse of how the device will be. On social media, people have already started sharing images from the simulator , which gives you a quick glimpse of how the device will be.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

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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. This is great news for VR in general.

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The Current State Of The VR/AR Patent Landscape

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Microsoft HoloLens 2 patent. Image Credit: Sony. Virtual reality patents protect virtual reality (VR), an artificial simulation of the real world that has been designed by computer programs. Regarding inclusivity, on April 4, 2019, the USPTO published a new patent for Sony that was filed in December 2017.

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