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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

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More info (PSVR 2 sales — Road To VR) More info (PSVR 2 sales — Upload VR) Sony announces many new pieces of content at its Gaming Showcase A few days ago, Sony held its Gaming Showcase event, where it announced some cool pieces of content arriving for PSVR 2. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

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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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Improbable Showcases Large-Scale Metaverse Tech

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For many more insights, check out our full data study – available soon. Our next data study provides a clear picture of conversations in this space – and the opportunities to be seized. Microsoft acquired Blizzard Activision in an unprecedented $68.7 billion, just after striking a major deal with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.17): Facebook Horizon avatars revealed, Mozilla dismantles its XR team, and more!

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We all know that Facebook is working on hyper-realistic avatars (dubbed “codec avatars”) and this week the social media giant has released two new studies about them The first one is a new way of implementing the movements of the avatar’s face, which is modular. Is The Sony XRperia coming? The Sony XRperia is coming.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). 14- Kai Liang. 25- Pankaj Raut. 29- Clyde Dsouza.