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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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JUNE 28, 2019

To promote the pending release of Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 4, Sony Pictures has published a mobile app for iOS and Android that brings Spider-Man into fans' homes via augmented reality. Fans of the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man have yet another way to experience the web-slinger in augmented reality.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sony’s State of Play presentation returns this Thursday, promising reveals for five new PlayStation VR2 games. With just one day left before PlayStation VR2 arrives, Sony announced a new online broadcast on February 23 at 1pm PT. State of Play is back!

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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. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week.

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MAY 22, 2023

Sony’s VP Tools Sony’s Crystal LED display technology and Venice camera capture technology create a unified RT3D backdrop solution which projects immersive and reactive visuals with the firm’s high brightness, wide colour gamut, and high contrast ratio promise.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sony's latest State of Play presentation airs tomorrow, promising "PSVR 2 highlights" will be shown. Given the focus on publicly announced games, we'd speculate this could include games revealed during previous presentations.

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MAY 27, 2022

Sony will offer a “sneak peek” at upcoming PSVR 2 games in a State Of Play presentation next week. The post doesn’t confirm if we’ll hear any new information on the actual hardware at the show but, typically, Sony does put out disclaimers saying what won’t be at an event, just to temper expectations.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2019

Sony revealed the first details of its upcoming console today in an exclusive interview with Wired. Nintendo’s recent dip into VR has likely only encouraged Sony further, along with the competitive advantage that PSVR has brought the company’s current consoles over Xbox.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Meta presented two prototype headsets each solving a different aspect of its goal to make VR “indistinguishable from reality” Neither is a practical device intended to be made into a product. Instead they simply demonstrate the effect & feeling of maxing out each of these aspects of VR display systems.

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MAY 13, 2022

At Display Week 2022 JDI and Innolux presented compact 3K LCD panels for VR headsets. Japan Display Inc (JDI) is one of the world’s largest display providers, formed 10 years ago as a merger of the LCD manufacturing divisions of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi. Innolux is Taiwan’s largest LCD producer.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

At Sony’s E3 2017 presentation the company announced a slew of brand new titles heading to PSVR. Though Skyrim is coming to PSVR, Sony’s E3 presentation also featured a section dedicated to brand new PSVR games not seen anywhere else yet. The range of games is diverse, from shooter to puzzle, to horror, and more.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sony released a first look at the PlayStation VR2 internal components, tearing down the headset and Sense controllers across two new videos. Following its PS5 console teardown , Sony is doing the same for Playstation VR2 a week before launch. You can watch that in full below. Risk of exposure to electric shock or other injury.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I had a chance to talk with Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey about the past, present, & future of XR where he reveals to me that his defence contracting company Anduril has more people employed working on VR than Oculus did when bought out by Facebook.

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MAY 4, 2020

A video shared by Sony Interactive Entertainment shows a prototype controller that tracks the entire human hand. This controller was the subject of research done on overcoming the limits presented by gesture control systems and traditional controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. The disappointing bit is that while you are in VR… you watch those dialogues on a small screen inside this world , rather than being present with actual models. Mixed with those, are actual VR battles, which can be quite fun.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Under its new studio, the collaboration with Sony will debut in the virtual world ‘Nostalgia1999,’ which features concepts from a Japanese six-tatami room from July of the same year. Fans can view the messy Otaku character with Sony’s world-renowned anime shows. ／ Beyond Sports develops real-time 3D (RT3D) animations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2019

Meanwhile, Sony has already confirmed support for PSVR on PS5, and hinted at plans for a next-gen headset. Today at E3 2019, Microsoft capped off their keynote presentation with the announcement of Xbox Project Scarlett, the company’s next-gen console which will bring powerful new hardware to your living room come holiday 2020.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2018

Sony is getting ready to offer big discounts in their 11-day ‘Days of Play’ sale, which will see price reductions on PSVR bundles, controllers, games, and the introduction of a limited edition PS4. SEE ALSO Sony Japan Studio Announces VR Platformer 'Astro Bot Rescue Mission' For PSVR, Teaser Trailer Here.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The technology sounds eerily similar to Sony’s PlayLink , a multiplayer game service for the PlayStation 4 that allows players to engage in a variety of quizzes and immersive games using compatible smartphones and tablets. Sony files patents for potential products and features on a regular basis, many of which wind up dead in the water.

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MAY 19, 2017

But for Sony, it’s changed with each console generation. The footage starts around the 5:45 mark during the GDC 2014 presentation embedded below: The most surprising part about this prototype to me isn’t that it’s a God of War VR demo, but that it’s a first-person God of War VR demo. .

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2017

Sony has published details of the design decisions that drove development of one of the oddest looking gaming peripherals ever built. Farpoint, Image Courtesy Sony. Image courtesy Sony. The post Launching Tomorrow, Sony Reveals How Farpoint’s PS VR Aim Controller Came to Life appeared first on Road to VR.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” It is such an honor to be presenting this award,” said Singla.

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MARCH 23, 2017

We’ve seen prototypes from Oculus with Santa Cruz and Intel’s Project Alloy-powered devices and now Sony is dipping their toes into the inside-out tracking race. Today we caught wind of a new Utility Patent Application from Sony Interactive Entertainment that would allow for inside-out tracking of interactive VR devices.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here’s a recap of what we’ve heard so far, and then what’s presented in the new report. 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. Next-gen PSVR controllers | Image courtesy Sony.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Image courtesy Sony.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 13, 2016

Gamescom, Europe’s biggest games conference, gets underway in Cologne, Germany next week and as one of the last major gaming events before Sony’s PS4 powered virtual reality platform launches on October 13, it should be a good chance to get a feel for how strong Sony’s VR software line up is looking.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Sony Launches PlayStation VR 2 Image courtesy Sony The News After uncertainty about the company’s commitment to VR years after the launch of its first PSVR headset in 2016, Sony finally doubled down with PSVR 2.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

PlayStation's State of Play presentation returns this week, promising a "new look" at PSVR 2 games. Airing on January 31, Sony confirms the latest State of Play presentation will last for over 40 minutes. Presently, Sony has no confirmed upcoming first-party PSVR 2 titles.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2023

This number pales in comparison with the 2 million units that Sony prepared for launch according to a previous report always by Bloomberg. Imagining that Sony could sell 2 million PSVR 2 in just one month seems to me a bit irrealistic, especially at that price and with the present economic conditions.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Many gaming pundits have been saying the PSVR has been missing from Sony's long term battle strategy due to a lackluster presence at both E3 and Tokyo Game Show. Well it looks like Sony's strategy may be to the go to VR platform for all of Europe given the multitude of content presented today at the Paris Game Show event today.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Pavlov topped the PSVR 2 download charts for 2023, though Sony's criteria means that's up for debate. Every month, Sony posts the PlayStation Store's top 10 downloads on PlayStation Blog for each active platform, with December's charts showing strong debuts for Among Us VR and Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

While Rec Room is available on most platforms, including flatscreen on PS5 and the original PSVR , it's been notably absent from Sony's latest headset. We’ve worked with Sony for years and have had a lot of successful collaborations there. We reached out to Sony for comment and will update this with any response.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Make sure your internet speed is consistent and earmark about half an hour, as Sony's next State of Play live stream presentation is happening today.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

While it has effortlessly dominated the market in the last 2 years without any effort, the next 2 years may present some real risks and challenges that may question Meta’s lead. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Let me show you what are some of them.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Those of us who are old enough to have seen the rise of virtual reality in the ‘90s and then the fall and then another rise in mid 2000 and then another fall, know that the present hype about virtual reality may not be sustainable. Sony (PSVR) is clearly leading and is taking one third of the whole market.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

During tonight's State of Play presentation , Sony revealed the upcoming mission-based co-op game will arrive just before Halloween. In a press release, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality (SPVR) outlined the PSVR 2 specific features, like eye tracking support for "enhanced accuracy" and menu navigation assists.

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APRIL 24, 2024

MacRumors separately cited "a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers" as saying Apple had sold 200K preorders, particularly ironic given it's now presenting Kuo's claim and as if it were official news. Further, in January Kuo was referencing Apple Vision Pro "achieving a shipment volume of 500,000 units" as the goal.

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