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The Current State Of The VR/AR Patent Landscape

VRScout

Image Credit: The United States Patent and Trademark Office. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) only grants patents after a rigorous, time-intensive, and thorough application review process. Image Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony/USPTO. Microsoft HoloLens 2 patent. WHAT IS A PATENT?

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Location-Based Ghostbusters VR Experience Coming To 400 Venues This Year

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Sony Pictures Virtual Reality announced a new location-based Ghostbusters VR experience developed by Hologate for its Arena and Blitz platforms around the world. The experience is described as a “fully immersive training simulator broken up into two distinct games, set in the world of Ghostbusters.”

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2022 Was a Plateau Year for VR, Here’s What to Expect in 2023

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Although Sony has technically continued selling its original PSVR headset over the years, it’s been on the market for more than six years now—and gained ‘last-gen’ status well before that. Granted, the company has yet to formally bring its headset to the United States—Meta’s home turf. A Big Moment for Content Momentum.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.03): Google shuts down Project Iris, Meta launches gaming subscription service, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Full body tracking algorithm) More info (Full body tracking algorithm — some explanations about the project) Sony Mocopi launches in the United States Finally, we have some more news about Mocopi , the small body tracking kit that Sony has created for vTubers.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.23): StarWars: Squadron is a new AAA VR game, Apple announces ARKit4 and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. If you like VR games, well, you have to read it all! More info (All the announcements from the VR Showcase). News worth a mention.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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HTC’s Marios Bikos: “The HTC VIVE Tracker allows you to not only track objects in VR (getting tracker pose in real-time) but also use the POGO pins to simulate input buttons (Grip/Trigger/Trackpad/Menu) as if you were using a Vive controller.”. Reviewed in the United States on 27 December 2019. 3 as the Grip button, Pin.4