Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Sony’s E3 press conference saw a rush of reveals coming to the company’s PlayStation 4 headset PSVR, including a full release of Skyrim VR coming in November and a list of VR exclusives soon to follow. But, despite my training, I was not The One. Every pull of the trigger counts.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform. The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. This consolidation streamlines the application development cycles.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

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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ARPost

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.” This year, the award went to Osso VR for their VR Surgical Training Platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Tethered VR will stay as a niche Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) Tethered VR has been superseded by standalone VR: there are many more standalone VR users than PC VR ones. Virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, or also RecRoom, and VRChat are becoming every day more successful.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to him, the technology can be used for training and delivering first-hand experiences to learners. This is supported by a 2022 PwC survey , which shows that 42% of business leaders are planning to use the metaverse to provide onboarding and training for their employees.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 26, 2022

billion dollars making the company the third largest gaming company after Sony and Tencent. Microsoft ‘s purchasing of Activision Blizzard was the largest sale in the history of video games at US$68.7 “So it makes huge sense for Microsoft to take this approach.”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. EX-HEAD OF SONY PLAYSTATION LONDON FORMS CROSS-PLATFORM VR GAME STUDIO. BEEFEATER’S VR EXPERIENCE IS RAD.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

User-generated content might be a common feature of many games these days, but you could argue that its inception was kick started by Sony’s LittleBigPlanet series. Carte Blanche, meanwhile, largely remains under wraps but looks to be a simplified way of quickly assembling virtual worlds that anyone can get to grips with.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Already, many leading digital brands have begun to invest heavily in spatial solutions from Apple and Varjo, to Microsoft and Sony. For instance, in the VR world, spatial audio can enhance the virtual experience of a user by allowing them to hear where certain sounds are coming from within a digital space.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Meta’s new digital landscape is sure to pave the way for endless new virtual concerts and online experiences in the years to come.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Sony has acquired Insomniac Games. Sony has acquired Insomniac Games , one of the most talented game studios among the ones focused on Virtual Reality. The studio will so become part of the Sony Worldwide Studios. Developer Phasedragon has developed a VR experience where you hold a virtual smartphone in your hand.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A quick glance over the most popular anime series and films, from older entries like Ghost in The Shell or Digimon to the latest boom of so-called Isekai series, such as Overlord or Sword Art Online , shows well much Japanese audience get excited about being transported into a virtual world. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR.

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AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Indeed, at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship Final, physical attendees and those watching the live broadcast enjoyed an extended reality (XR) experience, courtesy of Riot Games. The XR stage in Shanghai featured numerous LED screens and used augmented reality to create a 360- degree virtual world.

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AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Indeed, at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship Final, physical attendees and those watching the live broadcast enjoyed an extended reality (XR) experience, courtesy of Riot Games. The XR stage in Shanghai featured numerous LED screens and used augmented reality to create a 360- degree virtual world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. You can use it to the manufacturing process, to train people.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. You can use it to the manufacturing process, to train people.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. You can use it to the manufacturing process, to train people.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’re excited about the depth and richness that the resulting characters bring to the game for our players” Popul8 the Virtual World with Didimo Solutions like Didimo’s Popul8 platform have grown in popularity over the last few years due to increasingly demanding production pipelines for gaming and real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

The massive multi-user art exhibit includes everything from 2D photographs to 3D objects and virtual worlds. Best Collaboration Tool Sony Electronics Head of XR Business Development Thaisa Yamamura was “honored to present” the Auggie Award for Best Collaboration Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Back in the time, there were already some virtual worlds having interoperability between them, there has already been written a document about avatar rights, and there were already big concerns about privacy. Sony acquires Bungie and thinks about Capcom. Sony acquires Bungie and thinks about Capcom.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. I’m just speculating, but it may have sense.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Well, Russian VR expert Ilja Zegars has found new info about it: it seems that now it is called RosCosmos, and it should be aimed at the B2B market, including the training of Russian astronauts. VR diversity training may be less effective than you think. “VR FitXR launches HIIT training , which gives you very intense sessions.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Sony’s Richard Marks weighs in on where we might come to find it. Dr. Richard Marks.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

And since the game has trained them for a war scenario, they are also very dangerous. Sony for sure with Resident Evil 8 is going to blow their minds, and a new market for premium content can appear. The new upcoming PS5 (Image by Sony). So PC users have gone from a cool game to one that has the graphics of a Nintendo 64.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Virtual Reality headsets are for instance already used in many industrial sectors: I’ve heard that now all automotive companies use VR in some way in their production processes. The digital world helps us in overcoming many of the physical limitations of the real world, and we are already enjoying all of this.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. ” In the world of digital assets, Human Machine Interface i.e. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Sony is going to try to put PS VR’s in 53 million homes this year too and the price of PCs capable of running nausea-free room-scale VR will undoubtedly continue to drop. Attach it to a phone to make your single player VR game a two player game with the second player looking into the virtual world through their phone.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. They’ve envisioned it as the latest method of psychoanalysis, human enhancement, law enforcement training and so much more. Virtuosity (1995). The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Doing marketing in virtual worlds can be valuable. In the last few days, we already heard about: Osso VR raising $66M for its surgical XR training solution LIV securing $8.5M News worth a mention. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

More info (Iron Man VR delayed) More info (FundamentalVR on Quest) More info (Niantic updating its games for indoor usage) More info (OMS offering free VR training) More info (E-sports on ESPN) More info (Tribeca festival running on Oculus hardware). Virtual Festival. The XR landscape is adapting to coronavirus. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). No one still knows how to build the necessary technologies to make it happen.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ceo & Founder of Bigscreen one of the biggest VR platforms in the world, with millions of users on popular VR headsets. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). 40- Hrish Lotikar.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Regarding the compatibility of older PS4 titles (including VR ones), Sony has clarified that most of titles will be compatible, but some of them won’t work on Day 1. He has set a shooting game in his apartment, and in it he can also use his real table as a prop in the game , moving it in the real and virtual world together.

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