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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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The XR Week Peek (2024.1.1): Quest is selling well for the holidays, UEVR injector released, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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How Inworld AI Is Populating the Metaverse

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If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. You might also have heard the theory that the metaverse will be too big to be entirely populated by human agents.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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Mine was planned to ship today, so I guess that tomorrow I will do an unboxing video! It seems that Meta is working on a similar technology , too, and a video released during the Meta Connect shows a user navigating and interacting with an XR experience by just moving a bit the fingers.

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Kygo’s ‘Carry Me’ Is A Music Experience Sony Plans To Sell On PS VR, Vive and Rift

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At the Hollywood-centered VR on the Lot conference this week Sony Music offered the first public look at Kygo’s Carry Me project, featuring Julia Michaels. The VR music video was created in a game engine and directed by MPC VR, a major visual effects and VR Production studio. minute song.

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Mocap for Content Creators: The Top 5 Solutions 

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Sony Mocopi As one of the current gaming and entertainment leaders, it’s little surprise that Sony would want to introduce its Mocap technology. Introduced in November 2022, the Sony Mocopi system combines a range of 6 wearable tracking devices with intelligent software.

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Gamescom 2018 Day 2: NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti video, Ubisoft believes in VR and much more

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NVIDIA RTX 2080 videos and photos. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles. Playing with it is great, it is a bit like playing Unreal Tournament. So, here you are what I did today. Space Junkies is like that.

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