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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

” Founded in 2013, nDreams has expanded its role beyond game developer, becoming a publisher and opening a number of first-party VR studios, including nDreams Studio Orbital, nDreams Studio Elevation, and Nearlight, the latter of which was acquired by nDreams in late 2022.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. Sony has also been teasing the arrival of PSVR 2, which will feature unique “Orb” VR controllers and potential haptic feedback support. ″ OLED displays. The PSVR supports the DualShock 4 controller, PlayStation Aim, and PlayStation Move.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s been six months since Sony launched PlayStation VR 2, handily one of the best pieces of consumer VR hardware we’ve laid eyes on. While the headset is undeniably great, Sony’s content strategy hasn’t been. Like the original, PSVR 2 sports a unique selling proposition. This isn’t a wild idea either.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Astro Bot Rescue Mission is nearing release on PSVR next month, and to help charge up the Astro Bot hypetrain, Sony Japan Studio released a new video detailing some of the absolutely huge bosses that you and little Astro will take on. “These bosses are huge and create an amazing sense of scale in VR. .

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2024

ASTO BOT Rescue Mission (2018) is one of most popular PSVR exclusives to date, however Sony-owned developers Team Asobi are releasing its widely hyped PS5 follow-up Astro Bot without the addition of VR support. Don’t hold out hope for a VR port either, as the studio has now confirmed it’s simply not in the cards.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2018

We’re here at E3 2018, and I got chance to play Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sony and Nintendo were all set to release a collaborative game system known as the SNES-CD back in the 90s as an add-on device for the Super Nintendo. It’s been a long time coming and now Sony is finally putting all of its wacky peripherals to use in one immersive experience. Funny how that works out, isn’t it?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Xing: The Land Beyond has come a long way since its 2013 Kickstarter days, releasing on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and traditional monitors back in late 2017. White Lotus says the European release is slated for February 13th, or possibly later depending on Sony’s regional scheduling.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Justin Moravetz initially released a Proton Pulse demo to the Oculus forum in April 2013 in the days before Oculus Share. Moravetz was still employed at Sony at the time, causing him some grief later, but he was on the path to becoming an indie VR developer. “So The demo arrived just as DK1 was shipping to Kickstarter backers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level. Bad news for the VR ecosystem come from DigiCapital: the investments in AR/VR companies for the first quarter of 2020 are the lowest in these years and are back to the level of 2013. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The reception was a testament to the undeniable art and skill of the creators at Sony Interactive Entertainment’s JAPAN Studio. The post ‘ASTRO BOT’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Sony’s JAPAN Studio appeared first on Road to VR. But how did they succeed where so many others struggled?

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2019

The low resolution of the Switch’s display (1,280 × 720) means that the effective resolution could only be up to 640 × 720, which would be roughly equivalent to 2013’s Rift DK1 development kit, depending upon the field of view (which is currently unconfirmed).

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

Google searches for “Oculus Rift” have enjoyed steady popularity since 2013 with major spikes hitting after the company’s announcement that it had been acquired by Facebook in 2014, and as the headset finally opened for pre-orders earlier this year.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Google, Valve, Facebook, Sony, Samsung and an enormous amount of other companies are trying to do their part in bringing the tech forward, and the sense of enthusiast development that sparked this new revolution is still here, in all of us. Tagged with: history , retrospective , virtual reality , VR.

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VRWorld

MAY 9, 2016

In 2013, the situation for PC gaming was rather grim. The arrival of new, AMD powered consoles brought the x86 architecture back to Microsoft (Intel x86, IBM PowerPC, AMD x86), and marked the third architectural change for Sony (SGI MIPS, IBM PowerPC, AMD x86).

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2022

Sony shared our first look at an upcoming remake of the 2013 hit during the 2022 Summer Games Fest stream on Thursday. Sony also revealed Thursday that the original game's "Factions" mode will serve as the inspiration for an entire standalone multiplayer game. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

This VR multiplayer/singleplayer real-time strategy game comes from Hidden Path Entertainment , the minds behind Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition (2016) and Age of Empires II: HD Edition (2013). Sony’s London Studio first released Blood and Truth’ s spiritual predecessor with the first PSVR demo disk; London Heist.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). The Congress (2013). The Zero Theorem (2013).

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MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Patents filed in 2013-2014 explore a variety of exotic optical designs, functional on paper, but with specifications outside the tolerances of existing manufacturing methods. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company has been driving their product forward for a few years and led an unsuccessful Kickstarter in 2013, so this is a big deal for Tactical Haptics in their quest to commercialize haptic feedback technologies. NOKIA AND SONY GET TOGETHER FOR 360 VIDEO. …and more. GET A 3RD ARM IN VR WITH STANFORD RESEARCH TEAM.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality from Bossa Studios is a VR-based adaptation of the original Surgeon Simulator 2013 , first released for flat monitor displays in 2013. Now, Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality , is essentially the original 2013 game adapted to fit the controls and premise of the Meet the Medic demo.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2016

As far back as 2013, when Fallon was hosting Late Night , he saw a pre-DK1 version of the Oculus Rift that was held together with gaffers tape. In 2014, Fallon demoed Sony’s PSVR (back when it was still called ‘Project Morpheus’) on The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

Behind the scenes, companies like Valve and Sony were trying to figure out what the VR medium would look like and began to get products into the hands of developers. I think it was 2013 when it was funded? In 2013 we raised our seed round funding which was about $250K. What was that like getting your initial funds back in 2013?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

To prove his claims, he put on the tale the sales numbers of the Oculus devkits: “The original DK1, released in 2013 sold 70,000 units while the follow-up DK2 from 2014 sold 150,000”, he said. Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. These numbers are of course far away from mainstream adoption. Image by Capcom).

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JANUARY 14, 2023

And if you stack the billions spent there against Sony, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Google, Apple and others, are all these executives investing too much on AR & VR, or too little? — Jeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) February 13, 2013. Does “bit” understate or overstate how much faster things could have gone? ” Yup.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 14, 2021

Lifelogging was the tech trend of 2013 and 2014 but quickly disappeared under the weight of privacy fears. But that didn't stop us from becoming lifeloggers.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

As part of our Kickstarter campaign in 2013, one of the price tier perks was 50 Ready Player One books signed by Cline. While the growth curve hasn’t been as substantial as many had hoped, interest in VR has risen once again, owing to new products from Sony, Meta, HTC and Magic Leap. We had a wooden prototype at the time.”

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APRIL 29, 2023

Zach has been working in VR since 2013, at which point he was just twelve years old. Zach has different feelings when it comes to working with Sony. There are only a few exceptions, such as the voice actors he contracted performances from, the community playtesters who provided early feedback and some stock animations that Zach used.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Whitemoon Dreams and Sony San Diego. XING: The Land Beyond has been a long time coming, but 2017 might finally be the year we get our hands on this gorgeous adventure game, which was Kickstarted all the way back in 2013. Supported Headsets: PlayStation VR. Starblood Arena. Supported headsets: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Haptx gloves have been in development since 2013, they are at the stage of development kit today. Apple and Sony have brilliant scientists talking and working with open-minded product and designer teams. Example for end-user focus : Sony is using 2 classes of haptics actuators in their dual sense controller.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Pudica is a mixed reality experience that provided my first time trying out Sony's new standalone enterprise headset. From before 2013's Maidan Uprising to more recent events, this mixed reality experience sees your surroundings transform from more peaceful times to a highly turbulent present. Day two involved three new projects.

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VRWorld

JUNE 13, 2016

The exact strategy will probably look as follows: 2013: Xbox One console featuring 28nm AMD processor. ” All in all, the battle between Microsoft and Sony will be a fascinating one to watch, as both giants are moving away from the fixed hardware cycle and effectively becoming PC manufacturers without a mouse and a keyboard.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2.

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Infinityleap

MAY 31, 2016

Its Google Glass finally unlocked the market of smart eyewear in 2013. This is a crowded segment with the Epson Moverio, the Atheer Air, the Microsoft HoloLens, the Meta 1, the ODG R-7 and the Sony SED-E1 to name a few. Since then over a dozen commercial alternatives were launched and many more announced.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But you could also say the same of Sony. In 2013-14, we launched the first book, The Immersive Frontier, and a sequel to that is coming out at the beginning of next year, that goes into the details of the immersive opportunities and out-of-home entertainment, and also is looking a little bit towards the future.

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