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DECEMBER 10, 2017

Golem , a forthcoming PSVR title that’s been in the works since 2015, has resurfaced this weekend at Sony’s PSX event. Golem was first announced way back in 2015, and after surfacing briefly in 2016, few concrete details have emerged from the studio since.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The music experience was created by Brighton, UK-based HelloEnjoy , an indie studio known for their commercial 3D work across a range of big names including Disney, Sony, Samsung, Swarovski, Absolut, Interscope, Lexus, Nissan and Peugeot.

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APRIL 23, 2020

This article is actually a throwback to an article I wrote with the same premise back in 2015. And if you happen to own a PS4, Sony’s PSVR [Amazon] is an aging but still impressive add-on which can be found on sale for $250. Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We would have been gone in 2016, 2015 really. The Public History Of Ready At Dawn Ready At Dawn was founded in 2003, and from 2006 to 2015 mostly released Sony-funded games on PlayStation consoles, including both PSP God Of War spinoffs and the PS4 game The Order: 1886. When we were working on Lone Echo, they were amazing.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are expected to reduce the prices for their game products in the coming years. billion and $9.6

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MARCH 7, 2018

Sony has appended a 12+ age restriction for PlayStation VR. Oculus has included similar warnings, as their guidelines for both Rift and Gear VR is set at 13+, although Oculus ex-CEO Brendan Iribe admitted back in 2015 that Oculus adopted Facebook’s the 13+ age requirement when they were acquired.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Before the calendar ever turned over from 2015 to 2016 people were already dubbing this as the “year of virtual reality.” The best and most recent estimates sales for the “big three” headset manufacturers at about 350,000, 450,000 and 750,000 for Oculus, HTC and Sony respectively.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Surprisingly, Gran Turismo Sport was absent from Sony’s main presentation; this stunning trailer appeared during the pre-show: Announced on October 27th 2015 during the Paris Games Week conference, producer Kazunori Yamauchi immediately confirmed on stage that GT Sport was in development for PSVR.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Now it appears PAX East-goers will get a fresh whack at the game, which was unveiled way back in 2015. In case you’re attending, here’s the seven titles Sony is trotting out at PAX East: Ghost Giant. Falcon Age. Jupiter & Mars. Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash! Trover Saves the Universe. Vacation Simulator.

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JULY 24, 2017

We were in the last six months of working on The Order (2015) and we had ideas in the team about what we wanted to do next. The team had their interest in VR piqued around 2012, at an internal conference for Sony developers. An early prototype of PlayStation VR, codenamed Project Morpheus | Image courtesy Sony.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy. Now, that number hovers around 10.

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JULY 3, 2019

SEE ALSO Next-gen Xbox Revealed with No VR in Sight, Sony Forges Ahead with PSVR on PS5. “VR When Polyphony Digital announced that Gran Turismo Sport would include full PSVR support back in late 2015, many driving sim fans were excited they’d finally get to jump into their favorite super cars and hit the track in VR.

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JULY 2, 2016

Sony’s The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. For more context about how open standards usually thrive off of proprietary competition, then be sure to listen to my 2015 interview with Khronos Group’s Neil Trevett. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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MARCH 19, 2017

Despite Sony being pleasantly surprised by its official PSVR sales figures – with the nearly 1 million units sold since its October 2016 launch – it’s difficult to get a handle on market penetration for VR hardware to date.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

It’s been a long, long road for Golem , the upcoming PSVR exclusive title that’s been in development since even before Sony’s VR headset launched in 2016. After several major delays, Golem is finally due to launch this Fall.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Ready At Dawn, the developer behind 2015 PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 , just teased that it will be revealing a new VR game at the developer conference in San Jose. Ready At Dawn was confirmed to be one of the Oculus Studios partners back at E3 2015. Ready At Dawn (@RAD_Studios) October 5, 2016.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Sony shared the top 10 downloads for February on PlayStation VR (PSVR) and, despite releasing in October last year, Job Simulator continues to be a leader on the system. Keep Talking originally released all the way back in 2015 but became a viral hit as it worked outside VR headsets as well.

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JULY 7, 2016

. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015. Search volume is a good indicator of relative brand awareness, more so than purchase intent or attitude toward the product as even negative events can generate search interest.

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JUNE 2, 2017

It’s here that titans like Sony, Microsoft and others do their best to wow us with new announcements on both the software and hardware front. However, Microsoft’s headsets use a different kind of position tracking that may make them much more versatile than Sony’s system. David – Content Is King.

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Image by Sony). It is not clear, and we hope that Sony will clarify his.(Theoretically Theoretically yes, but Sony always talked about the compatibility of old games with PS5 + old PSVR, not also about new games). I’ll leave it for you in the links so that you can participate in the discussion as well. Other relevant news.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Another Bethesda title, Doom VXR however, is coming to Sony’s VR headset and you can read all about it here. The game itself offers the full Fallout 4 game as released toward the end of 2015 plus “all-new combat, crafting, and building systems fully re-imagined for virtual reality.”

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APRIL 24, 2017

Original Article (4/24/17): Google announced the Jump initiative back in 2015. Based on the Yi 4K Action Camera , and using the Sony IMX377 sensor, the Halo houses 17 individual cameras which the company says are clock-synchronized to “work as one.” The article below has been corrected.

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MAY 28, 2017

We don’t think so and believe that in the next couple of years major organizations such as Sony and HTC will start producing advertisements to be shown in virtual reality. This is proven by the fact that in a 2015 study, 72% of millennials said that an experience is more important than having physical items.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony is closing its Manchester-based game studio, that it opened in 2015 to produce ‘AAA’ PSVR exclusives. It is to be understood if the projects it was working on have been scrapped or they have been transferred to another studio internal to Sony.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Since launch in 2015, YouTube has been using equirectangular projection, which renders pixels best at the top and bottom of an image, where a user normally isn’t looking, and has lower quality pixels closer towards the center of the screen, where they usually are looking.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

The game has actually been in development for some time, starting life as a PS3 title with PlayStation Move motion controller support before being reannounced for Sony’s newest console in 2015 under a new developer, Granzella.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Exclusive to this Los Angeles theater location, the VR Zombie game created by Fisherman Labs is being demoed in conjunction with the Sony Pictures release Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. We are excited to partner with Sony and Fisherman Labs on this amazing VR experience at LA Live: A BARCO Innovation Center.”.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Homido isn’t a household name around the world like Facebook, Google, Sony, or Samsung, but it has carved out a niche in the mobile HMD market over the past two years. Homido mini (pocket-sized solution, first released in 2015) has sold 244,000 units total.

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JUNE 14, 2017

VR gets Western release: image courtesy Sony Japan Studio, Acquire. While it missed the main ‘PlayStation VR Game’ segment of Sony’s keynote, another PSVR title was announced at E3 this week – the quirky Japanese real-time strategy game with the unusual title V! No Heroes Allowed!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Sony PlayStation VR Games at Pax West 2016. Sony PlayStation VR Games at Pax West 2016. Sony have announced some of the games which will be present on the show floor at PAX, with 10 titles either built for Sony’s new PS4 powered VR headset, or have announced VR specific features: Batman: Arkham VR , PSVR.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

Originally teased at PSX 2015 with a slated release for an October 2016, High Wire Games’ Golem is finally coming to PSVR. The result of a successful Kickstarter in 2015, Pixel Ripped has been in development well before consumer headsets released. Platform : PSVR (2018). Check out our hands-on here. Pixel Ripped 1989.

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JUNE 13, 2017

We went hands on at the Sony booth at this year’s E3 to find out just what Supermassive had in store. Set in the Blackwood Sanatorium, the very same seen in Until Dawn (2015) , I awake to find myself strapped to a chair in a dark room. ” image courtesy Supermassive Games.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The first brand to deploy the new Snapchat feature was Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) who released a campaign to promote their latest thriller called ‘Don’t Breathe’. Sony created this initial video with the help of AvatarLabs , a Los Angeles based digital agency. Snapchat integrated AR overlays after acquiring Looksery in 2015.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Until Dawn , which released from Supermassive Games in 2015, is one of my favorite titles for the PlayStation 4 so far. It combines excellent acting and voice work, with a compelling setting, cheesy horror movie tropes, diverse characters, and an addicting ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ premise into a fun, guilty-pleasure package.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Originally teased at PSX 2015 with a slated release for an October 2016, High Wire Games’ has slipped into what looks to be a 2019 release. The minds behind early successes Senza Peso (2014) and Insurgent (2015) have been busy developing their first full-fledged VR game. Fingers crosses we hear something definitive this year.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google. billion yuan ($236 million) in 2015, and is expected to rise to more than 5 billion yuan ($753 million) this year. Worldwide shipments of VR hardware is set to skyrocket in 2016, with some estimates pointing at volumes of 9.6

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The young organization managed to carve out a name for itself during the early days of the emerging VR industry and that first to market approach earned it a $65 million fundraising round in 2015 that was led by none other than the kingmaker of modern media itself: Disney. Tagged with: jaunt , playstation , PS VR , sony.

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