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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

This is a VR installation put on by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Void in New York City. Doug Liman, 30 Ninjas, Condé Nast, Jaunt VR and Samsung won tonight’s Best 360 Series award for Invisible. The beautiful string symphonies of Joshua Bell VR earned Sony PlayStation and Vicom Inc. Ghostbusters . Dear Angelica.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Expected to be rolled out in phases prior to the theatrical opening on November 17, 2017, the Justice League VR experience will have a four-stage unveiling that culminates with a full blown room-scale experience for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google DayDream and Sony PSVR. No word yet on official pricing.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Apple’s WWDC 2017 keynote made that abundantly clear with their announcement of support for external Metal graphics, HTC Vive, SteamVR and Metal VR. IDC started to collect market share data for VR and AR shipments since Q1 2016 and just reported their Q1 numbers for 2017. In 3rd place after Samsung and Sony was HTC with the HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. What to Expect from Sony.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

billion in 2017 and 2018. As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. billion and $9.6

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JULY 30, 2020

billion by 2023 , growing at a CAGR of 9.98% from 2017 to 2023. This means that the wireless noise-canceling headphones from Sony not only let users stream music but also handle calls and get information on demand. The spread of AR-featured hearables and their opportunities are extending. Top 3 Types of AR-Enabled Hearables.

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Road to VR

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. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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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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JANUARY 16, 2017

Last year, the Oculus Rift (Facebook), HTC Vive (HTC and Valve) and the PlayStation VR (Sony) all debuted, and Samsung just announced 5 million of its Gear VR headsets have shipped. With a plug-and-play install base of around 50 million PS4s, and the monolithic might of Sony behind it, it was the best bet the VR industry had.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Fantasynth (2017) is an upcoming VR music experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that takes you on a surreal ride through an abstract world of sharp geometric shapes and eye-catching neon lights.

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JUNE 8, 2021

In 2017, when many Bluetooth earbuds still had wires, Sony introduced its truly wireless WF-1000X , which somehow also managed to squeeze noise cancellation into a tiny pair of buds. Today it’s a standard feature on premium wireless earbuds, but despite all the competition, the new WF-1000XM4s prove that no one knows… Read more.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues as to where it goes from here. Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later.

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JULY 31, 2019

The two most successful VR headsets – from a sales point of view – were Sony’s PlayStation VR and Oculus Go – these two, together, sold around 1.2 According to Nielsen’s SuperData report , VR’s total revenues have grown by 30% compared to 2017, reaching $3.6

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JANUARY 3, 2017

More than 70 virtual and argumented reality companies will showcase their products, innovations and demos at CES 2017, starting this Thursday in Las Vegas. Eight conferences on virtual reality and augmented reality out of all the conference sessions at the CES 2017 will also bring together various players and stakeholders in the sector.

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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. Take another example, VR hire companies are starting to spring up everywhere in 2017 and we are not even half way through it!

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JULY 13, 2018

Seven pieces of VR content have made the cut, including big names such as Rick And Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017), Coco VR (2017), Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab (2017), and Spider-Man Homecoming VR Experience (2017) to name a few. Created by : Create VR, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Tagged with: GDC , GDC 2017 , VR talks.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

.” The report predicts America will be the major source of revenue for the VR gaming market, citing increased awareness and growth brought on by companies such as Google, Samsung and Sony. The post Report: Global VR Gaming Market to Jump 84% in 4 Years appeared first on VRScout.

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JULY 24, 2017

Other than over one million PlayStation VR (PSVR) headsets and over five million Samsung Gear VR headsets , we really have no idea how many are out there, regardless of what analysts try to predict. 2017 is the ecosystem year where we turn our attention to partners to come work with us. Do you own an HTC Vive?

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JUNE 8, 2016

Whichever the case, Samsung's 2017 flagship might very well bear, not the first, a 4K screen. While Sony was really the first OEM to have a 4K smartphone with the Xperia Z5 Premium, Samsung might … Continue reading. Market analysis, wishful thinking, or both?

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JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. Sony has already clarified that it won’t sell the PSVR 2 together with the launch of the PS5.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016 it released a compact smartphone-tethered headset for viewing 360° videos, to terrible reviews, and in 2017 it showed off a PC-tethered SteamVR headset prototype that it never shipped. Cho told The Guru that LG Electronics has moved XR device development into the division of the company that makes its TVs to "speed up development".

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Samsung and Oculus have a 13+ age rating for both Gear VR and Rift, and Sony maintains the PSVR “is not for use by children under age 12.” ” HTC hasn’t set a specific age limit, but offers warning about ‘young children’ using the headset.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator , a best-selling room-scale game. 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.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VR headset units shipped in the first quarter of 2017. IDC says that Samsung is the current leader with over 20% market share, and shipping almost a quarter of a million of their Gear VR devices in Q1 of this year (and the new Gear VR has a handy-dandy controller, too).

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OCTOBER 8, 2016

Sony, takes a respectable gamble that keeps the company in the pot without threatening to take it all. Samsung is giving him a glimpse of its cards while also showing others to Google, not placing all its chips in one basket. Around him sit other, faceless tech giants. Facebook is certainly spending all it can to make it that way.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

On average, the VR hardware from China tends to be no where near the quality of the major VR players of the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Sony PSVR, or Samsung GearVR, but there were some standout Chinese companies who are leading innovation in specific area. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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AUGUST 26, 2017

million to date, the Series A round was also participated by SLIVER.tv’s existing seed investors, including DCM, Sierra Ventures, The VR Fund, Samsung Next Fund and Sony Innovation Fund. Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms including Danhua Capital, DCM Ventures, Sierra Ventures, The VR Fund, Samsung, Sony and more.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

Given that something new came to the headset almost every week from launch to the end of 2016, it is surprising to see the year get off to such a slow start for Sony, and a little worrying. It’s been a very slow start to 2017 for the Rift; let’s hope it can catch up soon. Why is that allowed to be sold?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. Zuckerberg makes the declaration as Samsung announces the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones will ship for a limited time with the Gear VR for free, along with $50 worth of some of the best games available for the platform.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

A couple of months back Lenovo looked to relaunch its beleaguered augmented reality (AR) headset system from 2017, the Lenovo Mirage AR with new content in the form of MARVEL Dimension of Heroes. When the Lenovo Mirage AR originally arrived in 2017 along with Star Wars: Jedi Challenges it sold for $250.

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In a statement, T-Mobile explains that its 5G journey, which started in 2017, aims to produce the “broadest [5G] network in US history, ” enabling low-latency streaming of high-quality XR visualisations. Fresh Participants. Stops[dot]com , a Tel-Aviv-based technology firm specialising in localised AR visualisations.

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MAY 25, 2016

So while there is huge long-term potential for AR/VR, there could be just a few billion dollars of revenue this year, a progressive ramp in 2017 and a hoped-for inflection point in 2018 (when AR roadmaps have long enough battery life with cellular capability for telcos to cross-subsidize mobile AR as smartphone replacements).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Samsung Gear VR (with controller). Photo by Samsung. from Samsung. COMPATIBILITY: The 2017 edition of Samsung’s Gear VR is only compatible with Samsung smartphones, specifically these devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, Note 5, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, and Galaxy S6 Edge.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook paid $2 billion for Oculus in 2014, and although sales figures have not been released, many analysts believe the headset is lagging behind similar offerings from HTC and Sony. Just a month ago, COB and Mark Zuckerberg sold 247,147 shares of FB on 09/08/2017 at an average price of $171.96 The total sale was $42.5

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

They are estimating that more than 12 million virtual reality headsets will be sold in 2017 , with sales of augmented reality smart glasses expected to be worth $1.2 Other firms pursuing projects in the area include Google, Sony (with Project Morpheus) and HTC, which has a partnership with games company Valve. billion in the same year.

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