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DECEMBER 7, 2017

As a testament to the strength of high-quality VR with a relatively low entry price, Sony today announced they’ve sold more than 2 million units to consumers worldwide as of December 3rd, 2017. This, Sony says, has led to the sale of “more than 617.8 image courtesy Sony. Sony says they’ve sold more than 12.2

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We’ve seen figures in the past that suggested Meta’s latest standalone headset was doing very well—possibly putting it at three times the adoption rate of Sony’s PSVR—but it was still unclear precisely how big of an impact Quest 2 had on the industry overall. “And I’ll point you out that this is already starting.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Sony has announced a $100 price drop to their PlayStation VR headset across the board. Bringing prices that haven’t been seen since temporary sales during 2017’s holiday shopping period, Sony is permanently slashing prices on the PlayStation VR, making it more accessible than ever.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Image courtesy Oculus. Santa Cruz is Oculus’ high-end standalone VR headset. It’s still just a prototype for now (hence the weird name), and Oculus has been coy about a release date and price, let alone what the headset will ultimately look like and do when it’s ready for consumers. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The game is slated for a 2018 with its release targeting cross-play for PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Alvo first appeared on Sony’s list of 60+ upcoming games in 2017 and 2018 back in October, but we weren’t all that sure exactly what it was, or whether it was a PSVR exclusive or not.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 9, 2018

We expect stand-alone headsets like the Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus to ignite a new wave of growth that will help broaden the appeal of virtual reality, particularly with businesses and in education,” says George Jijiashvili, CCS Insight’s senior analyst for wearables. billion in 2018 appeared first on Tech Trends.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

Sony actually created its own social VR viewing app for PSVR users in Japan, but it’s certainly no Bigscreen. According to CNET Japan , Sony recently pushed a new update to their virtual theater app Theater Room VR that finally lets users connect with up to three other people in a spacious digital cinema. Image courtesy Sony.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Megaton Rainfall (2017) for SteamVR headsets isn’t here yet, and according to Pentadimensional Games , it won’t be until sometime in 2018. Unfortunately for owners with SteamVR-compatible headsets, VR support isn’t a part of the November 17th launch date and won’t arrive until later in 2018.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2018

Sony’s PlayStation 4 is entering its ‘final phase’, according to a recent tweet by Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki, citing a talk with PlayStation Chief Tsuyoshi Kodera. Kodera says PSVR sales are growing, although it’s admittedly under Sony’s expectations.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

We’ve broken it down further below, but here’s the chart upfront without further ado: 2018’s Top 10 Most Downloaded PSVR Games. Beat Saber (2018). Moss (2018). Admittedly the game has had enormous benefit thanks to its success on Steam and Oculus Store Early Access. Job Simulator (2016). Superhot VR (2017).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Facebook today announced it has acquired Beat Games, the studio behind the hit VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018). Beat Games is joining Oculus Studios as an independently operated team based out of Prague. Sony doesn’t allow modding of Beat Saber for PSVR for the same legal reasons.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Continuing with its ongoing PlayStation VR spotlight, Sony today announced the arrival of character-driven VR puzzler Twilight Path on PSVR headsets next month. Image Credit: Sony PlayStation. Another day, another exciting PSVR announcement. Twilight Path arrives on PlayStation VR headsets next month. No word yet on an official price.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

At Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it’s both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company’s open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Image courtesy Oculus. “That said, React VR has very real limitations.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just a few months after the acquisition of Beat Saber studio Beat Games , Facebook today announced the acquisition of Sanzaru Games, the studio behind the Oculus-exclusive Asgard’s Wrath and a handful of other VR titles. The studio began working with Facebook’s Oculus before the company even shipped its first consumer headset.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2020

For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device. As background, Facebook reports Oculus revenues under the “Payments and Other Fees” revenue category in its public filings.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2018

With mostly prior confirmed PSVR titles presenting at E3 2018 , we expected Sony to dedicate a few moments during its E3 2018 keynote to highlight the platform’s upcoming VR games, of course with the understanding that high-profile PS4 titles would mostly overshadow VR titles. Well, that’s a bit of an understatement.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2021

A report from UploadVR , citing “multiple sources,” claims that Sony’s next-gen PlayStation VR 2 headset will bring a big jump in resolution, along with eye-tracking, IPD adjustment, and even head-mounted haptics. This is the same approach used by headsets like Oculus Quest. This would dwarf the 1.0 PSVR 2 (rumored).

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2019

We were a bit disappointed when we found out that you couldn’t properly web-sling as your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in MARVEL Powers United VR (2018) last year, but it appears Sony has heard our collective groans and done something about it in their latest VR activation for the new film Spider-Man: Far From Home.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest.

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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

JUNE 22, 2020

The 17 year old game studio is most recently known for its acclaimed VR titles, Lone Echo and Echo VR , both published by Facebook’s Oculus Studios. The company’s first Oculus-exclusive VR title, Lone Echo (2017) , is one of the best rated games in the company’s PC VR library. Image courtesy Ready at Dawn.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2019

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. Oculus – Rift S. Sony London Studio – Blood & Truth. Qualcomm Technologies – Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 Invitations. VRgineers – XTAL 5K HMD.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch. These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. Top news of the week. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2017

E3 technically starts today, but here’s what happened yesterday, with announcements from Intel, Ubisoft and Sony. Intel, Oculus & ESL Look to Accelerate VR eSports: Insomniac’s The Unspoken | Image courtesy Insomniac Games. The game launches for Rift (Touch required) and Vive in spring 2018.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Oculus proved that VR was more than a product when they officially released numbers about their ecosystem last September at Oculus Connect 6.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

First launching on Steam and the Oculus Store last year, it then made its way to PSVR on April 10th, giving it only around three weeks to reach the top. Only one other game release in April to reach the top 10 list was Crisis on the Planet of the Apes (2018). Image courtesy Sony.

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2019

Beat Games today announced that their hit black-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) is finally headed out of Early Access on PC. Update (12:30 PM ET) : Beat Games has confirmed in a tweet that the Level Editors is not coming to PSVR as per Sony’s rules.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 17, 2020

As background, these exercises are compelled by the fact that companies in early-stage sectors like VR don’t disclose unit sales ( except Sony ). So we have to assemble clues from sources like public filings or periodic disclosures of content sales, which we recently did for Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest numbers don’t hurt either.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

At Oculus Connect 5 in 2018, the company’s annual XR developer conference, Zuckerberg explained that he believed that 10 million VR users was an important milestone for the company to reach in order to make a sustainable ecosystem for VR developers. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 30, 2019

When Beat Saber launched in Early Access on both Steam and Oculus PC back in 2018, the indie project made waves for selling 100K units for $2 million in revenue in its first month , and has since gone on to become, as far as we know, the best selling VR game to date.

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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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MAY 30, 2019

Beat Saber (2018) players on PC have a certain luxury of choice that their PSVR and Quest-owning counterparts simply don’t: easy access to user-created mods that indefinitely expand the game’s number of playable tracks, and now, an official level editor so you can easily make your own maps with your own music.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, today announced the development of a high pixel density, 3.25-inch 60Hz is widely considered the bare minimum for VR headsets, although many PC VR headsets including HTC Vive and Oculus Rift function at 90Hz—a necessity in reducing motion blur and screen flicker.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Speakers from leading companies including Oculus, Intel, Ford, HTC, Paramount, Google, Epic Games, Walmart, Qualcomm and many more, will be present at the event. The event takes place at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis this week on December 7th and 8th. Check out all the latest VRX details here. Not attending?

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, debuted their high pixel density display at Display Week, showing off the 3.25-inch, — Ian Hamilton (@hmltn) May 22, 2018. Japan Display Inc. inch, 2,160 × 2,432 resolution TFT-LCD (120Hz). JDI’s panel features 1,001 PPI.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

VR didn't do as well in 2018 as many hoped - or expected Click To Tweet. VR didn’t do as well in 2018 as many hoped – or expected. 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

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

In 2018, this was mindblowing. This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. This integration is still very rough, and so: It works only with Oculus and WMR headsets (because it requires an OpenXR-compatible runtime); It just lets you see your model , not also modify it.

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