Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

Despite the growing age of PlayStation VR, Sony has continued to effectively market and sell the headset, leading to steady sales which have now reached 5 million units total, the company has announced. Sony made the announcement today alongside confirming that it has sold 106 million PS4 and PS4 Pro consoles. Data courtesy Sony.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Sony introduced hand-tracking support for PSVR 2 back in December, offering up the ability for developers to update their games and let players go hands-on thanks to the headset’s on-board tracking cameras. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the Wizard (2019) is the first to implement hand-tracking on PSVR 2.

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JULY 2, 2024

Sony would either need to agree to finally come up with a better solution, or Valve would have to target a native 90Hz or 120Hz refresh rate for Half-Life: Alyx on PSVR 2. Sony has done little to remedy this issue. Sony Has Embraced Steam… How About a Little Quid Pro Quo? This is undoubtedly a big win for consumers.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

During Sony’s inaugural ‘State of Play’ livestream, the company today announced a number of PSVR games with official street dates, many of which we’ve been salivating over for the past year. Jupiter & Mars – 4/22/2019. Jupiter & Mars – 4/22/2019. Falcon Age – 4/9/2019.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Over the weekend, PlayStation VR2's two year anniversary came and passed, with no announcements from Sony then, on Friday, or today. The fact that Sony did not permanently reduce the price two years into the headset's life suggests to me that at $350, Sony wasn't making a profit, and that executives may be unwilling to do this perpetually.

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VRScout

JANUARY 17, 2019

Where many high-end VR platforms pride themselves in touting the latest advances in hardware and the highest resolutions, Sony has instead chosen to focus their efforts on content, establishing a solid library of engaging VR experiences in the process. Image Credit: Sony Playstation.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

Sony today revealed its latest PlayStation VR sales milestone of 4.2 Sony announced today that it has reached 4.2 million PSVR units sold as of March 3rd, 2019. Data courtesy Sony, chart by Road to VR. And Sony’s push for more quality PSVR content doesn’t seem to be waning. Sony has been totally silent.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan announced today that the company is laying off 900 PlayStation employees, or around eight percent of the company, which will affect a number of its first-party game studios. This includes the closure of Sony’s London Studio, which created VR action-adventure game Blood & Truth (2019).

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

Sony today announced a number of games coming to PS4 and PSVR, among which was Marvel’s Iron Man VR. Image courtesy Sony. The company says Iron Man VR should be landing on PSVR headsets sometime in 2019. The post ‘Iron Man’ is Coming to PlayStation VR in 2019, Trailer Here appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2019

Today at E3 2019, Microsoft revealed its next-gen Xbox ‘Project Scarlett’ but had nothing to say about VR on the console. Meanwhile, Sony has already confirmed support for PSVR on PS5, and hinted at plans for a next-gen headset. Where the two consoles majorly differ right now from a feature standpoint is VR support.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Sony is closing its Manchester, UK-based studio, the very same that was opened in 2015 to produce ‘AAA’ PSVR exclusives. Sony had posted job vacancies for their Manchester Studio up until its closure, with one such listing announced last month for UI Artist.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

After a slow start, 2019 rounded out to be an undeniably strong year for consumer VR, setting up a springboard into a big 2020. 2019 started out slow as the industry waited with baited breath for the launch of the latest wave of headsets, but things started heating up once they finally hit the market. Oculus Quest. Oculus Rift S.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Speaking this week at the Collision 2019 conference in Toronto, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Vice President of Research and Development, Dominic Mallinson, detailed a number of “must-have ‘evolutionary’ improvements” for future VR headsets. And we won’t just stop with PS4.” ” With 4.2

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AR Insider

AUGUST 12, 2019

Sony is the market share leader for VR hardware revenues according to the latest report from Strategy Insights. Sony [PSVR] is making the same play… Oculus could tap into that market with something that’s even more convenient.”. But the proof will be in the next 12 months of sales, including the 2019 holiday period.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

“People tend to focus on headsets sales, he wrote in a RoadtoVR article , “which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. This and other factors caused aggregate VR software revenues to triple year-over-year during 2019. The post Did VR Software Sales Inflect in 2019?

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday that the company is acquiring Insomniac Games, a storied game studio and one of the most experienced in VR development anywhere in the world. The studio has developed three Oculus exclusive titles, with its fourth and largest yet, Stormland , still due to launch in 2019.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2020

Facebook’s 2019 Payment and Other Fes were $1.042 billion. To estimate Quest’s revenue share, we can look at the delta over 2018, given the device’s mid-2019 launch. Given that each Quest costs $399, this would mean 2019 unit sales of 456,140. For example, let’s say that Rift and Go sales grew in 2019.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Ferrara collaborated with Sony Pictures’ Ghostbusters to create a fun WebAR experience that lets families hunt for ghosts (and candy!) This year, we’re thrilled to work with Sony Pictures and the iconic Ghostbusters franchise to offer a virtual spin on the classic neighborhood trick-or-treating experience. Play the Haunted Candy Hunt.

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Road to VR

MARCH 5, 2021

XR Games and Sony Pictures announced a new shooter that puts you in the world of Zombieland, and it’s coming to all major VR headsets soon. Image courtesy XR Games, Sony Pictures VR. The game is also said to include a bullet time feature so you can bump up those headshot combos.

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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. Here’s the key info claimed in the report: 4.1MP (2,000 × 2,040) per-eye resolution. Megapixels per-eye.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Australian publication Stevivor recently sat down with Xbox head Phil Spencer to broach the subject of whether or not the company’s upcoming next-gen console would be matching Sony’s continued VR ambitions with PlayStation 5. — Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) November 26, 2019. It's just not our focus with Scarlett.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Image courtesy Sony Japan Studio. Featuring the cute bots first seen in The Playroom (2013) , Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission uses similar controls and gameplay mechanics as any other 3D platformer, but it has been created from the ground up with VR in mind. Image courtesy Sony.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them. The twisted puzzle adventure game beat out more recognizable titles including ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission , Vacation Simulator , and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission has experience as a runner-up.

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APRIL 17, 2023

The original Quest, which was released in 2019, is currently on its way out. For scale, Sony has shipped over 32 million PlayStation 5 units and over 117 million PS4 units to date; the PlayStation platform as a whole garnered 112 million monthly active users in Q3 2022.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Since launching in 2016 and 2019 respectively, Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have both been ported to most XR headsets across the years, most recently on Apple Vision Pro. Alongside Samsung's announcement earlier today, it's worth mentioning that Sony, Lynx, and Xreal are also building Android XR devices too.

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ARPost

JANUARY 15, 2020

With the new year upon us, let’s take a look at the VR headsets that caught our attention in 2019. Still, as the buzz around VR grows and Sony keeps releasing better and better content, we were definitely talking about the PSVR in 2019. 2019 was an exciting year for VR. VR headsets are just the tip of the XR iceberg.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2023

Acquired by Meta in 2019, developers Beat Games have released a wide swath of paid and free DLC, something it can owe to Meta’s deep pockets which has allowed it to cut deals with a number of record labels and high-profile artists. The Journal maintains the documents included another staggering figure: Beat Saber was played by 1.47

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The layoff round comes amid two high-profile projects currently in production by the studio: Zombie Army VR , a VR shooter based on the popular franchise from Rebellion, and Starship Troopers: Continuum , an online co-cop shooter created in partnership with Sony—announced just a day before news of the layoffs first broke.

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VRScout

JANUARY 22, 2022

In 2019 Samsung unveiled its first commercially-available foldable smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Fold. According to a new report by The Korea Herald , Samsung is steadily losing its position within the VR/AR space due to its unhealthy “obsession” with foldable smartphone technology.

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MAY 29, 2019

May 21 st , 2019 will go down in history as an incredible day for VR. Oculus’ whirlwind Kickstarter success led many to believe that established entertainment companies such as Sony, Microsoft, or even tech giant Google might look to buy the company, but Facebook’s decisive choice wasn’t something anyone could have predicted.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s thought that PSVR 2 will release sometime in late 2022, which may possibly coincide with the holiday season, however that hasn’t been confirmed by Sony. If so, that.

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MAY 27, 2019

Last week Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Vice President of Research and Development, Dominic Mallinson, opened up about this thoughts on the future of VR at the Collisson 2019 conference in Toronto. SEE ALSO Sony Hints Next-gen PSVR Could Bring HDR, Wireless, Eye-tracking & More.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Worldwide search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Most searched for headsets by region, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Data courtesy Sony, chart by Road to VR. Peak search volume for Quest in the US was 1.6

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Sony has decided to put an official expiration date on the title: July 25th, 2019. Sony released word via the StarBlood Arena info page : Please Note : Multiplayer and all online features for this product will be terminated and will no longer be available on 07/25/19.

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MAY 17, 2024

The studio, which has developed golf games over the past 25 years, released a Everybody’s Golf VR (2019) as a PSVR exclusive. Ultimate Swing Golf isn’t the first VR game from Clap Hanz.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Sony doesn’t allow modding of Beat Saber for PSVR for the same legal reasons. ” After Sony’s acquisition of Insomniac Games , it’s possible Facebook has begun looking to strategically mark its territory by locking down the rights to Beat Saber , one of the most visible games in VR right now.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The sale will most likely find its way to other big box stores and online stores too in due time, as Sony tends to keep its Black Friday pricing pretty even across the board. We first saw the deal for a PSVR bundle + five games for $200 at Target as a part of their Black Friday ‘Door Buster’ sale.

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