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. . billion in 2021. billion in 2021,” states IDC’s report.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony announces price and release date for PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. What will be important, anyway, will be the content.

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VRScout

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Big tech companies, rather than smartphone manufacturers, are leading XR devices because they have the necessary content and platforms,” said Kim Gwang-soo, an analyst at eBest Investment and Securities, adding, “Google has an operating system Android, Microsoft has Xbox and Sony has PlayStation. respectively.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Mojang, the Microsoft-owned studio behind Minecraft , announced it’s dropping support for the original PSVR next year, leaving any hope for PSVR 2 support firmly at (bed)rock bottom. Then, there’s Mojang’s parent company Microsoft, which has been fairly wary of VR gaming in general over the years.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Notably, nDreams is known for a host of VR games over the years, including The Assembly (2016) , Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) , Fracked (2021), and Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023), and more. At the time, the studio said it employed 250 people, meaning the layoff could affect up to 40 people.

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AR Insider

JULY 22, 2021

Using their public projections from Q1 2021, we might reasonably expect they spend about $6 billion on XR this year for salaries, hardware and overhead. Sony, for example, has a mature console ecosystem, with a huge relative advantage in game prices (3x), sales channels and customer base (10x+) over Quest. They make it up on the games.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Image by Sony). While we were all considering a 2022 release as a given, when asked directly about the matter, Sony declined to answer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta’s earnings report for 2021 has both lights and shadows. We were all waiting for it, and then it finally arrived: Meta has finally released its earning reports for 2021, and for the first time it treated its Reality Labs division as a separate entity, so we know how well it is performing. Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Rendering of the 2021 version of the Panasonic VR glasses. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Now let’s dig into the best news!

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

However, the report did lump together Pokémon GO, which earned 96% of all AR software revenue in 2016, and MR devices like the Microsoft HoloLens proving not yet ready for consumers. CCS Insight expects global sales of smartphone VR headsets to grow fivefold from 2017 to 70 million by 2021. billion by 2021. million were sold.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sony unveils a new virtual concert experience at CES. The glasses will be available in select worldwide markets in mid-2021. The company plans to ship its first SenseGloves Nova gloves in March 2021 and can be pre-ordered at $5,000 for a set of two gloves on the SenseGlove website. The company’s valuation is currently at $29.5

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Header image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. supports VR. 3D artists rejoice!

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in revenue and profits over the past few years. For the fourth quarter of 2021, AMD reported $4.8B AMD Q4 2021 Financial Results (GAAP). Overall, for 2021 AMD booked $16.4B

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. The shipping is free worldwide for whoever preorders.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Applications like Zoom and Microsoft Teams grew massively following the demand for video conferencing software during the COVID-19 pandemic. VR’s CAGR comes following the market’s 2021 valuation of $21.83 Thanks to Meta’s Connect 2021 event, the Metaverse has emerged as a talking point for many in the tech world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I like everything that we know on the PSVR 2 device because it is visible that Sony Interactive Entertainment is putting a lot of effort into releasing a high-quality headset that is on par with what the competition is offering. Other relevant news. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Epic Games, Unity, and others are facilitating the rise of serious gaming technologies. Additionally, motion capture (mocap) systems from Sony and Vicon will deepen realism for content creators developing characters. Meta Platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. The big news of the week is that CES 2021 won’t be physically held in Las Vegas, but will have just a digital edition. Top news of the week.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We are announcing today Integration of Interhaptics with Hololens 2 Haptic design for all mobile phones early 2021 Upcoming Haptic design for PS5 in 2021 Interhaptics was released to the public in September 2020. Hololens 2 Credit: Microsoft One of the major XR platforms used in business applications is Microsoft Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The price is incredibly low: $299; Announced that in 2021 it will release a pair of smartglasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban; Teased the work it is doing in AR; Revealed that is working with Ubisoft for two AAA VR games developed around the IPs of Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed; Discontinued the Rift. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Pictures from FBEC 2021 (Image from VRTUOLUO) Who will be the most important speakers? A screenshot with part of the speakers that will be part of the event.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. Facebook has also brought another innovation to the Quest Store, that is subscriptions. Other relevant news.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. ” And it’s making money.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Four years after Mojang added PSVR support in a free Minecraft update on PS4, the Microsoft-owned studio announced that support will soon be discontinued. Minecraft Gear VR support ended in October 2020 after the hardware had been abandoned, whereas the Rift version was delisted in 2021 but existing owners can still use it.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A shortage of components is plaguing both AMD and Nvidia, and this means that new GPUs and consoles could be in short supply until February 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Per se, this is not a surprising news (all companies are working on next iterations of their devices), but what is surprising is the timing that the report suggests: a new Oculus Quest should have been announced at the end of 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will come in 2021. In this case, the Quest could become the new Go.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 12, 2021

Asus' new desktop monitors are versatile enough to support PC gamers as well as console players on Microsoft Xbox Series X or Sony PlayStation 5. Thanks to HDMI 2.1,

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In a Youtube video, he revealed some juicy details, like: The cost of the glasses is $499 + prescription lenses; They are connected to the iPhone, that does all the heavy lifting; They were planned for a “one more thing” announcement for Q4 2020- Q1 2021 , and for release one year later.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 29, 2021

Sony announced it is discontinuing online purchases for the PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP later this year. The PS3’s online store will shutter on July 2, 2021 while the Vita’s store will close on August 27, 2021. PSP games will also be removed for purchase from both consoles on July 2. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. was a lot of money?). Some reviews of VR hardware.

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Upload VR

JUNE 19, 2023

Back in 2021, Spencer was asked about potential plans involving VR. Calling himself a fan of Sony, Valve, and Meta's efforts, he reaffirmed Xbox's focus on staying "in the software side of that enablement." Evidently, Xbox isn't ready to commit outright to VR by itself but this hasn't stopped them partnering with other companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. The bombshell comes directly from Jason Rubin, that interviewed from Kotaku, has clearly said that he wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. Microsoft has showcased a great holographic translating technology. (Image by Capcom). Both are not possible.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With this operation, Facebook secures another amazing development studio (after Beat Games), making sure that it will be able to provide high-quality games for its headsets in the future, and protecting itself from hostile acquisitions of other companies (like Sony acquiring Insomniac). Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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