The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

I guess we’ll discover this in Mid 2021 when these glasses will launch. Rendering of the 2021 version of the Panasonic VR glasses (Image by Panasonic). Vuzix Next Generation Smart Glasses Captures 3 CES 2021 Innovation Awards for Outstanding Design and Engineering (Image by Vuzix). A woman wearing the new Lenovo glasses.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2020

Oculus is reportedly readying a Quest successor which will iterate on the existing headset with a smaller form-factor, faster refresh rate, and new controllers. Rather than an outright Quest 2, it seems Oculus may be aiming first for a Quest S. SEE ALSO Oculus Reveals New VR Headset Prototypes with Major Advances in Optics Form-factor.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

” While the game’s creator seems fairly certain of LOW-FI’s 2021 launch window, Sony hasn’t actually released word on when a next-gen followup to the PSVR is set to arrive. The post Cyberpunk Adventure ‘LOW-FI’ is Coming to PS5 in 2021 appeared first on Road to VR.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

© Sony Virtual reality (VR) performances are quickly becoming the norm for live events, music concerts, and festivals (despite some unfortunate news coming from Wave earlier this week regarding their VR app). © Sony Trending AR VR Articles: 1. © Sony Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Coming in May 2021 , with first units sents to reviewers in January 2021, because the product is almost ready.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Hard data on the VR market is often difficult to come by, while broad ‘industry reports’ are often so general that it’s difficult to see what things look like ‘on the ground’ To get a sense of VR’s outlook in 2021, we’ve collected 14 of the most recent and concrete indicators for your perusal.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2021

The CEO stated that Pavlov: Shack will be available on Oculus Quest 2 and PlayStation VR 2 headsets for $24.99 ” Price has been decided as $24 for Shack in the Oculus Store and everywhere, we decided for price parity to have the less TOS conflicts across Steam, Oculus and Playstation (yes we just got accepted as a partner last week).

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Top 17 Augmented Reality Statistics, Facts and Trends for 2021 and Beyond 3. Image courtesy Sony) Finally, while not exactly “consumer electronics”, Sony announced plans for a series of immersive, VR concerts this year, initially kicking off with a Madison Beer concert available later this year for Oculus, Playstation VR, and others.

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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

APRIL 1, 2021

While Facebook has yet to reveal official unit sales figures for Oculus Quest 2, various data points the company has offered, along with data from developers, has allowed us to hone in on a reasonable estimate. While Oculus hasn’t offered up official sales figures for Quest 2 yet, two data points can help us reach a reasonable estimate.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2021

The popular military shooter draws in 3,000 new players after launching on Oculus’s experimental test channel. With its arrival on App Lab, you can now download Pavlov Shack straight from your Oculus Quest or Oculus Quest 2 headset, no additional setup or hardware required.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 4, 2021

In addition to eye-tracking and foveated rendering, Sony is supposedly implementing something called “flexible scale rendering” (FSR) on PS5 for its next-gen headset. It sounds similar to Oculus’ fixed foveated rendering (FFR) technique, which automatically adjusts the level of eye texture foveation based on GPU utilization.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers.

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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. After 2021. This is the same approach used by headsets like Oculus Quest. Megapixels per-eye.

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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. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2021

Developed by New Zealand-based indie game studios M Theory and Oddboy in partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment , Wanderer blends different types of gameplay—such as escape room-style puzzles, tactical hands-on interactions, and thrilling arcade sequences—to immerse you in what promises to be an epic time-traveling adventure.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2021

With its mounting currency-earning opportunities for users, the company seems to be well on its way to paying out to creators what it says should amount to $1 million by the end of 2021. This makes Rec Room one of the most valuable VR companies outside of platform holders Facebook and Sony.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On stage at AWE 2021 this week, Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm announced that his company is spinning up a new division dedicated to AR game development. In the VR industry it’s hard to find good data on the number of headsets sold, and even harder to find data on the number of actual active users.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

This week, we look at Sony’s tease for PSVR2, new features in Snapchat’s Lens Studio, and a whole slate of new AR glasses emerge. Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. Will it be this year? Will it be next year? Nreal To Launch In US This Spring.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

We’ve also seen a strong overall start for VR in 2021. Data Dive: VR Starts 2021 Strong. Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $885 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 19, 2021

Judging by the lack of breakthroughs at this year’s CES, the VR industry’s not going to have a break out year in 2021. Currently, no company is competing with the Oculus Quest 2 , which is still bulky and a somewhat expensive investment at $300, and absolutely requires a Facebook account to use. “Will it be this year?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). Image by Sony). Looking back at augmented reality in 2021. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

MARCH 29, 2021

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Data Dive: VR Starts 2021 Strong. –Oculus’s Android App — an indicator of new VR users that have Android phones — has surpassed 5 million installs. — Oculus Quest 2 is now the most-used VR headset on Steam. Report Card.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Microsoft, vis-à-vis Xbox, has lagged far behind competitors Sony and Meta, both of which have developed their own VR gaming ecosystems and platform-exclusive hardware. We need to support many metaverse platforms as well as a robust ecosystem of content commerce and applications.”.

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VRScout

MARCH 11, 2020

The statement also seems to indicate the return of E3 in 2021, though perhaps not in the same format as previous years. “We look forward to bringing you E3 2021 as a reimagined event that brings fans, media and the industry together in a showcase that celebrates the global video game industry.”

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It's most likely that the active userbase on Sony's older headset simply isn't considered high enough by the studio to continue supporting it, though it's worth noting a PS5 version is in beta testing. As for Quest, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth and former Oculus CTO John Carmack both previously expressed support for an official release.

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Road to VR

MARCH 3, 2021

VR publisher & developer nDreams, most recently behind Oculus exclusive Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) , today announced its next VR title, Fracked. We know that a new PSVR headset is in development , but it isn’t due out until sometime after 2021. Perhaps Sony is making an effort to tide users over until its next headset?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Image by Sony). The launch date for this marvel is January 2021. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

JANUARY 19, 2021

Last year’s F8 mentioned them as an upcoming feature on Oculus headsets, and they’re the key intended use case for the A3 MR glasses that ThinkReality announced at CES. The EM3-STELLAR MR glasses appeared on Kickstarter in January 2021 and had crashed through the project’s $30,000 goal in a matter of days. Expect Them This Summer.

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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 18, 2021

CES 2021 brought some interesting AR/VR news. Anyway, he confirmed that the first smart glasses that will be released this year won’t have true AR and said that now Oculus wants to expand beyond the gaming ecosystem. It’s that time of the week when you can read the best news about AR and VR! So let’s dig immediately into them….

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Sony’s PlayStation London Studio, the developer behind PSVR exclusive Blood & Truth , is already at work on their next VR exclusive project, Road to VR has learned. Blood & Truth concept art | Image courtesy Sony London Studio. Early PSVR ‘Project Morpheus’ prototype | Photo courtesy Sony.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

His tune has shifted notably in the company’s latest earnings call, where he told investors that Facebook’s XR business was “one of the areas that I’m most excited about our progress heading into 2021.” Image courtesy Oculus.

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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. Interhaptics will release haptics design mobile compatibility in early 2021. All are already included in Unity.

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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. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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