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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

One of five PlayStation VR2 announcements being shared today by Sony, Alien: Rogue Incursion revealed more about its story on LV-354, a planet also known as Purdan, where the protagonist's former squad mate has gone missing. Alien: Rogue Incursion will arrive on December 19 for PSVR 2 and PC VR , followed by Quest 3 in early 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As mentioned in the recent 1.21.30 (Bedrock) release notes , Mojang says that starting March 2025, PSVR users will no longer be able to play Minecraft with PSVR. Sony’s wavering confidence in PSVR 2 has also led it to release a tethered PC VR adapter for in August, severing its exclusivity to the PS5 game ecosystem.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Sony has released a set of motion capture (mocap) wearables in time for the holidays, the company announced in a press release. Sony’s Mocopi mocap system uses six coloured tracking devices, which people can wear on their bodies. A photo of Sony’s ‘Mocopi’ device trackers. PHOTO: Sony Corp.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Interestingly now LG’s television division is developing its upcoming [2025] headset. With many major hardware vendors, such as Apple and Sony, announcing their entry into the XR device market in 2023 and following CES 2024, it’s no surprise that the South Korean giant LG is following suit.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This would mean, if you believe Kuo, that Apple's next headset will instead be the straightforward refresh of Vision Pro with the M5 chipset that he claimed last month will enter mass production in late 2025. Affordable (Micro-)OLED The biggest contributor to Vision Pro's price is its near-4K micro-OLED displays from Sony.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Japan's Sony and Honda have signed a deal to jointly develop and sell battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs), the two companies announced on Friday. The first model resulting from the new venture should launch in 2025. SEE ALSO: Sony reveals electric SUV prototype as it tests EV market. Tesla is getting another competitor.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Masters of Light joins four additional PlayStation VR2 reveals today from Sony. Other announcements include a new story trailer for Alien: Rogue Incursion and Hitman World of Assassination being delayed until March 2025. Masters Of Light arrives on December 18 on PlayStation VR2 , and it's out now on Quest.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mare's release joins a group of five PlayStation VR2 reveals today from Sony. Other announcements include a new story trailer for Alien: Rogue Incursion and Hitman World of Assassination being delayed until March 2025. Mare is available now on PS VR2 , Quest , and Steam.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This would allow Apple to release cheaper designs of the premium-priced device, which currently leverages Sony’s microOLED displays. To date, Sony cannot release over one million units, where each heads-up display (HUD) needs two to function.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

release notes for Bedrock, Mojang states, "our ability to support PlayStation VR has come to an end" and that it "will no longer be supported in updates after March of 2025." Here's the full note: Our ability to support PlayStation®VR has come to an end, and will no longer be supported in updates after March of 2025.

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JUNE 28, 2024

For comparison, the Sony-supplied micro-OLED displays in Apple Vision Pro are 1.42 Apple “Suspends” Vision Pro 2 To Focus On Cheaper Headset Apple has “suspended” work on a high-end Vision Pro successor to focus on shipping a cheaper headset by the end of 2025, The Information reports. Currently 2.5K

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

However, that figure is exactly in line with what The Information itself, The Financial Times , The Elec , and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said before Vision Pro's launch was the number of micro-OLED display pairs Sony could produce per year, the limiting factor for the headset's production scale and main contributor to its cost.

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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. Apple AR glasses may have been pushed back to 2025–26. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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JANUARY 15, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Qualcomm announced that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and Sony's enterprise "spatial content creation" headset. Is It Quest Pro 2 In Partnership With Meta?

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JUNE 13, 2023

South Korean tech news outlet The Elec cites "sources" saying Sony, the supplier of Vision Pro 's ultra high resolution OLED microdisplays, can't manufacture more than 900,000 per year. The Elec's report claims Apple asked Sony to expand production but was refused.

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MAY 17, 2024

micro-OLED displays from Sony are used in Apple Vision Pro. UploadVR David Heaney While Sony's display in Vision Pro reportedly outputs a brightness of 5000 nits, LG is claiming 10,000 nits. Sony's (Apple Vision Pro) LG's Size 1.41 Currently 2.5K This comes after multiple reports LG will make future Quest Pro headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These glasses are expected for Q2 2025 , maybe in time to be launched at the Mi Fan Festival, which is typically held in April. Xiaodu AI Glasses are estimated to be released in the first half of 2025, with a projected retail price of under 2,100 yuan (approximately $290).

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JUNE 25, 2024

That fifth headset was revealed to be Sony , and HTC still hasn't revealed its headset. The headset features dual 3840×3552 micro-OLED displays from BOE, higher resolution than Vision Pro 's Sony panels, with a refresh rate of 90Hz and 92% DCI-P3 color gamut, the same as Vision Pro. storage, depending on the model you buy.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

It is not clear what this device will be, but a previous rumor talked about a collaboration between Meta and LG for the release of the Meta Quest Pro 2, which the same rumor set for 2025. I guess we will have to wait until 2025 to discover what LG has in the works. In any case, the launch of this device is expected for Q3 2024.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Play For Dream MR was announced back in June , but at the time the company only confirmed it was launching in China soon, Singapore and Malaysia in October, and then Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Japan sometime in 2025. Play For Dream MR Specs & Details Play For Dream MR's design is clearly heavily "inspired" by Apple Vision Pro.

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APRIL 29, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo first reported that Apple was working on a cheaper headset a full year before Vision Pro was even revealed, with Kuo at the time saying Apple aimed to launch it in 2025. UploadVR David Heaney The largest cost by far in Vision Pro is its near-4K micro-OLED displays from Sony.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Sony-supplied micro-OLED displays in Apple Vision Pro are 1.42 Apple “Suspends” Vision Pro 2 To Focus On Cheaper Headset Apple has “suspended” work on a high-end Vision Pro successor to focus on shipping a cheaper headset by the end of 2025, The Information reports.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. I’m pretty sure that Sony is waiting the next few months to make some moves, there’s still the Black Friday and the Christmas Holiday that have to happen, but at the moment I do not see this device as disruptive to our ecosystem.

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MARCH 7, 2021

While the rumblings over Apple’s planned venture into augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality have been getting louder recently , we now have a series of dates for these devices by prognosticator Ming Chi-Kuo, a good source with a reliable track record on all things Apple. Read more.

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JULY 3, 2023

Last month South Korean tech news outlet The Elec reported Sony, the supplier of Vision Pro's ultra high resolution OLED microdisplays, can't manufacture more than 900,000 displays per year at most - and Apple needs two displays per headset.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

The headset features dual 3840×3552 micro-OLED displays from BOE, higher resolution than Vision Pro 's Sony panels, with a refresh rate of 90Hz and 92% DCI-P3 color gamut, the same as Vision Pro. The XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, Qualcomm's most powerful XR chip yet, is paired with 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and either 512GB or 1TB of UFS 3.1 hours usage.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

This headset should go into production in the second half of 2025, so realistically be available in 2026. Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If things go the right way as predicted, then by 2025 the revenue can go beyond $45 billion. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are expected to reduce the prices for their game products in the coming years.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I was even more impressed now: “Oh, so is it the Sony display headset that the Vision Pro mounts?” I guess the rumors about Apple releasing a new Vision Pro in 2025 are because of this fierce competition on the market. She started telling me that the display was the same as Vision Pro.

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MAY 27, 2021

A just-released report by Snap and Deloitte sees the technology moving to ubiquity by 2025 and promises unprecedented business outcomes, citing a staggering 94% conversion rate on purchases in some cases. This represents around 50% growth in a year, up from $1.4B So what’s behind this continued growth? But it doesn’t stop at entertainment.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Meta Quest 4 Pro should be released in 2025 and be produced in partnership with LG Electronics. If this strategy is confirmed, by 2025 Meta would have a cheap $200 device (Quest 3 Lite?), This would mean that Meta would start doing like Pico and having the “Pro” models with the same numbers as the standard models.

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MARCH 6, 2023

We can imagine it as a Quest 3 Lite and its purpose for Meta is “pack the biggest punch we can at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market” Keep selling the Quest Pro for a while “In the future” (Later than 2025) offer a new Pro headset with very advanced features, including the famous realistic “Codec Avatars” For what concerns AR: (..)

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Because of these problems and the delays, a cheaper version of the Vision Pro, which was expected for 2025, may have been canceled. We have a couple of projects underway that are very exciting for us, in terms of creating some sort of game-type metaverse which can have collaboration with other parts of Sony,” Ryan added.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Sony reveals top-5 most played PSVR games ever. billion in 2025. . - Road to VR names the 20 best rated & most popular Quest games & apps. Beat Saber, Rec Room, Skyrim are PSVR’s most-played games. More than two years after launch, Valve Index is now the second most-used headset on Steam. billion in 2021 to $8.31

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

The reports added that the pitches indicated a potential release date in 2025. </string> This will also allow users to pair their Sony LinkBuds for similar gestures, which has received Google’s “iris_device” code attribution, the report added.

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JULY 19, 2023

While most major electronics companies are actively researching microLED – including Samsung, Sony, and Apple – no company has yet figured out how to affordably mass manufacture it for consumer products. Called the “viewfinder”, this heads-up display will reportedly be used to show notifications and translate real-world text in real time.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Meta plans to release its first pair of smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch designed to control them. Apple is expected to announce a high-end virtual reality headset sometime this year, while Sony just released the well-received PSVR 2 for console gamers.

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