XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 4, 2025

MWC 2025 is proving itself to be a hotbed for XR innovation. At MWC 2025, Samsung showcased many products, from its mobile AI suite to new smartphones. While MWC 2025 only gave attendees a glimpse of the upcoming headset, here is everything readers need to know about the upcoming device.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Already, the company is partnering not just with Samsung and Qualcomm but with countless heavyweights like Sony, Magic Leap, and Unity. This could mean we start to see new glasses built with Googles operating system sometime in 2025. Google has already shared that its working with companies like Sony, Magic Leap, and Lynx.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2025

.” As of this writing, Google’s $250 million investment is subject to customary closing conditions, and closing isexpected during the current quarter of 2025. Firms such as Samsung, Magic Leap, Lynx, Sony, Qualcomm, and XREAL are already poised to support this effort. New updates will most likely shake up the 2025 market.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For Qualcomm partners like Lynx, Sony and XREAL, we are opening a path for the development of a wide array of Android XR devices to meet the diverse needs of people and businesses. The company plans to make the Android XR platform available to developers in early 2025.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Rumors earlier this year suggested Sony, the company responsible for making Apple’s OLED displays, can only produce up to 200,000 displays per quarter. The bad news is that the Apple Vision Pro release date for the cheaper wearable could be further away.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While Meta noted that the developer community may have access to passthrough video in early 2025, the move has not been implemented. Moreover, the Samsung headset comes as other leading XR technology firms, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, and Magic Leap, are championing the AndriodXR OS.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2025

.” As of this writing, Google’s $250 million investment is subject to customary closing conditions, and closing isexpected during the current quarter of 2025. Firms such as Samsung, Magic Leap, Lynx, Sony, Qualcomm, and XREAL are already poised to support this effort. New updates will most likely shake up the 2025 market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It seems that the market will be flooded with new products by the start of 2025, with Meta Connect also bringing new products. Meanwhile, LG, Samsung, and Sony are all working towards debuting headsets. However, the rise of less invasive XR wearables presents a new hurdle.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 2, 2024

Following Apple’s desire to increase Vision Pro production capacities, Apple is moving from its Sony OLED manufacturing reliance that requires a maximum cap of 900,000 units per year. Despite the delays, it seems that Apple is planning to debut a cheaper Vision Pro in late 2025 or early 2026.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear. A new OS arrives for on-face wearables. A new kind of programmatic surround sound (Spatial Audio is just the start). New 3D experiences for inside cars.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

” While Meta noted that the developer community may have access to passthrough video in early 2025, the move has not been implemented. Moreover, the Samsung headset comes as other leading XR technology firms, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, and Magic Leap, are championing the AndriodXR OS.

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The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2025

More info Discover NewImages Festival 2025 Upload VR has written an interesting reportage from the NewImages Festival. More info PlayStations Big Games, Big Deals Sale Kicks off Sony PlayStation has just kicked off a new sale initiative called Big Games, Big Deals. If you are into XR and storytelling, I advise you to give it a look.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2024

We also know that Sony will be making the screens for the headset ( Micro-OLED , according to a leak). We do know that Samsung will apparently be using micro-OLED displays supplied by Sony, rather than its own proprietary screens. Great visual fidelity: Based on the Sony screens and Qualcomm’s chips, this should be easy to achieve.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

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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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The thing is, these new “wearable in the real world” devices have a completely different design set of tradeoffs. They must “look cool.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2025

Following a busy year for the immersive industry, during which leading XR and broader technology firms started to lay a foundation for the future of smart glasses and 3D spatial data for enterprises, 2025 could be yet another transformative year for XR, with last year’s innovations turning into tangible products.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This is amazing progress towards the wearability of headsets also in public places. PSVR 2 was not a hit Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) The PSVR 2 headset has not been as a big hit as we hoped for. T he more we go on, the more the headsets are getting smaller and more socially acceptable.

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