The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week. But features tell only a part of the story.

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Slashgear

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They are Firesprite, the creators of a few games that’ve been key to the introduction of PlayStation 4 and virtual reality elements in PlayStation’s newest consoles. This is the sort of studio you might’ve expected to have been part of Sony in the first place, if it … Continue reading.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

“From upper funnel to purchase, brands are increasingly turning to Augmented Reality to market their products and services online,” was the tale I spun a year ago. AR is looking to be right at a tipping point of consumer adoption, and at the cusp of becoming the next big advertising medium. But it doesn’t stop at entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

This new money, that has been given by Sony and other investors, has been explicitly gathered to build the blocks of the future Metaverse. For instance, one of the job postings is for a “waveguide design developer, augmented reality.” Epic Games is paving the road towards the Metaverse. billion valuation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. Road To VR) More info (The FTC blocks Meta’s acquisition of Within?—?Upload Upload VR). Other relevant news. How much does it cost?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

Meta AI has built-in Meta Llama technology and has been updated to enable your smart glasses to share your worldview and bring you text translations, fashion tips, and more. This chipset will reportedly be integrated into Samsung and Sony headsets, Play for Dream MR and Immersed’s Visor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

More info Playstation 5 Pro can bring better performances to PSVR 2 PlayStation 5 Pro is the new expensive PlayStation model announced by Sony Interactive Entertainment. This seems to confirm the rumors about the “Puffin” MR glasses that are attached to a computational unit. It brings better performances than the standard PlayStation 5.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Impressive numbers for sure. (Thanks Tony VRrool for the tip on the Chinese VR market). Regarding the last point, the company highlights that the glasses use waveguide optics to provide better augmentations, even if this leads them to have just 40° FOV. billion U.S. dollars in 2020, accounting for more than 54.7%

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

More info (Review on Road To VR) More info (Review on Upload VR) More info (Editorial about PSVR showing its age) More info (Tips&Tricks for Iron Man VR). Sony Dreams adds PSVR support. Finally, the time has come for creative sandbox Dreams to add support for virtual reality. Facebook showcases AI 16x supersampling.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

you should consider upgrading to this new one. (Thanks Rob Cole for the tip!). Image by Sony). Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th). News worth a mention. PlayStation 5 price has been revealed.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Here’s what a 360-degree Snapchat video with augmented reality filters looks like. The goal: to showcase what an augmented reality future would look like in a 360-degree environment. Tips for creating 360 videos with AR Filters. Will Snapchat users be able to share 360-degree videos in the future?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The visuals would be provided by two 4K OLED microdisplays from Sony. And remember: we are talking about a game almost everyone in the VR communities knows… most VR indies are in a situation even worse than this one. (Thanks Rob Cole for the tip). Mr. Kuo says that the headset should be released in Q4 2022. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Thanks Ivan Aguilar for this tip!) More info Sony is working on reprojection improvements for PSVR 2 One of the biggest issues of PSVR 2 is the reprojection that is causing ghosting and other artifacts. All these official pages before the launch of a Meta headset are pretty uncommon.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. So what’s next? and many places worldwide. and Canada.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

Apple wants to reduce the price of the display by a 50% factor and is also trying to have other suppliers of displays beyond Sony (e.g. According to a new report by The Elec, Apple wants to release a second-generation device that costs $1500 and the first cost entry to cut to arrive at that goal is the displays.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The unique (and formerly Valve developed) retro-reflective-powered CastAR system gave us a glimpse at one of augmented reality’s possible futures; Avegant turned up with their bizarre yet technically impressive personal media player the Glyph ; PrioVR had their new entry-level motion tracking / VR input system to try.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

What is set is the present day, and this week shows the stepping stones towards XR’s tipping point are very much being paved. Other influential figures in the XR industry support Android XR, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, Magic Leap, and Lynx, an emerging player in the XR market. However, as always, that future is not set.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2025

More info (Pimax Crystal Super shipping update) More info (VooDoos hands-on the device) Enjoy the PlayStation Spring Sale Sony is holding the PlayStation Spring Sale until April 23. Its good to see that Pimax managed to deliver this headset in a reasonable time.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. I’ve found the news inside an article that was talking about fitness in augmented reality. Museum of Other Realities is free to get for the XR3 festival. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Regarding the Valve Index , GabeN explained that it went out of stock because one of the needed components came from Wuhan (yes, exactly that city…) and during the pandemic, Sony and Microsoft got all the supplies , so Valve had enormous problems in manufacturing the device. Thanks Ilja Zegars for the tip!). Who else is hyped?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

We can put our champagnes back in the fridge (Thanks Ilja Z for this tip, you are great!). Sony announces new games for PSVR. More info (All announcements by Sony) More info (Doom 3 VR) More info (After The Fall) More info (After The Fall on announced platforms) More info (Fracked). I can’t wait for them to hit the market.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) PlayStation VR 2 has been launched This has been the week of PSVR2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has started shipping the headset , and many people in the community started sharing pictures of them using this new device. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Thanks to Rob Cole for the tip). for its mixed-reality video solution for VR applications. Thanks to Tom Ffiske for the tip). Vive Focus 3 now supports Hands Tracking even in PCVR mode (Thanks Paolo Leoncini for the tip). News worth a mention. What a sad news for gaming!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Japanese magazine Famitsu interviewed Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Hideaki Nishino and asked him many questions about PlayStation 5 and PSVR 2. This shows the commitment that Sony has toward VR; The lineup for PSVR 2 is not complete. Actually, Sony has not revealed all the launch titles, yet.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

When talking about augmented reality, one company that is for sure at the forefront of innovation is Snap. I see this as a way to port the classic in-app-purchases system to augmented reality lenses: you pay and you have more features for your lens, or you get an NFT associated with it, for instance. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

And of course, they are going to appeal this decision… More info PSVR 2 to be sold in retail stores Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that “soon”, PSVR 2 will be sold in dedicated retail store locations. Thanks Matias Nassi for the tip!) Augmented Reality together with artificial intelligence is going to get crazy.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

French startup Lynx has finally unveiled the R1, the first mixed reality standalone headset. While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). According to a report from Bloomberg, Sony may release its much-awaited next-gen PSVR headset (which I informally call PSVR 2) during Holidays 2022. This is very interesting: it means that Sony is leaving another year to Facebook to gain market shares with the Quest. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.”

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image by Sony). Sony unveils affordable Mocopi tracking system. Sony has just announced a new affordable tracking system. Thanks Rob for the tip!). Header image by Sony). Upload VR) More info (Apple renaming its MR operating sytem to xrOS?—?Yahoo!) Other relevant news. The winners of VR Awards have been announced!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

And also of course I would like to understand what is the expected price: the 3DOF version can be preordered at 599 USD, so I guess the 6DOF one will be at least 799. (Thanks KroyVR for the tip!). The company is investigating the matter. (Thanks Rob Cole for the tip!). Thanks Alan Smithson for the tip!) Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tips & Tricks for the Quest 2! New tips and tricks for Quest 2 are being published for Quest 2: Quest 2 doesn’t work well outdoor, even in conditions when the tracking of the Quest 1 worked. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Thanks Rob Cole for the tip) More info (Video of the system working) More info (Waitlist for the product) The privacy dangers of face cameras A group of researchers made a test using standard glasses with a micro front camera that sent images to an AI engine that recognized people and found information on them on the web. But I hope so.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

I hope that a future rumor clarifies a bit more what is Facebook’s strategy. (Thanks Alessio Palumbo for the tip!). Various months ago, Jason Rubin told the press that he was investigating an exchange of exclusive titles with Sony : his purpose was the one of bringing some of the best PSVR titles, like Resident Evil 7, to the Oculus Store.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range. Thanks Nova for the tip!) Good luck, Stan and team!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2025

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. More info Discover NewImages Festival 2025 Upload VR has written an interesting reportage from the NewImages Festival. If you are into XR and storytelling, I advise you to give it a look.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). Head mounted display: With a similar profile to Sony’s Playstation VR the headset is then also depicted within VR. saw his parents.

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