The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

More info (PSVR 2 sales — Road To VR) More info (PSVR 2 sales — Upload VR) Sony announces many new pieces of content at its Gaming Showcase A few days ago, Sony held its Gaming Showcase event, where it announced some cool pieces of content arriving for PSVR 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Broadcast firms use augmented reality (AR) visualisations as an already popular form of branded-media delivery. Sony Volume Stages and Virtual Production Tools Sony is attempting to get ahead in the virtual production marketplace. Introducing Sony’s XR Film Production Ecosystem.

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Top 17 Augmented Reality Statistics, Facts and Trends for 2021 and Beyond 3. How Augmented Reality Will Improve Your Next Travel Experience 4. The Gear There were some exciting announcements this year in the AR/VR industry, and here they are (in no particular order): (Image courtesy Vuzix) Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. According to a recent report, the successor of the first Vision Pro may come in 2026 and have a price comprised between $1500 and $2500.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Ready Player Me’s highly-bespoke, Unity and Unreal Engine-compatible avatars facilitate rapid creations with a large catalogue of customisation options and features. #create #customise #avatar #metaverse #hiberworld #readyplayerme pic.twitter.com/T661VD6UoV. HiberWorld (@HiberWorld) September 14, 2022. Comments on Partnership.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 11, 2024

This week, following a series of moves towards building an open developer framework for its Quest headset portfolio, Meta announced “ Ocean ,” a new open-source, cross-platform framework for creating computer vision and mixed/augmented reality applications.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. Vive’s entrance would help shape the conversation around what we should expect from consumer virtual reality throughout 2015 and beyond.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is becoming increasingly common in everyday life. We see evidence of augmented experiences on social media through 360-degree photos and videos. Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 14, 2023

The augmented reality (AR) gaming market has seen new contenders rise as technological platforms offer new possibilities for the sector. The Los Angeles-based firm boasts a team of veteran technologists from SONY, Apple, Disney, Marvel Studios, and others. Niantic-Qualcomm Partnership: A Dynamic Duo for AR Gaming?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Added: The convergence of physical and digital spaces is accelerating, and we see virtual reality, mixed reality, and augmented reality becoming the next computing platform. Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm Inc., Meta is a crucial parenting in the OpenXR update.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine. Brian Vogelsang : Snapdragon Spaces is Qualcomm’s way of delivering technologies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

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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”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They are augmented reality glasses devoted to the enterprise, especially to let people see multiple AR displays in front of them. Sony and Verizon have partnered to create the next generation of VR concerts and have announced this partnership at CES. Read more about this news on Road To VR. Lenovo ThinkReality A3.

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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

MARCH 8, 2021

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). Sony seems to be patenting bananas as controllers for the next-gen PSVR! All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. It is sold by Sony, but actually, the idea behind it comes from Impulse Gear , that studio that developed Farpoint. Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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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

JULY 3, 2023

Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. VRTO , one of the leading virtual reality events, is back. Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we developed our game HitMotion: Reloaded on the Vive Focus Plus, we have designed it to run in augmented reality on the Focus , that is more or less identical to the Quest. Sony for sure with Resident Evil 8 is going to blow their minds, and a new market for premium content can appear. The new upcoming PS5 (Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

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. Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. News from partners (and friends).

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

Sony Debuts VP Collaboration Centre to Combat “Pain Points” Sony representative recently spoke to XR today during a virtual production (VP) showcase at Pinewood Studios. Meta also has a further six months to stop processing and storing data from European citizens in the US, namely those marked as violating GDPR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is 6DOF and lets you enjoy both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality. More info (Valve Index availability) More info (Facebook and Sony pulling out from GDC). StageCraft is a big LED screen, powered by Unreal Engine, that is used to replace the traditional green screens when shooting movies.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. .” Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. Image by Sony). Sony shows prototype headset with dual 4K display. During the Sony Technology Day showcase, Sony has shown a prototype of a headset with two 4K micro OLED displays. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Is The Sony XRperia coming? Sony has just published a job offer looking for professionals to build an XR headset. You may yawn at this news because we all know that PSVR is a thing, and of course, Sony hires people to work on it, but the announcement is more interesting than this. The Sony XRperia is coming.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Compatible devices The first device to run Android XR will be the mixed-reality headset that Google is building with Samsung and Qualcomm, codenamed Project Moohan. After that, other devices will come, and three manufacturers have already committed to release AndroidXR-powered headsets for the upcoming times: Sony, XREAL, and Lynx.

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