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Sony Music Showcases Multiplayer VR Experience Using Vive, Not PSVR

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You’d think if a division of Sony was making a VR experience they’d be using the company’s own headset, PlayStation VR (PSVR). It’s surprising to learn, then, Sony Music Entertainment is working with a rival headset, the HTC Vive. But the Vive display isn’t the only VR installation from Sony at the show.

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My experience at SXSW 2022: expect the unexpected

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Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of the most important events about creativity and technology in the USA. The event hasn’t been held physically for 2 years because of the coronavirus, and it is finally back in Austin Texas just now. Going SXSW. SXSW Logo (Image by SXSW).

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Khalid Debuts Projection Mapped VR Music Video at SXSW

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Sony unleashes VR music video with projection mapping technology at SXSW. If you’re unfamiliar with the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, it’s basically a celebration of, well, everything. Image Credit: Sony. We wanted to bring together a completely new type of immersive experience to music lovers.”.

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Therapists Using VR To Treat Mental Health Issues

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The researchers at the Laboratory for Youth Mental Health at Harvard then wanted to find out how VR intervention would compare to this, and partnered with Limbix – as well as researchers from other institutions such as the Mood Disorders Laboratory at University of Texas at Austin and the Lab for Scalable Mental Health at Sony Brook University – (..)

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Masters of Light Heads For PlayStation VR2 Next Month

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Masters of Light joins four additional PlayStation VR2 reveals today from Sony. Mare is now available with an optional eye tracking-only controls mode, while Trombone Champ: Unflattened will reach Sony's headset next week. UploadVR Pete Austin A Steam release date remains unconfirmed. Our full impressions.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

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I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold. I’m back in Italy!

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Sony announced sales of PlayStation VR in January 2020: 5 million headsets over the last four years. It’s difficult to get real data on the VR consumer market.