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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Other companies such as Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony also invest in XR technology. ” The firm has seen sales success with its current versions of the Ray-Ban Stories product, which are currently available in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Sony Interactive Entertainment is raising the prices of the PS5 console, PlayStation VR2 headset, and various accessories in Japan on September 2, 2024. "We PlayStation VR2 is getting a $100 price hike in Japan due to recent global economy changes and "challenging" external influences.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. News worth a mention.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. Header Image by Sony). Thank you all for making me feel your warmth, you are an amazing community!

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JUNE 8, 2022

Sony Pictures Virtual Reality announced a new location-based Ghostbusters VR experience developed by Hologate for its Arena and Blitz platforms around the world. ” Sony Pictures Virtual Reality will publish the experience across the 400 venues globally where Hologate experiences are available.

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JULY 7, 2023

UploadVR David Heaney For later in 2024, Gurman reports Apple is "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and is working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

VR headsets are tricky things to store seeing as they’re only designed to sit on your head, but Sony now has its own solution for how you can maintain your PlayStation VR unit. Sadly the headset isn’t available in the US and isn’t likely to be as it’s only licensed for sale in the EU and Australia.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

For later in 2024, Gurman reported Apple was "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and was working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

For later in 2024, Gurman reported Apple was "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and was working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For later in 2024, Gurman reported Apple is "discussing the UK and Canada as two of its first international markets with Asia and Europe soon after, although a final decision hasn’t been made" and was working on localizing the device for Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and China.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

We previously reported on a collective including HTC Vive, Sony, and many others that would work together to harness the potential of immersive technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 2, 2024

Apple is also debuting the Vision Pro in Australia (5,195 AUD), Canada (4,725 CAD), France (3,245 EUR), Germany (3,245 EUR), and the United Kingdom (2,785 GBP) starting Friday, July 12. As of Friday, June 28, Apple debuted its MR headset in China (mainland, 24,502 CNY), Japan (484,415 JPY), and Singapore (4,725 SGD).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. . — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. A host of filming environments in a compact, lightweight form factor.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

It’ll launch the following day in Europe, Australia and New Zealand published by Sony and available in stores as well as digitally. Now we know the price of Robinson: The Journey on PlayStation VR from Crytek, arriving for $60 on Nov. 8 in the United States and Canada.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Now with a team of 23 people, Digital Lode is one of the largest VR-focused studios in Australia, alongside others like Ritchie’s Plank Experience developers Toast. Once it was ready, Wentworth-Bell flew over to the United States to demo Espire to some big tech companies, including then-Facebook (now Meta) and Sony.

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JULY 15, 2024

This past weekend, Apple debuted its Vision Pro mixed reality headset in the United Kingdom, marking the end of the firm’s international device rollout completion, which started at WWDC 2024 and includes regions such as mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany.

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JULY 5, 2024

Apple is also debuting the Vision Pro in Australia (5,195 AUD), Canada (4,725 CAD), France (3,245 EUR), Germany (3,245 EUR), and the United Kingdom (2,785 GBP) starting Friday, July 12. In the buildup to this increase in general availability, reports show how Apple reacts to this new influx of potential customers.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Firstly available in America and Canada, it took six months for the company to open up and allow for sales in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This way, Microsoft will one-up the competitors from Sony, who only support their own PlayStation VR platform.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Gold Coast, Australia-based studio revealed the news in an X post (seen below), noting that the “majority of our talented staff have suffered redundancies.” ” This follows the studio’s first layoff round in November 2024 , which affected 10 employees.At

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GizModo VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Little more than a week after Shanghai, China crawled out of one of the most severe and taxing covid lockdowns anywhere in the world, the city is once again on notice for covid spread while millions are being told to hole up and prepare for mass testing. Read more.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty at number of institutions in Australia, Singapore & India.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

With headquarters in Austin, Texas, the coconuts include artists building from home as far away as Australia. Meanwhile, Pico 4 Ultra offered the first true Quest 3 competitor, Logitech's MX Ink delivered a new kind of input for spatial art, and Sony turned PlayStation VR2 into a PC VR headset with a $60 adapter.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The company has worked with Disney, Warner Bros, Apple TV, Netflix, Wells Fargo, Sony Pictures, Walmart, and many others. For The Verse, we’ve already had visitors from countries as far as Japan and Australia in spite of this experience being developed primarily for a US audience.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Campaign It was the “great pleasure” of University of South Australia Professor of Computer Human Interaction Mark Billinghurst to present the Auggie Award for Best Campaign. Best Collaboration Tool Sony Electronics Head of XR Business Development Thaisa Yamamura was “honored to present” the Auggie Award for Best Collaboration Tool.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Demand upgrade in Europe and the United States: Theme parks and commercial complexes are accelerating the layout of immersive experiences, and OEM orders from leading brands such as Meta and Sony increased by 35% Traffic bonus in Southeast Asia: The number of home entertainment centers (FEC) has surged, and the purchase demand for lightweight VR equipment (..)

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MARCH 26, 2023

Looking to find the best PlayStation VR2 games available on Sony’s new headset? With no support for hand tracking on Sony’s headset, developers Anotherway offer the controller-only version on Unplugged on PSVR 2. Here’s out full list of the top 25 best PSVR 2 games for PS5.

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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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MAY 16, 2022

For those who missed the news, Sony revealed in March that the long-running PlayStation Plus subscription program is getting a much-needed update. It's definitely more complex than a single PS+ subscription ever was, but you can simply roll with the Essential plan if Sony's previous way of doing things was enough.

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APRIL 14, 2025

Sony has increased the price of the PS5 console in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, while decreasing the price of the disc drive add-on. In Australia the PS5 Digital Edition and PS5 with disc drive have been increased to A$750 and A$830 respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Sony also had no public presence – VR or otherwise – at Gamescom this year. A nice touch – but a shame there wasn't the opportunity to demo either game on the show floor. Demos of 1v1 Battles matches would have been an especially great shout ahead of the game's November launch.

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