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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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. One-year price performance for SNAP as of 2/3/20 Sony Corp. SNE) Sony is the owner of the PlayStation console and, PlayStation VR , its accompanying VR headset.

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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

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

JANUARY 16, 2021

Sony and Verizon have partnered to create the next generation of VR concerts and have announced this partnership at CES. The environment where she has performed in was made in Unreal Engine and the modeling and the shading was so good that for a moment I thought it was a real studio. Read more about this news on Google Blog.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Based in London, the creative has previously collaborated on massive projects with major entertainment firms such as BBC, Sony Pictures, and NBCUniversal. He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender.

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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. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG! News from partners (and friends).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

billion acquisition in late January, and Sony bought out Halo creators Bungie for a respective $3.6 billion, just after striking a major deal with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Numerous firms have begun deploying serious gaming technologies for global firms seeking to enter the Metaverse market.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. At this point, I wonder if GDC may be canceled as the MWC.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

One of my favorite games of all times is Unreal Tournament because I just love to shoot and kill without thinking too much… or better, without thinking AT ALL. Playing with it is great, it is a bit like playing Unreal Tournament. Shows the long term vision of this company. Space Junkies is a great VR action game.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Four days ago, I blogged about a widely-circulated report by an Apple industry pundit , speculating that the computer maker was making significant cuts to the number of Apple Vision Pro (AVP) units it was planning to ship this year, and stating that demand for the brand new, high-end VR/AR headset had “fallen sharply beyond expectations.”

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Ryder used to be the Editor of Dark Horse Comics, and we’ve talked about a graphic novel, comics and a weekly blog that has already been started. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! Is The Sony XRperia coming? Sony has just published a job offer looking for professionals to build an XR headset. First of all, it has been made by the mothership Sony Corporation , and not by Sony Interactive Entertainment, that manages the PlayStation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Full body tracking algorithm) More info (Full body tracking algorithm — some explanations about the project) Sony Mocopi launches in the United States Finally, we have some more news about Mocopi , the small body tracking kit that Sony has created for vTubers. The first tests with it have been pretty successful.

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