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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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ESI Design Uses Unreal Engine To Create An AR-Inspired Lobby Experience

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A two year renovation has transformed The Crossroads lobby into an interactive digital experience powered by Unreal Engine. Each screen depicts imagery of iconic California landmarks, such as the Redwood Forest, Yosemite National Park, and, of course, California’s coastal scenery, but with a vintage California travel poster-feel to them.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.11): Samsung headset may launch in Q3, Animal Company is the most grossing game on the store, and more!

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Of course, they are rumors, so take them with a grain of salt. South Korean news outlet The Elec instead reports that Samsung will use Sonys new 1.35-inch inch 35523840 micro-OLED display, the same used in Sonys own SRH-S1 standalone headset. The first report comes from Business Post and hints at a release date in Q3 2025.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

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Of course, I’m also a bit envious (I’ve not been invited), but I’m mostly happy for them and I can’t wait to read their impressions about the headset. But it has been good anyway and it shows the commitment by Sony to constantly investing to have high-quality games for its PSVR 2 headset, which is very good.

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‘Lone Echo’ Behind-the-Scenes – Insights & Artwork from Ready At Dawn

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The team had their interest in VR piqued around 2012, at an internal conference for Sony developers. An early prototype of PlayStation VR, codenamed Project Morpheus | Image courtesy Sony. Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development? Was that about par for a play through?

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. 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.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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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. The price of this device is $600 0 and it is of course aimed at the enterprise sector.