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‘Beat Saber’ Wins Sony’s Best PSVR Experience of 2018

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Created by Czech Republic-based indie studio Beat Games , Beat Saber landed the top award for Sony’s ‘Best PSVR Experience’ of 2018. Sony’s annual GOTY awards are determined by votes cast by PlayStation blog readers, so if you don’t like the way it shook out this year, you know who to blame.

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

Road to VR

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.

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Where to Try Vive, PSVR, Rift, Touch, Gear VR, and Daydream for Free

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Most of the European Vive demo locations are concentrated in England, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, but you’ll still be able to spot a few places in France, and even one in the Czech Republic. Sony is the first of the big three console makers to jump into virtual reality with the PSVR headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

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Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Header image by Sony).

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Interview with VRgineers: we want to push XR forward, but we’re not manufacturing a consumer XTAL

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HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. How is Virtual Reality in Czech Republic? ( The custom lenses of the XTAL headset (Image by VRgineers). Why does it seem that only startups are innovating PC VR?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

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The details of the deal are undisclosed, but Facebook guarantees that the studio will continue working as an independent studio based in Prague (Czech Republic), and that Beat Saber will continue being distributed and updated on all platforms it is currently available on.

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Here is Sony's list of all the PlayStation titles included with revamped PS Plus subscriptions

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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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