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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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Sony Unveils ‘Spatial Reality Display’ with Eye-tracking for Glasses-free 3D Viewing

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Sony recently unveiled Spatial Reality Display, a 15.6-inch In contrast to the $3,000 Looking Glass Holographic Monitor , which is decidedly much chunkier due to its optical array and light field rendering tech, Sony’s Spatial Reality Display is attacking the problem of 3D viewing from a different angle.

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Epic Floated the Idea of Building a Launch Title for Sony’s Next VR Headset

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Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. And though Epic hasn’t made any VR games since then, it seems that in 2018 it was still ready and willing.

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Sony Showing More Believable VR Characters In PSVR GDC Tech Demo

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Creating more believable virtual characters will play an essential role in further immersing us in single-player VR experiences in the future, and Sony intends to demonstrate that on PlayStation VR (PSVR) this GDC. This demo will focus on “simple 3D prodcedural spatial behaviors for VR characters.”

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AWE misc hands-ons: Surreal Controllers, Scentient, Senmag Robotics, and more!

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In the demo I had on the show floor, I could only use the controllers to point and click at 2D interfaces. Then I sneaked into a relax room because I’d been told the Surreal guy was trying to do demos there because the Wi-Fi was better and I was finally able to try Beat Saber on the Apple Vision Pro streamed from a PC.

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‘PlayStation VR Worlds’ Review: Just Another Demo Disc

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When you buy a PlayStation VR headset, you already get a multi-game demo disc packed full of short glimpses for some of the PS VR’s biggest and best games. It’s appropriately named the Demo Disc. That sounds an awful lot like a demo disc, right? That’s literally what the box says. Last and least is VR Luge.

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Firewall Ultra Hands-On: Blinded By The Light On PSVR 2

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First Contact Entertainment gave me something new to experience in consumer VR with a recent hands-on demo of Firewall Ultra. The Firewall Ultra demo showcased a more detailed vision of fast-paced tactical team battles compared with its 2018 predecessor, Firewall Zero Hour. So you’re still useful even if you’ve gone down.”