The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Sony’s VP Tools Sony’s Crystal LED display technology and Venice camera capture technology create a unified RT3D backdrop solution which projects immersive and reactive visuals with the firm’s high brightness, wide colour gamut, and high contrast ratio promise.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

At AWE Europe in Vienna, I have been able to go hands-on with some very interesting XR solutions. These controllers got some interest from the community when they were announced, so I was pretty happy to see I could go hands-on with them at AWE Europe. The design was also pretty ok.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony is closing its Manchester-based game studio, that it opened in 2015 to produce ‘AAA’ PSVR exclusives. It is to be understood if the projects it was working on have been scrapped or they have been transferred to another studio internal to Sony.

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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. XR Europe is coming! Learn more. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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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. I can proudly say that we Italian have been the first in Europe to adopt a thermal scanning helmet in an Airport.

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