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The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).
In the Underground Labyrinth, for example, you’ll find an exhibition area featuring an immersive audio-visual experience as well as a four-sided theater that’s been generating tons of buzz on social media. This free event is available to VR users and gaming PC users. For an additional fee, you can unlock even more exciting content to enjoy.
In addition to eye-tracking and foveated rendering, Sony is supposedly implementing something called “flexible scale rendering” (FSR) on PS5 for its next-gen headset. It sounds similar to Oculus’ fixed foveated rendering (FFR) technique, which automatically adjusts the level of eye texture foveation based on GPU utilization.
I had the great pleasure to interview SVP of VR at Sony Pictures Jake Zim on his experience with developing, producing, and launching VR games inspired by Sony Pictures’ movies Spider-Man , Jumanji , Groundhog Day , and most recently, Zombieland. Here at Sony Pictures, we publish VR games and experiences across all platforms.
For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device. As we’ve done with past Oculus content volume disclosures, we can extrapolate and back into hardware estimates. By the Numbers .
Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.
We haven’t had the E3 where Sony doesn’t shut up about VR like it once did 3D, for example, nor the E3 where it seems like everyone and their mothers are making VR games like they once were mobile or motion controlled experiences. Couldn’t we have had at least something in the way of new Oculus and Vive Studios games?
At Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it’s both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company’s open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Image courtesy Oculus. There’s also a few of examples including guides to follow along.
For example, Rule #2: The double-tap. In an official press release, Jake Zim, SVP, virtual reality, Sony Pictures Entertainment said, “With this VR game, we’re bringing the zombie apocalypse right to you in a totally new way while preserving the humor and wit of the hit movie franchise.” Image Credit: SPVR, XR Games.
Sony reveals new VR games and exciting updates during its latest PS VR Showcase event. Today marked yet another PS VR Showcase by Sony, during which the company revealed new games for the PlayStation VR as well as exciting updates on several highly-anticipated titles. Feature Image Credit: Sony PlayStation.
For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device. As background, Facebook reports Oculus revenues under the “Payments and Other Fees” revenue category in its public filings.
As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.
Yesterday, Upload hosted its third annual E3 VR Showcase as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event, revealing a generous amount of new information for 18 VR games on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR headsets. Green Hell VR is scheduled to launch later this year on Oculus Quest and PCVR headsets.
Because hardware sales figures aren’t disclosed ( except from Sony ), this becomes an ongoing exercise in piecing together known quantities to extrapolate unknown ones. For example, it doesn’t fully reflect PSVR, nor Oculus Quest. — Oculus Quest has surpassed Vive Cosmos (2.89% vs. 1.25%).
VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Oculus proved that VR was more than a product when they officially released numbers about their ecosystem last September at Oculus Connect 6.
Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. For example, the anatomical features of the human body, the work of various mechanisms, etc. See Also: 4 Inventive Examples of Virtual Reality in Education. Visibility.
Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $885 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. That’s about 28 percent of Oculus’s overall ARPU ($454), given $299-$399 hardware.*.
Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.
For some developers, porting an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive game to PlayStation VR is easier said than done. We honestly believe any studio could take a good shot at bringing their game to Sony’s headset regardless of features and, with an install base of over 40 million PS4s, it’s in their best interest to.
Not that that’s a problem for Sony, with a tidy 50 million units sold in just over three years on the market. But all the shrewdness Sony has displayed in the past few years makes the risk of PlayStation VR all the more baffling. Sony had its work cut out if it was going to get the ball rolling, and E3 was only a few months away.
In a recent interview with German site Golem.de Sony Interactive Entertainment America President and CEO Shawn Layden noted that it will “probably be some time” before we see the next iteration of the console. Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is a great headset, but it’s definitely got issues.
We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. But just how much is VR on people’s radar? Image courtesy Nielsen.
Oculus Quest’s content library eclipsed 100 games and apps back at the end of August and continues to grow at a solid clip. It is currently in development for Oculus Quest. The developer has confirmed that a lite version of Pavlov is coming on the Oculus Quest on December 19th and it will be free-to-play. Population: One.
Project Morpheus prototype | Photo courtesy Sony. SEE ALSO On the Hunt for VR's Killer App with Sony's Head of PlayStation Magic Lab, Richard Marks. He points towards Resident Evil 7 (2017) , whose VR mode is currently exclusive to PSVR, as a good example of a game that works on both screen and headset.
When the acclaimed Tilt Brush ‘VR paint’ app launched alongside the HTC Vive in early 2016, it made sense for the program not to support the Oculus Rift as only the Vive at that time had motion-tracked VR controllers. We redesigned interactions to take advantage of the Oculus Touch controllers. . •
Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.
Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.
Examples include the live action remake of The Lion King and Jungle Book. Customers will be expecting much more from live events, with examples like this, especially as an alternate option as the world meets face to face again. mon GO has shown how augmented reality brings stories into the real world. The studio was ahead of its time.
For example, HP sells gaskets and meter cables for their Reverb headset. Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. This has likely led to any big-name omissions that you might have been curious about.
Launched for the Vive headset in December 2016, the game quickly received Oculus Rift support, and recently saw further optimisations for Oculus Touch. He uses Arcade Saga , a first-party title from HTC, as an example, noting its Vive and Rift support, and that he wants to bring the title to PSVR. “We Photo courtesy HTC.
One example is personal organizers (mobile calendar and contacts apps) on a portable device. Sony (PSVR) is clearly leading and is taking one third of the whole market. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); In 2016, hardware makers dominate the VR market.
From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company.
Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.
In terms of YouTube, for example, to watch 360 videos with a Daydream you’d currently need to use the official app, but with WebVR integrated you’d be able to view content through the Chrome browser instead. .” WebVR allows users to view VR experiences on web pages rather than through native apps.
The demo got more than 100k downloads on Steam so we decided to push on and now it’s available on Steam, Oculus, VivePort, WMR, PSVR, Pico Neo2, Nolo X1. Quest for example has sold more than 5 times than PCVR put together. It all started in November 2017 with the pre-production for a demo of Cave Digger. You mentioned about VRTK.
Last week we broke news that , for the first time in a while, Oculus isn’t set to attend E3, at least not on an official basis. The alien logo ringing out across the various other stalls and rows is arguably now as identifiable as the designs sported by Microsoft for its Xbox and Sony for its PlayStation.
Sony, takes a respectable gamble that keeps the company in the pot without threatening to take it all. It’s a tough table, but Zuckerberg and Oculus aren’t folding or flinching. That’s my big takeaway from Oculus Connect 3, the biggest and undoubtedly best developer conference the VR specialist has put on yet.
Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel. He gave examples of some applications of VR that have nothing to do with gaming, such as house tours, and meetings. ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.
For example, last week we estimated holiday Oculus Quest sales, and did a similar cumulative sales estimate in September. “People tend to focus on headsets sales, he wrote in a RoadtoVR article , “which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. ” The Findings.
Sony and Nintendo were all set to release a collaborative game system known as the SNES-CD back in the 90s as an add-on device for the Super Nintendo. It’s been a long time coming and now Sony is finally putting all of its wacky peripherals to use in one immersive experience. Funny how that works out, isn’t it?
The best design decision that Sony (and Impulse Gear, developers of Farpoint ) made while crafting the gun is that it’s 100% ambidextrous — meaning it can be used either right or left-handed without any issues. Sony’s PlayStation VR Aim Controller is a breath of fresh air for the PSVR platform.
As [an] example, flying into a stormcloud, you’ll feel the rain dropping onto your face," states the studio on PlayStation Blog. Mare's release joins a group of five PlayStation VR2 reveals today from Sony. Masters of Light is receiving a PS VR2 port on December 18, and Trombone Champ: Unflattened will reach Sony's headset next week.
Available On : Oculus (Rift). Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios brought Asgard’s Wrath to life as a part of the Oculus initiative to fund less, but bigger titles for the Rift platform. Available On: Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, WMR), Viveport , Oculus ( Rift , Quest ). Available On : Oculus ( Quest , Rift ).
SEE ALSO Sony Announces Powerful PlayStation 4 Pro with Enhanced PSVR Support. Sony’s years of hardware design experience shines through on PlayStation VR. Sony opted to go with a ‘Bring Your Own Headphones’ approach, and they include a pair of inexpensive earbuds with PSVR. Headphones.
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