The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Star Wars: Squadron is the new AAA VR game we are all waiting for. Out of the blue, EA has announced a new amazing game called Star Wars: Squadron, developed by its studio Motive. This game has born with VR in mind, and people with VR and Desktop PC can play together. The Upload VR Showcase gave us many news on VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range. It’s the end of an era. Per se, this is a piece of news no one cares about.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. And is also clear that he’s hinting at the fact that they are going in that direction, in building a battery-powered device to play VR games.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

To its credit, the company had the foresight to release HoloLens in 2016, a full two years before unicorn startup Magic Leap could get its first standalone AR headset out the door. Three years later it released HoloLens 2, which directly competes today against Magic Leap Two.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” Best Game or Toy. All these four awards are decided at the conference.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Even if you already have the game, please get it again from App Lab, so that you will receive our upcoming updates (that will be super cool!) Image by Sony). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. we need something better.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Then of course Sony didn’t match this prediction, and the day after the analysts were shouting that PSVR had been a disappointing failure… where actually they should have said that they sucked at market analysis and they should have gone hoeing the soil. Meta never said that the metaverse is a VR game. Do you see it?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

By the virtue of its Windows operating system, the basis of which nearly every PC VR headset uses to function, Microsoft joining the OpenXR initiative represents a win for the others involved, which include industry players like Google, Oculus, HTC, AMD, NVIDIA, Epic Games, Unity, Intel, Qualcomm, Sony, Samsung and Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info Meta may partner soon with Magic Leap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with Magic Leap for the production of AR glasses. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Japanese electronics giant Sony recently bought out Beyond Sports, allowing the former to build massive metaverse content for sporting events. Beyond Sports develops real-world data for 3D animations, and its technologies will seamlessly integrate with Sony’s growing portfolio of immersive solutions. it announced this week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. The devil is in the details.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The reason for this operation is the fact that the game has now a not huge community (around 10K players) and RAD thinks it’s better to invest its resources on his next (unannounced) project. Games and products are just numbers in an Excel sheet that must produce some defined outcomes. RIP, you will be missed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Developer : Insomniac Games. Developer : Hipfire Games. Developer : InnerSpace VR, Vertigo Games. Developer : Squanch Games. Developer : Rovio , Resolution Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. deaf people) which were using mods to be able to use the application and communicate with other people in the game. Upload VR).

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Upload VR

AUGUST 8, 2023

Windup Minds, a new studio with talent from Oculus, Niantic, Magic Leap, wants to bring virtual creatures into your headsets. Windup is aiming to create an evolution of virtual creature staples like the Tamogotchi, the Sony Aibo robot dog and Shigeru Miyamoto's Nintendogs. The studio announced a $1.6

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Notwithstanding the small size, the glasses are meant for SteamVR gaming, and in particular for people that spend so much time in SteamVR that need a comfortable and lightweight headset. At CES, it continued with this strategy, and it announced a few new games coming for the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

The event kicks off at 10 am PDT and you can watch it here: [link] Besides Apple, very soon you will also discover new info about our game Hitmotion: Reloaded … this is more interesting than Apple glasses that may revolutionize all the XR sector of course… so stay tuned! This can be another cool feature for productivity on the Quest.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

. “While there was clear demand coming primarily from technology enthusiasts, what became readily apparent were the use cases for enterprise users across multiple verticals and for consumers with gaming and content consumption.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

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. It comes in two flavors: one that works with physical disks and the other one with an internal hard drive to download games from the store.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. I’m pretty sure that Sony is waiting the next few months to make some moves, there’s still the Black Friday and the Christmas Holiday that have to happen, but at the moment I do not see this device as disruptive to our ecosystem.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Insomniac Games will soon no longer be an independent studio thanks to its acquisition by Sony Worldwide Studios. And today the studio has announced another, this time for Magic Leap with Strangelets. . Before that happens the developer released Oculus Rift exclusive Stormland earlier this month.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too. There is even Microsoft Word!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Todays release is a preview for developers, and by supporting tools like ARCore, Android Studio, Jetpack Compose, Unity, and OpenXR from the beginning, developers can easily start building apps and games for upcoming Android XR devices.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

APRIL 28, 2023

The company faces increased competition from other VR and AR companies, such as Sony and Apple. At the time, Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive of Microsoft, said that the gaming industry plays a “key role in the development of Metaverse platforms.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m trying to do my best… I hope you’ll appreciate that Before leaving you to the news… I’m hosting a giveaway of Gang V keys… it is a cool VR battle royal game with strong GTA V vibes that has just been released in Early Access on Steam ! This game will attract many fans of the saga to the Quest, increasing its sales even more.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Launched last year ZapWorks is a creative suite designed specifically for developing AR experiences like Pokemon Go on mobile rather than a development engine that serves standard games first and other technologies second. With it, developers can create 3D models that they can then project into the real world through a smartphone screen.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

EX-HEAD OF SONY PLAYSTATION LONDON FORMS CROSS-PLATFORM VR GAME STUDIO. A hot spot for development, London has birthed a new VR-focused game studio – but not just any game studio. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Don’t Expect Valve’s VR Games or Knuckles. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ».

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

There are companies making money by just making VR accessories or VR games. This, together with the local dimming of Magic Leap 2 , show that now the AR and VR categories are starting to blur, and we could call the headsets AR-first or VR-first, and not AR or VR anymore. VR is nowhere close to death, it’s well alive.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

They had some hype a few years ago, also because Magic Leap, in the beginning, hinted at the fact that it would have used them, but then they revealed themselves to be too unpractical for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

People are engaged in the device and this means that they buy games, making the Oculus Store a profitable platform for developers. Now some game studios can make a living with VR gaming thanks to the Quest and this is amazing news for the whole ecosystem. Magic Leap raises other $350M. It’s all very cool.

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