XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Qualcomm is positioning the XR2+ Gen 2 as a tipping point in XR hardware design and innovation due to its breakthrough features and specs combined with its launch partners.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 20, 2024

This week, at AWE 2024, Sony Electronics introduced new 3D visualisation tools that enable users to see and interact with XR content without smart glasses via the ELF-SR2 (27-inch) and ELF-SR1 (15.6-inch) Sony Electronics will display the system on the expo floor at AWE 2024, ready to showcase how XR goes far beyond headsets.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In an era where Sony appears to have a significant lead in console sales already, and with PSVR sharpening the system’s competitive edge, pressure is mounting for Microsoft to figure out its Xbox VR strategy. Gamespot reports Sony’s latest PS4 sales figures (including both PS4 and PS4 Pro) at a whopping 67.5

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2019

With the curious case of Microsoft initially announcing VR support for Xbox One X and then later pulling the plug before launch, it wasn’t clear if the company would use its next console as its opportunity to finally jump into VR. Meanwhile, Sony has already confirmed support for PSVR on PS5, and hinted at plans for a next-gen headset.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

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. It’s the “convergence of gaming, film, and music” part which speaks to where the long-term synergies between Sony and Epic lie.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

As usual, Microsoft is firing first with its press conference this E3, but it’s doing so even earlier than anticipated. This E3 is shaping up to be the biggest batle between Sony and Microsoft since 2013, the year where each had to convince gamers to buy a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One respectively.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Microsoft has reportedly filed a new patent to develop a microLED display solution to enhance virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules. An Apple-Microsoft-Meta micro-OLED Melee?

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

Back at E3 2016, Microsoft’s Head of Xbox Phil Spencer announced on stage that the Xbox One X (then ‘Project Scorpio’) would become the industry’s next VR-compatible console, positioning the platform to compete with Sony’s PSVR with what Spencer called “high fidelity VR.” Trouble in paradise?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. Sony promises amazing haptic sensations on the controllers, that should be able to provide “impactful, textured, and nuanced” sensations. Image by Microsoft). Top news of the week. It will so have inside-out tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony announces price and release date for PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. What will be important, anyway, will be the content.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung, Acer and HTC have combined their efforts in order to create a healthy and equal industry for virtual reality hardware and software to develop and expand. Industry standards and the sharing of valuable information could lead to an increase in compatibility between different VR hardware as well software.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 19, 2017

For Microsoft it’s the Halo and Gears of War games. But for Sony, it’s changed with each console generation. So it was this grassroots thing at Sony – a lot of engineers liked VR and wanted to do something with VR. Tagged with: god of war , sony santa monica Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) did reveal that 5 million headsets had been sold but a lot of the focus currently is on PlayStation 5. The new console is due for release at the end of the year with little mention about the future of PlayStation VR other than it’ll be supported by the new hardware.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Sony is effectively dominating the console VR space with the Playstation VR. Microsoft’s Xbox, on the other hand, has remained continuously skeptical of VR technology and its place within modern entertainment. The latest upcoming addition to the Xbox hardware lineup. Image Credit: Microsoft Xbox.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2022

” The so-called Metaverse Standards Forum was founded by platform holders, hardware companies, engine/tool creators, and users, with participants including companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, Epic Games, Unity, Meta, Microsoft, nVidia, OTOY, Qualcomm, and Sony. ” Image courtesy Metaverse Standards Forum.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

Microsoft is showing some commitment to the idea of Windows Mixed Reality (formally known as Windows Holographic) with not just a single headset, but with five headsets. Back in February, Sony announced that they sold 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets since it launched in mid-October, while Microsoft focused on their HoloLens MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold. This shows that Sony is pretty bullish about its device, and it is confident that it will be appreciated by a good share of its base market. And luckily for you, I have one.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Alongside Apple’s XR device debut, other firms, from Zoom to Microsoft, are jumping on the spatial computing bandwagon. First adopters of Vision Pro users can access Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Loop, complete with integrated Co-Pilot features, starting tomorrow. VR|MR 2024 wrapped up this week.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

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. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At Sony’s PlayStation 5 Showcase this afternoon, the final (and much awaited) pieces of the puzzle with regards to the console’s launch have dropped: pricing and a release date. Sony’s next-generation console will launch on Thursday, November 12 th.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2016

Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed ‘Scorpio’ to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting. See Also: GDC 2014: Sony Announce ‘Project Morpheus’ PS4 VR Headset. See Also: PlayStation VR: What You Do and Don’t Get in the Box.

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AR Insider

JULY 22, 2021

Using their public projections from Q1 2021, we might reasonably expect they spend about $6 billion on XR this year for salaries, hardware and overhead. Hardware development costs more than software, especially when you have to outsource all of the fabrication and parts and you’re not at the top of the stack. See Part I here. .

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Peter Graham

JULY 18, 2019

Formerly called the Global Virtual Reality Association (GVRA), today the XR Association (XRA) has announced that Microsoft has joined as a member company alongside founding members HTC Vive, Sony, Google, Facebook, and Samsung. We are thrilled to welcome Microsoft to XRA,” said Elizabeth Hyman, CEO of the XR Association.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

It will leverage the power of Sony’s PlayStation 5 to deliver full console-quality VR games like Horizon Call of the Mountain, Resident Evil Village, No Man’s Sky, and Gran Turismo 7. Why Sony (Likely) Won’t Do It. Why Sony (Likely) Won’t Do It. And soon, PlayStation will have a VR system too.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Four years after Mojang added PSVR support in a free Minecraft update on PS4, the Microsoft-owned studio announced that support will soon be discontinued. Minecraft Gear VR support ended in October 2020 after the hardware had been abandoned, whereas the Rift version was delisted in 2021 but existing owners can still use it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

More info (PSVR 2 sales — Road To VR) More info (PSVR 2 sales — Upload VR) Sony announces many new pieces of content at its Gaming Showcase A few days ago, Sony held its Gaming Showcase event, where it announced some cool pieces of content arriving for PSVR 2. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 11, 2017

Even though Microsoft confirmed it won’t be showing any of its wireless VR headsets at E3 this week with Xbox Scorpio we know it’s going to eventually have VR support. During Microsoft’s official E3 press conference the company announced the upcoming Xbox One X is releasing November, 7th.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2020

AR Hardware Will Become Better, More Affordable and More Comfortable. As augmented reality is becoming more pervasive in all industries, hardware producers will come up with new, improved models of AR glasses. This is one of the enterprise AR trends that everyone will profit from.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Google will continue to keep the servers up to let existing Daydream users continue using the apps, but there will be no new apps, no new products and no new sales of the hardware. Sony creates an AR headset for LBVR. Sony is offering a Ghostbuster AR experience in Ginza, Japan, and for this it has manufactured an AR headset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. million units sold in its first three months.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2020

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. While Sony is a member of the industry group which is building OpenXR, the company has been quiet about OpenXR support on PSVR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2017

At Microsoft’s E3 2017 briefing, the company’s event this year was all about the mid-generation Xbox hardware powerhouse formerly known as Project Scorpio. At Microsoft’s Xbox briefing at E3 2017, the company announced that the new console will arrive on November 7th around the world.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware. So basically Samsung is bringing to XR what already happens on phones: Samsung makes the hardware, Qualcomm the chipset, and Google the operating system. But Sony has refuted the report, claiming it is not true. headsets in the next year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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