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Shuhei Yoshida, Industry Veteran & Main Figure Behind PSVR, Departs Sony

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Shuhei Yoshida (aka ‘Shu’) has left Sony, closing a near 32-year chapter of his life with the company. Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th, 2025. “And when I hit 30 years, I was thinking, hmm, it may be about time for me to move on. .”

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Big XR News from Samsung, HTC VIVE, Google, Sony, Pico, NVIDIA

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Google Invests $250 Million into HTC VIVE Following last months announcement of AndroidXR and this weeks teasers for Samsung’s Moohan, Google made a significant parallel move. The company entered into a definitive agreement with HTC VIVE, providing a substantial investment of $250 million to the leading XR firm.

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PICO Integrates OpenXR 1.1 for Simplified Immersive Application Development

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Khronos Group quoted Ron Bessems, OpenXR Working Group Chair and Software Engineer at Meta , who shared his perspective on the importance of OpenXR: “ The OpenXR specification is a crucial part of the Mixed Reality ecosystem.

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Google Acquires Some Of HTC Vive's Engineering Team For Android XR

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Google is acquiring "some of" HTC Vive's engineering team to "accelerate the development of the Android XR platform". As an interesting parallel: in late 2017 Google acquired some of HTC's mobile devices engineering team, and leveraged these engineers to vastly improve the hardware of its Pixel phones.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Top news of the week.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Sony MR headset — Road To VR) More info (Sony MR headset — Upload VR) Shiftall reveals MeganeX Superlight Shiftall (remember to read the f before the t) revealed at CES a new headset: the MeganeX Superlight. The game will support all major headsets, with the notable exceptions of WMR headsets, and HTC Vive.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.11): Quest 3 may be 2x better than Quest 2, HTC teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by HTC Vive). HTC teases a new headset. HTC has started the usual marketing operation it does for the launch of every new device. We don’t have further details about it, and if you try to enhance the above image, you just get a “Nice try” trolling label coming to view (gg HTC for that). Other relevant news.

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