VRScout

JANUARY 17, 2019

Where many high-end VR platforms pride themselves in touting the latest advances in hardware and the highest resolutions, Sony has instead chosen to focus their efforts on content, establishing a solid library of engaging VR experiences in the process. Image Credit: Sony Playstation.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

VR Anime in Japan. In general, VR in Japan didn’t take off as quickly as it did in the West. But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. various high-quality VR games on Oculus or SteamVR. But that’s starting to change.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Top news of the week. News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

Japan Display Inc. JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, today announced the development of a high pixel density, 3.25-inch inch 1001ppi LCD created specifically for VR headsets. JDI’s upcoming 1001ppi low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD is said to feature an improved latency of 2.2

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APRIL 26, 2017

Considering the average consumer’s desire for entertainment, it makes sense that some expect gaming to be the spark and it looks like the PlayStation VR (PSVR) is leading that charge in Japan as reported on eMarketer. 2016 marked the birth of the modern virtual reality era with the launch of HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

Japan Display Inc. JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, debuted their high pixel density display at Display Week, showing off the 3.25-inch, This Japan display had moving scenes and I couldn’t see the SDE anymore, even though it supposedly has lower PPI. — Ian Hamilton (@hmltn) May 22, 2018.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2018

With mostly prior confirmed PSVR titles presenting at E3 2018 , we expected Sony to dedicate a few moments during its E3 2018 keynote to highlight the platform’s upcoming VR games, of course with the understanding that high-profile PS4 titles would mostly overshadow VR titles. Well, that’s a bit of an understatement.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Anyway, he confirmed that the first smart glasses that will be released this year won’t have true AR and said that now Oculus wants to expand beyond the gaming ecosystem. Finally, next month’s update of the Oculus Quest 2 will bring with it the possibility of using multiple accounts on the same device. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. The next year, that number would cap at 2.4

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The console-based HMD picked up some steam with the release of SIE Japan Studio’s VR platformer ASTRO BOT , now considered one of the most polished VR titles of all-time; and with Beat Saber now available on the platform, there’s no doubt that the headsets popularity will only continue to rise. OCULUS RIFT ON SALE! 27, at 11:59 p.m.

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MARCH 9, 2017

The nominations for this year’s BAFTA Game Awards have been announced , and Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is once again leading the charge for virtual reality. Brilliantly, Sony Japan’s excellent party game, Playroom VR , is also nominated in the Family category.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, the game was built primarily for traditional displays, but on PS4 only, the game has a VR mode which allows it to be played from start to finish on Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. That number gives us some additional insight into the full scope of the data. million, assuming MSRP.

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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, 2018

” Very few major manufacturers have released sales data on their VR headsets, with Sony being the exception when they said that PSVR had already sold over 2 million units back in December 2017. As for software, big investments in first-party titles and premium IP are either already here, or coming very soon.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories , as it’s quite brilliantly called, is coming to PlayStation 4 with PlayStation VR support, at least in Japan. A release date for the full version of the game has not been set, though it’s fully exclusive to PS4, so that rules out possible HTC Vive or Oculus Rift versions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 12, 2017

We’re just a few hours away from Sony’s highly anticipated E3 2017 conference, where we’re expecting to see plenty of new PlayStation VR (PSVR) games. The UploadVR team is currently waiting to be let into Sony’s show in LA but, as usual, the company has lined up a bunch of games to check out in the meantime.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2017

Belgium, China (Beijing and Hong Kong), Japan, New Zealand, and Canada. In addition, the Advanced Imaging Society and the VR Society has international chapters in the U.K., For more information visit advancedimagingsociety.com & thevrsociety.com.

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MAY 5, 2017

Smashbox is a game that started life on the HTC Vive with roomscale support, though, which has us wondering how it will translate to Sony’s headset. The game should be available in the US, EU and Japan this Summer. We put that question to Big Box itself. We’ll be very interested to see how it holds up.

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JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. With 688 million Internet users in China alone, BAT already have a massive audience for VR content consumption.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

The Oculus founder and a girl in a cape stole the gaming show. This was a huge year for VR during Japan’s premier Tokyo Game Show. Some 110 VR games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive got all the attention with new demos and mixed reality performances. — コヤ所長 (@mayanmoyan) September 15, 2016.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

I’m talking about Robot Rescue , one of the handful of mini-games that appears on Sony Japan’s excellent free launch compilation, Playroom VR. Robot Rescue is essentially PS VR’s answer to Lucky’s Tale , one of our favorite games on the Oculus Rift. After finally trying it for myself, I can see why.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 1, 2019

There’s a lot going on over at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) currently, with the company currently shaking up its promotional events by hosting State of Play broadcasts and not appearing at events like the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It’s not just Shawn Layden leaving Sony.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Meanwhile, Sony, Oculus , and HTC continue to dominate the VR hardware marketplace, with an 86% combined market share. One driver of headset acquisitions was a temporary-turned-permanent price cut by Oculus in Q3, who matched Playstation’s VR headset price point at $399. Cultural factors also appear to be driving VR demand.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 17, 2016

What are the games and experiences that will ensure anyone that puts on an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR won’t soon forget it? If you don’t have a Vive, then we also recommend Medium and Quill on Oculus Rift with Touch. But there’s a question. What are the best apps to show everyone this holiday season?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

The report notes that the forecasted uptick hinges on various market leaders, including Google, Sony, Apple, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, HTC, Oculus, Magic Leap, Blippar, and Upskill. The development of XR for enterprises and consumers is notably rising in the US and EU.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The annual Tokyo Game Show (TGS) will return next week with Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia (SIEJA) having a big presence at the event for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. That launch won’t purely be for PlayStation VR, with a version also coming to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

JDI, a display conglomerate consisting of the display businesses of Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, announced this week the development of ultra high resolution panels that are made specifically for virtual reality headsets. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to the leaked documents, the VR port of RE4 is scheduled to launch May 2021 on Oculus VR. While it’s unclear which headsets the document is referring to specifically, based on the age of the now-classic third-person shooter, I doubt the game would have any difficulty running on the Oculus Quest platform.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2021

We already knew Sony’s next-gen VR headset for the PS5 is on the way, but recent reports may have revealed additional details about the next PSVR’s specs and launch date. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — CNET) More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — Hand Tracking) Sony to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC To celebrate the first anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony has written in blog post in which it talks about how it is improving the content catalog its users can access.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2021

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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Learn about the m**averse in Japan. Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. Image by HTC).

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