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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. MagicLeap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. More info (MagicLeappresentation) More info (Close up of the controllers).
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A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or MagicLeap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B This shows us that XR is the future of Facebook, but the present is still 2D social media and all its marketing power. was a lot of money?).
Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.
What is set is the present day, and this week shows the stepping stones towards XR’s tipping point are very much being paved. Other influential figures in the XR industry support Android XR, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, MagicLeap, and Lynx, an emerging player in the XR market.
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In 2023, we’ll see the fall of walled gardens as other players like Apple, Sony, and MagicLeap bring to market new headset iterations that advance spatial computing as a whole, and as a result, a slow upward trajectory of an optimized virtual reality experience. ”
This year on the show floor have been presented mostly linear evolutions of existing devices, clones of other headsets or prototypical solutions. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much MagicLeap’s Mica project. Seeing the troubles MagicLeap is in, I wonder how Neon will go… Learn more on: The Verge Engadget.
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Making up its list of thought leaders includes individuals from key immersive front-runners, including but not limited to Adobe, Google, Lenovo, Unity, Accenture, T-Mobile, MagicLeap, Qualcomm, Sony, HTC VIVE, and Meta. Event hosts, The VRARA, also secured crucial XR sponsors for the event, such as Lenovo, PwC, and Qualcomm.
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The event featured leading XR firms, such as Google, Meta, and MagicLeap, with representatives from Google and Mojo Vision who introduced the event in an opening keynote.
This is why MagicLeap has a new shot at life that I also didn’t see, due to its cord and lack of consumer experiences. Other augmented reality companies have pivoted away from consumers and toward enterprise uses of these glasses and devices (most notably MagicLeap and Microsoft’s HoloLens).
Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.
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For now… it has been cool that my name and a frame of my game HitMotion: Reloaded were there in the presentation for the launch of this historical product! If the rumor is true, Meta by 2024 is going to basically release the Nreal glasses or a mix of Nreal Light and MagicLeap 2. I am very much flattered by it.
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