Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2025

The event is taking place online from June 9th to 13th, although the big keynote livestream on June 9th is slated to include Apple’s usual deluge of all things software related.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2022

Of course not… Sony 3D Display. The first display I have been able to try has been at the Sony booth. This is the picture of Sony 3D display. The demo was a bit similar to the one I had at Sony : I tried some games, applications, and videos, and I could see them in 3D without wearing glasses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Today at CES Sony revealed a new standalone MR headset equipped with “4K” OLED displays. Sony’s unnamed standalone MR headset is based on Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 processor and is said to include 1.3-inch The Sony MR headset hasn’t been priced but the company says a release date will come this year.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2022

United States import records from late 2021 onward show that Sony Interactive Entertainment has shipped thousands of boxes containing developer kits from Asia to the US. The exact contents of the boxes hasn’t been specified, however Sony’s next-gen PlayStation VR 2 headset is a very likely candidate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Sony vs Samsung skirmish is nothing new. Both Sony and Samsung have clearly demonstrated an interest in extended reality over the years. Sony vs Samsung: The Headset Details We Know So Far Sony has been a lot more forthcoming with its XR plans, and what it wants to accomplish with its upcoming XR device.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Sony's standalone XR headset for enterprise CAD now has a price and release month. The Sony SRH-S1, as it's now being called, will be available for businesses to purchase from January 23 for $4750, and will start shipping some time in February. The headset was first announced at last year's CES.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2022

Sony has fully revealed PlayStation VR 2 at this point, but the company has still kept the PSVR 2 release date under wraps, with many wondering if it will come in 2022 or 2023. ” Earlier this week Sony revealed some new software features coming to PSVR 2.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sony says it’s bringing some form of PC VR support to PSVR 2 at some point this year, although it’s not clear when, or even how the company will go about letting users play games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) or popular social VR platforms equally missing from the headset’s game catalogue. ” That’s not all.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2025

While tech giants race to claim their slice of the spatial computing pie, Sony’s new XYN platform (that’s “zin” to you and me, by the way) is on the cusp of its full release. A Star-Studded Lineup XYN is essentially a suite of tightly integrated hardware and software innovations, designed for spatial content creation.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Apple is reportedly making good headway on its quest to bring controllers to Vision Pro, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman maintains a collaboration with Sony to bring support for PSVR 2’s controllers to Apple’s headset is still on track.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To support workers in these sectors, Miniverse is ready to be integrated alongside platforms such as Blender, RoboDK, and Haplys first-party HARP software. Sonys submission received recognition for the XR Head-Mounted Display SRH-S1 device, demonstrating excellence in innovation, functionality, aesthetics, and design.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Apple and Sony are still working to bring PS VR2 Sense controller support to Vision Pro, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman has a relatively strong track record of reliably reporting on Apple's product plans years in advance, and successfully described most of Apple Vision Pro's hardware and software before it was officially revealed.

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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. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sony branded its standalone headset XYN, and we went hands-on with the latest prototype. UploadVR's Don Hopper is on site at CES 2025, and attended Sony's formal announcement of its XYN headset, pronounced "zin", which the company still describes as a prototype.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2023

Sony announced a new addition to its growing lineup of Spatial Reality Displays. According to the company, the device is designed for use by architects, engineers, industrial designers, software and game developers, and various other professions. There are even practical use cases for modern retail spaces, as pictured below.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We all know that Meta is more a software company than a hardware one, so hardware production is a problem for it. And with the announcement of Horizon OS, it is clear that Metas ambition is to become the software platform of XR headsets, something like the Android of XR. The Quest 3S instead, did not have stellar sales number s.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2021

I had the great pleasure to interview SVP of VR at Sony Pictures Jake Zim on his experience with developing, producing, and launching VR games inspired by Sony Pictures’ movies Spider-Man , Jumanji , Groundhog Day , and most recently, Zombieland. Here at Sony Pictures, we publish VR games and experiences across all platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

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 new device, still unnamed, boasts a Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 processor and is said to include 1.3-inch

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One of the ongoing challenges in market sizing is to piece together clues to extrapolate things like unit sales and software revenues. Both exercises extrapolated hardware units based on software revenue disclosures. For this market-sizing exercise, Chennavasin used game review volume as a correlative factor to software sales.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Alas, Sony confirmed this was a mistake. When physical copies of the game started arriving, players spotted a ‘1-4 Players’ feature indicator on the back of the box, along with fine print reading, “Robust internet connection required to download software patch to enable local co-op functionality.”

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2024

Sony’s new headset, officially dubbed the SRH-S1 “content creation system” combines a compact form-factor with novel controllers. The yet-to-be-priced Sony SRH-S1 is being designed as an enterprise headset. Sony also tells us it can be driven by a PC through a compressed video stream (like Quest Link).

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2024

Sony announced last month it was bringing PC VR support to PSVR 2 sometime this year, although the company didn’t specify how or exactly when this would happen. While we’re no closer to knowing when , all signs now point to a direct wired connection—holding a few implications for Sony’s VR strategy. It might be.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

PSVR 2 won’t work as a PC VR headset, and according to the developer behind unofficial conversion software iVRy Driver , you shouldn’t buy one with the anticipation that it ever will. One such go-to staple for PSVR-to-PC conversion is iVRy Driver for SteamVR , an ongoing project created by indie studio Mediator Software.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It is its Reality Labs division, the same one working on XR headsets, that is developing the hardware and the software for these AI-powered robots that can handle everyday household tasks. The company plans to roll out the features as part of a software upgrade and they could be available in beta version for developers as soon as this week.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2025

Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From Asus & Lenovo Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third-party headset makers, including Asus and Lenovo. Now, Luna has received apparent details of the Asus ROG Horizon OS headset.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The PlayStation VR2 PC app now warns of controller Bluetooth connectivity issues, and Sony lists recommended adapters and drivers as a solution. Sony released the PC VR adapter and SteamVR driver for PS VR2 in August. Sony says its new 2.5.0 Here’s what we think of PSVR 2 as a PC VR headset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sony today announced that its next-generation VR headset is coming —not in 2021, but it’s definitely a thing. In an interview with GQ , Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan says dev kit headsets are close to landing in the hands of developers.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

Among other additions to the console’s base experience, the forthcoming PS4 System Software Update 4.50 will bring improved tracking and 3D Blu-ray playback to Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. In time for the launch of Farpoint and the PSVR Aim controller, the PS4 System Software Update 4.50 Easy Aim Development.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

This means that the wireless noise-canceling headphones from Sony not only let users stream music but also handle calls and get information on demand. Finally, text-to-speech (TTS) software produces translated speech. They may embed accelerators into a solution and divide hardware components to speed up specific software functions.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Don’t close your eyes… Reviews for the PlayStation VR2 are beginning to surface and so far Sony’s next-gen VR headset for the PlayStation 5 is proving to be a winner. For more information on the PS VR2 check out the official unboxing video from Sony here.

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Upload VR

JUNE 18, 2024

Sony's upcoming standalone headset running the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset is unlikely to draw in creatives with its limited field of view and finicky controllers. Sony Announces XR2+ Gen 2 Standalone Headset For Enterprise Sony is the previously undisclosed fifth company building a headset using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We’ve seen over 100 VR titles break $1 million in revenue, growing the total VR software market by 3x in 2019. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Tracking VR Software Sales. VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2023

Amid mounting pressure from Sony with the recent launch of its PSVR 2 headset for PlayStation 5, Microsoft again affirmed that it’s still waiting for the technology to mature before offering any sort of dedicated VR software or hardware for Xbox. “I think for us, it’s just a bit of wait until there’s an audience there. .”

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2023

Mediator Software, the developer of a PSVR-to-PC SteamVR driver called iVRy , says it is putting efforts to hack PSVR 2 for PC VR compatibility on hold. While we’d love to see PSVR 2 work with PC VR, the reality is that Sony has little incentive to let it happen. “I’m walking away from this project for the time being.

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Upload VR

APRIL 4, 2025

A software engineer managed to get PlayStation VR2's eye tracking working on PC, though they caution that it's currently "extremely WIP" and lacks calibration. The developer currently goes by the handle whatdahopper, and releases their software open source as Bnuuy Solutions. They note that they are testing going crosseyed here.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

While Samsung's headset will be the first device to run Google's latest OS, Sony, Lynx, and Xreal are building Android XR devices too , and other companies including Play For Dream say they want to use it in the future. Google is acquiring "some of" HTC Vive's engineering team to "accelerate the development of the Android XR platform".

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