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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

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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. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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Epic Floated the Idea of Building a Launch Title for Sony’s Next VR Headset

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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. And though Epic hasn’t made any VR games since then, it seems that in 2018 it was still ready and willing.

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New VR Games & Releases October 2024: Quest, SteamVR, PSVR 2 & More

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Exploding Kittens VR - October 3 (Quest) Saber Interactive and Asmodee Entertainment are adapting the chaotic social-strategy card game Exploding Kittens for Quest, introducing new VR mechanics and a social hub. Developed between XR Games and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality (SPVR), Continuum takes place 25 years after the original film.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. The second is that “mistaken model of the strategic motivations”, which seems to aim at the fact that Meta has a clear strategy that is not (only) about data mining this time.

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Metaverse Standards Forum to Unite XR Leaders

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” According to Epic Games’ Vice-President of Unreal Engine, Marc Petit , his enterprise’s goal was to build an open metaverse that “enriches humanity and is home to a thriving, fair ecosystem.”

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.31): UE5 released in Early Access, Lumus shows an impressive AR prototype, and more!

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Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. It is sold by Sony, but actually, the idea behind it comes from Impulse Gear , that studio that developed Farpoint. Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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Improbable Showcases Large-Scale Metaverse Tech

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The enterprise also launched its end-to-end metaverse strategy late last year, leading to improved financial profiles. billion acquisition in late January, and Sony bought out Halo creators Bungie for a respective $3.6 billion, just after striking a major deal with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.