VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Perhaps teleportation could serve as a nice middle ground between the two options, allowing players to move freely throughout their virtual environments while maintaining the classic stand-and-shoot combat mechanic. Sony paid $5 million USD for RE7 VR/timed DLC/demo exclusivity. Resident Evil 4 // Credit: Capcom.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity. That is, outside of the testing environment in the developer’s app for Quest.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Virtual reality is commonly associated with the gaming industry, as major companies like Meta, HTC, Sony, and others are creating VR-based video games , which typically appeal to a younger audience. Users from every age group can use VR but may use it for different purposes. How Children, Adults, and Seniors Benefit From VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week. But features tell only a part of the story.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Working closely with Valve, Sony, and Meta, Cloudhead is best known for their title Pistol Whip and has shipped four popular VR titles ( Pistol Whip , Valve’s Aperture Hand Labs , Call of the Starseed , and Heart of the Emberstone ). When introducing users to a radically different medium like VR, convention & feedback matters.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Sony’s Magic Lab are set to demonstrate a new procedural animation system which it says allows VR characters found in VR to “imbue a sense of shared space with the player” with realistic eye, head and body movements. SEE ALSO On the Hunt for VR's Killer App with Sony's Head of PlayStation Magic Lab, Richard Marks.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The platform is designed to support experiences that combine augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), enabling immersive applications that overlay digital content onto the real world or create fully virtual environments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Already, the company is partnering not just with Samsung and Qualcomm but with countless heavyweights like Sony, Magic Leap, and Unity. According to Google, just like with the Vision Pro, users will be able to effortlessly switch between being fully immersed in their virtual environment or combining content with the real world.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

For example, Sony Music is recruiting a team “dedicated to reimagining music through immersive media” that will leverage Sony Music’s catalog and impressive roster of artists to implement a new category of music experiences using the Unreal Engine. 5G and virtual music concerts.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Now Google is going beyond what’s already available, announcing further partnerships with manufacturers to enable their upcoming devices this year, including Samsung, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, ASUS, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia, ZTE, Sony Mobile, and Vivo. Even China will have more access to AR. New Immersive Content. The post Google Announces ARCore 1.0

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

The international media conglomerate is in the headlines this week with its Holotile breakthrough, a prototype device that acts as a VR input treadmill, allowing various users to walk around a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Other companies such as Apple, Samsung, LG, and Sony also invest in XR technology. The update includes improved features such as spatial capture, hand-tracking, productivity enhancements, virtual environments, avatars, and more. This involves offering devices with impressive features and specifications at an affordable price.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

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. In case you are in need of a solid team able to build a high-quality XR virtual environment, please let me know.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The headset's visionOS displays this content on a giant virtual screen, giving you a choice between your real room (optionally darkened) or a virtual environment. Watching traditional media and playing traditional games was one of the core use cases for Vision Pro pitched when it was introduced at WWDC back in June.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Last Friday , AltspaceVR announced that will be shutting down its virtual environment in March. AltspaceVR was a consumer-focused immersive space that could be accessed either via the desktop or through a virtual reality headset. Apple, Sony, Meta — they’re still pouring in the cash. million in 2022.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Sony’s new VR peripheral, the PSVR Aim , launches today alongside Farpoint , a sci-fi VR FPS that was specially made with the controller in mind. Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment. Can Farpoint and PSVR Aim avoid repeating history? Can Farpoint and PSVR Aim avoid repeating history? Read on to find out.

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2023

The researchers even claimed the resulting accuracy and jitter are superior to worn IMU trackers – devices with only an accelerometer and gyroscope such as Sony's Mocopi. Secondly, the furniture and objects used were manually scanned and positioned in the virtual environment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Additionally, the firm incorporated a Lenovo ThinkSmart Teams Room device, Crystal Vox Loqui 1 Speaker, a Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling mic, and a Sony digital camera. Igloo Vision used six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III) in this room.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

VR movie apps like Plex VR and Bigscreen support consumers in bringing movies and shows developed with immersive tech into their homes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Movement within virtual environments is a hard problem, and while VirZOOM addresses some of the challenges of VR locomotion, people who are sensitive to simulator sickness will likely still have issues with some of the games developed by VirZOOM.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). On the display, Dade is able to fly through the low poly virtual environment of the Gibson.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Additionally, the room incorporates a Lenovo ThinkSmart Teams Room device, Crystal Vox Loqui 1 Speakers, a Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling mic, and a Sony digital camera. Also, it revealed how users could incorporate Meta Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets into the immersive space via the company’s Connec2 XR collaborative platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. This will enable more immersive experiences for users, allowing them to interact with virtual objects in a way that feels natural and intuitive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Capcom’s latest entry in the iconic, long-running survival horror series was first unveiled at Sony’s E3 press conference this year, at which point it was also revealed the entire game would be fully playable using the PS VR headset. So, we knew we couldn’t tackle this alone.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 10, 2023

While the process worked extremely well for me, it totally failed for one attendee (whom I suspect was a higher-up at Sony’s VR division, but his experience seemed genuine) who said that the optical approach was at odds with his own vision impairment, and turning the feature on actually made everything look worse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. This will enable more immersive experiences for users, allowing them to interact with virtual objects in a way that feels natural and intuitive.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2024

The glasses feature Micro OLED panels, created by Sony, with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels per eye. At CES 2024 , XReal laid out a demo environment with a set of cardboard controllers that the glasses could recognize. Fortunately, XReal might have finally discovered how to address this problem.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

All of them have the same problem — they are limited in terms of how you interact with a virtual experience and by the quality of the phone’s hardware. So all in all a full virtual reality system from Sony costs around $800.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. ” XR Device Dilution Many major hardware vendors, including Apple and Sony, plan to enter the XR device market in 2024 and beyond.South Korean company LG is rumoured to join the race this year with a XR headset.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Fancy virtual environments are left as an exercise for the reader. Even with those caveats, the experience was worlds removed from the torture of trying to watch a movie in my Sony HMZ-T1. For one, the Sony isn’t technically a VR headset, and for two, I never finished watching a movie in it.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The general idea is the same: calculate how much of a virtual 3D environment can be seen by a user. However, unlike in a real 3D environment, light from a virtual environment does not arrive at the viewer’s eye from all possible directions. Numbers indicate azimuthal angle away from the forward direction.

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VRWorld

JULY 14, 2016

The idea of a virtual environment in which virtual grinders can zoom into the game using a gyroscope allowing them to read the bluff on an opponent’s face, shuffle their chips, and check the leader board. All from the comfort of your own room.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I just did a presentation here in Mountain View for Technology Summit and they were talking about the latest CAVEs — computer augmented virtual environments — that allow you to walk into a projected box where you are literally dropped into the virtual experience. But you could also say the same of Sony.

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