Hands on with Sony’s Project Morpheus virtual reality headset
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The big guns are coming for virtual reality, and they know what they are doing. A hands-on demo with Sony’s Project Morpheus…
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The big guns are coming for virtual reality, and they know what they are doing. A hands-on demo with Sony’s Project Morpheus…
Sony revealed the latest prototype of its virtual reality headset today, when it announced it will release the Playstation 4-compatible device to…
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The head of Sony’s mobile unit revealed Sony’s new immediate smartphone goal in an investor meeting: “To make the business profitable even if we face declines in sales by 20 percent or 30 percent.”
Sony is getting ready to launch its internet-based TV service with a private beta test in New York this month, and is aiming for a commercial launch within the first quarter of 2015.
Sony’s high-end waterproof Z3 smartphone is headed to the United States. It’ll be available on Verizon for $200 with a 2-year contract.
The attack took down the PSN on Sunday. It may have been the work of the same person who claimed there was a bomb on a flight carrying a Sony executive, causing the flight to be diverted.
Sony’s PlayStation TV mini console will be able to access the company’s music and video services — and likely also play a key role in launching its TV service.
Sony is launching the PS4 in Japan this week, and the company hopes that video gamers there will also try out its music service.
Microsoft and Sony are both vying get your hard-earned money this holiday season. But which game console should you buy: the Xbox One of the PS4?
With its PlayStation Vita TV, Sony might have solved the puzzle for making a must-have budget console. Now, when will it come to the States?
After months of silence, Microsoft finally unveils the date for its latest console, the Xbox One.
After two weeks of backlash, Microsoft has walked back its DRM restrictions on the One, but at what cost?
Missed E3? Here’s the need-to-know stuff about consoles and gaming from Day 1 at the expo.
Sony’s new PS4 game console will feature a number of video apps, including Redbox Instant and Netflix, but the company is leaving it to Microsoft to try to reinvent TV.
“Watch the Show, Play the Game, Change the World” is how “Defiance” bills itself, but the combination of video game and television could be a game-changer in its own right.
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fan site Pottermore is launching on Sony’s PlayStation Home. Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne said the partnership provides the “most immersive experience possible within that space.”
Videos from PBS, Vimeo, the CW and Crunchyroll are coming to the Xbox 360 as Microsoft is rolling out 40 more entertainment apps worldwide. A few apps will be available right away, whereas others will launch on the platform in the coming months.
Netflix has been quietly testing a new approach towards personalized movie and TV show recommendations: The company recently launched a game show host-like personal assistant dubbed Netflix Max on the PS3 that uses gamification to get users to rate more movies and find better content.
Want to play music from Rdio or podcasts hosted on Soundcloud on your PS3 or Xbox 360? Now you can – provided you also own an Android phone or tablet. The new Skifta Android app adds support for both services, as well as streaming to the Xbox.
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NBC may have been criticised for not streaming enough Olympics Games – but, in the UK, the BBC plans to stream all 2,500 hours of this summer’s London 2012 events across web, mobile, tablet and connected TV.
Good news for Plex users: The next version of the company’s media center server software will have support for DLNA devices, which brings Plex to the PS3, connected TVs and a bunch of other devices. Check out this episode of Cord Cutters for an exclusive preview.
Move over, Fear Factor: Sony’s competitive reality TV show The Tester is a big hit with gamers, who have been watching the show through the PlayStation Network. The Tester’s third season, which starts this week, will for the first time also stream on the web.
Now it’s official: Netflix launched in the U.K. and Ireland Monday morning, promising to bring unlimited streaming of popular movies and TV shows through PCs as well as connected and mobile devices to both countries. But for Brits, Netflix isn’t the only choice.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone, aimed at mobile gamers, has a new twist that could add more appeal: OnLive’s cloud gaming service now supports the slide-out gaming controls on the Android smartphone. Touchscreens certainly work for games, but button-mashing is best done on…. buttons.
Sony could be the latest company to try taking on the cable industry with an over-the-top video service. The CE manufacturer is in talks with media companies about launching a TV-like service that would be delivered to its PlayStation 3 game console and other connected devices.
Despite its commercial appeal, the Xbox gaming console has historically been notoriously unprofitable for Microsoft. But according to the company’s latest earnings report, Microsoft’s gaming division has finally started to earn its keep. Has the tide finally turned for the gaming console market?
Netflix is being taken to court over not providing accessible videos for the hearing impaired. In a lawsuit, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) accused Netflix of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by not providing captions for most of its streaming videos.
Showyou is updating its iPad and iPhone apps to make the consumption of videos shared on social networks easier. In particular, Showyou gets “watch later” capability, as well as its own website and a bookmarklet for video sharing. Next up for Showyou: an Android app.
Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton said in front of an audience in its E3 press conference that the game console is the leading provider of Netflix streams to consumers. In fact, the game console is accountable for 30 percent of Netflix’s streaming usage online.
How will the Wii2 look like? Is Microsoft going to introduce a cable-like TV subscription service? And how will Sony make up for its long PSN outage? All these questions will be answered at this week’s E3, and you can watch it all live online.
Sony (NYSE: SNE) concedes the outage caused by the hacks of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will lead 2011/12 income to “signi…
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play hits Verizon Wireless May 26, with pre-orders starting a week earlier. As the first PlayStation-certified handset, Sony Ericcson hopes to boost flagging smartphone sales with the unique device. And unlike prior SE handsets, the Play launches with Android 2.3.
Netflix has expanded the availability of closed captioning on its streaming service with the latest update of its iOS application. With the update, the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch join a growing list of consumer electronics devices that support streaming subtitles through the service.
The news of Osama bin Laden’s death that broke late Sunday evening has proved to be a cause for jubilant celebration, somber reflection, detailed analysis … and thousands of jokes on Twitter. Most of the bon mots fall into a few categories, which we’ve rounded up here.
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Got an Xbox for Xmas? Or maybe a Boxee Box – and now you’re dying to know all the cool stuff you can do with it? Then check out or ultimate video gadget resource post, also featuring tips for new PS3, Roku, SLR and iPhone owners.
There’s always some reason people have for holding onto their cable subscriptions, and one of the more common excuses is this: Parents are afraid of cutting the cord to their kids’ favorite shows. But there are plenty of ways to access children’s entertainment cable-free.
Don’t want to read all those movie descriptions when navigating the Netflix online catalog? Then you might be interested in a new feature the company going to test next month on the PS3: Netflix will start streaming two minute video previews of its titles.
Season One of The Tester, the only original series produced for the Sony PlayStation Network, gave an aspiring game developer the chance to work for his dream company. But having watched some of Season Two, the show seems happy to excel at being unremarkable.
Sony is said to be working on a “PlayStation phone” that would bring a more immersive, sophisticated gaming experience to the mobile gaming community and beyond. While the market is ripe for such a device, Sony must deliver on a few key challenges to succeed.
Netflix announced last week that it would begin supporting disc-free streaming from Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles today, but Nintendo Wii owners got a bit of a surprise as the subscription video rental firm also rolled out a disc-free implementation on that game platform this morning.
Netflix subscribers with Sony PlayStation 3 consoles will now be able to access the service through a native app, which has a slew of new features, including Dolby 5.1 audio, 1080p video on some titles and a new UI to browse and search the service.
U.K.-based PS3 owners will soon be able to access some 4000 movies through LoveFilm. The DVD subscription service is taking a cue from its U.S. counterpart Netflix by extending its online video offering to the game console after forging an alliance with Sony earlier this year.
For Mac users who want to access media with their PlayStation 3, life just got a little easier. A new program called Playback by Yazsoft facilitates UPnP via the PS3.
Netflix users that access the company’s Watch Instantly service through their Playstation can now search its entire catalog without any laptop on their knees. Search is an important update, but it’s unclear yet when PS3 owners will finally be able to ditch their Netflix disks.
Today on the Internet: Microsoft cancels Xbox game show 1 vs. 100, PS3 to be the first and only console to get Hulu Plus this year, and Alanis Morrissette gets mortified.
YouTube will launch 3-D videos on the PlayStation 3 over the next year, a Sony exec says. While talking about the PS3’s future, Sony studio director Mick Hocking said an upcoming firmware update to the PS3 would enable the game console to support 3-D YouTube streams.
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