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Google Buying HTC’s Pixel Team for $1.1 Billion

VRScout

HTC retains brand but lets part of their smartphone business go. Google has announced a $1.1 billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. According to the announcement, HTC will receive $1.1

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Vive’s VP Of Design Claude Zellweger Leaves HTC For Google Daydream

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Claude Zellweger, HTC’s VP of Design, is making the switch from PC VR to mobile VR. vladsavov I am joining Google Daydream, so you can redirect your criticism:). HTC itself confirmed to UploadVR that Zellweger had parted ways with the company, stating: “HTC can confirm that Claude Zellweger has left the Company.

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. Google Earth VR. billion per year. 3D Organon VR Anatomy.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

AllThingsVR

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. months away!

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VR Set To Enter New Phase After A Decade Of Carmack

Upload VR

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe looking at a Rift prototype in 2012. “The issue is our efficiency.” “Right now this is a 60 hertz screen, that’s what cell phones are, 60 hertz screen,” Iribe told me.

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VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Since then the HTC Vive , PlayStation VR and Google Daydream View have all entered the arena. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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Positional tracking comparison: Lenovo Mirage Solo vs Vive Focus

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I also tried to go upstairs and downstairs and everything continued working, even in outdoor conditions, so kudos to both Google and HTC. But Google’s technology showed better performances over time. It is obvious that it needs more time to get to the same level.