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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

VRScout

In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy. Now, that number hovers around 10.

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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

Road to VR

Emteq Ltd was founded in 2015 to improve lives through the development of facial sensing healthcare solutions and is applying its technology to VR. He was tech lead on the BAFTA-award-winning Monument Valley (2014) and co-directed Gear VR hit Land’s End (2015). Solomon Rogers – Founder, REWIND. Pete Short – CTO, Breaking Forth.

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Learn about Headsets

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November 2015. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. As the name suggests, the headset is designed to work with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro video game consoles. November 2015. Oculus Home.

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

Delight XR

November 2015. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. As the name suggests, the headset is designed to work with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro video game consoles. November 2015. Oculus Home.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape. CES 2015 brought yet more impressive advancements from VR and AR fields, and some notable setbacks. 2015’s CES was the first for Samsung’s ‘Oculus powered’ mobile VR headset ‘Gear VR’ having been unveiled and impressing a few months earlier at IFA Berlin.