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JUNE 24, 2022

In short, Kuo posits that Meta is slowing down investment in VR hardware due to looming economic recession, but this will provide others opportunity to play catchup as market share shifts away from Meta to companies such as Sony, Valve, Pico, and HTC. It’s not VR, its Meta’s core business that’s taking a hit.

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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). No one can compete now. Let me show you what are some of them.

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JULY 23, 2021

Where: Chengdu Marriott Hotel Financial Centre, Sichuan, China. One of the biggest international events dedicated to the augmented and virtual reality will take place at the beginning of September in Chengdu Financial City in Sichuan, China. When: September 2 – September 3. AWE USA 2021. When: November 9 – November 11.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Details are sparse at this point but HTC announced a subscription plan for Vive content at CES today. But the reveal is yet another example of how HTC is aiming to grow itself into an integral part of the burgeoning VR industry. The Oculus Rift, on the other hand, isn’t even sold in China yet.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. One-click origin reset and simple calibration tools for cameras.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

HTC today announced a partnership with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to bring the HTC Vive to sites in Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Sanya. More interestingly, they’ll also be able to try some of the content from HTC’s Viveport storefront in their own rooms. In a prepared statement, Alvin W.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. ” In many regards, China is leading the way for VR innovation and adoption. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled ‘VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it’ It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article’s thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some of the article’s claims, saying it’s “not the whole story.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset. I also expect it to be consumer-oriented in China. This new money, that has been given by Sony and other investors, has been explicitly gathered to build the blocks of the future Metaverse. billion valuation.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. Sony, HTC, other companies. I think HTC is doing the same thing, so of course I’m going to say good things about HTC.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

The Coronavirus, a novel respiratory virus, began in China with the first reported case on December 31st, 2019; health organizations have since designated the strain as ‘COVID-19’ for specificity. COVID-19 has now spread to 114 countries and territories, with China, Italy, Iran, and Korea seeing the greatest number of cases so far.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Qualcomm announced that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and Sony's enterprise "spatial content creation" headset.

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MARCH 19, 2017

We don’t have a lot of numbers for VR headset sales yet; Sony is the only one to provide official data of the three high-end headset makers. HTC Hits Out At Rift Exclusives. Vive Ecosystem Conference Hits China Soon. Tagged with: cats , htc , htc vive , Intel , oculus , oculus rift , project alloy.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Sony has appended a 12+ age restriction for PlayStation VR. Sorry tweens, Mario Kart VR is still for 13 and up. image courtesy Bandai Namco. Simply put, children’s heads are too small, and their eyes are too close together to accommodate current headsets, Graylin says.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

HTC predicts the rise of all-in-two devices. Speaking with Upload VR, HTC VIVE EMEA General Manager Graham Wheeler has predicted for 2021 the rise of all-in-two devices, that is lightweight viewers that are connected to smartphones (or also PCs sometimes). But this news is interesting because it shows HTC’s views on the topic.

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JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. With 688 million Internet users in China alone, BAT already have a massive audience for VR content consumption.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

HTC is betting big on VR arcades in China. I think,” said HTC’s Viveport President, Rikard Steiber. IMAX is making clear it is providing a premium experience partnering with the HTC Vive for a series of room-scale pods complemented by Subpac haptic vests and a D-Box motion chair. Photo provided by IMAX.

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JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Also hot off the release of their first consumer-headset, the HTC Vive , HTC and Valve aren’t likely to be sharing anything new on the hardware end at E3.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Chairwoman/CEO of HTC Corp and creator of the HTC Vive, Cher Wang, will be honoured with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award. Belgium, China (Beijing and Hong Kong), Japan, New Zealand, and Canada. In addition, the Advanced Imaging Society and the VR Society has international chapters in the U.K.,

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. Image by Sony). Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th). News worth a mention.

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JULY 4, 2023

A key factor in potential success for Xreal and other competitors like Meta and HTC VIVE, as a cheaper device may sway audiences into immersive technology now that Apple has re-entered XR into the mainstream. Specifically, China accounts for less than a third of Xreal sales. It is unclear how long these challenges will last.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

According to our reporter at the event, most of these pods were fitted with an HTC Vive VR headset, but others had the more experimental Star VR headset from Starbreeze. According to IMAX, the content includes “experiences from leading content developers such as ILMxLABs, Sony, Lionsgate, Starbreeze, Survios, and Ubisoft.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Yesterday was Chinese Lanterns’ Festival… my best wishes to you all, especially a big hug to all people that are still in China and are living very hard times… ??! I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” Alvin Graylin, HTC China President, presented the Auggie for Best Head-Worn Device.

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MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

With no mention of next generation headsets from any of the major players at CES 2017, I put the question to HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin. ” SEE ALSO Apple AR/VR Product to Debut in 2017, Predicts Sony's Head of Worldwide Studios.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

China and the United States are major players in the virtual reality industry, but certainly aren’t the only ones coming to the table and investing a lot of time and money into immersive tech. Many will blaze independently with their ideas, but collaboration is a certainty as well.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

The report, currently available for pre-order, will include special in-depth sections on China and Japan. This year’s report will feature historical data on headset shipments and global forecasts through 2026. 2017 will be another foundational year for the entire VR industry. Pre-order today to save 40% off the list price through March 20th.

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MARCH 11, 2020

GDC saw a similar effect when Facebook, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and more begin dropping out. HTC, on the other hand, has taken a different approach for its Vive Ecosystem Conference (HTC 2020 VEC) which is usually held in Shenzen, China. It will be held entirely in VR.

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JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Other relevant news.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

And as China’s growing production of affordable premium mobile headsets picks up steam, standalone devices and VR-compatible phones will continue to increase accessibility of higher-end tech. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M devices into the hands of users.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

I have made some Youtube videos with really terrible quality My bonds with China have brought me some critics. I made this meme in Word in 5 minutes, and it started spreading like fire. Internet is beautiful. The VR Fast was also fast in dying.

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MARCH 6, 2023

This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Speaking today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, SuperData analyst Stephanie Llamas said that the company scaled back its forecast for PSVR because of scarcity of supply at the initial launch and the lack of marketing Sony put into the headset’s October debut. SuperData scaled back its forecast from 2.6

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Similarly, HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, told us back in January that he expects next-gen headsets to come in one to three year cycles —more slowly than we’ve typically seen in the smartphone space where a hardware refreshes comes every 12 months or so. The hardware will not change.

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