Road to VR

JULY 7, 2023

Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to get back in that country with Quest, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In 2018, Meta (then Facebook) penned a deal with Xiaomi to release a Chinese variant of Oculus Go , sold by Xiaomi as the ‘Mi VR Standalone’.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics giant, officially announced that they’ve partnered with Oculus to not only manufacture Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, but also produce a China-only standalone VR headset called Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone. image courtesy Xiaomi.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This means that as a developer now I can create an ARCore application that shows an augmentation in exactly one place that I choose (or that my users’ choose) and that augmentation will be seen by everyone that launches my app and point their phone to that place; Snapchat has launched its “Local Lenses” feature in Carnaby Street in London.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Growing up, Marshall dreamed of rapping his way out of Detroit, MI, but, years and fortunes later, he still hasn’t left. The interview inside the car cuts back and forth between different vignettes of the city, placing you everywhere from a snow-covered street, to a fire escape on the side of a building.

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VRWorld

MAY 19, 2016

Daydream Ready devices are coming to market from Alcatel (TCL), ASUS, HTC, Huawei, LG, Mi, Samsung, Xiaomi, ZTE and others. While there will be numerous in-house apps such as Playground (for children), Street View VR, YouTube VR etc., Daydream app is activated through a single press of a button on the controoler.

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VeeR VR

JULY 17, 2018

Xiaomi Mijia Mi Sphere , MadV Mini , and ION 360 are all great cameras at several hundred dollars with very satisfying quality, usability, and reliability. VeeR Team meetup in the streets of Tokyo. And they are not without fancy and user-friendly features. More professional cameras are usually at several hundred dollars or $10k+.

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