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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Currently major contenders are Meta, Sony, HTC, Valve, Pico, Pimax, and Apple starting next year. Could we be in for another ‘Zune moment’? If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. It’s the “convergence of gaming, film, and music” part which speaks to where the long-term synergies between Sony and Epic lie.

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TSMC to Build Japan's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab

Anand Tech

Intel was getting ready to introduce its first 65nm chips in early 2006 and all of a sudden Panasonic said that it had started volume production of the world's first application processors using a 65 nm technology, which it co-developed with Renesas, putting Panasonic a couple of months ahead of mighty Intel.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). Has been at the forefront when it comes to XR, earlier he was VP, Platform Strategy & Dev Community at #HTC and is currently working at Facebook Reality labs. 16- Vinay Narayan. 17- Helen Situ. 23- Kathryn Yu.