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

Road to VR

It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Azure Cloud Platform competes alongside AWS and Google Cloud. Breaking the Zune Curse?

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Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

Road to VR

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg’s Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. HTC has been in financial difficulty for the past few years, with stock prices falling since their all-time high in 2011. controllers.

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Technology Transfer

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I found out today that HTC now ships a tool to measure users’ inter-pupillary distances with new Vive VR headsets. When I say “tool,” I mean a booklet with instructions in many languages, and a ruler printed along one edge of each page: Figure 1: IPD measurement chart shipped by HTC with new Vives. Alas, not so fast.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. It needs to have a strategy to survive. in the summer of 2011 we reached 100 million smartphone users. Image Credit: Pixvana.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. A lot of it involved training with staff.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. A lot of it involved training with staff.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. A lot of it involved training with staff.