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

Road to VR

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

Despite Sony being pleasantly surprised by its official PSVR sales figures – with the nearly 1 million units sold since its October 2016 launch – it’s difficult to get a handle on market penetration for VR hardware to date.

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Intel to Buy Imagination Technologies or AMD’s RTG?

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Contrary to the popular belief, Intel has no other choice but to continue the cross-licensing agreement with Nvidia, since Intel does not use GeForce hardware in its line-up, but was rather found to infringe on Nvidia’s patents. You can read more in my old analysis on Tom’s Hardware. This was solved with a $1.5