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Samsung Reveals Four New AR & VR In-House Projects

VRScout

Samsung’s C-Lab initiative is churning out some seriously incredible projects. Since launching back in 2012, the C-Lab initiative has been hard at work developing industry-changing technology that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with virtual and augmented reality.

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Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Aims to Commercialize AR Headset in 1-2 Years

Road to VR

Like Samsung, Huawei offers a staggering variety of smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearables, and smart home accessories; the company surpassed Ericsson in 2012 as the world’s largest telecom equipment manufacturer, and earlier this summer overtook Apple to become the world’s second largest smartphone maker.

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

Tech Trends VR

Is Virtual Reality a growing market segment or a flash in the pan? Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot.

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5 Future Predictions for the Virtual and Augmented Reality Industry

VeeR VR

Today, I have for you the top 5 predictions of the future for the virtual and augmented reality industry. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. I wrote another feature on VeeR of the 6 Best Standalone Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets in 2018.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Samsung’s incubation program, called the C-lab, has backed developer education since 2012, and the C-lab program will be showcasing four of their prime VR/AR projects in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress this week (remember that now-iconic Dystopian photo of Mark Zuckerberg strolling through a crowd of oblivious VR headset-wearing journalists?

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Meta raises $50M more as it gears up for the next version of its.

AllThingsVR

Meta was founded in 2012 and is based out of Redwood City, but also has an R&D operation in Israel, which is also where its founders hail from originally. Read more here.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Continuing in Snapchat’s path to bring an accessible version of augmented reality to the general public via mobile phone and shared social experiences, Pokemon Go is officially a viral hit. Samsung has been experimenting in phobia treatment with their Gear VR in Sweden. POKEMON GO GO GO! people have subscribed since March.