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Exclusive: Mobile Headset Maker Homido Claims 500,000 Total Units Sold

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According to a Homido representative, the company has collectively sold approximately 557,000 HMDs since 2014. Homido isn’t a household name around the world like Facebook, Google, Sony, or Samsung, but it has carved out a niche in the mobile HMD market over the past two years. Do these types of sales figures surprise you?

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Meta Faces FTC Injunction on Within Unlimited Deal

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According to the regulators, Meta launched a “campaign to conquer VR” in 2014 after buying out VR headset manufacturer Oculus. The European bloc’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) bans unauthorised consumer data mining, prompting the ruling.

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

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I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area.

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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

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Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms. In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 As it turns out, investment is still flowing into the Chinese VR industry.

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Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating

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Google searches for “Oculus Rift” have enjoyed steady popularity since 2013 with major spikes hitting after the company’s announcement that it had been acquired by Facebook in 2014, and as the headset finally opened for pre-orders earlier this year.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.10): Valve Index gains market share, Hitman 3 is coming to PSVR and more!

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Last month’s data show even a slight growth of connected headsets. Image by Sony). It is not clear, and we hope that Sony will clarify his.(Theoretically Theoretically yes, but Sony always talked about the compatibility of old games with PS5 + old PSVR, not also about new games). Other relevant news.

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All the Ways Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Shaping Sports

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The Sony-owned Hawk-Eye system, currently used in tennis, cricket, badminton, soccer, and more, is able to recreate a ball’s trajectory with extreme accuracy (no more than a 5 mm margin of error!) © Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd 6. © PuttView 7. © PuttView 7. The future of AR/VR in sports: In-game applications? VR E-Sports?