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With Facebook’s ????, Oculus Is Fending off Old Enemies, Former Friends, and New Foes

Road to VR

Old Enemies – HTC. While both Oculus’ Rift and HTC’s Vive hit the market right around the same time in 2016, the Vive was the first system with motion controllers and room-scale. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy. A Tale of Two Headsets.

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Facebook’s ‘meta-existential’ pivot for survival

TechCrunch VR

The most valuable companies in the world own the metal on which their software applications run: Apple and Microsoft have had their fingers in the hardware pie for years, and even Google was able to build a robust OS business with Android.

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

The Ghost Howls

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). 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.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS! WEIRD OR AWESOME?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.