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Acer and Starbreeze Announce First Shipment of StarVR Head-Mounted Displays

Cats and VR

Acer and Starbreeze AB today announced at a global press conference in Berlin that they have started to ship StarVR® Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) to IMAX Corporation in preparation for the highly anticipated opening of the IMAX VR® Center in Los Angeles, expected later this year, and others in the near future.

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What Made VR Gaming Highly Popular

ARPost

The ecosystem of digital game development is all about using the latest technologies to attract and engage gamers all over the world. Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66

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VR chair startup raises funds, as pandemic boosts prospects for VR and gaming

TechCrunch VR

The chair is designed to make VR more accessible to a mass audience, many of whom have turned to VR and gaming to while away the hours as much of the world is locked-down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Others in the round include TVB Growth Fund, managed by The FSE Group.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pages 1271{1274, 2015. Basic features of Augmented Reality by fernanda rodríguez.

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The Crazy VR World of China Joy 2016

VRScout

Among the expected fare of films, games, animation, audio products and cosplay during the four-day conference, there was one obvious and unavoidable sorta newcomer to the scene — virtual reality. billion yuan ($236 million) in 2015, and is expected to rise to more than 5 billion yuan ($753 million) this year.

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Acer Collaborates With Starbreeze To Develop StarVR

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In a recent development, a Taiwan-based hardware manufacturing company Acer has collaborated with Starbreeze- a Swedish game studio in order to develop “ StarVR ” which is nothing but a high-quality virtual reality headset. And since then the company has been showcasing it effectively.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: Wonder Raises $14M, Mother Invests in.

AllThingsVR

The startup is building what it calls a “new type of portable hardware device that might be considered a hybrid between a powerful smartphone and a gaming console.” DRi is an independent developer that creates games and experiences on virtual reality platforms. It was founded by Dave Ranyard, the former head of Sony London Studio.