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

VRScout

In the report, iiMedia claims that consumer interest in the headsets these companies produced flagged in 2016, claiming: “70 percent of respondents among smart cell phone users [expressed] no willingness to buy one.” And another 1.54B ($221.4M) fueled the Chinese VR industry in the first half of 2016. It’s growing.

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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

Road to VR

Focused on harnessing immersive technologies to deliver groundbreaking VR, AR, Animation, DOOH, VFX and 360 degree video projects for some of the world’s largest brands including Sony, BBC, Red Bull, Microsoft and Lexus. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of Develop:VR 2016. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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Learn about Headsets

Delight XR

April 2016. March 2016. October 2016. November 2016. April 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. March 2016. October 2016. Software platform. Oculus Home. PlayStation. Oculus Home. Daydream VR.

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

Delight XR

April 2016. March 2016. October 2016. November 2016. April 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. March 2016. October 2016. Software platform. Oculus Home. PlayStation. Oculus Home. Daydream VR.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

Both advancements provided a vast improvement in user experience, and provided the baseline technical platform for the consumer Rift when it appeared in 2016. Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later. CES 2016: Consumer VR Wars. The HTC Vive Pre at CES 2016.