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JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016 it released a compact smartphone-tethered headset for viewing 360° videos, to terrible reviews, and in 2017 it showed off a PC-tethered SteamVR headset prototype that it never shipped. Cho told The Guru that LG Electronics has moved XR device development into the division of the company that makes its TVs to "speed up development".

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JANUARY 8, 2017

An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference on January 12th. This video may indicate HTC is ready to make that move, using its now established Vive brand. Will HTC announce a mobile VR headset at its January 12th press conference? pic.twitter.com/ppONWlT5Mr.

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JUNE 22, 2023

Even with viable hardware on your side, it’s not an easy thing to do. To its credit, the company had the foresight to release HoloLens in 2016, a full two years before unicorn startup Magic Leap could get its first standalone AR headset out the door.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Apple’s WWDC 2017 keynote made that abundantly clear with their announcement of support for external Metal graphics, HTC Vive, SteamVR and Metal VR. IDC started to collect market share data for VR and AR shipments since Q1 2016 and just reported their Q1 numbers for 2017. In 3rd place after Samsung and Sony was HTC with the HTC Vive.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

HTC made a not so subtle tease today that a new version of the HTC Vive is on the way with improved resolution. The current Vive model, released in 2016, has a pair of 1,080 × 1,200 displays made by Samsung. The current Vive model, released in 2016, has a pair of 1,080 × 1,200 displays made by Samsung.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

In 2016, hardware makers dominate the VR market. Still, both companies are generating hundreds of millions of dollars already in 2016, thanks to their brand and the quality of their technology. Samsung follows with another mobile headset (Gear VR). Tagged with: facebook , market share , oculus , sony htc.

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MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. But it’s reasonable to say that the high cost of VR headsets and the gaming hardware needed to support them, is keeping high-end VR accessibility low right now. . billion in 2016 to $18.6

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. Former Friends – Samsung. Samsung was perhaps Oculus’ first major ally. A Tale of Two Headsets. Image courtesy Oculus.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Try on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and one of the first things you’ll probably notice looking through the lenses are fine concentric circles, creating something many call ‘God Rays’—especially egregious when viewing high contrast scenes. Image courtesy U.S. Patent Office. Image courtesy U.S. Patent Office.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

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.” In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen.

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MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets from major hardware players. The hardware will not change.

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JUNE 11, 2017

We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. Again, somewhat surprisingly, the HTC Vive trails at 10% recognition among those polled.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. More than half of the revenue will come from VR/AR hardware sales. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. According to the latest Adobe 2016 Gaming report , HTC Vive has been rising above the competition.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

We saw the release of the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, the PlayStation VR, Google’s Daydream platform, the Oculus Touch controllers, and the continued growth of both the OSVR and Samsung Gear VR platforms. But that’s just the hardware.

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MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution.

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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. AR glasses.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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JULY 14, 2017

Now the company is teasing brand new hardware in the form of a mid-level VR headset that, while not as powerful as the Rift, still manages to ditch the smartphone. According to insiders, the headset will feature hardware superior to the Gear VR, including a Snapdragon mobile chip from Qualcomm.

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MAY 18, 2017

After Daydream VR’s positive start in November 2016 , it has taken a while for additional third-party Daydream-Ready devices to appear, perhaps due to the demanding minimum hardware requirements.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The devices at the time included: HTC Vive wands that shipped with the Vive headset. Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. HTC Vive wands.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

vTime , from Liverpool-based Starship, is now available on the platform as a free download, making it the first VR app to connect across Daydream, Google Cardboard, Samsung’s Gear VR, and the Oculus Rift. vTime celebrated its first birthday on December 22nd 2016, and reached half a million downloads shortly before that milestone.

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JULY 19, 2016

Superdata, a market research company, continues to downgrade its 2016 virtual reality sales projections ; beginning the year at $5.1 Here’s some market data that does exist, all of which is relevant to 2016: According to Develop , 80% of consumers are unaware of VR. VR Consumption, 2016. Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. What to Expect from HTC.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Fast forward to 2016 and STRIVR Labs counts the likes of Texas Tech, Arkansas, Stanford, Dallas Cowboys, and Arizona Cardinals, among others, as clients using STRIVR’s VR solutions to enhance training. STRIVR has used HTC Vive, Samsung Gear, the Oculus CV1 and Oculus DK2 headsets. ” Photo courtesy ESPN.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

An odyssey is an epic journey, and Samsung’s Odyssey VR headset seems to be the latest upcoming step in theirs. The Odyssey VR headset has been long time coming ( since the leak of its name in early 2016 ), and a number of leaks have indicated that its formal announcement is coming very soon. Let’s tackle a few of these.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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MAY 14, 2019

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Together with the update on the hardware, Facebook has also released a software update for Quest : the v32 version of the runtime brings some improvements to Oculus Move, on Friends management, and makes gifting a game now possible from within VR. Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

A Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei may not have extensive mainstream penetration in the West like Apple and Samsung do, but in 2016 they hit #9 in revenue for tech companies around the world. A lot of their success is based in China, and they often trade places with Apple as the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2014 was also the year that Samsung announced the Samsung VR gear that would eventually be released in 2016. . In 2016, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Playstation VR were all released. It’s also important to note that June 2016 is the birth month of Veer! .

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JANUARY 16, 2019

I got a chance to try out the software at CES 2019, getting a full demo of the VR side of Mobile Connect using a HTC Vive Pro and a pair of Android smartphones—one for my far-flung contact, and the other for me, which normally sits tight in my pocket so I can keep my notification anxiety in check.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s ready to answer with his HTC super powers. And I still remember that you have done boxing, so I agree with you in any case… HTC Vive Pro first impressions. The moment when I tried the Vive Pro has not been one of this wow moments. It has just been an “ok, good” moment. The wonderful Vive Pro.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

While VR hardware and software continues to improve, what we’re really excited about is *you* , the content creators. We’d just seen the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive get wide releases, and Gear VR was seeing strong usage thanks in part to Samsung bundling the headset with new phones.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

Given that something new came to the headset almost every week from launch to the end of 2016, it is surprising to see the year get off to such a slow start for Sony, and a little worrying. Even if the past few weeks have been a little lighter than usual, HTC’s system will always have support pouring in from the indie community.

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