Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. However, 2017 will see a glut of new devices hit the market from new vendors , increasing choice for consumers and introducing competition. billion in 2021.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

The PSVR unit will work with the PlayStation 4 and Sony says they’ll have 50 games ready to go at launch. Starting price is $299 and it will launch in holiday season 2017. Major gaming industry players brought the noise to this year’s E3 conference. Want to do a demo?

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to HTC, most everyone’s mind is on the Vive Pro. With GDC being the last major event in Q1, hosted just a week before the end of the quarter, and given the presence of HTC at GDC in years past, it certainly seems like the appropriate place and time to reveal the price and release date of the Vive Pro, if not a delay.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. We don’t know much about gameplay mechanics yet, but it’s possible the Magic Leap One release of Angry Birds: FPS – First Person Slingshot may hold some answers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

In the meantime, even HTC that was safe until now is having troubles in manufacturing the external tracking faceplate , whose release date will be delayed. But it was too early and there was no clear applications for them, if not for some makers or enterprise projects, and so the project was shut down in 2017.

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