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Your VR Guide To Black Friday Deals

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HTC Vive Fallout 4 Bundle. Bundle for North America markets only). Samsung HMD Odyssey Windows Mixed Reality Headset – $500 $449. Sony announced a $100 discount on all PlayStation VR bundles as well as the PlayStation 4 1TB consoles. Samsung Gear VR Price Cut. Sold on Samsung and Amazon.

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

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In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen. With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. million). It’s growing.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

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I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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Samsung Confirms 5 Million Gear VR Mobile Headsets Sold To Date

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At CES 2017 today, VentureBeat reports that Samsung Electronics America chief Tim Baxter has officially stated during the company’s press event that they’ve officially sold 5 million Samsung Gear VR headsets, which are powered by the Oculus Home platform. Does the 5 million number surprise you?

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

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In 1997, the first DVD player was released in America. And to explain at least a small portion of this sudden success, I’m going to look at another piece of technology at the time, Sony’s Playstation 2. By 2002, the PS2 made up a total of 32% of all DVD players in America. It was exciting, right? Apparently so.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

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Voltolina: We started selling the Ozo in February of this year, in North America. We started seeing the first Oculus and HTC headsets this year. We started with one region, North America, to see if the product would be well-received, and then if we could scale manufacturing. And Sony Pictures also includes Sony Music.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

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The North-America-only limitation is quite a bummer for us Europeans, but honestly, as a developer, I understand the will of making an incremental deployment to be sure that everything works before expanding the product to many countries. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Samsung Odyssey+).

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