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HTC’s Alvin Graylin on What’s Happening in China & VR

Road to VR

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. The VR market in China is growing, and there is a lot more optimism for technological adoption and enthusiasm for having VR arcade experiences.

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Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple Likely to Release Mixed Reality Headset in January 2023

Road to VR

In short, Kuo posits that Meta is slowing down investment in VR hardware due to looming economic recession, but this will provide others opportunity to play catchup as market share shifts away from Meta to companies such as Sony, Valve, Pico, and HTC. It’s not VR, its Meta’s core business that’s taking a hit.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday was Chinese Lanterns’ Festival… my best wishes to you all, especially a big hug to all people that are still in China and are living very hard times… ??! It is being very useful to let indie distribute little games and innovative experiences (like the ones employing hands tracking ) to Quest users.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In China, speed is always a paramount factor, but for these investments patience is key and we all should admire the persistence of Zuck on the topic, for instance. Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade. Last week, people said January.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.24): HTC shows Cosmos and Proton, devs make cool hands interactions, Sansar on sale and more!

The Ghost Howls

The damn Coronavirus is impacting the lives of many people, and I’m incredibly sad about what is happening especially in China, with millions of people quarantined and thousands of dead. Stay strong, China. More info (Valve Index availability) More info (Facebook and Sony pulling out from GDC). It is amazing to be seen.

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Vision Pro Production Materials Cost $1,590, Sources Say

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Although, the device could provide a hardware benchmark with its hand-tracking, display resolution of 4096 x 5464 pixels, high-dynamic range (HDR), and wide colour gamut (WCG) outputs. Additionally, Apple is slated to work with other mainland China firms, including Cowell E Holdings and Shenzhen Desay Battery Technology.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.01.23): Microsoft shuts down Altspace and MRTK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m still writing from China, and this week I spent the Chinese New Year here… it was an interesting experience, and if you lost my funny story about it, you can still have a look at it in my dedicated post. But still, the fact that all the PSVR 1 content won’t be available for the new headset gives Sony a good challenge on the content side.

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