Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Taeyong Kim, VP of Samsung Electronics and Head of Graphics R&D, took the stage last month at the company’s annual developer conference to talk a little bit about the future of VR for the company. Kim says the company is partnering with Intel to bring inside-out positional technology to a standalone VR headset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 5, 2019

After much anticipation , China named the first companies to receive 5G licenses for commercial use on Thursday. The greenlight arrived months ahead of the long-expected due date for China’s 5G licenses, which was said to be late 2019. It’s official.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled their plan to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years in a new semiconductor production mega cluster in South Korea. " Samsung's new campus will be located near Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, and will house five advanced fabs. " Indeed, China, Japan, the European Union, Taiwan, and the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Yesterday I discovered that a friend of mine wants to propose as “Vitillo’s law” or “Skarred’s law” the law that every innovative technology we are waiting for is always coming in “5 to 10 years”. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. Pimax announces the price of its upcoming Crystal headset. Image by Meta).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 22, 2024

Susan Prescott, Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations , added: We’re so excited to connect with developers from around the world for an extraordinary week of technology and community at WWDC24. This news comes from Tim Cook’s visit to China due to declining iPhone sales.

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Cats and VR

MAY 28, 2016

Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition in collaboration with Warner Bros. To commemorate the third anniversary of the popular mobile game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, the companies came together to bring Samsung’s technology and one of the game’s central characters, Batman, in a sleek, high-performance smartphone.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Building on the momentum set into motion by the inaugural event, Unity Technologies is hosting Vision VR/AR Summit Asia in Beijing. Unity revealed that representatives from Google, Samsung Gear VR, PTC Vuforia, Sony PlayStation VR, and Microsoft HoloLens will be on hand to discuss new developments in their individual technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

Today, Qualcomm Technologies officially introduced the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, a new Snapdragon chipset built to improve the quality of XR displays, visuals, and the overall user experience. With Samsung’s mobile expertise and our joint commitment, we aim to create the best-in-class XR experience for Galaxy users.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 4, 2022

But this year, the company is switching it up: OnePlus is revealing the new One Plus 10 Pro in Las Vegas this week prior to the flagship’s official launch in China on Jan. OnePlus usually debuts its new flagship phone in the spring. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

TSMC and Samsung Foundry retained top positions, whereas GlobalFoundries is back to No. The revenue decrease resulted from a weakened demand for mass-market applications that use leading-edge fabrication technologies, such as client PCs and smartphones, and was particularly noticeable at TSMC and Samsung Foundry.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meta’s offering could so become this one: Quest 3 Lite, 64G, $199 Quest 3 Lite, 128G, $299 Quest 3 Lite, 256G, $399 Quest 3, 256G, $499 Quest 3, 512G, $649 And there is more: Meta is working on a partnership with Tencent to distribute the Quest 3 Lite also in China and compete with Pico in its own home. I truly hope this rumor is true.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Now Google is going beyond what’s already available, announcing further partnerships with manufacturers to enable their upcoming devices this year, including Samsung, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, ASUS, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia, ZTE, Sony Mobile, and Vivo. Even China will have more access to AR. The post Google Announces ARCore 1.0

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With Apple's A17 Pro smartphone system-on-chip as well as M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max PC SoCs shipping in high volume, 3nm fabrication technology accounted for 6% of TSMC's total revenue for the quarter, whereas advanced nodes accounted for almost 60% of TSMC's sales. Samsung Foundry also had a fruitful quarter, experiencing a 14.1%

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

According to a report by China-based tech publication YiVian , five general managers, most of whom oversaw VR divisions in the company, will be taking charge of both smartphone and VR business moving forward in their respective regions. Alvin Wang Graylin, GM of HTC VIVE China, is now GM of HTC China. Chen(???),

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

It is exciting to see the progress and innovation that emerging technology solutions are bringing. Will the Apple Vision Pro Debut in China Apple’s CEO and spatial computing champion, Tim Cook , confirmed that the recently released Apple Vision Pro would land in China in 2024. Cook said: I am very confident in it (China).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The evolution of technology. The evolution of VR is usually compared to the one of other technologies, like the web or mobile. Years pass by and technology shifts and market changes lead to a shuffle of the cards, and new market leaders arise. Let me show you why. Meta has clearly won the first round of the VR match.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was not a perfect day because I also had some work-related issues to cope with, but it’s part of life when you are working with cutting-edge technologies I’m curious to know how the holidays are going for you, so answer this post letting me know how life is going for you! But before, let me list the most important XR news of the past week.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

On the technological side, it has been exciting. Technology is in its early stages, and even a company like Apple can’t bend the laws of physics. Meta may ask Magic Leap for support in the production of its own glasses so that to reduce its reliance on China IP. It’s been a strange week. Both companies didn’t answer this rumor.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 26, 2018

The news comes via HTC’s China Regional President of VR, Alvin Wang Graylin. Akin to the pending Lenovo offering, HTC’s Vive Focus also offers a 6DoF technology that allows users to move around in the real world while wearing the headset. The post HTC Vive Focus ships in China, may have US debut after all appeared first on VR World.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

Haptx to Advance Research into Haptic Solutions for Visually Impaired Groups This week, HaptX gained a Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer program grant from the U.S. HaptX is leading research with Old Dominion University (ODU) and Georgia Institute of Technology, which also receive investments from the funding round.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

More info (The video showing Blink Energy’s CTO wearing the smart contact lens) More info (Blink Energy’s official website) News worth a mention (Image by Meta) Meta is reportedly not releasing Quest to China anymore A few months ago, a report informed us that Meta was partnering with Tencent to bring to China a Quest headset.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 16, 2022

The plan includes building numerous new fabs in Taiwan, Japan, and China. TSMC, which has among the largest CapEx budgets in the semiconductor industries (which is challenged only by Samsung) has in recent years been relatively quiet about their mature and specialty node production plans. Fab 16 Phase 1B in Nanjing, China.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Tim Cook always said he’s not interested in the M-world, but the only truth is that he doesn’t want to say that word , while actually he’s super interested in the technology, and this job listing proves that. Pico is facing in China internal confusion and mediocre sales. sales, while in China now it has sold less than 50K units.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2023

Apple has already experienced exposure to the immersive technology space, a firm that has minor AR integration for its iPhone and iPad devices. Additionally, Apple is slated to work with other mainland China firms, including Cowell E Holdings and Shenzhen Desay Battery Technology.

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VRScout

MARCH 21, 2017

Samsung keeps us on our virtual toes, your phone’s packaging is VR headset, YouTube gets 360° help from Daydream, AR helps you make stuff better & faster, the investment & funding wrap-up, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: SAMSUNG KEEPS US ON OUR VIRTUAL TOES. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2018

They feature Reactive Grip technology, which generates ‘tactile illusions’ of sensations such as inertia and elasticity. Live event broadcasting specialists NextVR announced three technology advancements to their platform coming this year: six degrees of freedom-enabled content, higher resolution output, and augmented reality support.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

We saw mixed results in the global VR industry in 2016—initial sales volume by some high-end manufacturers didn’t quite live up to the hype, while PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR, and low-cost headsets continued to gain traction,” said Clifton Dawson, CEO of Greenlight Insights. 5-year global VR hardware and software forecasts.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. It is a next-gen tablet device that utilizes artificial intelligence and lightfield technology to immerse the users in a variety of 3D experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. This week we had a bunch of news, that seem quite unrelated, that show us how Facebook is working on its plan to become the dominant force in future technologies. Steam officially arrives in China. Steam and PlayStation 5 arrived in China.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

He also hyped people about the upcoming Infinite Office, BCIs, AR glasses… saying for most technologies that “they are coming sooner than people think”. But when the journalist asked about the use of Ctrl+Labs technology, he specified that “sooner than people think” is maybe 5 years. Samsung original controller design gets leaked.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This means that someone made some predictions that were totally wrong and this made lots of companies bet on a technology that was not ready enough, creating huge losses and so the general consensus that VR is not taking foot and so it is a dead technology. So, I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Standalone headsets.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

Jaunt has raised slightly over $100 million from notable partners such as Disney , Paul McCartney (yes, that Paul McCartney ) and China Media Capital. The company was able to raise these funds by arriving early and impressing with proprietary technology for the creation of immersive video.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 22, 2022

has solid plans for the next few years, but the foundry's manufacturing technology design cycles are getting longer. Advertised PPA Improvements of New Process Technologies. In an apparent bid to tackle the issue, TSMC has developed N3E version of the technology that widens process window and provides improvements over N5. "N3E

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Qualcomm Technologies has boosted its support and expansion of extended reality (XR) solution at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023, it announced on Monday. Firms including China Mobile (CMCC), KDDI Corporation, Deutsche Telekom, NTT QONOQ, Telefonica, Vodafon, and T-Mobile have contributed to the findings.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

It requires a close partnership deep at the engineering level to design the right optics, display technologies, sensors,” said Singh. ” The current count of Daydream-compatible phones includes Google Pixel and Pixel XL, Moto Z and Z Droid, Asus ZenFone AR, and ZTE Axon 7, with more to come from Samsung, LG, HTC, Mi, and Alcatel.

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