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CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed

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Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics. HTC Announces Subscription Plan For Viveport [ Link ].

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

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HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. At the Oculus Connect 2 conference , it was heavily emphasized this is an exciting time to be in VR because the solutions are having to be created as we go. Fove has created an eye-tracking headset, which other headset manufacturers may seek to include in future iterations.

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Here’s How 4 Predictions By The Head of Oculus Research Turned Out

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It may only be two years old, but Oculus’ Connect developer conference has already established some cherished traditions. In the months following the release of both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both Nvidia and AMD have upped their game with more powerful GPUs, like the GeForce 1080 and more affordable offerings like the Radeon RX 480.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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Unveiled originally at the company’s 1st developer conference Connect in September , Crescent Bay gave us what we know now to be a pretty good sneak peek at the device that would eventually ship in March the following year. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out

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He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on his own behalf about some of the deeper philosophical questions and conceptual frameworks around the types of intimate data that will become available to VR headsets.