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Acer and Starbreeze Announce First Shipment of StarVR Head-Mounted Displays

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Acer and Starbreeze AB today announced at a global press conference in Berlin that they have started to ship StarVR® Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) to IMAX Corporation in preparation for the highly anticipated opening of the IMAX VR® Center in Los Angeles, expected later this year, and others in the near future.

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HTC Applies for ‘Vive Eclipse’ Trademark in New Zealand

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It was first theorized that the name Vive Focus was intended for the upcoming standalone Vive headset confirmed at Google I/O 2017 developer conference. It came to light via the Dutch publication Lets Go Digital that HTC has also applied for a trademark for the name ‘Vive Eclipse’ in New Zealand.

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Post-Pandemic, Augmented Reality Serves Entertainment With Its Re-Emergence

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Most people don’t know augmented reality was first created and tested in the late 1960s: by a Harvard professor, with a wired head-mounted display. As in-person events and conference panels went virtual, AR activations emerged to entertain and entice.

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Acer Reveals ‘ConceptD OJO’ 4K Windows VR Headset

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Revealed during the company’s annual “next@acer” conference earlier today, the headset will launch alongside their new professional computer lineup, ConceptD. A new chapter for creativity: Introducing #ConceptD , our new brand of premium desktops, notebooks, monitors, head-mounted displays & gadgets designed for professional creators.

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HTC ‘Link’ Headset Brings 6DOF To Mobile VR In Japan

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Labeled the HTC Link , the head-mounted-display will allow users to move freely within a VR space utilizing an undisclosed form of ‘inside-out tracking’ capable of supporting six degrees-of-freedom, a level of tracking previously unheard of in the world of mobile VR. Head mount display weight. mm (depth).

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Meta To Show 'Near Retinal' Resolution Varifocal Headset Prototype At SIGGRAPH

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The 'Retinal-resolution Varifocal VR' headset is described as follows: We develop a virtual reality head-mounted display that achieves near retinal resolution with an angular pixel density up to 56 pixels per degree, supporting a wide range of eye accommodation from 0 to 4 diopter (i.e.,

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User Experience: What, How Much and For How Long? GSK, Lloyds Banking Group and International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association Join XR Intelligence

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One of the hindrances for increasing the use of XR technology in many businesses is the fact that using a head-mounted display for the first time can be daunting and immersive content doesn’t always impress. Conference Organiser. However, so far adoption is not as widespread as most in the industry would like. 4388971.