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

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It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. The first bit to point out, of course, is that 90% of startups in any industry fail. As it turns out, investment is still flowing into the Chinese VR industry. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy.

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Oculus Enters The VR Eye-Tracking Arms Race With ‘Eye Tribe’ Acquisition

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The Eye Tribe intends to become the leading provider of eye control technology by licensing to vendors in the consumer technology industry.” There is something of an arms race developing between the major VR hardware companies (Facebook, Google, HTC, Sony) to add more intuitive controls for VR.

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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

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Since then, Sol has grown Rewind into an industry award winning tribe of vibrant creative technologists and digital artists. The team has also been working closely as an approved content provider for Oculus (Rift), Valve (Vive), Samsung (Gear VR) and Fove, plus building release VR demos for Autodesk, AMD and The Foundry.

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Learn about Headsets

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The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. (Gaming) PC. Software platform. Release date. April 2016.

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

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The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. (Gaming) PC. Software platform. Release date. April 2016.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues as to where it goes from here. Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later. CES 2016: Consumer VR Wars.