XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. With the solution, users can leverage the following tools: FreeD plug-and-play capabilities for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Resident Evil 7 might be out tomorrow but, hungry gamers that we are, we’re still looking forward to what’s next for PlayStation VR, and Ace Combat 7 is one of the better looking games on the horizon. This gameplay, shown at the 2017 Taipei Game Show in Taiwan, suggests that developer Project Aces has kept that sensation intact.

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JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. IQiyi recently released an app suite that makes its movies and games compatible with head-mounted VR devices.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

HTC kept the crowds guessing over the holiday season with a tease that it was adding a ‘game changing’ feature to Vive that we would see at CES in the first week of January. These devices were essentially new games consoles this year, and you wouldn’t catch many people laying down that much cash for any new machine.

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MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn. Now imagine two of those 90° prisms set side by side. In this configuration one can turn an image 180°. Lumus has more recently been the OEM supplier to both Daqri and Atheer.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Se was actually made to help users in the way of recommending films or video games to play, tell the time, the weather, the time of TV shows and complete missing parts of a poem. It sells for 3,499 yuan (US$529) in China, compared with 3,999 yuan for Taiwan-based HTC’s Vive Focus.

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