VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

ON THE CUTTING EDGE: CINEMA, GAMING, THE PERFORMING ARTS & MORE. This year in particular we have included more game like, or game driven story worlds. Traditionally cinema has not been interested in learning about the game world, but in VR the two worlds are very close. said Reilhac.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? We all participants of the VR Visionaries tour in Taiwan (Image by Digiblock). When I tell people that I have been in Taiwan, the first questions that I get are “How is Taiwan?”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From August 30 to September 30, the French company will showcase its Perfect Skin Expo in Taiwan to deliver greater product and shopping experiences for their customers. Using Ubitus’ extended reality (XR) technologies, the Perfect Skin Expo will support L’Oréal’s Dermatological Beauty Division to curate their products.

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Anand Tech

JULY 7, 2020

Charles took the role of CEO a little over a year ago in January 2019, having headed up the massive success of MSI’s Desktop Platform Business Division and the growth in the companies Gaming branding and laser focus these past few years. Going for Gaming: An Interview with MSI VP Charles Chiang on Gaming and Strategy.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Arcade settings are perfect places to introduce someone to the immersive virtual experience while having a bit of fun with friends and companies are certainly taking note. The VR arcade scene in China is booming these days. We’ve even seen some of this scale popping up in the U.S.,

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Upload VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

A booklet put together by Valve to mark Steam Deck’s availability in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong indicates VR headsets using Steam will “soon” have Steam Deck’s user interface. Valve is bringing the Steam Deck’s user interface to VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Leading into today’s news, shares of HTC were halted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange pending this Wednesday night announcement. Google and HTC already have a close working relationship, helping to push forward the tech giant’s commitment to virtual reality. Google has announced a $1.1 Google VR & HTC.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Virtual reality is still in need of great experiences to bring to the masses, and MSI wants to help make them with its latest game jam. Third gets $15,000, a X99A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard, a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card and, again, the Unity and Taipei prizes.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Founder Backs 'Revive'—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Viveport President, Rikard Steiber, recently announced at Virtual Reality Developer Convention (VRDC) in San Francisco that HTC will be unveiling the Viveport Arcade , a new content delivery platform for arcade operators. Viveport Arcade is launching first in China and Taiwan. The opportunity for VR arcades arises.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Otherwise, now the situation is more or less like before, with the exception of some places where there are still some Oculus devices in stock (for instance in Japan and Taiwan). This week they have added two new amazing features to their XR-1 mixed-reality headset: chroma-keying and marker tracking. This is so sad.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Virtual reality is still in need of great experiences to bring to the masses, and MSI wants to help make them with its latest game jam. Third gets $15,000, a X99A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard, a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card and, again, the Unity and Taipei prizes.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Acer eKinekt BD 3 Bike Desk arrives this June across North America, Europe, and Taiwan for $999. There’s some existing efforts to pair VR content with physical exercise bike machines, so it’s interesting to think about eKinekt BD 3 or something like it becoming a viable companion for a subscription-based fitness VR app.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. All the YouTubers and VR magazines talked about it, and it seems that the game is very fun. Some news on content. Learn more.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Meta is marketing Quest Pro as a headset for both virtual reality and mixed reality. For mixed reality, it shows a 3D color view of your room reconstructed via the front cameras with virtual objects superimposed. Included stylus tips attach to the bottom so they can act as pens to draw on virtual whiteboards.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Whether its a whacky melee fighting game, traveling to whiskey distilleries, visiting cityscapes of Taiwan, or sitting back to enjoy spectating some eSports action — there’s something for everyone. GAMES: Balloon Shooter ($4.99 – Gear VR ). Relaxing VR Games: Mahjong ($2.99 – Gear VR ).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

HTC’s out of home VR initiative is taking shape as the company officially unveils plans for Viveport Arcade in China and Taiwan and a partnership with Leke VR’s “offline content distribution system” in a thousand locations before the close of 2016 and thousands more by 2017’s end. An ambitious plan indeed.

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JULY 13, 2017

The BAT web companies — Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu — are using their war chests for a different take on virtual reality (VR) than their overseas competitors. IQiyi recently released an app suite that makes its movies and games compatible with head-mounted VR devices. China seems to be a promising market for VR video content.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M Series A & Razer Creates $30M Fund To Invest In Games, Tech, and VR InstaVR , a San Francisco, CA-based virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, closed a $2M series A equity funding round. The round was led by The Venture Reality Fund.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 9, 2020

HTC usually hosts its Vive Ecosystem Conference (HTC 2020 VEC) in Shenzhen, China but due to the current climate will entirely host the event in virtual reality (VR). HTC Vive will be conducting the conference using VR Education’s ENGAGE platform, the first industry event to ever switch to a fully VR format.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 20, 2019

Still from the French premiere of film “Pneumo Hacker” by Taiwan’s Poké Poké Creative & Redbit Pictures and the Innolux Education Foundation. One entry, Fisherman’s Tale , is a VR puzzle game that is already available to purchase for Playstation VR, Vive, and Oculus Rift platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2019

As you may know if you follow me on social media, last week I spent my whole time in Taiwan , at first in Kaohsiung and then in Taipei. This means that it will be possible to enjoy wireless virtual reality with amazing graphics with the Cosmos as well. Fasten your seatbelts and read this article. It works incredibly well.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

MSI has announced that its cool backpack PC for VR gaming has now hit the market for gamers to purchase. The PC is called the MSI VR One and it is the most powerful backpack gaming PC on the market today according to MSI. The machine is available right now in the US, Europe, Japan, Australia, China, and Taiwan.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

As a lot of you reading this might be stuck at home at the moment looking for things to pass the time, delving into virtual reality (VR) can be a great escape. The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

HTC has launched a flagship arcade in Taiwan called Viveland, giving the public a destination to play high-end VR games at consumer-friendly rates. Many have lamented the loss of arcades, but that may change in the future. Viveland just recently opened in Taipei, where HTC’s Vive VR system is the center focus.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Lead Artist: Teek Mach, Key Collaborator: Joel Douek, Andrew Sales) — In 2016, a young artist traded her paintbrushes for a headset and began inhabiting virtual reality more than the real world. When your body leaves the experience, your presence lives inside her ever-expanding virtual painting. Grisaille / U.S.A.

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VRWorld

JUNE 3, 2016

In that conversation, the soft-spoken executive claimed that HTC’s virtual reality group will go through a major change, and that the future for Vive will be “what the Radeon Technologies Group spin-off was for AMD, but (HTC) will go beyond that.” HTC Vive – Virtual Reality Headset.

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XROM

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Metaverse is clearly the future of the Internet & a new #Deloitte report suggests that virtual realities could have “transformational effects” on Asian economies. Gaming is “one of the early ways” in which one is introduced to the metaverse, Kulasooriya added. trillion per year by 2035, said the consulting company.

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The Ghost Howls

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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Infinityleap

MAY 17, 2016

In a recent development, a Taiwan-based hardware manufacturing company Acer has collaborated with Starbreeze- a Swedish game studio in order to develop “ StarVR ” which is nothing but a high-quality virtual reality headset. Cockatoo Spritz, which is directed by Stephane Barbato is believed to be quite interesting.

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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. Still, $799 is an incredible amount of money and this further cemented the reality that mainstream PC VR was still a long way off.

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VRWorld

MAY 26, 2016

What was hidden in the release was something more impactful to the global scene: “Adorning the Colorful booth further are formal signing ceremony that seal the partnership between Chaintech/Colorful and Shunwang Technology for VR cooperation as well as a games union ceremony with Tencent and JingDong. for $330 million.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Taiwan-based computer hardware manufacturer Acer this week introduced their Windows mixed reality headset to consumers in India. The announcement came at the conclusion of the Acer-sponsored Predator League gaming event in Bengaluru.

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HaptX

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

“This funding will enable HaptX to build on the success of HaptX Gloves DK2 with exciting new products that will redefine virtual and robotic interactions.” . HaptX Gloves enable natural interaction and true-contact haptics in virtual reality and robotics for the first time. About HaptX. Learn more at www.haptx.com. .

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