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HTC Applies for ‘Vive Eclipse’ Trademark in New Zealand

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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. 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.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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The Future of Mixed Reality Is Much Bigger Than Magic Leap

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billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. They declined to give further details of what that technology was, but previously they had talked about using silicon photonics in its hardware. Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

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A digital assets of an orc, that was destined to become the character of an animation movie and was later on abandoned, can exit the PC and enter the real world thanks to your help; Air New Zealand’s Fact or Fantasy. Or maybe with the same money, they can directly go to New Zealand (Image by Road To VR).

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If ‘Ready Player One’ Doesn’t Suck, It Stands to Positively Impact the VR Industry

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Cheery old Hobbiton, although maintained as a tourist destination today at a family run farm five miles west of Hinuera, New Zealand, isn’t a ‘real’ place either. Just the same, New Zealand’s Tourism Board continues to capitalize on the success of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Canterbury University, New Zealand. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Will Huawei Force Apple’s Vision Pro to Rebrand in China?

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However, Huawei patented the former in 2019, at the start of the push for immersive hardware. According to Chinese patent law, Class 9 trademarks extend across numerous product types such as photo, cinema, and signalling hardware. Huawei’s P30 series was the last flagship phone to include Google Mobile Services (GMS) natively.

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