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

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Earlier this morning HTC announced that a brand new mobile virtual reality headset powered by their upcoming flagship model smartphone, the HTC U11, will be coming to Japanese consumers this June alongside a Ghost in the Shell tie-in experience. Head mount display weight. Head mounted display battery.

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HTC Applies for ‘Vive Eclipse’ Trademark in New Zealand

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HTC may have more than one new headset in sight than we initially thought when it registered the name ‘Vive Focus’ in the EU and US. 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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HTC Files for ‘Vive Cosmos’ VR Headset Trademark

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With middling smartphone sales and a loss of a major portion of its smartphone IP and engineering team to Google last year, HTC appears to be full steam ahead with VR headsets as of late. SEE ALSO HTC Announces 6DOF Controller Tracking Dev Kit for Vive Focus.

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Big XR News from Google, Meta, IGS Orlando, HTC VIVE, and Warpin

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This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. This has led Google to slash jobs across its operations in recent months.

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Google to Feature High-resolution VR OLED Display for Wide FOV Headsets at SID 2018

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Google announced at last year’s Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays – all at a supposedly ‘wide’ field of view (FOV).

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Sony Plans XR2+ Gen 2 Headset For 'Spatial Content Creation' In 2024

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UploadVR David Heaney Last week, Qualcomm revealed the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset with headset manufacturing partners announced as Samsung (working with Google) as well as HTC Vive, Immersed's Visor, and a YVR headset in China. Image provide by Sony depicting pointing controller This news is breaking. Updates to come.

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Nothing New: HTC Exec Slams Apple’s Vision Pro’s ‘Pricey’ XR Headset

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HTC Vive has been doing it for a while” He later quotes D an O’Brien, President, Americas, HTC , stating use case data from the Taoyuan-based firm. Biting into the Apple Demond Cureton, Senior Journalist, XR Today , analysing the commentary from HTC’s chief on the Apple Vision Pro.

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