VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2017

Chairwoman/CEO of HTC Corp and creator of the HTC Vive, Cher Wang, will be honoured with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award. In an unexpected turn of events, the society’s incredibly rare Century Award will be given to the massively successful Google Earth VR application.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The funding disclosure coincided with other big news: 8i will release a smartphone app called the Holo app later this year. HTC VIVE LEADS THE CHINESE MARKET. MONEY, MOVES AND FUNDING.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

I am allowing myself one unfounded prediction though before seeing the film: even though HTC Vive is the official VR partner of the film , you won’t see the protagonist Wade Watts wearing an HTC-branded headset. Case in point: Hobbits don’t exist. image created by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so…. Top news of the week. Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Canterbury University, New Zealand. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments).

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