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HTC Halts Stock Trading as Rumors of Sale Swirl

Road to VR

According to the Taiwan Stock Exchange, HTC will halt trading of its stock as of September 21st, pending an unknown announcement from the company, reports Bloomberg. Google—which is increasingly expanding its hardware business in the smartphone, connected home, and AR/VR sectors—has been fingered as one of the likely buyers.

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With Facebook’s ????, Oculus Is Fending off Old Enemies, Former Friends, and New Foes

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While the Oculus for Business bundle is offered in 17 countries, crucially, China is not among them—a major VR market which Oculus isn’t serving, and where Taiwan-based HTC has committed significant resources. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy. New Foes – Microsoft & Co.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. News worth a mention.

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Lenovo Mirage Solo Could Be Heading to China Soon

Road to VR

Lenovo Mirage Solo, the Google Daydream standalone VR headset, just passed an important milestone that could mean commercialization in mainland China isn’t far away. The Mirage Solo is already currently available in the special economic and administrative zones of Hong Kong for HK $3,200 (~$400) and Taiwan for NT $15,000 (~$480).

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Next-Generation CAMM, MR-DIMM Memory Modules Show Up at Computex

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ADATA demonstrated potential candidates to replace SO-DIMMs and RDIMMs/LRDIMMs from client and server machines, respectively, in the coming years, at Computex 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan, reports Tom's Hardware. Such modules promise to increase performance and somewhat simplify building dual-rank modules significantly.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

Hypergrid Business

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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