Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2020

The news was first reported by Taiwan’s English language China News Agency , stating that HTC was set to “strategically adjust” its staff and continue optimizing its organizational structure to reduce operational costs. This isn’t the first time HTC has needed to strategically cut staff.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Vive Flow was largely criticized for not providing much more of a practical experience beyond first-generation mobile VR devices like Gear VR, Oculus Go, or Google Daydream. Maybe the Taiwan-based manufacturer is going for a real standalone format this time?

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2022

Alongside Somnium Space , participants in the latest funding round also include what Lynx calls early supporters of the company and “other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.” ” This brings the company’s total outside funding to $6.8

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

GM of HTC smartphone Taiwan, is now GM of HTC Taiwan. Considering HTC recently sold off much of its smartphone team to Google in a $1.1 billion deal, which saw half of HTC’s smartphone R&D division transferred to Google, they’ll need VR more than ever. Chen(???),

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

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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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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ARVR

AUGUST 16, 2022

Similar to Google Lens , the idea is to evoke informational overlays for storefronts. percent boost in loyalty program signups (a campaign objective) during scheduled raids around its locations in Taiwan. 7-Eleven similarly activated raids around thousands of its locations in Taiwan and Mexico. percent on average.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Similar to Google Lens, the idea is to evoke informational overlays for storefronts. percent boost in loyalty program signups (a campaign objective) during scheduled raids around its locations in Taiwan. 7-Eleven similarly activated raids around thousands of its locations in Taiwan, Mexico, and other regions. percent on average.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2018

Now, we learn INT, a Taiwan-based display design firm, is developing a 2228 ppi AMOLED specifically designed for VR headsets. Both JDI and Google are presenting high-pixel-density displays at SID Display Week, with Google showing their 1443ppi OLED on-glass display there as well.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Police officers in Taiwan are already wearing the first generation of Jarvish smart helmets, while on duty, to record their journeys, gather evidence and connect with police central command.”. This new AR helmet, which weighs around 1700g, was designed in Germany and features a pure carbon fiber shell. Image Credit: Jarvish.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If you remember well, there’s a scary leaked letter of Mark Zuckerberg where he claims that he doesn’t want to just make programs that run on Android, because they’re subject to the rules of another company (Google). He wanted to own the whole platform so that he could do whatever he wanted. Some news on content.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 22, 2023

That means glasses using it will have to be assembled inside the US, significantly raising the production cost, despite most of the manufacturing and components coming from China and Taiwan. Meta Reportedly Downgrading Key Specs Of AR Glasses Meta is reportedly downgrading key specs of its in-development AR glasses to achieve a lower cost.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 21, 2016

While the west seems to be slowing the pace of adoption ahead of content frenzy coming next year, China and Taiwan seem to be the birthplaces of VR boom which is spreading like wildfire not just in their domestic markets, but also in countries like Indonesia. VR headsets are increasingly becoming mainstream in emerging parts of the world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. Learn more: [link] #VIVEMARS #SIGGRAPH2022 #trackedonmars #virtualproduction pic.twitter.com/uNTI9bH6hs. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Police officers in Taiwan are already wearing the first generation of Jarvish smart helmets, while on duty, to record their journeys, gather evidence and connect with police central command.”. This new AR helmet, which weighs around 1700g was designed in Germany and is made from pure carbon fiber.

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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). More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Founded out of Taiwan, iStaging caters specifically to the furniture and real estate industries, offering platform-specific apps for mobile devices and VR headsets to help end users visualize and experience an environment without physically being there. Read more here. and Greater China. Taya Venture Capital also participated in the round.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. It used Google Cardboard, which can be distributed at close to nothing. Alibaba debuted its VR mall, called Buy+, last year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. Former Friends – Samsung.

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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. I entered the building with my Chinese assistant Miss S… and I have to say that that place is very beautiful … all white, with an enormous white hall (shared with Google!) It’s very modern and clean.

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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”. The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. The coronavirus is also impacting the production of all the major VR headsets : we’re at the point that Valve’s customer service has no more left controllers to give to people for RMA. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

Google Daydream, the company’s mobile VR platform, is compatible with a number of flagship smartphones from various manufacturers. Note: Google advertises the View as the only available Daydream headset at this time. Google Pixel and Pixel XL. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. ZTE Axon 7.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For the past five months, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill introduced by the Hong Kong government which would allow local law enforcement to extradite criminals wanted in territories outside Hong Kong, including mainland China as well as Taiwan.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 2, 2023

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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Having recently sold off much of its smartphone team to Google in a $1.1 billion deal, which saw half of HTC’s smartphone R&D division transferred to Google, the company has clearly reduced its ability to compete in at the same level globally.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

So your marketing manager from New York and your head of production in Taiwan can be standing next to your Detroit engineering team, all looking at the same thing, pointing out where they want a different color, or a slightly different shape, or a new safety feature. The best part is that the team members can be anywhere on the planet.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Near-eye Optics Basics. Now imagine two of those 90° prisms set side by side. In this configuration one can turn an image 180°. Alternatively, two 90° prisms can also offset a display turning it back in the same direction.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Created by Metanaut, a newly formed VR studio based in Taipei, Taiwan and Vancouver, Canada, it lets you chain chords, melodies, and instruments together in complex webs. ” Recommended: Google Chrome. This student project is fully open source with an MIT license, and includes songs from a number of different genres.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards. If you have already heard his name, it is probably because he is the author of this famous photo of Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass in the metro. 90% of the worldwide electronics are produced in the big area that goes from Shenzhen to Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

The belonging of 360 videos to the VR realm causes more harsh debates than the dispute of Taiwan with Mainland China. For instance, this is the forecast of the analysts for the Google Glass adoption in 2013, that I used for a business plan. We all wear Google Glasses every d… ah, no. . It has become true, isn’t it?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I find Starlight an AMAZING project on the research side , and I think that all these technologies Google has developed for it may be re-used in other XR projects.

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

On the Top 100, EON Reality is joined by organizations such as Google, The Hoag Foundation, and Kia Motors America, Inc. EON Reality has been recognized by the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF) and Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ) as one of the Top 100 Companies Supporting Education Excellence.

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