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. VRScout (@VRScout) February 4, 2019.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M Series A & Razer Creates $30M Fund To Invest In Games, Tech, and VR InstaVR , a San Francisco, CA-based virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, closed a $2M series A equity funding round. The round was led by The Venture Reality Fund.

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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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2017

The BAT web companies — Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu — are using their war chests for a different take on virtual reality (VR) than their overseas competitors. 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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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 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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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

That’s been a significant usability barrier for virtual reality headsets for quite a while now. In the past, the enterprise-focused virtual reality platforms I’ve seen have offered either overly cartoony avatars or extremely generic or even robot-shaped ones. Virtual reality user interfaces are a tricky thing.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Writer Christopher Grayson is an augmented reality, virtual reality and smart glasses expert market analyst represented by Gerson Lehrman Group. Near-eye Optics Basics. Now imagine two of those 90° prisms set side by side.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Bob Cooney is widely considered one of the world’s foremost experts on location based virtual reality, and the author of the book “Real Money from Virtual Reality.” The rise of unattended virtual reality systems. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Bob Cooney is widely considered one of the world’s foremost experts on location based virtual reality, and the author of the book “Real Money from Virtual Reality.” The rise of unattended virtual reality systems. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Lyra is a virtual playground for musicians that lets you create music in VR. 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. Requires: Mac, Windows.

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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

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. On the Top 100, EON Reality is joined by organizations such as Google, The Hoag Foundation, and Kia Motors America, Inc.

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