Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

At the time of this writing, Meta officially supports the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and most countries in Europe. This isn’t the first time Meta hardware has found its way into mainland China.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to research by RoadtoVR , Germany and South Korea are straight out of luck when it comes to availability. Considering the $299 pricetag and overall bump in power, I’m sure we can expect additional delays moving foward as more and more people seek to get their hands on this new-and-imrpoved hardware.

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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2023

At the time, a Protocol report maintained the move would usher in “a major focus on content licensing as well as marketing its hardware to U.S. Under the wing of the Chinese ByteDance media empire, Pico not only has the sort of cash reserves to subsidize hardware, but also a growing ability to attract developer interest.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Korea Economic Daily cites "industry sources" as saying that Mark Zuckerberg will meet with the CEO of LG Electronics on Wednesday to finalize the details of the partnership. This will be Zuckerberg's publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalise the Gear VR smartphone headset partnership.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

The 5G network supports the widespread use of digital twins, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI), and augmented reality (AR) hardware. The company is also delivering 5G solutions to three public sector firms, with the Korea Electric Power Corporation being the region’s largest electric utility firm.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to Tom’s Hardware , online sales via Verizon will kick off on December 2nd and those physical stores will act as places to demo Nreal Light before consumers buy it. Before its release in the US, Nreal has rolled out via telecoms in South Korea, Japan, Germany and Spain.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is Zuckerberg's first publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalize the Gear VR smartphone-holder headset partnership. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo. Quest Pro 2?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, a South Korean news publication reports that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet with LG officials in South Korea to discuss new XR hardware. The OS could potentially provide a valuable source of income and services for Meta’s XR hardware ecosystem to combat the already deep Apple Vision Pro offerings.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Pico 4 is available in Europe, Japan, and South Korea, but is missing the United States market right now. ” While Quest 2 comes bundled with Resident Evil 4 and Beat Saber this holiday season, Pico’s device now has six games to interest buyers who pick it up. It is priced £380 / €430 for 128GB /256GB storage.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yes it looks pretty janky at times, and the hardware is surely a pain to strap on, but there’s no denying we’re living in the future when people are donning headsets, stepping into anime avatars, and breakdancing with each other in virtual reality. Dance #VR #VRChat. VR VIVE FullBodyTrekking ??

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

bHaptics, the South Korea-based startup making haptic accessories for VR, today opened pre-orders for two new versions of its TactSuit haptic vests. We got a chance to try bHaptics early developer kit back at Gamescom 2017 , and the basic hardware platform actually offers a pretty unique experience. Image courtesy bHaptics.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

See Also: DoubleMe to Make City-Scale Digital Twin of Buyeo, South Korea. This can only be achieved at mass-scale through close collaboration between key innovators in the industry – from software and compute platforms to display hardware.”.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The developer told UploadVR that Virtual Desktop will release for Pico 4 in markets other than China, with the headset set to start shipping next month in Europe, Japan, & South Korea.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 5, 2024

However, the plant will not make DRAM dies themselves, and will likely source them from SK hynix's fabs in South Korea. "This transformational investment reflects our state and university's tremendous strength in semiconductors, hardware AI, and hard tech corridor. The plant will require SK hynix to invest $3.87

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 29, 2021

million in 2017 and its first Series B round in April 2020, from backers that included South Korea-based Shinsegae Information & Communication, Woomi Construction, SL Investment, KDB Capital, Shinhan Capital, Enlight Ventures, CKD Venture Capital, and Breeze Investment, Ha said. Existing investors did not join this round.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. Historically the Steam Hardware Survey has been the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. Pico 4 is only launching in Europe, Japan & South Korea.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

That said, like other companies we’re expecting some additional impact to our hardware production due to the Coronavirus. South Korea. We’re taking precautions to ensure the safety of our employees, manufacturing partners and customers, and are monitoring the situation closely.” United States. Netherlands.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2018

With the funding, Nolo VR says they will “continue to optimize the software, hardware, and content platforms,” and will also soon release their own 6DOF mobile VR app platform, dubbed Nolo Home. The Series A was led by the Menlo Park-based BlueRun Ventures , and included Nigeria-based Lotus Capital. Image courtesy Nolo VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules. Each pixel logic hardware module includes a local memory element configured to store a multi-bit pixel intensity value of a corresponding micro-LED for an image frame.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pico 4 is only available in select regions, including Europe, South Korea and Japan. The decision to buy Pico 4 or Quest 2 comes down to an exceedingly difficult question: do you want ByteDance’s superior hardware, or Meta’s superior software tech & content library? for Ruinsmagus, £29.99 for After the Fall and £21.99

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2023

To date, China is the largest trading partner with South Korea and Japan, the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) noted in its article. Furthermore, South Korea has climbed to earn 60 percent of the global market share in memory chip production, used for the world’s most advanced technologies, including XR hardware.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2016

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Upload VR

MARCH 3, 2023

The 256GB Quest 2 price cut takes effect on Sunday in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2022

Countries not included in Meta’s list of supported regions can’t buy VR headsets directly from Meta, although residents can import hardware from elsewhere and access the digital side of the platform without issue; supported regions include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, (..)

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Barbados, South Korea, Norway, and Dubai have led the world in this new form of digital tourism with VR solutions. Currently, the VR market is expected to grow from $6.3

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Upload VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

A booklet put together by Valve to mark Steam Deck’s availability in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong indicates VR headsets using Steam will “soon” have Steam Deck’s user interface. Valve is bringing the Steam Deck’s user interface to VR headsets.

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Yet advances in existing projection technology have made it possible for new kinds of immersive movie theaters to be built, such as Space 360 in South Korea, opened last year. As they further explain: “The previous generation of multi-projector systems were built around the “one computer per one projector” paradigm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The massive tech manufacturer struck a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with XRSPACE, an extended reality (XR) hardware company, to develop immersive solutions to build the Metaverse. One of the world’s top PC vendors, ASUS revealed the platform months after Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn opened its metaverse strategy in March.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 23, 2021

The current chip crunch has underscored that current fab capacity is too small for a world where there’s a silicon chip in practically everything, and meanwhile geopolitical matters have made nations increasingly worried about where today’s cutting-edge fabs are located – mostly in Taiwan and South Korea.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

So you’re probably better off designing around the hardware than making your own from the ground up. After all, Valve’s Lighthouse sensor technology is protected under a royalty-free license, but you can only obtain it after going through a $3,000 course. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Accessory Store Now Stocks Things You Actually Need.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2016

But while Samsung have up to now been content to sell new revisions of their headset to accommodate their relentless hardware refresh cycle, what about those who want mobile VR without the phone? Now it seems that a recent trademark filing in South Korea may reveal a possible name and brand identity for the new headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The model should be codenamed “SM-I120” and its battery has just been certificated in South Korea. It’s not much, but if this data is starting to surface, probably very soon we’ll discover more info about it via patents or hardware certification websites.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Hardware Releases and Other Surprises? On the hardware side of things, Zuckerberg has indicated that Quest Pro will launch later this month (even though it’s not a gaming-focused device). Likewise, Pico 4 is set to ship on October 18 for Europe, South Korea and Japan – you can read our impressions of the headset here.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Backed by Chinese tech giant Bytedance, the Pico 4 standalone VR system is coming to consumers in Europe, Japan & South Korea next month starting at just €429. Nearly four years after Mark Zuckerberg personally announced Oculus Quest the standalone VR market for consumers may have real competition.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2023

South Korea’s LG Electronics announced on Monday a partnership with Oorbit to develop serious gaming metaverse technologies for LG TVs. Pooya Koosha, Oorbit’s Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder , said that his company had been building hardware, software, and networking layers for the Metaverse for over ten years.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” It would do so by implementing its strategy of “excellence in software and in hardware technology.” ” He continued, “We have a long-standing collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies in XR actively promoting the development of the industry and working together to solve industrial challenges. .”

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