Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A recent rumor, which alleged that TikTok parent company ByteDance is slated to spin down its XR hardware subsidiary Pico Interactive, is false, the company says. China-based publication EqualOcean reported late last week that ByteDance is set to “gradually abandon the PICO business.”

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

According to the United States Air Force President’s Budget FY21 , the FY 2021 Air Force Operation & Maintenance (O&M) budget includes a staggering $770M increase from its 2020 funding. Could live-flight AR exercises be the future of air combat training?

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2023

” Google is building the software, while Samsung builds the hardware. Smasung Odyssey+ | Image courtesy Samsung It shouldn’t come as any real surprise the Korean tech giant is prepping XR hardware now. Roh told WaPo that the XR headset’s chipset is going to be “a strategic collaboration with Qualcomm.”

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 12, 2024

DPVR, a Chinese VR hardware and software education solution provider, is entering a strategic partnership with ASI Corporation to expand its global market reach to the United States and Canadian regions. The modular design of the headset allows users to swap components to customize their hardware and software configurations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2022

As reported by Reuters , Tencent allegedly told staff on Monday about the official formation of a unit tasked with building up its XR business, which is said to include both software and hardware projects. The internal XR unit was supposedly launched in secrecy earlier this year.

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ARPost

MARCH 6, 2023

This partnership resulted in the full equipment of the entire school system with the necessary hardware and applications. Thanks to the partnership with a local company specializing in developing VR solutions for the educational field, Lobaki , the school district’s 19,000 students will soon have access to virtual reality in the classroom.

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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2023

Owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, many speculated that the China-based Pico was finally ready to announce the consumer launch of Pico 4 in the United States, a step that many (including us) have been waiting for following a US hiring spree last summer. Image courtesy Pico So, is Pico 4 coming to US consumers?

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2022

United States import records from late 2021 onward show that Sony Interactive Entertainment has shipped thousands of boxes containing developer kits from Asia to the US. Platform holders like Sony typically distribute dev kits to a handful of select studios months before launch so they can properly target the new hardware.

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EON Reality

MAY 9, 2017

Hardware agnostic publishing allows for scalable deployments across a campus or an entire company while avoiding being locked into legacy platforms. The post Oral Roberts University (ORU) and EON Reality Earn Innovation Award from the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) appeared first on EON Reality.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Moreover, the initiative marks a growing partnership with hardware provider HTC VIVE and CareerViewXR, whereby the firm is also distributing VIVE Focus Plus headsets to education groups in the North Dakota region. We’re grateful for this gift, and for the value CareerViewXR brings to the state’s RUReady career planning system.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just one month into the new year and already 2020 is proving to be another turbulent year for the United States as well as the rest of the world. As the epidemic continues to spread, reports are now coming in of cases outside mainland China, including both the United Kingdom as well as the United States.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Since its initial development in 2021, the company has since applied for an international patent which will allow Dolami to market the headset in the United States in addition to Japan. It’s also said to be fairly light, weighing in at 4.5oz (128g). Dolami is aiming to reach a $90 price point when it’s released next year.

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ARPost

JULY 6, 2022

In the past 100 years, Lowe’s has transformed from a small-town hardware store to a large-scale retailer of building and home improvement products. Now a giant in the industry, it is at the forefront of home improvement, serving millions of customers across the United States and Canada.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These are multifaceted audio-visual productions that, when done correctly, are capable of delivering shockingly realistic immersive experiences impossible to replicate using at-home VR hardware. VAR Entertainment Ltd. VAR LIVE’s widespread dominance can be attributed not only to its somatosensory system, but its scalability.

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VRScout

MAY 13, 2023

The company states that the car is currently in Zurich, Switzerland, and will be arriving in the United States in the near future. Credit: WayRay The Tesla Model 3 was futuristic enough with its built-in autopilot functionality and car color customizer.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 16, 2024

This OS can be a valuable income source and provide services for Meta’s XR hardware ecosystem, allowing it to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro offerings. LG’s smart OS offers an app revenue platform of approximately $750.5 million for Meta’s immersive product portfolio.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now “unavailable” from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. United States. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is to blame. Netherlands. South Korea.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

Over the past month, Valve, the parent company of Steam and manufacturers of the Index virtual reality (VR) headset rallied its immersive hardware and software offerings; amidst new product rumours. The firm succeeded with its Index gaming headset, and now Valve looks to follow on from its success. Hidden Features. Is Deckard Coming Soon?

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2020

After years of teaching grade school, she temporarily left the classroom to work at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, but once again found herself drawn to education.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2020

With COVID-19 continuing to maintain its stranglehold on the United States, the Consumer Technology Agency today announced that the 2021 Consumer Electronics Showcase will be switching to a digital format as a result of the ongoing pandemic. The legendary Vegas-based event will return to its physical format in 2022.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Earlier this year those suspicions were proven correct when HTC as well as Lenovo announced their own upcoming versions of standalone VR hardware at the Google I/O Conference. The hardware is also confirmed to feature a 3DOF motion controller just like the one used for the Google Daydream View.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Additionally, VictoryXR is expanding its influence onto new Qualcomm-powered hardware. Late last year, VictoryXR teamed up with Meta to launch 10 Metaverse campuses in the United States. The Iowa-based enterprise provides an immersive K-12 curriculum on several headsets, including HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico devices.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PICO will continue to invest in hardware, core technologies, and enhance the user experience of current and new consumers." In 2023, Pico 4 just barely passed that original Quest in raw usage numbers on the SteamVR hardware survey. Pico 4 has never been sold in the United States.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 23, 2021

Consequently, we’ve seen governments kick-start initiatives to woo fab companies or otherwise incentivize the domestic construction of next-generation fabs, including the United States Department of Defense, whom today is awarding Intel an agreement to provide commercial foundry services for the DoD.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

million and is opening an office in the United States next month. That said, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all have headsets in development that offer inside-out positional tracking — meaning the headsets don’t need any separate external hardware to find the precise location of the headset in a given space.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2023

Due to this, Turkey has recently transformed into a technological resource hub for the European Union and the United States. Selda Bagdat Bahadir : For us, it’s a win-win relationship, and we typically consider it an obstacle to the development of ecosystems to separate content and hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The meeting took place after the latter visited the United States and met with executives at the Menlo Park-based office. Meta’s initiative to boost the production of its metaverse hardware is expected to tap into new markets as the company pushes towards building the next iteration of the internet.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Most people will wear corrective lenses over the course of their lives and estimates of the addressable market range from the hundreds of millions in the United States to billions globally. The gamble of scratching the lenses on such an expensive piece of hardware increases tenfold when you cram your own glasses into it.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The XR-3 Focal Edition can support the most demanding security needed for the United States Department of Defense, intelligence, and security-critical infrastructure customers,” reads the release. So, while the headset still uses a camera and audio, that info can be kept entirely on the device and any connected computer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In it, Microsoft filed the display technology patent, which continues innovations from US11688333B1 , which Microsoft filed in June and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) approved on 19 October. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 5, 2024

"We are excited to become the first in the industry to build a state-of-the-art advanced packaging facility for AI products in the United States that will help strengthen supply-chain resilience and develop a local semiconductor ecosystem," said SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 13, 2023

The United States Army and Microsoft are set to roll out an updated version of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset in 2025, reports show. The Subcommittee added that it remained “concerned” the IVAS headsets faced “software, hardware and user-acceptance challenges.”

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To deliver the best software experience for watching movies in Bigscreen , we also had to build the best hardware with Bigscreen Beyond.” Preorders, which are fully cancellable and refundable up until shipping, are set to ship in the United States sometime in Q3 2023. Bigscreen Beyond is slate to ship in waves based on region.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Meta’s Horizon Worlds is officially expanding this week from the United States and Canada to Quest 2 owners who are 18+ living in the United Kingdom. Meta recently instituted safety boundaries as a default across Horizon World s and today announced a feature that allows users to garble the voice chat coming from strangers.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. The Education Forum toed a close line when it came to hardware. Debating the Importance of Headsets.

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