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Meta, Tencent in Talks to Sell Quest Headsets in China

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It had hired 300 employees, but later shifted its company strategy back to the gaming industry. The latter backed out of the deal, citing Tencent’s strategy shift and national regulations on metaverse solutions. To date, only ByteDance , Lenovo, and HTC VIVE have mature metaverse platforms.

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

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Old Enemies – HTC. While both Oculus’ Rift and HTC’s Vive hit the market right around the same time in 2016, the Vive was the first system with motion controllers and room-scale. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy. New Foes – Microsoft & Co.

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AR Optics Company Lumus Secures Further $30M in Funding

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recently confirmed a $30 million funding round led by Quanta and HTC. recently announced a $30 million Series C round of funding led by Quanta Computer, the world’s largest notebook computer ODM company, along with HTC and other strategic investors. Leung, vice chairman and president of Taiwan-based Quanta.

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

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The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. Image by Microsoft). base stations and a 20m fiber cable. iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses.

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

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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. A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though.

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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

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For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Is it necessary to own all of them? Prioritize your expenses.

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