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HTC VIVE Evolves to a Subscription Model

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It is normal to buy or lease a car for a few hundred dollars a month, to own a thousand dollar phone with a monthly pay-off plan, but such clever price-reducing strategies were not the part of HTC or Oculus strategies and we all know what happened afterwards. Alcatraz: VR Escape Room.

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How Hollywood and Razer Are Shaping the Future of VR?

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Third large content announcement came from Hollywood (yes, once more), with several veteran executives leaving the yet unannounced DreamWorks Pictures VR strategy with several titles in the pipeline – to form Spaces, a join venture with the Chinese Songchen Performance Development. To put things into perspective, Dalian Wanda Group Co.

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Does Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Live Up to the Hype?

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Many of the world’s midrange enterprise headsets like the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE Elite XR, and Pico 4 Enterprise are priced well below $1,500. Meta even lowered the Quest Pro’s price to $1,099 after receiving backlash on its cost, with HTC VIVE pricing the Elite XR similarly. A Meta Counteroffensive?

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Intel Doubles Down on VR and AR, Calls it Merged Reality

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Slowly but certainly, Intel is unveiling its “Merged Reality” strategy. About a year and a half ago, Intel invested in Razer bringing the valuation of the said company to north of $1 billion. Today, Razer is bringing Hacker Development Kit 2.0

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Sensics is Building a VR Headset Specially Made for Arcades and Theme Parks

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SEE ALSO HTC Announces Vive 'Business Edition' for $1200. Sensics, who is a co-founder of Razer’s OSVR initiative, has naturally used the foundation of the OSVR HDK2 headset in creating the Goggles for Public VR. It permits various cleaning strategies for the passive part – the part that touches the head.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.12): HTC and Pico are ready to launch new VR headsets, and more!

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Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

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All the best AR/VR news from CES 2023

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HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. One is the high cost: HTC markets it as a consumer device, but at that price, not many consumers are going to buy it, so it will be a prosumer one.

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