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. New Foes – Microsoft & Co. image courtesy Microsoft. Former Friends – Samsung. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Currently, the Chinese have Lenovo, ByteDance, Plimax, DPVR, HTC VIVE via Taiwan, and a few other tech firms providing headsets. The company did this by launching its partnerships with Microsoft and Zoom, its Meta Quest Pro, and continued research and development (R&D) in haptics and enterprise avatars , among others.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Leung, vice chairman and president of Taiwan-based Quanta. “AR/VR is well aligned with our growth strategy and we’re pleased to invest in the Lumus optics solution for augmented reality”, says C.C.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2017

Today at Computex 2017, the annual IT expo held in Taipei, Taiwan, Microsoft revealed more from their line-up of affordable Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ headsets, including Asus’ headset and an updated design from Dell. Microsoft says that a staggering 20,000 UWP apps are already available for Mixed Reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

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. New important events have been canceled because of the coronavirus….

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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. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Mirage Solo is already currently available in the special economic and administrative zones of Hong Kong for HK $3,200 (~$400) and Taiwan for NT $15,000 (~$480). The 3C certification, as shown by Yivian , denotes the headset’s product marking VR-1541F , the same model number specified for both the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2019

A DigiTimes Taiwan report (via MacRumors ) now suggests that Apple has disbanded the team behind it, effectively putting its consumer AR device on hold. The Cupertino-based tech giant may be pumping the brakes on its long-rumored Apple AR headset , something that was reportedly slated to see a release as early as 2020.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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Anand Tech

JUNE 2, 2023

ADATA demonstrated potential candidates to replace SO-DIMMs and RDIMMs/LRDIMMs from client and server machines, respectively, in the coming years, at Computex 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan, reports Tom's Hardware. Such modules promise to increase performance and somewhat simplify building dual-rank modules significantly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Microsoft’s surprise new VR headsets, revealed last week and expected to ship next year, remain something of a mystery right now, but we should find out more about them in December. We’ve reached out to Microsoft to confirm that this is the case. ” We wouldn’t expect them to be livestreamed. .”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. If you a content provider, can your partner with Oculus to provide your business applications to companies?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Grayson has been a speaker on augmented reality and smartglasses at SXSW, Microsoft Cambridge, New York Fashion Week, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most recently at MIT Media Lab. Now imagine two of those 90° prisms set side by side. In this configuration one can turn an image 180°.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

And when I was in Taiwan, someone told me this very crude sentence: (Almost) no one is making money in VR at this moment. Maquette by Microsoft). Some indie game studios that I have just interviewed for the Gamescom VR Games Showcase confirmed to me that it is impossible for a game studio to survive just selling VR games.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. It was a very expensive installation. We’ve built all these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. It was a very expensive installation. We’ve built all these things.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Microsoft confirms (again) it wants to build consumer HoloLens. Alex Kipman, the mind behind Microsoft HoloLens, has confirmed again in an interview that Microsoft will one day build a consumer version of HoloLens. I hope this proves to be effective so that to help people affected by fibromyalgia and other similar diseases.

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