Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

Google announced it has stopped active development on Tilt Brush (2016), the company’s VR paint app. Even before Google discontinued its home-spun Daydream platform in 2019, it was fairly apparent that the company’s interest in developing both VR hardware and software had substantially waned. All is not lost though.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This is likely the name of HTC’s standalone VR headset coming soon. When Oculus first revealed its prototype standalone VR headset, code-named Santa Cruz, back in 2016, we all new a response from HTC was inevitable. and Europe we may now have the official name for HTC’s upcoming Daydream-based headset: Vive Focus.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

According to the Taiwan Stock Exchange, HTC will halt trading of its stock as of September 21st, pending an unknown announcement from the company, reports Bloomberg. Following several years of financial difficulty, the future of HTC seems less clear than it’s ever been. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Gets Major Price Cut, Now $600.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This week at Mobile World Congress (CES) 2024 in Spain, HTC VIVE is showing face with a strong presence as a leading enterprise XR solutions provider reacting to industry trends to create its products. While HTC VIVE also offers user tracking for its XR headsets. Shen said that tracking is something HTC VIVE is invested in.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 12, 2019

Sony is the market share leader for VR hardware revenues according to the latest report from Strategy Insights. That’s followed by Oculus (presumably all variants) at 25 percent and HTC (same) at 22 percent. That includes Google (11 percent) Samsung (5 percent) and others (6 percent). And its projected $2.02

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2021

HTC teases new hardware ahead of its mysterious “Go with the Flow” event scheduled to take place later this month. This week HTC Vive tweeted out an image of a mysterious canister with a lid next to a computer. 10.14.21 [link] #gowiththeflow pic.twitter.com/TaidAkicJo — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) September 27, 2021.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

HTC has announced the appointment of Yves Maitre as its new CEO. Cher Wang, who took over as company CEO in March 2015, is stepping down to continue as Chairwoman of the HTC board. HTC says she will focus on future technologies that both align with the company’s portfolio and vision of Vive Reality.

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MAY 17, 2017

.” This is the tagline accompanying the shadowy image of a brand new virtual reality headset that was unveiled today from the manufacturers of the popular Vive VR system: HTC. One of these partners is HTC. The new headset will be releasing from HTC “later this year.” HTC VIVE (@htcvive) May 17, 2017.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company is cancelling plans to bring a Daydream-based version of the Vive Focus headset to Western markets, including the US and Europe.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

With middling smartphone sales and a loss of a major portion of its smartphone IP and engineering team to Google last year, HTC appears to be full steam ahead with VR headsets as of late. On the flip side, Valve has also created hardware with the help of other manufacturers such as Flex Ltd.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2018

Amazon will soon begin selling VR apps on its massive digital marketplace through a new partnership with HTC. While Steam generally functions as the Vive’s defacto app store, HTC runs its own VR app store called Viveport. But the partnership with HTC affirms the company’s growing interest in VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2017

Just about the only thing we know so far about the new Daydream standalone VR headsets in the works from HTC and Lenovo is that they are… in the works. Now however we’re getting a little more clarity about the hardware: both will be built around Qualcomm’s VR headset reference design.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Road To VR) More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Upload VR) Google lays off people in the AR Hardware division Like many tech companies lately, Google is performing a round of layoffs in its hardware teams. The device costs $200 and it is available starting today.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC revealed their new standalone Vive Focus headset today , poised to launch into the Asian market. Earlier this year the device was teased to be heading to Western markets as part of Google’s Daydream platform in 2017, but now HTC confirms they’ve canceled those plans. billion earlier this year.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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APRIL 20, 2018

Google recently pushed out Chrome 66, the latest update to the company’s web browser. Unbeknownst to the VR community, Google also quietly included WebVR integration for OpenVR-compatible headsets including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. Google WebVR Experiments.

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MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Google seems to be taking somewhat of a step back from VR, as Variety reports the company will be shutting down its Jump program for good next month. Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Samsung Partners With Google & Qualcomm For New XR Hardware During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. Both used the same OLED displays as the original Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2017

Google and HTC are partnering up on Google’s new standalone Daydream VR initiative which will see fully-self contained mobile VR headsets built on Android. HTC is bringing its Vive brand to Daydream, today announcing that the company will build a mobile VR headset for the Daydream platform.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2017

HTC may have more than one new headset in sight than we initially thought when it registered the name ‘Vive Focus’ in the EU and US. It came to light via the Dutch publication Lets Go Digital that HTC has also applied for a trademark for the name ‘Vive Eclipse’ in New Zealand.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Google today announced the first Daydream-ready smartphone(s), Pixel and Pixel XL. Brian Rakowski, VP Product Management at Google, showed off Pixel’s hardware on stage boasting a Snapdragon 821, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen on both phones, 5-inch for Pixel and 5.5-inch inch for Pixel XL. inch for Pixel XL.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Firms such as AWS, Samsung, and HTC VIVE took to the event to showcase the future of work and paradigm-shifting immersive technology. Moreover, based on its partnership with Qualcomm, it is fair to assume that the device will contain Qualcomm’s recently released XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, developed alongside Samsung and Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’ve been tipped about the fact that the Korean store of HTC may have accidentally leaked the name of the new Vive headset that will be revealed at CES… and maybe also its price. These are the features officially revealed by HTC: The device may be interesting also for consumers. Let’s start this 2023 with a leak!

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Earlier this morning HTC announced that a brand new mobile virtual reality headset powered by their upcoming flagship model smartphone, the HTC U11, will be coming to Japanese consumers this June alongside a Ghost in the Shell tie-in experience. That’s because the Link actually uses its own built-in set of 3.6 Approximately 197.69

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Like YouTube, which Google recently brought to the Vive , Facebook works only when it’s available to as many people as possible. And the same makes sense for Facebook Spaces. Arctic Open.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

Google announced at last year’s Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays – all at a supposedly ‘wide’ field of view (FOV). inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This was seen as a move to restructure the business to focus more on hardware and core technologies. Provided previous reports are true, even Samsung may be shooting for the high-end with its upcoming XR headset , built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

During a press event on Tuesday, Google finally revealed their Daydream View VR headset, a lightweight VR headset that will be compatible with Daydream Ready phones. The Daydream View headset was announced along with Google’s new Pixel phone in San Francisco, which is the first phone to be Daydream Ready.

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MAY 18, 2017

During Day 2 of Google I/O 2017, following major announcements of support for standalone VR headsets and a ‘2.0’ After Daydream VR’s positive start in November 2016 , it has taken a while for additional third-party Daydream-Ready devices to appear, perhaps due to the demanding minimum hardware requirements. image courtesy Google.

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JULY 26, 2017

Earlier this year HTC became an official partner with Google in producing a Daydream-based standalone VR headset under the Vive brand. Today, HTC announced it is producing a similar device for the Chinese market powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chipset. Where Are My Hands? market as well,” said Alvin W.

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JULY 12, 2021

In terms of compatibility, the platform is cross-compatible with nearly every major VR & AR device, including the HTC Vive, Oculus Quest 2, Microsoft HoloLens 2, as well as AR-enabled iOS and Android devices; it’s never been easier to take your friends’ money!

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

Like Oculus, they create both hardware and software for their VR devices. Pico may not hold the same name recognition as Oculus or HTC, but the company is a top VR hardware maker, selling to consumer audiences in China and enterprise customers in the Western world. Unlike Oculus, they have a substantial presence in China.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

After a long and somewhat awkward period of Google keeping all of their VR apps from Facebook’s VR platforms on desktop (with Rift) and mobile (with Gear VR), Tilt Brush is the first VR olive branch extended across the platform gap between these two major tech competitors. But, a new glimmer of hope has emerged.

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MAY 25, 2017

Well this is surprising; HTC has yet another new VR headset on the way, promising to make an important breakthrough for a major category of device. Meet the HTC Link. It’s set to work with the company’s latest smartphone, the HTC U11. Tagged with: HTC Link Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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