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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

VRScout

In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen. In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 And this reaches all the way up to the major players. As it turns out, investment is still flowing into the Chinese VR industry.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. The following year at CES 2014, Oculus had to share the immersive technology limelight with a slew of new startups who had appeared in the wake of Oculus’ success. The Oculus Rift Crystal Cove prototype VR headset and tracking camera a shown at CES 2014. CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape.

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29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to.

AllThingsVR

Kojima founded her startup in May 2014, soon after Facebook unveiled its $2 billion acquisition of VR headset maker Oculus. Fove ran a Kickstarter campaign, raising $500,000, and eventually got $13 million in financing from investors including Samsung Electronics Co., and HTC Corp. Qualcomm Inc. game maker Colopl Inc.,

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

VRScout

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. Fove has created an eye-tracking headset, which other headset manufacturers may seek to include in future iterations.

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Learn about Headsets

Delight XR

The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC demands a minimum of an Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 CPU paired with either an AMD R9 290 or a Nvidia gtx 970 graphics card. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift.

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Here’s How 4 Predictions By The Head of Oculus Research Turned Out

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At the start of his talk, however, he also mentioned that he’d made some predictions back at the first Oculus Connect in 2014, which had largely come true. Companies are starting to dabble with foveated rendering but we only have eye-tracking in one VR headset, FOVE. So what exactly did Abrash predict? What was he right about?

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

Delight XR

The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC demands a minimum of an Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 CPU paired with either an AMD R9 290 or a Nvidia gtx 970 graphics card. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift.

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