VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2019

From steep discounts on Oculus PC hardware, to slashed prices on PSVR bundles, here’s your guide to today’s best VR deals: Image Credit: HTC. In terms of hardware discounts, HTC definitely takes the cake thanks to several impressive deals on its lineup of Vive headsets and numerous must-have accessories.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S. According to CrunchBase , the company’s total funding comes to $115.5

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The company also convinced a handful of its major PC partners—Dell, Lenovo, Acer, HP, Samsung, and Asus—to launch VR headsets attached to the platform. Windows VR headsets peaked at 11.13% of the share of headsets in use on Steam in June 2019, but have been slowly declining since then, down to 8.05% as of January, 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

By the end of 2019, it had been expected to reach $15.1 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Samsung reportedly plans to send out an AR/VR headset to developers next year. South Korean outlet Electronic Times reports Samsung has already built prototypes and is testing samples for production. In late 2017 Samsung launched Odyssey , a Windows VR headset, and a year later the successor Odyssey+.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2019

Windows VR headsets seem to be continuously discounted , including some big sales on the Samsung Odyssey last month, which likely contributed to the ongoing growth. Beyond the price differences, HTC also has a new PC headset on the way, the Vive Cosmos, which was announced in January.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. The social media empire-owning regularly operates its Reality Labs XR division at a heavy loss, which is handily subsidized by advertising across Facebook and Instagram.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon. Google and Samsung will release an XR headset. Bytedance is already in the game, Meta is currently the market leader.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to the most-searched-for headsets, there’s been three clear leaders during the 2016, ’17, and ’18 holiday shopping seasons: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Peak search volume for Quest in the US was 1.6

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. I have this impression for a few reasons. Long story short: things are not good.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Announced just last week, Vive Focus Plus is HTC’s next iteration of their standalone VR headset that adds a pretty big missing puzzle piece, namely a replacement for its predecessor’s single 3DOF controller (rotation only) for the new 6DOF controllers. But that’s not exactly all there is to Vive Focus Plus. Consumer? ».

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JULY 6, 2023

Samsung is reportedly redesigning its in-development headset. In February Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android. Google is handling the software for Samsung's hardware. A year later Facebook formally abandoned Gear VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 4, 2020

0.99% ) have continued their steady decline, now at 7.36% from their June 2019 peak of 11.13%. Later this year HP will launch Reverb G2, the first new Windows VR headset, since Samsung’s Odyssey+ in 2018. 1.06% ) is declining too but still holds an impressive 23.03% of the share of headsets on Steam. Windows VR headsets ( ?0.99%

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ own Brendan Iribe—the company’s CEO up until the end of 2016 (now head of Oculus’ PC VR team)—said back in March that the Rift is unlikely to be superseded by a new version for “at least the next two years,” putting his timeline for a next-gen Rift / Rift 2 well into 2019.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 3, 2019

VR Predictions for 2019. Now we turn our attention to 2019. The main bottleneck now is authoring value-added content, and that’s what we think 2019 will be all about. Let’s take a look at our three top predictions for the role of Virtual Reality in 2019: 1. 2019 is shaping up to be an exciting year in VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

Ang is promising to showcase a number of VR headsets in his library, including Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, Samsung Odyssey Plus, Vive Pro, HP Reverb, Valve Index, Pimax 5K Plus, Pimax 5K XR, HTC Vive Cosmos, and StarVR One, a headset intended for the enterprise sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2025

It feels like a lifetime since Valve released the Index headset a high-powered (relatively expensive) VR headset initially introduced in 2019. We now have the Quest 3 and Quest 3S , not to mention countless impressive headsets from the likes of HTC VIVE, Pico, and Varjo. The Index remains an extremely popular headset today.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

The sales of the other players on the VR market were pretty much flat across the year – the Oculus Rift (the PC tethered version), the Samsung Gear VR, the HTC Vive, and the Vive Focus showed limited sales growth. million units last year, with significant growth shown in the fourth quarter of the year.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 12, 2019

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). But the proof will be in the next 12 months of sales, including the 2019 holiday period. And its projected $2.02

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

Mario Kart comes to VR, E3’s VR news, Intel’s new VR eSports league AND wireless VR solution, Samsung buys their way into social, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. OK, OK, it’s not open until 2019 but we’re still too tickled. SAMSUNG BUYS A SOCIAL VR CARD. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2020

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since I received my Valve Index PCVR kit on launch day, June 28 th 2019. I was puzzled by this omission, as their previous collaboration with HTC saw the Vive released in 2016 with both narrow and wide facial gaskets to offer 2 fitting options out of the box. .

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Bigscreen Beta is a free social VR platform that lets you directly mirror and share your desktop to other user, which includes support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, all SteamVR-compatible headsets. Bigscreen also supports Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR mobile VR headsets, albeit with remote desktop streaming done via WiFi.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

I have tried it in Nanchang in 2019 and I came out pretty impressed from it (you can read my full review here ). This remind me of the initial choice that HTC took when it released the 6DOF tracking add-on for the Vive Focus : in the end, it was never released and the company just launched the new Vive Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. From the talk, it is clear that HTC is betting a lot on these new technologies and envisions a future where all of us will wear these devices every day. Samsung S9. The beautiful Samsung Galaxy S9, in all its colors.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This includes all the Windows MR headsets from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, including HP's Reverb G2 , released in 2020. The first Windows MR headsets arrived in late 2017 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, aiming to compete with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that had launched a year earlier.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

SEE ALSO Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership. While Hulu, YouTube, and now Amazon have all expanded their video streaming libraries with 360 content specifically for viewing in VR, Netflix has not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Having sold 317K units in Q4, the Quest has so sold around 710K units in 2019. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230. Not bad as a result (more than Go+Rift combined!),

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Samsung AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

The Valve Index is for sure the big surprise for virtual reality in this 2019. But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. I tried it in Beijing at HTC offices and I was amazed by this possibility. Is the Index the Vive 2?

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 13, 2019

While there are a bunch of channels to watch, Bigscreen Beta is looking towards the eSports market to attract new users, announcing The International 2019 , the DOTA 2 eSports tournament will be officially streamed via the platform next week. 20th – 24th August – Main Event.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). The Oculus Quest boundary passthrough is really handy when you want to have a quick drink in VR pic.twitter.com/1hrCszntot — Mike – VRO (@vr_oasis) May 3, 2019. Strangely, it is even more expensive than HTC’s standalone.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. After some years of silence, Elon Musk will give us an update of Neuralink on July, 18th 2019. HTC has released some interesting statistics on the VR market.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Complete List of VR Headsets 2019 Updated: 05/2019 Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. visit website Samsung Gear VR. visit website Samsung Odyssey. Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. Field of view.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Click on any VR Headset to learn more. Oculus Rift.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At Oculus Connect 2 in 2015 it gave everyone a free Samsung Gear VR, at F8 2018 it gave everyone a free Oculus Go, and at F8 2019 it gave a free Oculus Quest. In 2016 Valve President Gabe Newell famously gave all Vision VR summit attendees a free HTC Vive. Roblox for Quest launched on App Lab in July.

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