VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

Qualcomm indicated that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company. GPU performance, on the other hand, took a huge leap with the Gen 2 architecture.

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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. times Oculus Rift, 5 times HTC Vive, and many times greater than other headsets like Valve Index, Oculus Go, Pimax, and Samsung Odyssey.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

HTC Launches Vive XR Elite Image courtesy HTC The News HTC launched its first real competitor to Meta’s Quest line earlier this year with a renewed effort toward getting top games onto its platform (a challenge the company long struggled with while trying to gain a foothold with its Viveport platform for PC VR).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Valve let Tested’s Norman Chan and Will Smith into their headquarters recently for a multi-hour session with Half-Life: Alyx , the studio’s famed flagship VR game coming out in March 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The first Windows MR headsets arrived in late 2017 from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, aiming to compete with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that had launched a year earlier. HP's Reverb G2 added two extra side cameras, but by the time it launched in 2020 it was already too late for Microsoft's platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

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. We all wonder who can be the Facebook competitor, and we often talk about Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, but we usually forgot about Huawei.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2020

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. . This is not ideal in the long term as it may cause similar damage to that seen on the HTC Vive when used with PU cushions.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 1, 2016

52 Million VR Headsets by 2020? Analysts are saying there could be as many as 52 million headsets sold by 2020, made up mostly of the recently released HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. That’s A Serious Boom This will become an explosive market, according to Forrester. Are you ready? Get ready to take some Tylenol VR , folks.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Samsung will manufacture the chips for Facebook AR glasses. According to the Korean outlet “The Electronic Times”, Samsung will manufacture the tracking chips that will be used by Facebook AR glasses. A new patent highlights the possible design of future Samsung AR glasses. HTC keeps updating the Vive Cosmos. More info.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Room VR: A Dark Matter has been scheduled for release on 26th March, supporting PlayStation VR, Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S , Valve Index, Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive , and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. This isn’t Fireproof Games’ first VR title either.

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Tshwane students decided to deploy the application on several of the latest devices (such as the HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR). This opened the application up to as many users as possible within the South African market.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2016

. • VR was “the biggest loser” in sales this year, PSVR sales forecast greatly lowered – SuperData. • The holiday season seems to have given virtual reality a reality check. • Despite slow 2016, VR is still forecast to hit $14 billion in consumer software sales in 2020. Samsung – Gear VR. HTC – Vive. Photo courtesy B-Reel.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?)

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

The report notes that the forecasted uptick hinges on various market leaders, including Google, Sony, Apple, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, HTC, Oculus, Magic Leap, Blippar, and Upskill. Since the Quest 2 took over the market in 2020, the prices of several consumer headsets have gradually increased.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 26, 2016

Apple is Playing The Long Game With VR – And It May Work Opinion: Slow and Steady Might Win the Race A lot of VR fans may be focused on the big guns, like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Playstation VR, but the real pioneer in marketing virtual and augmented reality to the masses is mobile VR, such as the Samsung Gear VR headset.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP.

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Peter Graham

JULY 26, 2019

The app which once allowed PC users to see their monitor in VR has grown enormously, supporting HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung GearVR. Over on Twitter Bigscreen confirmed that it is working on a PlayStation VR version, looking at a release either late 2019 or early 2020.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Designed to work with most VR headsets via Bluetooth including Oculus Rift/Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Pimax, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR, the VRGO Mini will offer eight hours of use from a one-hour fast charge. This is thanks to the tech being lifted straight from VRGO Chair and put in a small form factor.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Headsets already planned for include PlayStation VR, Oculus, HTC Vive, Gear VR and even Magic Leap. Currently, Uhive says it has over 50,000 users in its beta with an iOS version planned for later this month and a global launch planned for 2020. As Uhive expands its efforts to include VR, VRFocus will let you know.

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Delight XR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

2.0.29 (2020-12-22). 2.0.28 (2020-11-23). 2.0.27 (2020-11-02). 2.0.24 (2020-07-28). Affected audio formats were “ambix”, “8ball” and “8ball-4channels” 2.0.23 (2020-07-23). 2.0.17 (2020-05-06). 2020-02-26). 1.6.12 (2020-02-14). Delight XR Changelog.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 27, 2019

The VRGO Mini has been designed to work with most VR headsets via Bluetooth including Oculus Rift/Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Pimax, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR for example. Should the Kickstarter prove successful ( many recently have ) then deliveries are expected to commence during March 2020.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 24, 2019

also mentioned future plans, such as PlayStation VR support coming in 2020 and 3D movie screenings. Currently, these platforms are HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift/Rift S, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung GearVR. In conjunction with the update, Bigscreen Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. In 2020 this trend will continue, and the more content will get released, the more people will start entering VR. The reasons?

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 22, 2021

When it comes to virtual reality (VR), with HTC, Microsoft, Facebook, AMD, Samsung and other internationally renowned brands stepping into the VR field one after another, the VR industry ecosystem has gradually improved, and consumers’ awareness of products has gradually deepened and matured. million units, and sales will reach 2.6

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. As I’ve written in the VR predictions for 2020 , I guess that the device will be discontinued this year.

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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.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

It’s estimated that in the 2020’s these technologies will converge into a synergistic human man machine. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Many transformative technologies are being developed right now as you are reading this article.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. Silicon Valley VR Expo : The next expo will be held in 2020. To show the high-quality VR content to VR enthusiasts, VeeR hosts Altspace event every month.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

And the company predicts that AR will be a $90 billion market by 2020. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. GB: There are predictions from Digi-Capital, a tech advisor, that AR is going to be a $90 billion market by 2020. They’re very bullish on AR.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

However, in June 2020, a U.S. VeeR has opened more than 5 VR cinemas and has plans to expand to more locations in China by 2020. Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). 3- Ayden Ye. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR.

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