Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Chialin Chang, HTC’s President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business, has made his resignation official, reportedly bringing with it a melding of the company’s smartphone and VR divisions—a move that possibly points to the HTC putting greater focus on VR in the face of the company’s waning smartphone business.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 27, 2023

Excitement is in the air as AWE Asia 2023, the most anticipated gathering of the brightest minds in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and spatial computing, is heading to Singapore on August 30-31! Mr. Alvin Graylin, HTC, Global VP of Corp. Embrace the XR Revolution at AWE Asia 2023!

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

AWE Asia 2021. We start our list of XR events in 2021 with AWE Asia because of the sheer size of the opportunities to explore and network. If you can’t travel to China for AWE Asia, you can attend the event at home, in sunny California. Our Top Recommendations: Must Attend XR Events in 2021. When: September 2 – September 3.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

HTC is serial-teasing its next VR headset again, this time hyping the reveal of Vive Flow, which is reportedly a slim and light 6DOF standalone focused on media consumption, casual gaming, and VR experiences. HTC also released and new hype video on its Instagram , showing a quick flash of Flow’s hardware. Image courtesy HTC.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2019

HTC is now on its fourth batch in its $100 million accelerator program, which offers education, investment and mentorship to startups doing unique and and interesting things around VR and AR. Like years prior, the accelerator program is spread out across Asia, North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Sony is demonstrating controller-free hand tracking on PlayStation VR2 at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. Controller-free hand tracking is a standard feature on Meta Quest, Pico, and HTC Vive headsets, offering an alternative to controllers for interface interaction, social experiences, and casual gaming.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

During SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, a booth listed the tracking rate at 60 FPS while claiming the system displays the hands smoothly with low latency. PlayStation VR2 Seemingly Now Has Hand Tracking Sony is demoing PlayStation VR2 hand tracking at SIGGRAPH Asia, and the booth suggests developers can already start using it in games.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2018

VR’s most popular rhythm game is heading to VR arcades across Asia in the form of a next-gen arcade machine cabinet. As if these plans weren’t ambitious enough, the company has now revealed that a dedicated arcade machine rendition of the game will soon be made available in VR arcades throughout Asia. pic.twitter.com/NUtPtILS8Z.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Each Pioneers’ Pack includes the following: HTC VIVE Flow: Lightweight VR glasses powered by an Android smartphone. The system will be available in additional markets soon, beginning with the United States in early 2023 with Europe and Asia to follow. You can find additional information on vehicle requirements here.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

The semiconductor giant has partnered with fifteen global telecoms across Asia, Europe, and North America. SEE ALSO Former HTC CEO Unveils 5G-enabled VR Headset & Social VR Platform. It plans to do so within the next year. Qualcomm will be including a badge as well, so you know what’s been certified as XR compliant.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This means you can watch on Google Daydream View and Cardboard, and with a little extra creativity, on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with Opera’s new experimental browser and Gear VR through Samsung Internet. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively to YouTube and DiscoveryVR.com, and on the Discovery VR app.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

Today we hear from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China President of Vive. Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. It will likely happen first in Asia where governments and parents prioritize their children’s education over all else. Alvin Wang Graylin.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Citing people familiar with the situation, the report maintains that TikTok parent ByteDance is canceling Pico’s next VR headset, or what is being referred to as ‘Pico 5’ It’s said this was in direct response to middling sales of Pico 4, the standalone released in Asia and Europe to compete with Meta Quest 2.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2021

Facebook – Oculus Quest 2 HP – HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition HTC – VIVE Focus 3 Pico Interactive Europe SL – Pico Neo 3 Pro Varjo – XR-3 Vrgineers – XTAL Mixed Reality Module. & Eminent Air (Thailand) Co., VR ENTERPRISE SOLUTION OF THE YEAR. VR EXPERIENCE OF THE YEAR. VR HARDWARE OF THE YEAR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Side-by-side comparison of the HTC Vive Pro (left) and Varjo VR-1 (right) / Image Credit: Varjo. Side-by-side comparison of the HTC Vive Pro (left) and Varjo VR-1 (right) / Image Credit: Varjo. The text quality, combined with eye tracking, makes this the first headset to move us closer to virtual reality feeling real.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

HTC VIVE has announced a new platform for enterprise customers that includes the Vive Focus, a standalone virtual reality headset targeted at businesses. This marks its expansion outside of Asia. This marks its expansion outside of Asia. The Vive Focus … Continue reading.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The PICO 4 virtual reality headset was released mid-October last year and features 4K+ resolution, a weight of 295g, and is available in Europe and East Asia for €399 (around $428). HTC HTC is about to release its offering in the form of the VIVE XR Elite with a release date of February 25 and an entry-level price of $1,099.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2021

This was the inspiration behind Kusunda , a voice-driven VR film centered around the indigenous community of Kusunda located in the landlocked country of Nepal in South Asia. As a result, this historic language finds itself on the edge of extinction.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 26, 2016

HTC today announced it is launching Vive X, a global accelerator program targeted at start-ups operating in the VR space. In Beijing, Vive X will pilot in May 2016, when selected start-ups from around Asia will be invited to apply for the program, with the goal of enabling those companies to grow with the Vive platform. Cats And VR.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

The Augmented World Expo Asia announced that it will host its 2023 conference in Singapore from August 30-31. 2023 will mark the first time that AWE Asia is hosted in Singapore. AWE Asia looks forward to hosting the conference in Singapore for the first time," said AWE Asia Executive Director Ryan Hu. "We

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2017

Those two peak months were not long before the company announced in May the next major initiative of its Daydream VR program: standalone Daydream headsets soon to come from HTC and Lenovo. March has seen the highest number of listings so far this year (10), with February trailing closely behind (9).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Currently, only select regions in North America, Europe, and Asia are eligible to purchase the headset through the developer program; be sure to check the FAQ at the bottom of the Developer Program page before applying. StarVR says that they expect feedback from Developer Program participants to influence their SDK and tools going forward.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

HTC is betting big on VR arcades in China. There’s an assumption that out-of-home VR experiences are going to be very popular in Asia where many people have less space and money to install their own equipment. I think,” said HTC’s Viveport President, Rikard Steiber. Photo provided by IMAX. Photo provided by IMAX.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

HTC and the Shenzhen Municipal Government announced plans to set up a joint China VR Research Institute, creating a 10 billion RMB (~$1.45 HTC, another Taiwanese company specialising in consumer electronics, now at the forefront of VR development, naturally has strong links with Shenzhen. The post HTC Partners on $1.5

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Header image by HTC Vive).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

With strong partnerships being formed both in the US and Asia, we see this trend continuing and even accelerating in the future” The report comes after the company debuted ENGAGE XR version 2.3 He added, “Overall, we are growing strongly, and revenue is now almost completely comprised exclusively from the ENGAGE platform.

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XROM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The bustling city-state of Singapore once again played host to the cutting-edge world of Extended Reality (XR) as the Augmented World Expo (AWE) XR Asia unfolded on August 27th and 28th, 2024. Looking Ahead As the curtains fell on #AWEXR #Asia #Singapore 2024, attendees left with a renewed sense of excitement for the future of XR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. HTC has already partnered with Chinese hotels to offer in-room Vive setups. Roadblocks.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 25, 2017

Symphony of the Machine , a VR puzzle game where players revitalize a post-apocalyptic world by influencing the weather with a mysterious tower, is now available for PlayStation VR and HTC Vive in North America. It will launch across Europe and Oceania on April 26 and in Asia on April 27.

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XROM

JULY 26, 2023

Singapore VR/AR conference announces speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, 3M, IMDA, HTC, among others. SINGAPORE, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Augmented World Expo Asia just released the agenda for the AWE Asia 2023 conference, hosted in Singapore from August 30-31. AWE Asia is part of the AWE network.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Previous investors include Gaocheng Capital, an investment firm founded by a former Hillhouse partner, and HTC, the Taiwanese electronics giant that has pushed into virtual reality in recent years. EventX declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Various headsets and smart glasses from firms such as Meta, HTC VIVE, and Nreal allow users of all kinds to access immersive applications to suit their needs. Europe, the USA, and Asia are making significant strides in VR and democratising the marketplace. Currently, VR is past its foundational and exploratory stages.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While a final price hasn’t been confirmed, the game costs around $15 in Asia. The developer is also currently working on another VR game, Project Tres , which adapts the ancient Chinese novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the HTC Vive. Germany and French options will also be available in the west.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The arcade machines are currently only being rolled out across Asia, but we don’t anticipate this being the case for very long. These new machines allow players to seamlessly pay and jump straight into the experience without any setup assistance. In theory, this means that Beat Saber is no longer fixed to any set location. VR content?

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2018

Dragon Quest VR’s portable VR system includes a combination of custom HTC Vive headsets and PC backpacks. To see groups of people yelling, shouting and fighting virtual foes while being lost in the experience was amazing,” said Vicon’s Asia Pacific Sales Manager Alex Muir. “We

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

EON Reality’s Dubai team was invited to participate in the HCT booth at the WorldSkills Asia event in Abu Dhabi, at the end of November to showcase some of products such as the EON Icube, the HTC Vive, zSpace, and Creator AVR.

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