The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today is my last day in China. I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. Don’t miss them!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. ” In many regards, China is leading the way for VR innovation and adoption. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy.

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ARPost

AUGUST 4, 2020

Devices: HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift. Originating in ancient China, Tai Chi consists of slow, flowing movements with the purpose of activating the “chi” (the vital energy) and bringing the body and mind together. Devices: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go. Devices: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go. Mind Labyrinth VR Dreams.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. Xiaomi will exclusively sell and control the headset in China while the Oculus Go will be sold in other regions.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

China Joy kicked off Thursday at the Shanghai New International Expo Center with over 600 firms showing the latest in entertainment and technology. Let’s take a look at some of the common themes we came across at China Joy. Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. No one can compete now.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2018

Intel’s tiny VR-capable PC, Tactical Haptics’ reconfigurable controller, NextVR updates, TPCast Plus, HTC Vive Pro, and Xiaomi’s re-branded Oculus Go. HTC Reveals Vive Pro. Image courtesy HTC. The new HTC Vive Pro was revealed at CES , sporting various improvements over the standard Vive headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

HTC predicts the rise of all-in-two devices. Speaking with Upload VR, HTC VIVE EMEA General Manager Graham Wheeler has predicted for 2021 the rise of all-in-two devices, that is lightweight viewers that are connected to smartphones (or also PCs sometimes). But this news is interesting because it shows HTC’s views on the topic.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Old Enemies – HTC. While both Oculus’ Rift and HTC’s Vive hit the market right around the same time in 2016, the Vive was the first system with motion controllers and room-scale. Former Friends – Samsung. Samsung was perhaps Oculus’ first major ally. A Tale of Two Headsets. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

In this article we compare three standalone VR devices which will be available worldwide this year: the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus. For owners of a compatible Samsung smartphone, the Gear VR shell remains the best value proposition, but for everyone else, the Go will be the cheapest way to access Gear VR content.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2018

Two days ago, I’ve been at HTC Vive Chinese headquarters in Beijing. It has been a really amazing day, where I have been able to try some amazing HTC tech demos (more on this later on! I’ve been able to speak with three companies incubated in the Vive-X Beijing and also to know various HTC Vive employees.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

I’m writing this newsletter across Hangzhou and Qingdao, which are two cities I personally love here in China! Top news of the week (Image by Pico) Pico launches Pico 4 Ultra and Motion Tracker in Europe and Asia After the launch in China, Pico has launched its latest product, Pico 4 Ultra, also in Europe and Asia. This could be huge.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

Chinese manufacturer Huawei is coming up in the world with a more refined Samsung-esque design ascetic, now offering their flagship Mate 9 Pro and Porsche Design Mate 9 pushing a Hisilicon Kirin 960 built by Huawei’s subsidiary. Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. The Mate 9 Pro offers a 5.5 image courtesy Google. The S8 has a 5.8

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Road to VR

APRIL 24, 2018

The Go shares many similarities to Samsung’s smartphone-docked Gear VR headset, including a shared VR content library from Oculus , but it promises to be the best way to experience this content, as its design offers several advantages in terms of convenience, comfort, and performance. Want to know what it’s like to use Oculus Go?

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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. Be careful that I haven’t tried the Quest myself and in any case, the Quest has still not released and the Focus has only been released in China, so both devices could see future impredictable updates. The never-ending story.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Similarly, HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, told us back in January that he expects next-gen headsets to come in one to three year cycles —more slowly than we’ve typically seen in the smartphone space where a hardware refreshes comes every 12 months or so.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

” The current count of Daydream-compatible phones includes Google Pixel and Pixel XL, Moto Z and Z Droid, Asus ZenFone AR, and ZTE Axon 7, with more to come from Samsung, LG, HTC, Mi, and Alcatel. As for Daydream support on other phones, older handsets need not apply. ” said Singh.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. Standalone headsets. Mobile headsets.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The devices at the time included: HTC Vive wands that shipped with the Vive headset. Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. Samsung Gear Controller. HTC Vive wands. How far we’ve come. Oculus Go Controller.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 26, 2018

Consumer electronics company HTC officially started shipping pre-ordered Vive Focus VR headsets at an event earlier this week, in what was heralded as the “world’s first on-stage in-VR customer product delivery.” The news comes via HTC’s China Regional President of VR, Alvin Wang Graylin.

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Upload VR

JUNE 25, 2024

When Qualcomm announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 in January, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Meta Quest 3, the company told UploadVR that it 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.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Announced For Samsung Headset & More Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Quest 3. We talked to Qualcomm about the new chip and our in-depth report by David Heaney is worth a read breaking down its capabilities. Image provided by Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These are my last hours in China. By the way, if you want to read a bit more about my trip, be sure to check out my article on the XR ecosystem in China. By the way, if you want to read a bit more about my trip, be sure to check out my article on the XR ecosystem in China. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

We have also to consider that in 2019, most of VR companies (Valve, Oculus, HTC, etc…) have already launched their devices, and given that VR headsets have usually a lifecycle of 2-3 years, I’m not expecting them to announce something new next year. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 The platforms are putting a lot of money to work, and there’s a lot of money coming from China,” Kraus said. You have to experiment and do research and become the best VR stakeholder.”.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Announced For Samsung Headset & More Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Quest 3. The report suggested that the first headset from the partnership was set to launch in 2025, matching the CEO's statement, priced around $2000.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Luckily there was Viveport, that gave me access to all 3DOF content collected by HTC Vive. Being Skyworth a Chinese manufacturer, you don’t have problems buying it and using it in China , even without a VPN. Some of the 3D videos that come with the device were pretty cool to be seen, though. Special considerations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2018

SEE ALSO HTC's New Vive Focus Headset Locker Aims to Put VR at the Forefront of Education in China. There is an option to reset everything, but the app might benefit from a multiple save feature, if the same headset was being shared with several students.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. HTC Vive has launched their own financing program which relieves the upfront pricing burden of their system– although still maintaining the total cost at $800.

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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). For instance, talking about me, I found a lot of support by HTC when developing for the Vive Focus+ (where streaming from Steam is more than welcome). The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also with Bytedance’s huge cash reserves, Pico will be able to grow faster and increase its efforts in the consumer VR market in China (kickstarting the consumer VR market there), and maybe later on also try to compete with Oculus in the West. Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 16, 2017

China and the United States are major players in the virtual reality industry, but certainly aren’t the only ones coming to the table and investing a lot of time and money into immersive tech. Many will blaze independently with their ideas, but collaboration is a certainty as well.

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