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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google acquires HTC Vive engineers for $250M Completely out of the blue (at least from our eyes), Google decided to acquire some XR-related engineers from HTC Vive (together with a non-exclusive license on some HTC IP) for the whopping amount of $250M.

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Big XR News from Samsung, HTC VIVE, Google, Sony, Pico, NVIDIA

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First, Google will play a role in developing the device through the Android XR operating system. Although the information is limited, the timing of this reveal is significant. The company entered into a definitive agreement with HTC VIVE, providing a substantial investment of $250 million to the leading XR firm.

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HTC Announces First-Ever Virtual Industry Conference In Response To Coronavirus

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In February Facebook has canceled its annual F8 developer conference citing concerns over coronavirus, meanwhile, Google has canceled I/O 2020 , its largest in-person event, due to similar fears. V2EC2020 running on an HTC Vive Pro (Image Credit: Peter H. V2EC2020 running on an HTC Vive Pro (Image Credit: Peter H. Diamandis).

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Google Announces Standalone Daydream VR Headsets Coming From HTC, Lenovo

Road to VR

On stage at the company’s Google I/O 2017 developer conference today, the company announced that it is building standalone Daydream VR headsets. The first partners work with the company to bring such headsets to market is HTC and Lenovo. These devices will launch later in 2017, Google said. This story is breaking.

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Android XR will allow camera access like on the phone

The Ghost Howls

Passthrough camera access is a hot topic in the XR community right now and while the positions of Meta, Apple, and Pico are known, everyone is wondering what Google will do with Android XR. Meta, Pico, HTC, then Apple… all of them prevented the developers from accessing the camera frames. But what about Google and Android XR?

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VRDays Europe: Speakers, Events, and Ticket Information

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This year’s featured speakers are Alvin Graylin of HTC, Jeremy Bailenson of Stanford University, Timoni West of Unity3D, and Sandra Rodriguez of MIT. This year’s VRDays Europe conferences include over 130 speakers.

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HTC Announces ‘Vive Focus’ Standalone VR Headset

Road to VR

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company is cancelling plans to bring a Daydream-based version of the Vive Focus headset to Western markets, including the US and Europe.

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