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Wireless Vive Adapter TPCast to Ship

by Alan Spencer

The first TPCAST Wireless Adaptors for HTC Vive are now delayed until the end of the month due to the production and testing processes taking longer than originally planned. The company has apologised to …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13| Wireless

HTC Vive and Accedo Partner For VR

by Alan Spencer

Accedo has announced a partnership with HTC Vive to help educate the video industry and accelerate VR innovation in Australia. Accedo and HTC will produce a series of joint seminars and participate in industry …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

HTC Viveport Has Over 20,000 Developers

by Alan Spencer

According to Alvin Wang Graylin, president of HTC China, HTC’s Viveport has attracted over 20,000 registrations from independent VR application developers, resulting in the launch of around 2,200 applications. Graylin also believes that the …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Visbit Claims 12K 360º video using Wi-fi or LTE

by Bob Raikes

Visbit, a start up specialising in streaming 360º video, has said that it has shown that it can stream 12K 360º video using Wi-fi or LTE radios. There is a demo in the video …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Research Concludes That VR Lacks Real Engagement

by Alan Spencer

A recent study from the User Experience Strategies service at Strategy Analytics into VR, concludes that, whilst the VR market is poised for tremendous growth over the next few years, current VR experiences lack …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Qualcomm-based VRDK Headset to be Launched in 2H 2017

by Alan Spencer

As previously reported, the Qualcomm VRDK is a reference design for manufacturers to use to create headsets based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chip, which is built specifically for VR. The first headset to be …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Buzz Aldrin Launches VR Mars Film

by Alan Spencer

Buzz Aldrin has launched a VR film outlining his plan to get humans to Mars. Buzz Aldrin, was the second man to set foot on the Moon. The film, called Cycling Pathways to Mars, …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 11

The Bubble Bursts for VR in China

by Bob Raikes

An article in the Chinese press has pointed out that some Chinese VR stocks have fallen heavily as the ‘VR bubble has burst’. The article points out that shares in Shenzen Esun Display have …

Tags:AR/VR| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Nvidia & AMD GPUs Benchmarked for VR

by Milos Pavlovic

We reported on the new FCAT VR benchmarking tool for GPU performance in VR a couple of weeks ago (NVIDIA Announces ‘FCAT VR’ Frame Analysis Tool to Help Demystify VR Performance). Now the RoadtoVR …

Tags:AR/VR| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Vuze Available at $799

by Bob Raikes

Humaneyes Technologies highlighted that its S3D 360º camera was competitive in price at ‘less than €1,000’ at MWC recently (MWC 2017 Round-up) but said at SXSW this week that its camera, which has eight …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 3D Cameras| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Oculus adds Voice, Sharing and Facebook to Rooms

by Milos Pavlovic

Oculus has announced on its blog that it has developed an update to the Oculus Rooms app to version 1.2. The Rooms and Parties platform allows the sharing of 360º videos and games. The …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Vol 24 - Issue 10

The Guru 360° is a Stabiliser for 360° Cameras

by Bob Raikes

Although we don’t really cover cameras, you have to have the pixels in order to be able to display them and 360º video seems to be particularly sensitive to motion by the camera, so …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10