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Virtual reality on the rise
Virtual reality has become the latest topic of the PC industry with players such as Samsung, HTC, Google and Sony, all aggressively pushing into.
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Friday 3 June 2016
Asustek expected to focus on development of IoT, robots, AR/VR
Asustek Computer is expected to shift its development focus to Internet of Things (IoT), robot and virtual /argument reality (VR/AR) products, seeing the motherboard/graphics card...
Friday 3 June 2016
MediaTek stepping up development for auto electronics, VR
MediaTek's R&D teams have started to work with Europe-based car vendors and worldwide handset firms on the development of the company's product lines targeted at automotive electronics...
Friday 3 June 2016
Next stage of visionary mobile technology development: Virtual reality and IoT
We are enjoying all the benefits from different mobile technologies and innovative solutions. Advances in 5G connectivity, virtual reality (VR) and Internet of Things (IoT) are changing...
Wednesday 1 June 2016
HTC to spin off VR business in 3Q16, says paper
HTC is expected to spin off its virtual reality (VR) business in the third quarter of 2016 at the earliest, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report, citing...
Wednesday 1 June 2016
Everyone wants in on virtual reality opportunity
If the IT industry has not quite entered the era of virtual reality (VR), most key players at Computex Taipei 2016 are trying to expedite the process. Major technology launches on...
Tuesday 31 May 2016
Digitimes Research: Growing HMD devices stir up development of professional VR application market
While a number of consumer virtual reality (VR) applications for games and video have been developed in 2016, the introduction of more head-mounted display (HMD) VR devices has also...
Monday 30 May 2016
Computex 2016: Nvidia promotes Pascal GPUs
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, at the company's pre-Computex 2016 press conference on May 30, talked about its latest Pascal-based GPUs, which have been broadly adopted in applications...
Monday 30 May 2016
China market: Suning setting up VR experimental shops
China-based Suning Commerce Group is currently building the largest VR (virtual reality) experimental platform in China, planning to build as many as 300 VR experimental shops within...
Monday 30 May 2016
NVIDIA Pascal taking us one step closer to a VR world
One of the most exciting things about graphics chip design house NVIDIA is that the company has vision; it is always taking us one step closer to the future. While best known for...
Thursday 26 May 2016
Lattice pASSPs to enter production in August
Lattice Semiconductor's recently-announced programmable bridge device that supports leading protocols for mobile image sensors and displays will be ready for volume production in...
Monday 23 May 2016
Huawei to launch Daydream-based smartphones, HMDs
Huawei plans to integrate its Kirin CPU products with Qualcomm's processors to roll out smartphones and head-mounted devices (HMD) supporting Google's Daydream VR (virtual reality)...
Friday 20 May 2016
MediaTek to spin off VR business unit as soon as June, says report
IC design house MediaTek plans to spin off its virtual reality (VR) division to form an independent company in a bid to boost its VR business, according to a recent Chinese-language...
Thursday 19 May 2016
Google announces Daydream VR platform; HTC, Asustek to join Daydream club
Google has announced Daydream, a VR platform built on top of newly released Android N. Google said that Daydream-ready phones, as well as VR viewers and motion controllers will be...
Thursday 19 May 2016
Competition in VR market among Taiwan brands heating up
Both Asustek Computer and Acer will follow the step of smartphone vendor HTC to enter the virtual reality (VR) device market soon, heating up competition among local brands in the...
Thursday 19 May 2016
TruLight to begin shipping short-wavelength components for VR devices, cloud data centers in 2H16
TruLight, a maker of active components used in fiber-optic communications, expects to start shipping short-wavelength COB (chip on board) components for use in VR (virtual reality)...