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Wednesday 30 August 2017
Qualcomm, Himax jointly develop 3D depth sensing solution
Qualcomm and Himax Technologies have jointly announced a collaboration to accelerate the development and commercialization of a high-resolution, low-power active 3D depth sensing...
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Intel unveils neural compute engine in Movidius Myriad X VPU for AI
Intel has introduced its new Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit (VPU), advancing Intel's end-to-end portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to deliver more autonomous...
Monday 28 August 2017
Digitimes Research: Google aims to achieve virtual experiences through daily life applications
Google's development of AI/VR/AR products can be backdated to as early as the launch of Google Search as the service is using machine learning algorithms to search for needed information...
Monday 28 August 2017
China market: DPVR unseats HTC as VR headset leader in 2Q17, says Canalys
China-based DPVR (previously known as Deepoon) overtook HTC as the top VR headset vendor in China in the second quarter of 2017 with shipments totaling 18,000 units, up 30% sequentially,...
Friday 25 August 2017
Worldwide wearable device sales to grow 17% in 2017, says Gartner
Gartner forecasts that 310.4 million wearable devices will be sold worldwide in 2017, an increase of 16.7% from 2016. Sales of wearable devices will generate revenues of US$30.5 billion...
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Digitimes Research: AR players shift focus to platform products
Major players in the augmented reality (AR) industry have slowed down the development of consumer-end products, and instead have shifted their strategies to focus on developing AR...
Tuesday 22 August 2017
HTC announces US$200 cut for Vive
In a move to make its VR devices more accessible to the mass market, HTC has announced a US$200 price reduction for its Vive virtual reality (VR) headsets.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Qualcomm developing 3D depth sensing technology
Qualcomm is partnering with its ecosystem partners to develop 3D depth sensing technology, which will be applied to Andriod smartphones powered the Snapdragon mobile chips, according...
Wednesday 16 August 2017
HTC to offer Vive VR training to UPS
HTC has tied up with UPS and will launch logistics training courses utilizing its Vive VR technology and devices at the courier's nine training centers in the US starting September...
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Dell stresses importance of digital transformation at technology forum
Dell on August 15 hosted Dell Technology Forum 2017 in Taipei, discussing the trend of digital transformation through explaining software-defined or cloud-like modern datacenters.
Monday 7 August 2017
HTC July revenues down slightly
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$6.19 billion (US$204.91 million) for July, down 10.16% on month and 2.06% on year. July's revenues were the company's second highest monthly...
Friday 4 August 2017
AR, VR, IoT applications highlighted at 2017 Cross-Strait Startup Contest
Young startup talent across the Taiwan Strait have amassed strong innovation momentums in IoT, AR, and VR applications as well as 3D printing, smart retail, smart living, and Internet+...
Thursday 3 August 2017
Competition in gaming desktop PC segment heating up
Notebook brands including Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI), Lenovo and Acer have recently enhanced their respective gaming desktop PC portfolios, extending the ongoing...
Wednesday 2 August 2017
Availability of standalone devices to drive take-off of VR industry
The planned release of standalone VR head-mounted display (HMD) devices by hardware vendors including HTC and Oculus will help accelerate the development of the global VR market,...
Friday 28 July 2017
China market: HTC to roll out standalone VR headsets
HTC plans to launch a standalone Vive VR headset, built using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 VR mobile platform, in China initially, according to a company announcement.