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Wednesday 26 April 2017
HTC North Asia chief leaves company, says paper
Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia, has left the company for personal reasons, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
Tuesday 25 April 2017
HTC announces first grants in VR for Impact program
HTC has announced the first grant recipients of its VR for Impact program. The VR for Impact is a US$10 million program designed to drive VR content and technologies to increase awareness...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
TSMC talks about its next growth drivers
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is seeing robust growth in demand from the mobile computing, automotive electronics, IoT and high-performance computing sectors,...
Thursday 20 April 2017
Gaming notebook shipments expected to enjoy over 20% growth in 2017
Gaming notebook shipments are expected to grow over 20% on year in 2017 from more than four million units shipped a year earlier thanks to price cuts by vendors and rising demand...
Wednesday 29 March 2017
HTC teams up with Qingdao Publishing to tap educational VR market in China
HTC has signed a strategic alliance agreement with China-based Qingdao Publishing Group to jointly develop a VR education platform targeting China.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
HTC upbeat about Vive applications via Viveport in 2017
Viveport, A VR platform established by HTC, has attracted registration by more than 20,000 independent VR (virtual reality) application developers, who have together launched about...
Tuesday 28 March 2017
HTC Vive to launch in Thailand in 2Q17
HTC achieved strong results in China and the US with its HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) device in the past two years, and in the second quarter, HTC is planning...
Monday 27 March 2017
Asustek plans to spin off AR development team, says paper
Asustek Computer plans to spin off its AR/VR development team to become an independent startup, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Global AR/VR headset market to grow at CAGR of 58% during 2016-2021, says IDC
Global shipments of augmented and virtual reality headset devices are expected to reach 99.4 million units in 2021, increasing nearly 10-fold from the 10.1 million units shipped in...
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Asustek to start production of VR HMD in 3Q17
Asustek Computer is choosing suppliers for its VR head-mounted display (HMD) devices, with Samsung Display likely to be a supplier of display panels and Taiwan-based makers to undertake...
Wednesday 1 March 2017
HTC to launch mobile VR devices for year-end holiday season
HTC plans to launch mobile VR (virtual reality) devices as well as a second-generation selfie Re Camera prior to the 2017 year-end holiday season, according to Chang Chia-lin, president...
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Taiwan makers to ship 1.2 million VR HMD devices in 2017, says MIC
Taiwan's shipments of VR head-mounted display (HMD) devices, including ODM models, are expected to reach 1.2 million units in 2017, according to Market Intelligence and Consulting...
Saturday 18 February 2017
HTC takes VR lead in China, says Canalys
Shipments of VR headsets totaled 300,000 units in China in 2016, making it the world's second-largest market with a 15% share, according to Canalys.
Friday 17 February 2017
Himax remains committed to AR
One year after announcing mass shipments of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplays and wafer-level optics (WLO) products for augmented reality (AR) applications, Himax Technologies...
Friday 10 February 2017
VR screen clarity may be tripled with blue-phase crystals
An international team of researchers including Taiwan-based AU Optronics and Japan-based liquid crystal manufacturer JNC Petrochemical has developed a new blue-phase liquid crystal...