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Tuesday 14 June 2016
HTC launches new mid-range smartphone, ties up with Bethesda Softworks
HTC has unveiled a new mid-range smartphone, the HTC One S9, which will be available at its exclusive shops in the Taiwan market on June 17 priced at NT$9,990 (US$309) unlocked. The...
Tuesday 7 June 2016
Pegatron lays claims to VR backpack idea
Pegatron Technology has claimed it started developing virtual reality (VR) backpacks much earlier than its competitors Micro-Star International (MSI) and Zotac, both of which showcased...
Friday 3 June 2016
Pegatron to announce non-notebook products on June 7
Pegatron Technology will host a press conference on June 7 to announce its entry into the virtual reality, smart home, pre-school education and drone markets and will demonstrate...
Friday 3 June 2016
Acer to provide hardware for IMAX VR theaters, says CEO
IMAX will set up six virtual reality (VR) theaters around the world and will partner with Sweden-based games developer Starbreeze. Acer will provide VR headsets, high-end PCs for...
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)...