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HTC Hints It’s Looking At Mobile VR
Despite not unboxing a new high end smartphone at Mobile World Congress this week, embattled mobile maker HTC has told TechCrunch it’s not ready to admit premium defeat — saying it has a new flagship device coming soon… Razer Raises At A $1.5B Valuation, With $75M From China’s Digital Grid For Immersive Gaming
Razer, the gaming technology company based out of Southern California, has raised another round of funding, a Series C that values it at $1.5 billion, TechCrunch has learned. The backing comes in part from China, specifically the Digital Grid subsidiary of IT company Hangzhou Liaison Interactive. Yesterday, Hangzhou published a statement (a link first published by Reuters) confirming… Read More
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HTC-Valve’s Vive VR Headset Will Cost $799, Bundled With Two Controllers
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HTC has just dropped the most salient detail for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in the virtual reality experience it’s been cooking up with Valve for the past year: the price. The forthcoming Vive headset will cost $799, the two companies confirmed today. So $200 more expensive than the rival Oculus Rift headset. Read More
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AWS Announces New Set Of Integrated Services Aimed At Game Developers
AWS made several announcements today aimed squarely at moving the game developer community to its cloud platform. First of all, there’s Amazon Lumberyard, a 3D gaming development engine the company is offering for free with no costs for seat licenses, subscription costs or revenue sharing. For now, it works with console and PC games, but the plan is to offer virtual reality (VR)… Read More
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Google And Movidius Partner To Propel Computer Vision In Next-Generation Devices
Announced today, Google will begin licensing the Myriad 2 family of VPU chips from Movidius. This tiny chip—complete with 12 cores—specializes in enabling low power, advanced computer vision processing which will, no doubt, be a valuable component to “mobilizing” Google’s growing list of products that utilize machine learning. Read More
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Breaks Ground To Make Elon Musk’s Hyperloop A Reality
Plans to construct the beginnings of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop are now underway in Quay Valley, California. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5-mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future.
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Augmented Reality For Trying On Makeup Is A Booming Business
“Sure, that looks great on a model, but how will it look on me?” Now you can find out thanks to ModiFace, an augmented reality startup that’s quietly grown to power apps for 55 of the top makeup brands like Sephora, P&G and Unilever. HTC Vive Pre-Orders Will Open On February 29
The HTC-Valve partnership, which uncloaked last spring to reveal the pair working on a virtual reality experience called Vive, continues to push towards a consumer release — with their VR headset slated to ship in April 2016. Intel Says Its Button-Sized Curie Will Ship In Q1, Costing Under $10
Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced new details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, Intel’s button-sized wearable hardware module that was first unveiled a year ago, will begin shipping this quarter and will cost less than $10, he said. Amidst flashy demonstrations involving… Read More
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HTC’s New Vive Dev Kit Blends VR And AR
Virtual reality. If you’re sick of the sound of VR already consider that a taster of the queasy sensations tech companies are aiming to flog consumers this year. To wit: HTC has just announced a second gen dev kit version of the Vive virtual reality headset it’s making in partnership with games publisher Valve. Read More
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