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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Qualcomm introduced it's new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company's tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as 'XR', or 'eXtended reality') performance up to 30 percent in comparison to...

HTC Announces Pricing, Pre-order Date & Specs for Vive Focus Standalone Headset

HTC today announced more specifics around Vive Focus, the company's standalone mobile VR headset for China-based customers. Once destined for Western shores running Google's Daydream platform, HTC recently surprised the world by scrapping those plans and limiting the release of the standalone...

Huawei VR Controller Appears in FCC Filing, Suggesting Mobile VR Headset Launch is Near

Huawei first announced its Mate 10-compatible 'Huawei VR 2' headset back in October, although it wasn't certain if it would ever leave China. A recent FCC filing however confirms the existence of a VR controller very similar to the one seen in...

Samsung Teases 6-DoF Standalone VR Headset as Company’s ‘Next Mobile VR System’

Taeyong Kim, VP of Samsung Electronics and Head of Graphics R&D, took the stage last month at the company's annual developer conference to talk a little bit about the future of VR for the company. While no big reveals were expected...

GridRaster Raises $2 Million for AR/VR Cloud Rendering Solution

Palo Alto-based VR/AR startup GridRaster recently announced a nearly $2 million seed funding round to strengthen and develop their mobile VR/AR rendering infrastructure. GridRaster claims to deliver high-fidelity graphics at 10 times the performance compared to standalone mobile platforms,...

HTC Aims to Create a ‘Mobile OpenVR’ in China with Vive Wave VR Platform

On stage at Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, HTC today unveiled their upcoming standalone VR headset, Vive Focus. While HTC isn't releasing a Daydream version of the headset in the West as previously announced, the company is using Vive...

Here’s Every Daydream Ready Smartphone, Now 15 and Counting

Google Daydream, the company's mobile VR platform, is compatible with a number of flagship smartphones from various manufacturers. Growing to a total of 15 Daydream-compatible phones by the end of the year, we take a look at the mobile VR...

Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus Daydream VR Update Begins Rolling Out

Announced back in May, an update bringing Google Daydream support to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus has begun rolling out, making those phones the only two to support both Daydream VR and Gear VR. The Android Soul reports today...

Nokia and Xiaomi Announce a Long-term Partnership to “Explore” AR and VR

The Finnish and Chinese companies today signed a cross-licensing patent deal ‘focused around the data center’, according to a CNBC report. This will allow Nokia and Xiaomi to develop new products, as they look to collaborate further in areas...

How Google’s Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus’ Mobile Strategy

Last week at Google's I/O 2017 developer conference the company made a number of new announcements which are very exciting for VR consumers. Within the industry though, the announcements represent somewhat of a repositioning of industry players, one that...

First All-in-one VR Headsets Based on Qualcomm’s VRDK Expected in 2H 2017

Qualcomm's latest VRDK headset is a reference design that the company has positioned to act as a foundation for consumer electronics makers to create their own headsets based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon VR hardware. Now with manufacturing partners on board,...

Leap Motion’s New 180-degree Hand-tracking Comes to Qualcomm’s Latest VRDK Headset

Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion's new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during...

Google Has Shipped Over 10 Million Cardboard Viewers

The Google VR team shared some impressive figures at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week - more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have been shipped worldwide. Google’s low-cost smartphone enclosure for viewing VR content has been available since...

ARM and SMI to Showcase New Mobile VR Eye-Tracking Demo at GDC

ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. ARM, one of the world's...

Samsung’s In-house Incubator to Showcase New VR/AR Experiments at MWC

Although the Samsung Galaxy S8 may not make its big entrance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, the company will however be presenting a few new VR/AR projects coming direct from their in-house incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab). Just recompense?...
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