Facebook’s impressive Oculus Quest standalone VR headset will is getting a serious rival when it launches this spring.
To compete with the Quest, HTC’s releasing the Vive Focus Plus, its own standalone VR headset with built-in head and hand-tracking …
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Razer hooks up with Tencent to focus on mobile gaming
Razer is summoning a big gun as it bids to develop its mobile gaming strategy. The Hong Kong-listed company — which sells laptops, smartphones and gaming peripherals — said today it is working with Tencent on a raft of initiatives related to smartphone-based games. The collaboration will cover hardware, software and services. Some of the […]
View More Razer hooks up with Tencent to focus on mobile gamingTaking HTC’s Vive Focus standalone headset for a spin
It’s telling that HTC opted to set up shop in Hall 7 at MWC. Rather than holding court alongside the Samsungs and Huaweis of the world, the company mingled among the peripherals and accessory makers. While it’s true there was news around the Exodus One blockchain handset, the Vive was its real star of the […]
View More Taking HTC’s Vive Focus standalone headset for a spinHTC Exodus 1: Hands-on with the blockchain phone
Does the world really need a blockchain phone? HTC thinks the answer is yes, and it’s got hardware to back it up.
I’ve spent a few days with the HTC Exodus 1, and while I do think that phones need to get friendlier with the blockchain, I’m not sure t…
HTC’s blockchain phone can now be purchased with fiat currency
Until now, the Exodus 1 has, fittingly, only been available for purchase with cryptocurrency. Starting today, however, interested parties will be able to pick HTC’s blockchain phone up through more traditional means, including USD, which prices the handset at a not unreasonable $699. One assumes, of course, if you’ve got enough of an interested in […]
View More HTC’s blockchain phone can now be purchased with fiat currencyHTC revamps standalone VR headset to keep pace with Oculus while it looks to big business
HTC has had a little bit of a rough ride these past few years. After betting the farm on VR, the company has had to make some substantial business strategy shifts to keep the division kicking in the face of a less-than-robust headset market and a behemoth margin-less competitor that’s alright losing a few billion […]
View More HTC revamps standalone VR headset to keep pace with Oculus while it looks to big businessPoor smartphones sales drag LG to first quarterly loss in 2 years
We’ve written extensively about LG’s struggling mobile business, which has suffered at the hands of aggressive Chinese Android makers, and now that unit has dragged its parent company into posting its first quarterly loss for two years. The Korean electronics giant is generally in good health — it posted a $2.4 billion profit for 2018 […]
View More Poor smartphones sales drag LG to first quarterly loss in 2 yearsHTC’s next consumer virtual reality headset is the first PC VR hybrid
Vive has seemed to be devoting a lot of attention to the enterprise, but the company teased their new consumer VR headset called the Vive Cosmos at CES today. The positionally-tracked headset boasts tracked hand controllers and can be interestingly be powered via PC or “other methods,” making it the first in a new class […]
View More HTC’s next consumer virtual reality headset is the first PC VR hybridHTC teases Vive Pro with embedded eye-tracking
HTC is giving its high-end enterprise-focused Vive Pro VR headset a feature bump in the next few months that’s focused on eye-tracking. The company has certainly been having some financial struggles recently, those issues have seemed to force the company to more firmly fix its VR efforts on enterprise markets while loosely aiming to court […]
View More HTC teases Vive Pro with embedded eye-trackingThe top smartphone trends to watch in 2019
This was a bad year for the smartphone. For the first time, its seemingly unstoppable growth began to slow. Things started off on a bad note in February, when Gartner recorded its first year-over-year decline since it began tracking the category. Not even the mighty Apple was immune from the trend. Last week, stocks took […]
View More The top smartphone trends to watch in 2019Moonbug nabs $145M to buy up kids’ digital media brands
The entertainment business was founded by former Disney and Paramount executives.
View More Moonbug nabs $145M to buy up kids’ digital media brandsBright spots in the VR market
Virtual Reality is in a public relations slump. Two years ago the public’s expectations for virtual reality’s potential was at its peak. Many believed (and still continue to believe) that VR would transform the way we connect, interact, and communicate in our personal and professional lives. It’s easy to understand why this excitement exists once […]
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