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Monday 11 September 2017
Global AR/VR headset shipments maintain solid growth in 2Q17, says IDC
Global shipments of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headset shipments, excluding Google Cardboard and other Cardboard-like devices, grew 25.5% on year to 2.1 million...
Thursday 7 September 2017
IoT applications steal spotlight at 2017 Cross-Strait Startup Contest
IoT (Internet of Things) applications took center stage at the 2017 Cross-Strait Startup Competition that just wound up its three-month run in late August at Shanghai Jinshan Cross-Strait...
Tuesday 5 September 2017
Acer seeking niche consumer groups in gaming market
Acer's president of IT products business Jerry Kao, commenting on the gaming product business, has pointed out that the competition in the market is extremely fierce and it will be...
Friday 1 September 2017
Acer pushing multi-brand business model, says chairman
Acer has been pushing for business transformation and is looking to expand into emerging markets including those for gaming PC, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI),...
Friday 1 September 2017
Acer to supply VR equipment for Dubai theme park
Acer has recently formed a partnership with a virtual reality (VR) theme park in Dubai, the UAE with the construction to be completed by the end of 2017 or in early 2018, according...
Thursday 31 August 2017
Advantest obtains ramp-up of orders for memory production
Semiconductor testing equipment supplier Advantest has landed a ramp-up of orders from Korea- and Taiwan-based memory chipmakers, according to CH Wu, chairman of Advantest Taiwan.
Thursday 31 August 2017
Taiwan market: JPW to open 8 VR arcades in September
JPW International Technology, a VR motion and arcade solution provider, will open a total of eight JoyLand VR arcades in five cities around Taiwan in September, according to company...
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Qualcomm, Himax jointly develop 3D depth sensing solution
Qualcomm and Himax Technologies have jointly announced a collaboration to accelerate the development and commercialization of a high-resolution, low-power active 3D depth sensing...
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Intel unveils neural compute engine in Movidius Myriad X VPU for AI
Intel has introduced its new Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit (VPU), advancing Intel's end-to-end portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to deliver more autonomous...
Monday 28 August 2017
Digitimes Research: Google aims to achieve virtual experiences through daily life applications
Google's development of AI/VR/AR products can be backdated to as early as the launch of Google Search as the service is using machine learning algorithms to search for needed information...
Monday 28 August 2017
China market: DPVR unseats HTC as VR headset leader in 2Q17, says Canalys
China-based DPVR (previously known as Deepoon) overtook HTC as the top VR headset vendor in China in the second quarter of 2017 with shipments totaling 18,000 units, up 30% sequentially,...
Friday 25 August 2017
Worldwide wearable device sales to grow 17% in 2017, says Gartner
Gartner forecasts that 310.4 million wearable devices will be sold worldwide in 2017, an increase of 16.7% from 2016. Sales of wearable devices will generate revenues of US$30.5 billion...
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Digitimes Research: AR players shift focus to platform products
Major players in the augmented reality (AR) industry have slowed down the development of consumer-end products, and instead have shifted their strategies to focus on developing AR...
Tuesday 22 August 2017
HTC announces US$200 cut for Vive
In a move to make its VR devices more accessible to the mass market, HTC has announced a US$200 price reduction for its Vive virtual reality (VR) headsets.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Qualcomm developing 3D depth sensing technology
Qualcomm is partnering with its ecosystem partners to develop 3D depth sensing technology, which will be applied to Andriod smartphones powered the Snapdragon mobile chips, according...