This is the beginning of a new business column that follows the VR and AR industry with the latest movement of people and funding activity. Every week we will be reviewing the latest major business moves and analyzing the impact of those changes on the industry. The recap will come to you weekly and I …
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Every major technology company has a big, annual gathering of their ecosystem. Apple has WWDC, Microsoft has BUILD, Facebook has F8 and Google has I/O. Next week, Google is holding I/O ’16 in Mountain View and I will be in attendance. Since last year’s I/O, many things have changed in the industry, which sets the backdrop for the event. Since …
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Since the HTC Vive’s launch back on April 5 many people have been wondering exactly how many they’ve shipped. HTC did have some issues with their payment processing platform which caused some orders to be cancelled, but for the most part they did ship a significant number of units in April. Using SteamDB and SteamSpy …
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(Source: Anshel Sag) Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been teasing the Radeon Pro Duo since June 2015 when they showed off early prototypes of the card. (I was among the first to see and post pictures of it.) AMD said the card would be available sometime in the fall and then kept very quiet about it…until …
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Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO, talks about the future of VR as a new platform (Photo credit: Anshel Sag) Nvidia has been one of the leaders in GPU technologies for as long as I can remember. They have always traded punches with Advanced Micro Devices in terms of GPU technologies and creating bleeding edge technology. Nvidia was first …
The HTC Vive is the beginning of a fundamental change to the way we compute. While other authors are reviewing the HTC Vive itself today, I will talk about the evolution of the platform and software ecosystem. (Image source: Anshel Sag) I’ve spent the last year deep inside Virtual Reality, putting on every headset and trying …
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Many announcements from game publishers, developers and hardware partners have come out Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) 2016 in San Francisco this week. One of the biggest that got less attention than it deserved was the growth of Crytek’s VR First initiative and their partnership with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Both AMD and Crytek have been pioneers in …
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GTC Keynote Speakers from NVIDIA, IBM, Toyota NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) originally started in 2009 and competitors perceived it as a self-serving show to push the company’s own GPU programming language, CUDA. Well, years later CUDA has caught on and GTC has become one of the premiere events in the world where the highest …
Every year hundreds of thousands of mobile experts and mobile enthusiasts converge upon Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress. I attended this year’s Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC 2016) in Barcelona and expected there to be a huge trend towards VR which Moor Insights & Strategy VR head Anshel Sag has covered extensively. This …
(Photo credit: Anshel Sag) Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Valve at their Steam VR Developer Showcase at Fremont Studios in Seattle. The event was an all-day experience where press and analysts could try out 12 different upcoming VR titles from various independent developers for the HTC Vive. The event was designed to offer an …
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(Photo credit: Anshel Sag) I expect Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 is going to be a little different than before thanks to a few upcoming key technologies I’ll be previewing. When I go to Barcelona later this month, along with Moor Insights & Strategy’s Principal Analyst Patrick Moorhead, I still expect to see a mobile-focused show with companies like HTC, LG …
(Image Source: Anshel Sag) Less than two years ago, Virtual Reality Los Angeles (VRLA) started out as a very small event with a hundred people according to founder Cosmo Scharf. AtVRLA’s 2016 Winter Expo on January 23rd, VRLA brought in over 3,000 attendees and 33 sponsors over the course of less than two years, representing …
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This week, Facebook’s Oculus launched the much awaited Oculus Rift VR headset with final pricing. However, the launch was not received with the fanfare that many had expected, even though Facebook’s Oculus was finally making their headset available to the public after years of development. The deflated attitude towards the Oculus Rift came from several …
(Photo credit: Anshel Sag) HTC’s Vive VR headset is the result of Valve’s partnership with HTC to create a premium VR experience. Over the past year or so, HTC and Valve have shown themselves to be a worthy competitor to Facebook’s Oculus and the Oculus Rift. As Oculus prepares to launch their consumer version, known …
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(Photo credit: Anshel Sag) Ever since Facebook acquired Oculus to the tune of $2 billion, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have attracted interest. VR is getting a lot of attention because of support from the hardware, ISV, middleware, and investment communities. Since 2010, VR has gotten a total of $800 million in investment, …
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Virtual Reality, also known as VR, is slowly becoming a popular topic of discussion among those in the technology and gaming industries. Much of this was kickstarted thanks to the funding and creation of the Oculus Rift Developer’s Kit 1 and its subsequent acquisition by Facebook. Since then, Facebook’s Oculus and VR as an industry …
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There’s no denying that VR has been a hot topic on the tongues of many out there, some with serious ambitions, others mostly with empty ones. I recently was able to attend an event in Los Angeles by the name of VR LA, which was started by a small team of people passionate about VR, …
VR is About to Take Off- Musings After Attending VR LA Read More »
I attended Microsoft’s big event last week in Redmond where they made a number of product announcements, one of them called HoloLens. HoloLens is Microsoft’s own head-mounted device that is worn like a large set of goggles. Their solution is designed to be unique in many ways and Microsoft is doing everything they can to distance …
