HTC held a special press event on Monday, just one day before CES officially started. The company announced two new VR headsets, a new VR platform, and a new VR app subscription service. On Monday we livestreamed the presentation. Here are the highlights from that stream, including the major product announcements. Vive Pro Eye Vive...
Virtuix is offering big cash prizes for its 2019 Omniverse VR Esports tournaments. The company announced today that HTC Vive and HP are sponsoring this year’s contests, which run monthly. A $50,000 annual pool will be split into cash prizes for those that top leaderboards in VR arcades across the world. Games are played on...
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Magic Leap and other AR startups have a rough 2019 ahead of them 2018 was supposed to be the year where...
Very rarely does an early technology garner such an air of inevitability like AR has in the past few years. 2018 was supposed to be a year where the foundational tech for augmented reality was built out a bit and the industry took a couple big leaps. Things started off well-enough, but momentum really doesn’t...
CES is weird. As a journalist I walk through the doors of the Las Vegas Convention Center always ready to throw heavy amounts of doubt on whatever I’m about to see. The vast majority of products shown at CES never see the light of day and those that do eventually get released in a final...
Now that the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is in full swing it can be tough to keep track of everything. Each day is jam-packed full of announcements and as we get the time to go hands-on with everything we’ve got impressions and news stories coming out extremely quickly. As a result, collecting everything in...
A key AT&T network executive offers insights into the company’s mobile 5G network, which launched in late 2018 and will rapidly evolve in performance.Read More Source: AT&T interview: 5G Evolution, dueling Samsung 5G phones, and data caps explained
Network engineering VP Mike Haberman offered a detailed technical look at how Verizon’s 5G network will make the “truest” use of 5G’s capabilities.Read More Source: Verizon interview: Our true 5G network will offer a better experience than rivals
Blueprint Reality’s MixCast Moments VR sharing tech will be on display at Intel’s booth at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.Read More Source: Blueprint Reality’s MixCast Moments lets VR gamers share their experiences
Pokémon Go creator Niantic has closed a $190 million round of funding, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Read More Source: Pokémon Go creator Niantic raises $190 million in a funding round it doesn’t need
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