(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics said on Friday its fourth-quarter profit likely leapt 50 percent from a year earlier to its highest level in more than three years, beating expectations on strong chip sales and a smartphone rebound. The upbeat outlook comes despite a slight fall in revenue and the anticipated $2.1 billion profit hit from...
China’s Insta360 has announced its 8K professional virtual reality camera, the Insta360 Pro, to raise the bar for 360-degree VR films. The company made the announcement at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The 8K-resolution Insta360 Pro camera is designed for shooting 360 films that can be displayed with virtual...
Pico Technology unveiled a completely untethered virtual reality headset, the Pico Neo CV. Untethered VR is expected to be the wave of the future, as VR growth has been stunted by PC-based VR systems that come with wires you can get tangled up in. But it’s a big design feat to pack a lot of...
Lumus, an Israeli startup that just raised a $45 million funding round, is unveiling new augmented reality displays for smartglasses that offer a wider field of view. The company showed the Maximus prototype for AR glasses with a 55-degree field of view at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week....
Yesterday, BMW revealed that it will introduce 40 self-driving test cars to U.S. and European roads in 2017. But until that happens, the German automotive giant announced that it will let car buyers check out some of its currently available electric and hybrid cars virtually, thanks to the powers of augmented reality (AR). With the...
Intel showed off what the next generation of virtual reality will look like today with Project Alloy, during the company’s press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. Project Alloy is work in development that captures the notion that VR should be wireless, with all of the computing...
Sony said that it sold 6.2 million PlayStation 4 video game consoles to consumers during the holidays on a worldwide basis. Sony also said that it sold more than 50.4 million units of software (games and Blu-ray movies) during the holidays. And the company’s big exclusive, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, has now sold through...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich held his company’s CES press event inside virtual reality, as Intel provided more than 260 VR units in chairs for all of the press attending the event. As he did so, he showed a number of live events in VR. Intel’s people began prepping the VR setup before Christmas, and it...
Samsung Electronics America president Tim Baxter announced that the company has sold 5 million Gear VR virtual reality headsets for mobile devices to date. The South Korean electronics giant made the announcement at its press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. Baxter said that consumers have viewed over...
Probably the most-leaked device at CES 2017 so far has been the Asus ZenFone AR, through no fault of the Taiwanese company. Partner Qualcomm revealed much of the details in a blog post touting the use of its Snapdragon 821 chipset, and infamous leaker Evan Blass (evleaks) added front and back press renders of the...
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