
HTC has worst quarter in 16 years
No phones and VR not making enough
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of $94.77 million for March, up 6.1 percent on the month but down 46.7 percent on the year and the lowest quarterly revenues in 16 years.

Oculus patents VR gloves
Attempts to make VR a bit more of thriller
Oculus has shown a little of its thinking when it comes to ways to interact with virtual reality worlds by getting two patents for a type of VR glove.

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 845 VR development kit
Support for next-gen VR experiences with Snapdragon 845
Qualcomm has announced its new virtual reality development kit at the Games Developer Conference 2018 which includes a wireless VR head mounted display (HMD) and a new software development kit (SDK) for the Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR platform.

Qualcomm demos 5G VR edge computing
Wireless VR from PC to HMD Snapdragon 835
By the summer of 2017, I started hearing the term edge computing from a lot of C level meetings I had in the computing industry and it became very clear that this is the next big thing. At MWC 2018, Qualcomm demonstrated edge computing 5G mm Wave powered VR, which is likely to become the future of VR.

Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR reference design is out
Next-Generation VR Experiences
Even the producers and screenwriters of the Silicon Valley TV show think that mobile will be driving VR, and it seems that they have closely followed what Fudzilla and Qualcomm have been saying for a while.

IBM and Unity use Watson AI for games
Star Trek Bridge Crew and AR and VR games
It is not every day when heavyweight of the Artificial Intelligence market, IBM, announces that its Watson AI will end up in the Unity engine targeting future AR and VR games.

Unified VR proving tricky
Market should learn from console wars
Beancounters at ABI Research have added up some numbers and worked out that the VR market is in danger of fragmenting.

Oculus talks new $199 self contained VR
Oculus Go ships in 2018
This is the first of two headsets that we have been hearing about in the last few months to be coming from Facebook owned Oculus

Nokia gives up on VR camera
Makes more workers redundant
The former rubber boot maker Nokia has abandoned its OZO VR camera project and made more workers redundant.

HP ships VR backpack
Omen priced at $2,499.99
HP began shipping its virtual reality backpack the OMEN X Desktop VR Backpack today.