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Report claims that Cher Wang plans to spin off HTC’s VR business into a separate company
According to an unnamed source, HTC Chairwoman and CEO is planning to step up the company’s commitment to the virtual reality market by spinning off the HTC Vive and any related virtual reality work that the company has under way into its own subsidiary. The entity would focus exclusively on virtual reality products and work…
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HTC Vive campus tour heads to Houston, Texas
Things are settling down from CES 2016 and now it’s time for the HTC Vive tours to resume and the group is starting the new year off at Rice University in Houston, Texas. When HTC announced the delayed launch of the consumer version of Vive one of the positives we tried to hold onto was…
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CES sheds light on PC specs for HTC Vive
The year 2016 is definitely going to be the year of VR! If the 70% increase of VR presence on the CES show floor isn’t convincing enough how about the PC industry creating a whole new certification for machines that are VR Ready. That’s what GPU maker NVIDIA has done to help consumers prepare to…
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HTC will start taking HTC Vive pre-orders on February 29
We’re know for a while that HTC Vive pre-orders would start in February, but Cher Wang gave out the exact date during an interview with The Telegraph. The date to circle on your calendar is February 29 – the week after Mobile World Congress. Not much is known about the HTC Vive’s price, but we’re…
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UA Record is using IBM Watson to analyze your fitness
Before you get paranoid about IBM’s Watson super computer keeping track of every step you make when using the UA Record app, we’d like to point out that the partnership between Under Armour and IBM does not give IBM access to any of the data. Under Armour is using Watson Analytics from IBM which is…
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HTC and Under Armour will sell UA Band, UA Scale, UA Heart Rate individually – here are the prices
Announced last week at CES, the HTC-built UA HealthBox carries a $400 sticker price. While it wasn’t included in the product announcement, HTC has confirmed with us that the UA Band, UA Scale and UA Heart Rate will be sold individually after the UA HealthBox goes on sale. Our contact would not give details regarding…
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HTC picks up 10 awards at CES for the HTC Vive Pre, UA HealthBox
HTC hasn’t had much of a presence at CES over the years, but the company changed that in 2016. It not only unveiling the HTC Vive Pre and its UA HealthBox fitness products, but it also managed to secure 10 awards in the process. It was pretty much a given that the HTC Vive Pre…