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HTC’s Vive has great VR headsets at multiple price points – the premium Vive Pro 2, the mid-range Vive Cosmos Elite and the recent Vive Flow. Not one of these can do AR, but the company has a plan to catch up to the likes of the Meta’s Quest Pro. The plan features a yet to be named headset with VR and AR capabilities that will be unveiled at CES on January 5. HTC global head of product Shen Ye spoke with The Verge and revealed some details about the headset. There will be front and side-facing cameras and support for…

ZDNET editors, meeting up in the metaverse. Image: Charles McLellan / ZDNETGartner's 2022 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies placed the metaverse at the earliest 'innovation trigger' phase of technology adoption, with an estimated decade-plus to go before the 'plateau of productivity' is reached. However, recent news suggests that the 'trough of disillusionment' is making an earlier-than-expected appearance. Meta's Reality Labs division reported an operating loss of $3.67 billion for the three months ended 30…

HTC has seemingly unveiled a new Wildfire series entry-level smartphone in Russia. The HTC Wildfire E Plus has been listed on a Russian e-commerce site. This smartphone has a 6.5-inch HD+ display with a waterdrop-style notch for the selfie camera. It is a dual-SIM (Nano) 4G smartphone that runs on Android 12 Go Edition. Under the hood, it packs a quad-core MediaTek MT6739 SoC. The HTC Wildfire E Plus features a 13-megapixel dual rear camera setup and a 5-megapixel front shooter.HTC Wildfire E Plus price, availabilityThe…

While Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance battle to be the premium social media / metaverse company making virtual or augmented reality hardware, HTC is reminding everyone that it has a place in the game, too. Without providing any extra details, it released this simple teaser tweet on Thursday morning, promising to “go small or go home.”A brief HTC press release sent to The Verge described the tweet as a teaser for “a new headset” and noted that it’s been a year since the Vive Flow — HTC’s early stab at a consumer VR headset…

With other virtual reality headset makers expected to bring face- and eye-tracking functions to their upcoming models, HTC is looking to keep pace with new accessories for its Vive Focus 3. The company says the add-ons will offer “more natural and immersive VR experiences” and enable accessibility functions such as gaze control. The $99 Facial Tracker uses a mono camera to capture expressions from the wearer's lips, jaw, cheeks, chin, teeth and tongue. The idea is to replicate “lifelike facial expressions and mouth…

A US appeals court on Wednesday reportedly ruled in favour of Apple, HTC and ZTE over claims that imports of their devices violate wireless technology patents held by INVT. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reportedly said that smartphones and other devices by Apple, HTC and ZTE do not infringe INVT's rights in two patents related to wireless communication originally owned by Panasonic. The patent-holding company earlier sought an import ban on allegedly infringing devices in the US.As per a report by…

A US appeals court affirmed a win for Apple Inc, HTC Corp and ZTE Corp against allegations that imports of their devices infringe wireless-technology patents. The companies' smartphones, smart watches, tablets and other LTE-capable devices do not violate INVT SPE LLC's rights in two patents originally owned by Panasonic, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said. The companies and their attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment. INVT is a patent-holding company affiliated with investment…

LOS ANGELES/STOCKHOLM: Spotify Technology SA's Car Thing player is now a thing of the past.The world's leading audio streaming service on Wednesday announced it would discontinue the device just five months after it became available to all users in the United States. In doing so, Spotify became the latest software technology company to stumble in an attempt to build hardware.Spotify wrote down a $31 million investment in the device, which was aimed at increasing the number of users who listen to music or podcasts while…

Photo: Boumen Japet (Shutterstock)If we’re going to finally get to the promised land called “the metaverse,” users are apparently going to need to pony up a bit more to get us there. Meta announced Tuesday afternoon that it will be bumping up the price of both the 128GB and 256GB models of its popular Quest 2 headset by $100 “in order to continue investing in moving the VR industry forward for the long term.”In a strangely defensive blog post, Meta made a few sweeping overtures to its long support of the VR market,…

HTC Vive Pro 2 and HTC Vive Focus 3 have been launched at the company's ViveCon 2021 event. Both the VR headsets come with 5K resolution that is a major step up from their predecessors. Both offer high refresh rate and a wide field of view. HTC Vive Pro 2 comes with Hi-Res certified headphones and needs a desktop connection to work. The Vive Focus 3, on the other hand, is a standalone VR headset with precise room scale tracking.HTC Vive Pro 2, HTC Vive Focus 3 price, availabilityHTC Vive Pro 2 is priced at $799 (roughly…