Google Loves Buying Talent From HTC Still, Adds VIVE Folks to Android XR Platform
Google’s current focus at the moment outside of AI is their new Android XR platform, where they see an opportunity to jump at the hype of mixed reality headsets after seeing the success Meta has had with its Meta Quest products and partnership with Ray-Ban.
Google is bulk buying HTC Vive engineers to help Android XR become a platform that can rival Meta's VR/AR dominance
Last month, Google introduced the Android XR platform in partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm, which is "a new operating system built for this next generation of computing". Now, Google has bought part of HTC Vive's engineering team, HTC Vive of course having ample experience engineering VR headsets.
Google buys part of HTC’s XR business for $250M
Google has agreed to acquire part of HTC's extended-reality (XR) business for $250 million, expanding its push into virtual and augmented reality hardware The deal involves transferring some of the HTC VIVE engineering staff to Google and granting non-exclusive IP rights.
Samsung’s TM Roh has been hyping up Android XR in a recent interview, and made comments which suggest that Google is aware of ...
The headset, which Samsung is developing in partnership with Google, runs Android XR, an OS designed specifically for ...
Google’s announcement of Android XR last month was largely met with excitement, but there was a notable undercurrent of ...
VR & AR projects. If Android XR is to succeed, it'll depend on Samsung, the savior of Google's wearable plans.
This partnership between Google and HTC signals a new era of innovation in XR technology, setting the stage for an intriguing ...
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Samsung's AI-powered Moohan XR headset brings Iron Man's Jarvis closer to realitySamsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2025 was an event dedicated to the launch of its Galaxy S25 series of smartphones. However, the ...
Amidst the whirlwind of new Samsung Galaxy S25 phones and a sneak peek of the much-anticipated XR headset at Galaxy Unpacked, ...
Google and Samsung have envisioned an Android XR headset as an infinite desktop. With apps baked in like Chrome, YouTube, ...
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