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.
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 has made its virtual-reality painting tool open source, handing it over to community creators instead of shutting it down. The Tilt Brush app allows users wearing for VR headsets to ...
While VR hasn't been ubiquitous en masse, edge computing, 5G, and soon 6G could be the key ingredients to catapult it further ...
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HTC VIVE engineers join Google for Android XR pushGoogle to bring some HTC VIVE engineers on board to develop Android XR. The search giant has already collaborated with Samsung and Qualcomm to bring reality headsets and glasses. The company is now ...
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