This Snapdragon is over 1000! | #PNWeekly 307 (LIVE at 3p ET)

There's probably a Snapdragon 1000 on the way and you might want to stick around and see where it will appear. Also, the Pixel 3 will be made by Google... for reals... sorta.

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After Apple rejected Valve’s Steam Link iOS app, Phil Schiller cools heads

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The Apple executive wants gamers to know that it’s still working with Valve to get Steam Link up and running on the App Store. But the story behind it all may be just money.

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eMagin getting money from Apple, LG, Valve for OLED microdisplays

The company's known for creating tiny, highly dense OLED displays for viewfinding in military, medical and virtual reality scenarios.

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Quark VR may help HTC Vive go wireless

We hear that the HTC Vive is getting a makeover soon. Okay, a makeover of its straps.But we should get to know Intugame. The company is behind a communications interface tool of called Quark VR and it could be the bridge between the next Vive headset and the computer — no more wires.The company announced that it has been working with Valve for several months in conjunction with a ...

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HTC and HP tipped to soon join forces on Vive-branded VR-ready PCs

When in financial trouble, most tech outfits look to streamline their product portfolio, reduce expenses and focus on one or a few things they’ve been doing for a while. But that’s not working in HTC’s slumping camp, so instead of further cutting back on hardware releases, the Taiwanese consumer electronics company is expanding.

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HTC VR business confirmed to get spun off after months of denial

After months of denial, the CEO of HTC finally announced at the comapny’s latest shareholders meeting that it is looking for partnerships and cash to give its virtual reality efforts a full-blown partition in the company.According to Digitimes, Cher Wang described VR as an easy revenue source with an explosion of development taking place in education, healthcare, retail and ...

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Front Defense is the first VR game developed by HTC for exclusive Vive use

You wouldn’t think it by looking over HTC’s latest financial report, but 2016 is shaping up to be a solid year for the long-ailing Taiwanese hardware manufacturer, at least from an innovation standpoint.The HTC 10 phone finally strays from the design path of the One family, the company’s very first smartwatch might see daylight next month, followed by a

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HTC Vive teardown reveals super-easy repairability, different hardware from Oculus Rift

HTC, in partnership with Valve, and Oculus, which is owned by Facebook and can also call Samsung a reliable ally, seem to be in a stalemate as they each try to take the lion’s share of early VR headset sales and profits.Until not long ago, the Rift was at an advantage over the Vive, thanks to a stronger pre-existing fanbase and lower price, but the score has been evened by the former’s deeper ...

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GameStop and Microsoft Stores will take HTC Vive orders

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HTC Vive “Direct Mode” allows for GPU to drive images to both monitor and headset

In addition to bugfixes and UI enhancements, HTC Vive Pre owners are getting a major feature update to their SteamVR betas. In addition to the Chaperone Mode we got to try out at CES this year, there’s now Direct Mode where the driving computer’s GPU to work with the Vive headset and deliver images separately to both the monitor and the ...

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Elite: Dangerous development now focused on SteamVR and the HTC Vive

You know how bad the hype is for the HTC Vive? You really want to know? Well, you may be familiar with Frontier Developments’ big first-person space simulator, Elite: Dangerous. It’s in the process of dawdling its way over to Oculus Rift right now. We say dawdling because the Frontier has admitted to putting ...

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