Many Android phones are a bit more durable than iPhones, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to damage. Phone screens are made of glass, after all, and glass breaks when you drop it. So. You dropped your Android phone for the 60th time and you now have a beautiful spider web pattern blooming across your …
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Never mind that consumers are actually starting to buy into all the virtual reality hype. An industry isn’t an official industry until it has its own acronym-ready association. Enter the Global Virtual Reality Association, or GVRA, which arrived officially on Wednesday. It’s made up for now of six competing headset manufacturers — Acer Starbreeze, Google, HTC Vive, Facebook’s Oculus, Samsung …
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HTC 10 owners have one more thing to be thankful for this weekend. HTC is rolling out an update that will let users of the unlocked version of the device to upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat, Google‘s latest operating system. Nougat will be available from Friday, the company’s vice president of product management said in a tweet. The HTC 10 …
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If you’re VR-curious, there are a few ways to dive into gifts for yourself and others over Black Friday. Most things on this list are virtual-reality headsets, but one (the Avegant Glyph) is really a head-worn display — in other words, a tiny TV inside a pair of headphones…in a sense. $100 gift code with Oculus Rift The Microsoft Store …
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What do you get for the person who has everything? How about an entirely different reality — like, say, the virtual kind? Don’t worry, I’m not about to suggest you spend $600 for an Oculus Rift ($290 at Amazon), $700 for a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR or $800 for an HTC Vive ($479 at Amazon) — excellent gifts though …
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At first blush, this is a partnership that shouldn’t succeed. HTC, the perennial little guy whose products are routinely ignored in favor of heavy hitters like Apple or Samsung, has worked with Sprint, the nation’s fourth-place wireless carrier, on an exclusive phone. People hate exclusive phones. Yet here is the Bolt, a phone made by HTC specifically for Sprint. It …
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On a cloudy day this May, in the dull fluorescent light of a plain white Google conference room, Rafa Camargo, Richard Wooldridge and Blaise Bertrand told CNET their plan to disrupt the phone market. Ara, a Lego-like phone with modular parts, would let buyers snap on a better camera, additional batteries or any other creative hardware a developer might dream …
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Microsoft announced a wave of Windows 10-compatible VR headsets coming next year, and they’re going to be powered with technology derived from its HoloLens system. A Microsoft representative confirmed that the headsets, arriving early next year from a handful of third-party partners (Asus, Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo), won’t need any external sensors or cameras. They’ll track everything, including motion …
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If you’ve got a killer idea for a virtual-reality startup, now’s your chance. Taiwanese electronics maker HTC said Thursday its Vive X accelerator program for virtual-reality companies is accepting new submissions. “We are looking forward to serving the next round of innovative companies that can make a difference in the space,” said Marc Metis, vice president for HTC Vive and …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Today’s deal is not for cheapskates. I mean, it is, but you need to be a cheapskate with deep pockets. When you’re ready …
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