Apple officially enters the VR/AR market! CES Asia 2017 Grand Opening

Today's biggest hot spot is Apple's move into VR/AR world. ARWit, an AR platform for iOS 11, was released on WWDC 2017; Oculus founder Palmer Rach once again appeared, and he also founded a defense research and monitoring technology. Security company; Sony's PSVR breaks through 1 million units; CESAsia 2017 will open tomorrow (87870 reporters will bring the live event for everyone for the first time, please pay close attention).

Industry News

Apple developer conference summary: VR and AR, AI has become the biggest bright spot

In the early hours of June 6, Beijing time, WWDC17 (2017 Apple Developers Conference) was held as scheduled. As Apple CEO Cook said at the meeting, this is Apple's largest WWDC conference, VR, AR, machine learning, artificial intelligence has become a key word throughout. (original)

Founder of Oculus Founder and Founded Defense Technology Company, Trump Advisor Interested in Investing

According to the New York Times, Oculus founder and magical teenager Palmer Lucky set up a defense security company that researched surveillance technology after leaving the company in March this year. In 2014, after selling the previously established Oculus $2 billion to Facebook, this will be Lucky's second venture in life. (original)

CES Asia 2017 Opens Tomorrow: Black Technology, VR/AR/AI, Autopilot, etc.

CESAsia (Asia International Consumer Electronics Show) will be opened in Shanghai from June 7th to September 9th. The exhibition showcased 19 products including virtual reality devices, drones, wearable devices, and smart home devices. Huawei, Samsung, Dajiang and other familiar technology companies will join it. (original)

Foreign media: Consumer demand continues to slump

The technology blog VentureBeat recently wrote that although the VR industry has been stepping out of the disillusionment with the help of giants such as HTC, the market that they are trying to establish is driven by consumer demand is still a matter of fact. Although experts are still optimistic about the prospects of the industry, there is no solid foundation for such optimism, and only a large amount of marketing funds floods the entire market. Under such circumstances, many VR start-up companies supported by consumer demand are plunged into the cold winter. (original)

Microsoft Suspiciously Requests New Logo for S Shape Logo for New Host Scorpio

As you may know, Microsoft is expected to officially launch its new 4K game Project Scorpio (code name Scorpio) at the E3 press conference on Sunday, June 11. Many players are already familiar with the name of Scorpio, and the company previously stated that Scorpio is just the much-anticipated new hardware code. In addition, it seems that Microsoft does not currently provide any trademark for the name "Scorpio."

Even if Microsoft does not support the official names and trademarks of Scorpio as the new console, Reddit users have discovered that the company recently submitted a new game-related trademark application to the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office. The new logo is in an S shape. However, there is no more information on this new trademark on the EU Intellectual Property Office website. (original)

Alibaba Tmall interactive technical experts explain ARKit released by Apple at WWDC 2017

Last night's WWDC surely made many AR/VR practitioners excited again. Apple finally got it. Not only announced the cooperation with Valve, but also announced the first VR Ready new iMac Pro, even more powerful is the launch of ARKit for iOS 11, with iPhone support for AR, I believe that soon AR will become everyone's daily life. What does ARKit mean to developers? What does it mean for the entire industry? The author of the article Alibaba interactive technology expert Jiang Jiayi made a detailed analysis of ARKit. (original)

Artificial intelligence expert Kai-fu Lee: VR games make people addicted and do not invest in VR projects

Chairman of the Innovation Workshop, Kaifu Liu, an artificial intelligence expert, said in an exclusive interview with foreign financial media Quartz that artificial intelligence will not develop into the American drama “West World”. Instead, it will make people indulge in VR games. He strongly does not invest in VR projects. (original)

Hardware message

Sony Announces Total Sales of PSVR Surpasses One Million Users to Purchase 5.25 Million VR Games

Sony announced today that cumulative sales of PSVR equipment have exceeded 1 million units. Shawn Layden, president and chief executive officer of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, acknowledged that although the installed base of PS4 owners will be close to 60 million, PSVR still has a lot of work to do. "This is still only a million," he said. (original)

Equipped with GTX 1060 graphics card! Gigabyte's new mini VR game console BRIX Gaming VR unveiled

Gigabyte's newly launched BRIX game VR mini PC is a small tower PC with a 7-generation Kaby Lake Core i7-7700HQ processor, GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, and 6GB GDDR5 memory. The mini PC is 220x110x110mm in size and can be fitted with two M.2 SSDs, one 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, and two SO-DIMM slots, which can hold up to 64GB of DDR4 memory. (original)

IBM and Samsung jointly develop the first 5-nanometer chip to refresh semiconductor records

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore proposed the famous "Moore's Law" in 1965: When the price does not change, the number of components that can be held on the chip will double every 18-24 months, and its performance will also increase. Times. However, as the transistor manufacturing process gradually approaches the physical limit level, Moore's Law has not been as "precise" as before, but this does not mean that the chip manufacturing process has reached its limit. Recently, the IBM research team announced that they have successfully developed a 5nm chip manufacturing process and will produce test chips.

Less than two years after it announced the launch of the 7nm test chip, IBM and Samsung and GlobalFoundries have also launched a 5nm chip using silicon nano-transistors. For decades, the semiconductor industry has been devoted to putting more transistors into the chip, achieving higher speeds and power at lower cost.