HTC joining Google's Android XR collaboration is exciting, here's why.

Google’s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software ...

HTC is joining the Android XR team, making a significant impact in the virtual and augmented reality space.

Today, Google officially announced Android XR, a brand new operating system focused on — you guessed it — XR devices.

Google spent $250 million to acuire engineers from HTC Vive for Android XR, echoing moves it made with HTC for the Pixel in 2017.

To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it “signed an agreement to welcome some of the HTC VIVE engineering team to Google.” In 2017, Google acquired a ...

Google finally addressed Android XR hardware, saying at I/O 2025 that Gemini AI smart glasses are coming soon.

Meta dominates the smart glasses market. Over one million Ray-Ban Orion units sold. Wearable technology is now a battlefield.

Google has acquired a number of HTC’s XR engineers for $250 million, something the company says will “accelerate the development of the Android XR platform across the headsets and glasses ...

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Instead of buying their smartphone engineers this time, Google is now buying their HTC VIVE engineers. And that makes sense, since those folks work on headsets and Android XR is a headset platform.

Apple brought a great headset, but the thing is that Android XR will be able to do what what Apple couldn't with XR.