HTCConecting the dots I can not help bit think HTC is the customer.
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"While third quarter revenues were below what we expected, this was mainly due to a supply chain issue at a VR customer, which caused them to delay their purchase of Spectra7 products," said Mr. Halim. "We continue to expect that we will grow by approximately 100% year over year in 2016 over 2015. As I look ahead, I'm highly enthusiastic about the valuable opportunity pipeline across multiple vertical end markets."
TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, today showcased its TE VR Hang Glider (exclusive for CEATEC), in partnership with HTC Vive, at the CEATEC JAPAN 2016 show. TE offers an enhanced visual demonstration of its product innovations through its VR hang glider experience, which is a highlight of TE’s “Powering the Connected IoT World” exhibit.
The VR experience is a combination of the HTC Vive - the world’s leading VR device - and the TE Hang Glider. TE mounted a real hang glider with its efficient and high-performing products, such as the dynamic connector, heat shrink tubing and automotive sensors, which are geared for harsh environments. The HTC Vive device uses TE’s high speed input/output (HSIO) 3-in-1 high-performance multimedia connectivity cable to ensure a stable and reliable user experience. The HSIO cable is embedded with an equalizer that can amplify signals to improve data and power transmission performance. With its user-friendly design, the cable also provides better bending performance and easy, reliable mating functionality.
According to Raymond Pao, vice president of VR New Technology, HTC, “It is a massive inspiration across the industry with the exciting collaboration between HTC Vive and the TE hang glider at CEATEC Japan. HTC Vive is dedicated to provide users with leading innovations to immerse themselves in world of VR. By collaborating with a variety of industries, we are able to showcase the technology's practical application capabilities. Through VR, we are proud to enable enterprise users to explore the possibility of this revolutionary new technology in various fields.”
“The booming VR markets are driving increased demand globally for wireless, high-speed streaming video, processing capabilities, and storage-related products and applications,” said Jason Merszei, vice president & general manager of Asia and EMEA for TE Connectivity’s Data and Devices business. “This poses vast opportunities for TE to provide our engineering expertise and advanced connectivity solutions to the market innovators. Our collaboration with HTC Vive is another example of TE’s agility to provide innovate solutions that ultimately help improve user experiences.”
Spectra7’s VR-Connect™ delivers the ultimate tethered virtual reality experience. As the industry’s first and only purpose-built family of active, ultra-thin VR Interconnects, VR-Connect is designed for a broad range of popular industry standard and proprietary Head Mounted Display (HMD) and wearable computing connector interfaces and cable lengths.
VR-Connect™ based Interconnects feature Spectra7’s VR7050 Gesture Recognition and MotionSensing Backhaul Processor and the second generation of the VR7100 ultra-miniature highspeed video chip. VR Interconnects designed with the ultra-compact VR7150 module form factor deliver the requisite ultra-high bandwidth data, video, audio and power in a unified, ultra-light, super-thin wearable Interconnect while achieving the low latency necessary for a truly immersive consumer-ready VR experience.