{"id":650481,"date":"2025-01-23T07:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-buys-part-of-htcs-xr-business-for-250-million\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T07:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T04:05:31","slug":"google-buys-part-of-htcs-xr-business-for-250-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-buys-part-of-htcs-xr-business-for-250-million\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google buys part of HTC&#8217;s XR business for $250 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has agreed to acquire a part of HTC\u2019s extended reality (XR) business for $250 million, expanding its push into virtual and augmented reality hardware following the recent launch of its Android XR platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/feed\/android-xr-htc-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">involves<\/a> transferring some of the HTC VIVE engineering staff to Google and granting non-exclusive intellectual property rights, according to the Taiwanese firm. HTC will retain rights to use and develop the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transaction marks the second major deal between the companies after Google\u2019s $1.1 billion purchase of HTC\u2019s smartphone unit in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google said the acquisition will accelerate Android XR platform development across headsets and glasses. The move comes as tech giants race to establish dominance in XR technology, with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le and Meta maintaining their lead in the virtual reality market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google and HTC will explore additional collaboration opportunities, they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/22\/google-buys-part-of-htc-virtual-reality-unit-for-250-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to acquire a part of HTC\u2019s extended reality (XR) business for $250 million, expanding its push into virtual and augmented reality hardware following the recent launch of its Android XR platform. The deal involves transferring some of the HTC VIVE engineering staff to Google and granting non-exclusive intellectual property rights, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2035983397.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[73736,26293,118598,153808],"class_list":["post-650481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-htc","tag-htc-vive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}