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Tesla Chipmaker Nvidia Scores Gaming Wins: Analyst

Tesla (TSLA) chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) scored PC gaming wins in 2015, with U.S. gamers shifting from Sony (SNE), Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo console systems to more online games, and took share from rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), an analyst wrote Monday in a research report. In afternoon trading in the stock market today, Nvidia stock was up 1%, near 30, after Canaccord analyst Matthew Ramsay hiked his price target to 35 from 30 and upgraded

Facebook’s Oculus likely to trail in virtual reality market

Facebook (FB)-owned Oculus VR is a trailblazer in virtual reality headsets, but next year it’s likely to trail in the industry it pioneered, according to a new report. Samsung’s Gear VR and Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation VR headsets are poised to outsell Oculus Rift and HTC Vive next year, research firm IHS (IHS) says. IHS predicts that Alphabet’s (GOOGL) low-cost solution, Google Cardboard, will be the top virtual reality platform in 2016, with 30%

Major VR Gear Misses ’15 Holiday, Eyes $1 Bil In ’16

Virtual reality headsets may not make it under many Christmas trees this year, with sales of VR gear from Facebook ‘s (FB) Oculus, Sony (SNE) PlayStation and HTC not commencing until the first quarter of 2016, but the next big thing in gaming is probably already on shoppers’ buy lists. A report issued this week by research firm IHS said total virtual reality headset sales will reach $1.1 billion next year and $2.7 billion by 2020. Sony’s