GizModo VR

JULY 4, 2021

China on Sunday ordered app stores to remove ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing from their listings, citing serious violations of laws around the collection and use of personal user data. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 5, 2022

Chinese censors are working overtime to clamp down on news that the data they’ve siphoned from their citizens over the years is apparently out there and is being sold for less than the anticipated cost of a Tesla Roadster. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

When covid-19 cases started surging through China last year, we saw the country’s already authoritarian surveillance systems get kicked into overdrive. Officials rolled out everything from face-detecting drones and mandated movement-tracking apps to literally harvesting citizen’s blood in order to stem the flow of the… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

Initial investigations into the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed into a mountain suggests that someone intentionally caused the plane to plummet. officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident” who claim that data from a… Read more. A report by the Wall Street Journal cites “people familiar with U.S.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 5, 2023

As Meta sets its sight on introducing its virtual reality headsets to the Chinese market, Mark Zuckerberg’s contentious remarks about Beijing in the past may pose a major obstacle to his China dream. If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there? Caught in U.S.-China

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 2, 2023

China this week formally imposed new export regulations on gallium and germanium, as well as materials incorporating them. With a stronghold over the global production of gallium (94%) and germanium (around 60%), China's announcement of these restrictions in early July led to nearly a 20% price hike for gallium in the U.S

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Having initially announced that their Vive Focus standalone VR headset would operate as part of Google’s Daydream VR platform in 2017, HTC later scrapped those plans ahead of the headset’s recent launch in China under HTC’s own ‘Wave Vive’ platform.

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ARVR

MARCH 4, 2022

Data Dive To answer these questions, we’ve gathered up all of the metaverse data that we could for this week’s Data Dive. Survey Data - Gamers and developers expect the metaverse to arrive in one to five years, according to a poll done by Improbable. How much time is spent in metaverse-like feifdoms like Fortnite?

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The workers managing Apple’s iCloud datacenter in China, employees of Apple-partner Guizhou Cloud Big Data, haven’t been able to see their families in a week, thanks to a lockdown of the city of Guiyang over covid-19 concerns, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 7, 2022

Mainland China reported 214 domestically transmitted cases of covid-19 on Monday, the highest in two years, according to data published by China’s National Health Commission.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 26, 2021

Tesla has already chalked up plenty of bad press in China this year, with officials scrutinizing its handling of customer data and protests claiming that Chinese customer complaints are going ignored. The electric car manufacturer added another controversy to the list this weekend: China’s market regulator says Tesla… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 2, 2021

In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange , in order to target American companies for data theft. Read more.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Post-COVID Digital Adoption Boosts Data Center Growth Photo by Christina Morillo from Pexels The world has hopped onto the internet jet and speeding through murky clouds since the start of 2020. The digital world is now exchanging (or) churning out big data in multifold. billion to develop data centers across Europe.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

China has continued to develop its 5G infrastructure to develop emerging technology systems across the mainland, which will include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, across its industrial verticals, Xinhua news reported on Wednesday. China Grows Use Cases for 5G-enabled XR. The country aims to digitally transform with roughly 1.85

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Senator Ron Wyden has released a list of hundreds of secretive, foreign-owned companies that are buying up Americans’ data. like Russia and China. Some of the customers include companies based in states that are ostensibly “unfriendly” to the U.S., Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Meta Platforms has entered talks with Tencent Holdings to potentially sell the former’s Meta Quest headsets and services across China. Meta can simply outsource its metaverse technologies to the Chinese tech giant while reaping benefits from China’s huge use case potential.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2021

While the Pico Neo 3 will be sold as an enterprise device in the West with the name of Pico Neo 3 Pro, it is currently on sale as a consumer-oriented headset in China. The Pico Neo 3 is coming to China with interesting titles in the Pico Store like SuperHot, Synth Riders, Red Matter, and more! The Pico Neo 3 as a Quest 2 competitor?

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2024

Pico 4S controller 3D model, apparently found in the Pico Connect PC client data. Despite wide-reaching layoffs at Pico, the China-based headset creator is going to have it usual presence at GDC 2024, which takes place March 18th-22nd in San Francisco.

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GizModo VR

JULY 16, 2020

For the past two weeks, US officials have been grilling TikTok and other China-based tech giants over potential concerns surrounding the data security of Americans who use these apps, not to mention the national security implications of these apps’ alleged allegianc e to the Chinese government. Now, it’s looking like… Read more.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

On Friday the company announced plans to build China's first GigaFab, a 300 mm production facility with planned capacity of around 100,000 wafer starts per month (WSPM). The new fab will be China's only GigaFab for logic semiconductors (it has several for DRAM, which is considered separate). The fab will cost nearly $8.87

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Series C round was led by YF Capital, NIO Capital, and Angel Plus China, with participation by Sequoia Capital China, GP Capital, GL Ventures. According to data reported by Crunchbase , this brings the company’s lifetime funding to $171 million.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 23, 2023

Riding high on unprecedented demand for their data center-class GPUs for use in AI systems, NVIDIA’s revenues have been on a rapid rise – as well as their standing on Wall Street. For the second quarter of their 2024 fiscal year, NVIDIA booked $13.5 billion in revenue, which is a 101% increase over the year-ago quarter.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Nreal, the China-based company behind the Nreal Light AR glasses , today announced its secured another $40 million in funding. As reported by TechCrunch , the latest financing round was led by Chinese video sharing platform Kuaishou, with participation by iQiyi, GP Capital, CCEIF Fund, GL Ventures, and Sequoia Capital China.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 7, 2021

Both China and Russia were reportedly behind two cyberattacks last year at the European Medicines Agency that compromised documents related to covid-19 vaccines and treatments. Read more.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

Last month we pointed out a sharp drop in the number of users with VR headsets on Steam according to the latest data from Valve. This months data shows the numbers bouncing back closer to where they were before, but came short of a full recovery. This was an anomaly compared to the occasional up-and-downs seen in the data previously.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

HTC is making yet more moves in China today, announcing a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government to kick off two new initiatives. The first of these is a new China VR Research Institute. We’ve heard about many such groups in the west, though this is the first we’ve heard about in China.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

Despite ongoing controversy over US data collection concerns, ByteDance continues its immersive journey through its virtual reality (VR) hardware division, Pico Interactive, and its augmented reality (AR) content distribution platform TikTok. Written for the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, and the CEO of Alphabet Inc. pic.twitter.com/dTTdQLiq26.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

See Also: Future Business Automation: Augmented Reality Applications Fueled by IoT Data Platforms. Smart cities leverage a network of interconnected objects and machines, which use big data and digital solutions to enhance the quality of government services and citizen welfare. They can gather data safely and efficiently.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

With history and data points, one can extend trend lines to gain a sense for where something is headed,” said Clifton Dawson, CEO of Greenlight Insights. “We This year’s report will feature historical data on headset shipments and global forecasts through 2026. 2017 will be another foundational year for the entire VR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

some AI, CV or data-analysis algorithm that must run locally), then you should go for a tethered headset as well. How to preorder Oculus Quest from China. Oculus doesn’t ship to China, so the suggestion of Chinese magazine Yivian is to order it from Amazon US indeed and specify a Chinese address. Is it worth the price?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

In the first one, you can read what are the features that people that HTC interviewed were asking for a VR headset : HTC has used these data to design its new headset and accompanying software ecosystem so that to fulfill these requests. Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3 launched in China. Announcement image for the Droolon F2.

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GizModo VR

JULY 9, 2021

Chinese regulators on Friday ordered mobile stores to take down 25 more apps operated by the ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, saying that the apps violated local laws regarding the collection and use of personal user data. Read more.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. Panning back further, there are interesting things happening in China (as always).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. The Chinese VR ecosystem is very active and it is evolving pretty fast: this summer I have been in China and I met some cool startups that are working on software (e.g. Me and Dabo of Langzou VR, discussing about his company and the educational system in China.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The power of XR and spatial computing data is undeniable, whether in 3D environmental or user tracking data. Even if a company is not currently using VR or virtual meeting spaces, XR data is still set to play a significant role in transforming our work. The CEO is visiting China due to a decline in iPhone sales.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

iQiYi , something akin to the Netflix of China, has just launched its new standalone VR headset: it is called QiYu 3 (??3, This can have the double effect of jumpstarting the XR consumer ecosystem in China and creating new Chinese competitors for the Oculus Quest, especially now that ByteDance has acquired Pico. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Survios , the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data , has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. Survios’ first (and so far only) VR title Raw Data [our review] made its debut as an Early Access release in July. We’ve reached out for clarification.

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