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MARCH 25, 2024

Apple Vision Pro will launch in China later this year. Reuters reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the news in response to a question at the China Development Forum in Beijing, according to China Central Television. Vision Pro is currently only available in the US. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

After the review of the Huawei VR glasses we did together, this time I interviewed him and FXG’s CTO Wilson Li about the incredible work they’re doing with VR videos in China. Thanks for connecting with me from the distant China. Nikk: FXG is a VR film tech company based out of Hangzhou, China.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Meta still plans to bring the upcoming cheaper version of Quest 3 to China via partnership with Tencent, The Information reports. A Meta hardware roadmap meeting leaked to The Verge in March last year revealed the company planned to release a new headset after Quest 3 in 2024 "at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market".

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MARCH 26, 2024

China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Top news of the week Meta and Tencent are bringing the Quest to China According to the latest rumors, after one year of negotiation, finally, Meta and Tencent have found an agreement to bring the Quest to China. Let’s dig into the most interesting pieces of news of this week! appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Bigscreen Beyond and Varjo Aero now show on the Steam Hardware Survey, giving an indication of their ownership and usage. The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. February is the first month they appear from the start.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Meta plans to bring a cheaper version of Quest 3 to China via a deal with Tencent, The Wall Street Journal reports. Meta and Tencent's aim to sell Quest headsets in China was first reported by Chinese news outlet 36Kr back in February, though that report claimed the product was planned to be Quest 2. Quest 3 Lite?

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

” Even more was revealed by Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at argodesign , who helped develop the Magic Leap 2 hardware. The idea is that it’s a garment, not a piece of hardware. You can’t just have hardware, you can’t just have software, it’s the whole ecosystem that’s necessary,” said Kling.

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JULY 5, 2023

China Mobile, that country’s largest wireless carier with over 940 million subscribers, has formed a metaverse industry alliance including some of the biggest names in China-based tech. ” China Mobile isn’t new to the space.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Tencent reportedly plans to bring Meta’s Quest 2 to China. To sell many kinds of products in China, foreign companies must partner with a Chinese company or set up a local subsidiary. Chinese outlet 36Kr now reports that Tencent plans to work to bring Quest 2 to the Chinese market instead.

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MARCH 14, 2024

The inclusion of Simplified Chinese may also suggest the company is entering mainland China as well, where Apple already has a firm foothold with iPhone. In contrast to its largest US-based competitor Meta, Quest 3 cannot be purchased in mainland China.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Vive Focus, HTC’s first standalone VR headset, has officially launched in China. After taking pre-orders starting in December, the Vive Focus launched to the first customers in China this week. The post Vive Focus Standalone VR Headset Launches in China appeared first on Road to VR. image courtesy HTC.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Pico 4 Pro it’s based on is sold to consumers in China. There are actually some minor hardware differences between Pro and Enterprise. But Enterprise has faster LPDDR5 RAM, while the China launch event for Pro didn’t mention that. But Pico said it has no plans to bring it to consumers in the West.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics giant, officially announced that they’ve partnered with Oculus to not only manufacture Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, but also produce a China-only standalone VR headset called Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone. image courtesy Xiaomi.

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 12, 2019

That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. Drilling Down on VR Hardware. Drilling down into one of those areas, how does VR hardware revenue look? The post VR Hardware Revenues Projected to Reach $6.39 billion last year to $14.8

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JULY 5, 2017

Goldman Sachs says that China accounted for a third of VR headset sales last year. By some measures, VR has been better received in China than it has even in the West. It could be reasonable to believe that China is poised to dominate the nascent VR industry. It hopes to bring “VR theme parks” to China. Pay-for-Play.

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MARCH 11, 2024

pic.twitter.com/on6nJg900F — Luna (@Lunayian) March 11, 2024 Lunayian noted late last week that Pico has also already trademarked the name Pico 4S , a naming scheme that may suggest more of a hardware refresh of the Pico 4 headset, which launched in Asia and Europe in October 2022.

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JUNE 15, 2020

The largest undertaking to date in Henan, China will see over 100 schools adopt the VR and AR solutions. The rollout will provide over 100 academic institutions with innovative and engaging learning experiences for thousands of China’s primary and secondary school students through VR and AR. About EON Reality.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

Like Oculus, they create both hardware and software for their VR devices. Unlike Oculus, they have a substantial presence in China. Pico may not hold the same name recognition as Oculus or HTC, but the company is a top VR hardware maker, selling to consumer audiences in China and enterprise customers in the Western world.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

China Joy kicked off Thursday at the Shanghai New International Expo Center with over 600 firms showing the latest in entertainment and technology. Let’s take a look at some of the common themes we came across at China Joy. million units and hardware revenues approaching $2.3 billion in 2016, according to IDC.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. The VR market in China is growing, and there is a lot more optimism for technological adoption and enthusiasm for having VR arcade experiences. Support Voices of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

At Sandbox Immersive Festival , I have been able to try some interesting hardware solutions. I have already detailed in another post my impressions on the Pico Neo and the HP Reverb … in this one, I will talk about other hardware manufacturers. Stay tuned for more articles about SIF and my trip to China in the next days!

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

A recent rumor, which alleged that TikTok parent company ByteDance is slated to spin down its XR hardware subsidiary Pico Interactive, is false, the company says. China-based publication EqualOcean reported late last week that ByteDance is set to “gradually abandon the PICO business.”

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JUNE 23, 2022

Tencent, the China-based multinational known for WeChat and a host of mobile games, reportedly announced to staff that was creating a unit dedicated building out its XR offerings. The post Report: China’s Tencent Forms XR Unit to Build Its Own Metaverse appeared first on Road to VR.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey reports the percentage of Steam users that use a VR headset on SteamVR each month. The biggest issue with the VR users figure in the Steam Hardware Survey is that it includes China. It's sometimes claimed that PC VR usage on Steam is shrinking, but here's why that isn't actually true.

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APRIL 13, 2022

During the 2022 Laval Virtual event in France earlier today, Pico Interactive, a VR hardware manufacturer based out of Beijing, China, announced that its latest VR device, the Pico Neo 3 Link, will be available for consumer purchase in Europe in the near future.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly laying off what South China Morning Post maintains will be “hundreds of employees” working at its VR headset manufacturing subsidiary, Pico Interactive. Shortly afterwards, the China-based company then released its latest standalone headset, Pico 4, in Europe and Asia to consumers.

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JULY 24, 2023

Although initial reports pointed towards a China-only release, and at present, that much is true, the Ryzen 5 7500F is heading towards global availability, at least according to AMD. As we mentioned, this is because, technically, the only place users can currently buy this chip is in China. GHz DDR5-5200 32 MB 65 W 88 W $179?*

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Oppo, the China-based smartphone manufacturer, held its second annual Inno Day in Shenzhen, China today, showing off a new version of its concept AR glasses. It’s also said to support smartphone and gesture-based interactions, and include updated real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) tracking.

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MARCH 8, 2017

During my interview with HTC’s President of Vive in China, Alvin Graylin, last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on peripherals for its VR headset — like its upcoming Vive Tracker — in 2017 and beyond. ” That’s a story that could apply to a lot of Vive developers.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 21, 2021

Finding new graphics cards at reasonable prices has been almost impossible as of late, but that might be about to change after prices for GPUs in China fell by as much as 66 percent following a number of crypto mining shutdowns across Sichuan, Xinjian, and Inner Mongolia. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Apple has temporarily cut ties with a major manufacturing partner after discovering it was actively covering up an untold number of student labor violations in multiple China-based facilities. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2023

Owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, many speculated that the China-based Pico was finally ready to announce the consumer launch of Pico 4 in the United States, a step that many (including us) have been waiting for following a US hiring spree last summer. The missing puzzle piece is undoubtedly a North American release.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

HTC hopes to address this in China with a new partnership between Dalian Television and Beijing Cyber Cloud to offer a set-top, cloud-based box—meaning you don’t need a traditional VR-ready rig to run VR games. Called Vive Arcace , this was also a ‘China-first’ program that latter went global.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. to Pico and Nreal in China. For example, chips.

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