The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. This is not a gaming device like the Quest 2 and this may mark a fundamental difference with the gaming-centric strategy that most VR companies have had until now.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Tencent Technology News added, “In mid-October, there were rumors that PICO [had been] abandoned by ByteDance’s strategy. Following this round of job cuts, the company’s employee headcount will remain “in the hundreds,” it added. News of layoff plans also came out, but this was denied by [ByteDance].”

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The first covid-19 case of the new omicron variant has been detected in mainland China, according to state media outlet CGTN. The omicron case was detected in someone who was reportedly asymptomatic and arriving from outside China, according to the broadcaster. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Dubai’s Crown Price, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum , has signed off on the Dubai Metaverse Strategy, the Khaleej Times reported on Thursday. Dubai’s Metaverse Strategy: A Quick Retake. The initiative also launched a major study identifying the social benefits of metaverse services to its citizens.

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Upload VR

JULY 6, 2023

Meta's aim to sell Quest headsets in China may be hindered by Mark Zuckerberg's past comments. To sell many kinds of products in China, foreign companies must partner with a Chinese company or set up a local subsidiary. Another problem with launching Quest in China would be content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 20, 2022

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) most populous city, Dubai, had launched a major metaverse strategy in a bid to become one of the top 10 extended reality (XR) economies worldwide, the Emirates News Agency reported this week. We launched the Dubai Metaverse Strategy today, which aims to foster innovation in new technology.

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Voices of VR

APRIL 2, 2023

I speak with HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin, who is the President of HTC China & Global VP of Corporate Development at HTC about HTC’s investment strategy and what’s happening in the enterprise XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 24, 2023

In January 2023, South Korea took its metaverse strategy to the next level, introducing a new platform built for public service relationships. Thanks to this initiative, Shanghai is quickly emerging as one of the top municipalities focusing on metaverse solutions as part of a long-term strategy for economic growth.

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GizModo VR

MAY 27, 2022

In anticipation of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites posing as a threat, military researchers in China want their nation to be ready to disable, or perhaps completely destroy, the gigantic internet constellation. It’s an ominous possibility, but one easier said than done. 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. It had hired 300 employees, but later shifted its company strategy back to the gaming industry. According to the reports, one source noted Tencent and Meta Platforms entered talks last year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

Where: Chengdu Marriott Hotel Financial Centre, Sichuan, China. One of the biggest international events dedicated to the augmented and virtual reality will take place at the beginning of September in Chengdu Financial City in Sichuan, China. When: September 2 – September 3. AWE USA 2021. When: November 9 – November 11.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The China-based company says it’s indeed announcing a new standalone headset this week, which looks to be the very one that’s hoping to take on Meta in its home turf. Since its founding in 2015, Pico has exclusively targeted consumers in China and enterprise users in the West.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2016

HTC opened their third officially branded ‘Vive VR Cafe’ last week, this time in Shenzhen, China, the country’s Silicon Valley of hardware. Graylin maintains that once the Vive VR cafe model is fully tested in China, the company is planning to expand them internationally with a possibility of franchising opportunities.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. They’ve had huge success in China, but China is a pretty unique market. Let’s play catch up with Nreal over the past two years quickly, just in case. They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 11, 2024

Initially launched in China, these chips were added to AMD's global website, signaling they are available worldwide, apparently from April 1st. The company's decision to announce these chips in China aligns with its strategy to offer Ryzen solutions at every price point in the market.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On the topic of developing abroad before opening in our own back yards, the X-Craft , was actually launched in China last year with the China National Petroleum Corporation. However, like other Chinese companies, only enterprise support is offered in the States – for now. Meet the X-Craft.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. They’ve had huge success in China, but China is a pretty unique market. Let’s play catch up with Nreal over the past two years quickly, just in case. They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2022

Now Pico is aiming its sights on the US market too, as Protocol reports the China-based company has posted several US-based jobs there. Listings include a head of Pico Studios, head of VR Game Strategy, head of Overseas Content Ecosystem, and operations manager. Image courtesy Pico Interactive. Image courtesy Pico Interactive.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Pico 4 launches in China, while new info is shared in the West. First of all, Pico 4 has been launched in China, priced at 2699 yuan and 2999 yuan (with a 200 yuan discount at launch). First of all, Pico 4 has been launched in China, priced at 2699 yuan and 2999 yuan (with a 200 yuan discount at launch). Only time will tell….

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

pic.twitter.com/FJIhvV4hQO — MediaTek (@MediaTek) November 16, 2023 The technologies the two companies will provide will not be offered to other tech companies and signals a hallmark collaboration between companies from the United States and China. Meta chose MediaTek’s silicon for our expertise in optimizing power and performance.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

As for Meta, while he appreciated the efforts of the people working there, he said that doesn’t agree much with its strategy. Regarding the Quest line, he said that Meta pursued a low-price strategy too early, even before the device’s value could be perceived by people.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In August of last year, the same analyst claimed Pico 4 would launch in September with an "aggressive subsidy strategy" to take on Quest 2. Pico 4 launched in China on September 27, then in Europe in October, at just €430 despite having pancake lenses, dual 2K displays, and color passthrough. That turned out to be true.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Asus Computers has become one of the big tech industry’s latest participants to join the Metaverse after it launched a platform for developing its strategy, reports revealed on Wednesday. One of the world’s top PC vendors, ASUS revealed the platform months after Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn opened its metaverse strategy in March.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Other Asian firms such as China Mobile, Agora, and Sony reach the list. According to JPMorgan, China’s metaverse market would reach $27 billion USD for business services with an additional $4 trillion USD in digitised goods and services. China’s Metaverse Ambitions.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2017

From China-based VIVA Games comes Kill X , a claustrophobic thriller set on a secret island where human test subjects were turned into horrible mutants—all in the search for immortality, of course. ChangYou Games is known for their martial arts MMORPGs in China, and the company has teamed up with Sony to bring out a real-time strategy game.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Not to take away from UX execution, one factor at play is Facebook’s long-term VR strategy which lets it sacrifice near-term margins to build a network effect and win early market share. Regardless of the reason, Oculus gained key insights on market demand, which it now factors in to Quest 2’s supply-chain strategy.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When I went to China , one of the companies that I wanted to visit was PanguVR , but unluckily its CEO was not available at that time because of some business stuff he had to do. I was born in Beijing, China and grew up in the United States. product Cortana in China. Severs 70% of Online Interior Designers Market in China.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The report suggests Tencent got as far as creating a “ring-like hand-held game controller” concept, though short-term profitability worries, high investment costs and a “sobering economic outlook” within China saw the multinational conglomerate reconsider this approach.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Having tried the original commercial Omni several times myself over the years, and also its main China-based competitor Kat Walk VR , it’s safe to say that using these type of low friction VR locomotion devices can definitely be awkward at first. And it seems the early bird investment strategy has worked fairly well so far.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 24, 2022

When Intel announced plans to produce chips for other companies last year (and to a large degree become a contract maker of semiconductors), it marked a significant shift in the company's business strategy that required Intel to build new manufacturing capacity not only for itself, but for its future clients as well.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 13, 2021

The succinct announcement did not mention whether the tie-up is for content development or Xbox’s console distribution in China but said more details will be unveiled for the “deep partnership” by the end of this year. Sony’s Playstation 5 just hit the shelves in China in late April.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

The report, released today in partnership with Road to VR , as well as international contributing firms iResearch (China) and MoguraVR (Japan), includes global hardware, software and services revenue forecasts, as well as findings from a new survey of VR industry professionals. 5-year global VR hardware and software forecasts.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 16, 2022

The plan includes building numerous new fabs in Taiwan, Japan, and China. Fab 16 Phase 1B in Nanjing, China. TSMC currently makes chips on its N28 in China, though the new phase was once rumored to be capable of making chips using more advanced nodes. Fab 14 Phase 8 in Tainan, Taiwan. Fab 22 Phase 2 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Fortunately, Autoliv China, an innovator in the manufacturing world, discovered a new way to unlock the power of its data, with Microsoft. However, effectively leveraging insights from streams of raw data isn’t always simple. Fortunately, they found the solution they needed from Microsoft’s partner, DataMesh.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Recently, the company aimed to enter China via Tencent, one of the world’s largest tech firms. China banned Meta’s social media technologies across the mainland in 2009 due to reported security concerns in its Xinjiang province. What is the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategy Partnership?

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2022

Speaking to Russia-based VR users, we learned that Roskomnadzor doesn’t appear to have the same degree of control over service providers as China does with its ‘Great Firewall’—not yet anyhow. At this point, Quest users in Russia aren’t certain whether it’s intentional or accidental. Photo by Road to VR.

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