According to the Wall Street Journal, Tencent will start selling the low -cost VR (virtual reality) head display equipment of Facebook parent company META at the end of 2024.
It is reported that this company can set foot in the Chinese market again after Facebook was banned 14 years after being banned in mainland China.
Reported sources said that Tencent's VR device of the exclusive agent of META, and in the distribution of equipment sales, META will occupy the big head, and Tencent will get more content and service income incomeEssence
The report did not mention the price of this head display, but this device will use the lens that is cheaper than the latest QUEST 3, and the installed processor is more advanced than the Quest 2 released three years ago.
In September this year, during the annual developer conference, the Meta released a new generation of VR head display QUEST3, priced at $ 499 (S $ 678.9).Quest3's processing capacity is doubled compared to QUEST2, and it is optimized in the thickness, resolution, experience, and processor in the lens.
Although the VR header of Meta is not listed in China, it is in the leading position of the global market.According to data from the market research company IDC, in the second quarter of 2023, Meta's VR/AR top market share was about 50%, while Sony and Bytes' PICO occupied two or three respectively.Entering the Chinese market means that META will jump positively with Tiktok's parent company by bytes.
The current VR equipment is not optimistic in China.On November 7, Zhou Hongwei, the president of the bytes, announced that large -scale layoffs will make large -scale adjustments to PICO's markets, games, videos, live broadcasts and other teams.