China Pushes Ambitious Plan to Churn Out Over 25 Million VR Headsets by 2026 - PCMag

As Mark Zuckerberg struggles to get his metaverse disconnected the ground, China is pushing the state to make a immense VR manufacture susceptible of churning retired millions of headsets per year. 

Five authorities ministries successful China person published(Opens successful a caller window) a five-year program that identifies VR, including augmented reality, arsenic a next-generation manufacture the state needs to cultivate. The benefits see promoting caller forms of taste and economical depletion portion strengthening the country’s integer presence. 

The program calls connected China to make a VR manufacture susceptible of producing implicit 25 cardinal VR devices by 2026, according(Opens successful a caller window) to Reuters, which archetypal reported the news.

It’s unclear if the ministries are hoping to deed the 25 cardinal shipments connected an yearly oregon cumulative basis. But according to probe steadfast IDC, China lone shipped astir a fractional a cardinal VR and AR headsets during the archetypal fractional of this year. Meanwhile, the planetary marketplace is projected(Opens successful a caller window) to vessel adjacent to 11 cardinal units successful 2022.

The aforesaid program from the Chinese authorities aims to turn the country’s VR manufacture to a standard of much than 350 cardinal yuan ($48 billion) by 2026. By then, China volition besides person cultivated 100 companies to enactment the VR and AR industry. 

“By 2026, breakthroughs volition beryllium made successful the cardinal technologies of 3D, virtual-real integration and immersive audio-visual technology,” the papers adds, noting that China plans connected applying the technologies to a assortment of industries including education, tourism, wellness and media, among others. 

To propulsion this program off, the Chinese ministries are focusing connected processing technologies, specified arsenic improved LCD, OLED and MicroLED displays for the headsets portion processing eye- and facial- tracking systems to construe quality expressions into the virtual world. 

China announced the program arsenic the state has besides been trying to develop its ain cutting-edge semiconductor industry. However, it's facing absorption from the US, which has been blocking companies from shipping the astir precocious spot technologies to Chinese semiconductor makers. The Biden medication is acrophobic the country’s tech ambitions could assistance it make supercomputers and AI susceptible of helping the Chinese subject and its surveillance efforts.