HTC HTC (2498-TW) has invested in the VR field for seven years, investing heavily in hardware and software equipment, content construction, platforms, etc. Recently, the market has reported that HTC is considering several VR departments that have begun to make profits to promote overseas listing and fundraising.
HTC will create seven major business divisions in its corporate transformation and organizational restructuring plan in 2021, including VIVE Systems, VIVERSE (formerly Content & Platforms), G Reigns (formerly 5G Solutions), HTC Smartphones and Smart Devices, VIVE Arts, VIVE ORIGINALS and DeepQ.
Since several VR divisions under HTC have turned profitable and have good profit prospects, the company intends to split them into independent businesses and list them overseas to strengthen future financing and development, and attract more developers to join; HTC responded to the market Guess no comment.
In order to cultivate unicorns, HTC established Vive X accelerators in Taipei, Beijing, Shenzhen, San Francisco, Israel and other places. Vive X accelerators have only been established for more than a year and have become the world’s most active investment in virtual reality and augmented reality industries institutions, and has been selected into nearly 70 global start-up teams.
Optimistic about the prospect of VR, HTC can use the VR platform to find more start-ups to join. At present, it has cooperated with more than 1,000 software developers around the world to develop more than 3,200 software applications, and the number continues to increase every month, actively cultivating the ecosystem.
The market is optimistic. HTC’s VR division is listed overseas. Not only can it incubate the next new unicorn, but it will also help HTC’s reputation and positioning in the VR industry, as well as attract more new startup teams to expand VR. Industrial scale. HTC’s current VR partners cover telecom, art, education, entertainment and other fields, and it is expected to release a new generation of VR products in the first half of next year.
HTC also believes that the VR industry still needs to overcome technologies such as battery life and weight, but as more and more developers join in, it will enter the VR industry in the next 3-5 years.goldgrowing period.