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HTC Wants To Bring Vive VR Headset To 100M+ Chinese Internet Cafe Users (roadtovr.com)

Posted by timothy on from the ok-fellas-take-a-number dept.

An anonymous reader writes: While the Western vision of an internet café includes a shoddy WiFi hotspot and a few old desktops running Windows XP, the Chinese counterpart is more closely related to LAN gaming centers, offering up not only high speed internet access but also high performance gaming systems. In an effort to expose this quite massive population of gamers to virtual reality, HTC announced a partnership with ShunWang Technology, the software provider behind some 70% of China's internet café market. ShunWang plans to roll out arcade-like Vive VR systems to partner internet cafés across China.

8 comments

  1. Internet cafes by vikingpower · · Score: 2

    In Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa (I traveled both of them extensively), internet cafes are very often shoddy affairs, with impossibly old PCs running sometimes Windows 95 or Windows 98. But then again... I once went for a 4x4-wheel drive deep into the Mauritanian desert, with a friend who lives there. After about 200 kilometers, in the middle of only sand dunes, we met a family of nomads. They crowded around our pickup truck,and the first thing they asked: "Do you have any phone credit for sale?!?" (The closest cell mast was 160 kilometers away). Fond memory...

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    1. Re:Internet cafes by del_diablo · · Score: 1

      Yeah, their quality varies a lot depending on region. In Japan and Korea gamer Cafes seem to be a thing, and China has machines and connections allowing players to play MMO games.
      Tourist places(Canari Isles, Greece, Turkey, etc) seem to only offer Internet access. Not a whole lot more. In high GDP countries i guess they are shoddy places for tourists who can't use the hotel Wifi on their laptops/cells?

      Rolling out VIVE to something like Chinese LAN Cafès seem to be a no brainer. At the least it allows some examples of use.

  2. hand in hand we stand.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it's in all the manuals... rock on /. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WeIOxZdnw

  3. Consequences by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now we can see one of the consequences of greedy US telecoms charging high rates for slow bandwidth. China gets to pass the US in terms of upcoming technological developments.

  4. Infectious Disease Vector by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No AV software will stay this whole new level of virus spread (what is old is new again).

  5. special 5:1 aspect ration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    special version w/ 5:1 aspect ration for slity eye's.

  6. Bowling by sls1j · · Score: 1

    It's like bowling shoes for the face.

  7. This is the difference in owning the manufacturing by WindBourne · · Score: 1

    Seriously, owning the manufacturing means that you have cheap goods all around. That is why the west needs to bring it back.

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