According to media reports, it is reported that Tencent has now announced the official establishment of the XR (extended reality) department to prepare for the metaverse competition. It is reported that the department is led by Li Shen, the global chief technology officer of Tencent Games, and the task is to establish a complete XR technology business including software and hardware for Tencent, and become part of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG). It is reported that the establishment of the XR business line this time is a strategic deployment made by Tencent from the group level. Tencent officials have pointed out that a series of basic technologies from real-time communication to audio and video have been prepared, and the rapid improvement of computing power is also promoting changes and integration of information contact and human-computer interaction models. This means that online and offline information interaction will gradually be integrated, and the doors of the virtual world and the real world have been opened. At present, Tencent has not made any form of response to this rumor. It is worth mentioning that Tencent executives have previously shared around the “metaverse”. In the sharing, Ma Xiaoyi, senior vice president of Tencent, said that the current metaverse has not yet reached the stage of discussing the details, and many key technologies will be interviewed between 2025 and 2027, and it will take 2.
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