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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens LL J and Rimi Ishihara for the delivery of the clue to happiness! CTOnews.com February 16 news, 36 krypton news today, a number of people familiar with the matter revealed that on the afternoon of February 16, different departments of Tencent's XR business line received notices from temporary escrow GM (general manager) and HR, and the company announced the cancellation of all posts in XR. More than 300 employees in the department will be given a two-month buffer period to look for internal or external opportunities.

In response, Tencent responded to the media that Tencent Games's XR business would change the hardware development path and be adjusted by the relevant business team. It is understood that Tencent will provide a two-month transition period for the affected employees and give priority to job transfer interviews and external referral opportunities.

According to people close to Tencent, Tencent has not given up exploring XR and will still consider other development directions.

As previously reported by CTOnews.com, Tencent set up a high-profile XR department in June 2022, with Ma Xiaoyi, senior vice president of Tencent and actual trader of game business, as the chief executive, and Shen Li, head of NExT Studios of Tencent Games Studio, as the head of XR's specific business.

In January this year, it was reported that Tencent's XR business had been suspended. People familiar with the matter said that the XR business team, which now has more than 300 people, is a "big project". Shen Li, the head of the business, left in November 2022, and it is unclear whether there will be any staff changes next.

The full name of XR (extended reality) is Extended Reality, which refers to the combination of real and virtual through computers to create a virtual environment with human-computer interaction, which is also the general name of AR, VR, MR and other technologies. Through the integration of the three visual interaction technologies, it brings a "sense of immersion" of seamless transformation between the virtual world and the real world.

According to previous sources, Tencent said in an internal document that the XR business is a new business that the company has made great efforts to build in response to the Quanzhen Internet, with the goal of building a world-class hard-tech team led by industry leaders to compete for the next ticket to the hard-tech era. The business focuses on the layout of full-link XR ecology, including hardware-side XR devices, software-side aware interaction technology, content and industry-side content and developer ecology.

Tencent is not only a shareholder in Roblox, the first share in meta-universe, but also holds a 40 per cent stake in Epic Games. In addition, QQ Music also launched the VR album function, which carries the function of VR music room for musicians such as Jay Chou.

In terms of hardware, Tencent demonstrated its first VR head display device, the TenVR, in 2018. TenVR was independently developed by Tencent's Intelligent Innovation Business Unit (InLab), but IT House found that the business unit had not demonstrated its iterative products since then.

It is worth mentioning that since the end of last year, Meta, Microsoft, Kuaishou, Byte and other companies have successively adjusted the organization or personnel of meta-universe and XR business to further improve business efficiency.

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