Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Mr. Aviation, soft media user 1520111, Alejandro86 for the delivery of clues! According to CTOnews.com news on October 18, in January this year, it was reported that the Tencent XR team had been disbanded, and the official response was "change the business development path and adjust the relevant team".

At that time, it was reported that Tencent's XR department retained only a small number of employees and would promote the introduction of Meta's Qculus Quest 2 (VR device) in the future.

According to Tencent's internal emails obtained by VR gyroscope, Tencent IEG Interactive Entertainment Group has set up a new "XR device and content Business Department" in September, which is mainly responsible for the research and development, sales, marketing and content ecological construction of Tencent's own-brand XR devices.

It is reported that the department by IEG Interactive Entertainment Group XR business line XR equipment and content business assistant general manager Qian Jie as the first person in charge, fully responsible for related business and team management, reporting to Senior Vice President Stevenma (Ma Xiaoyi).

In this regard, Tencent responded to the Beijing Business Daily: it is a normal adjustment and appointment within the XR business line.

In addition, bilibili up owner "Pill Technology AK" also said that Tencent had disbanded its own XR team, but under the influence of Apple's Vision Pro release, it began to reorganize the XR team in August this year, and planned to act as an agent for VR Touxian Oculus Quest under Meta, with reference to the agency form of Tencent and Nintendo.

According to Interface News, Meta has been discussing Quest plans with a number of Chinese technology companies as early as the end of 2022, including Tencent, Lenovo and mainstream smartphone brands, while Quest has made some progress in talks with Tencent.

According to CTOnews.com, Qian is also the general manager of Tencent Games's Nintendo cooperation department, which has introduced Switch game consoles for Tencent and worked with Nintendo to translate some games locally in China.

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