How far between VR entrepreneurship and actual consumption

By:Zoom Tech      On:2016-04-28

On April 27, an industry theme activity of "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest"- "How far from VR entrepreneurship and actual consumption" was successfully held. The event aims at currently the most heated VR (virtual reality) industry, together with China News Network's "business elite", to simplify matters for many entrepreneurs and conceive the actual consumption prospects of VR industry.



With the successive launch of three major consumer products, Oculus rift, SONY PSVR and HTC VIVE, the year 2016 is called "the first year of VR era." Industry experts point out that the virtual reality industry is a market to be explored, which leads to the pursuits of companies. Previously HTC, Samsung, BAT, Huawei, LeTV and Storm Player and technology have started the layout in succession. VR commodities continue to emerge, investment and financing continue to increase, the overall size of the market sees a rapid surge, and the business model continues to be developed. With these phenomena, what is the real situation of VR industry? How can startups take the occasion to become unicorn companies of the subdivision field? The "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" invited seven venture capital and investment entrepreneurs of VR industry to discuss about the development of the industry, market opportunities, application scenarios and technical standards. The "Seven Sages" are, Wen Di, investment partner of Nuts Venture, Cui Haiqing, CEO of Bliss Interactive, Weng Zhibin, founder of Pimax Technology, Wu Yisong, co-founder of Choc Interaction, Wu Wei, founder of Chuangyi Space, Liu Dongdong, director of Huawei Big Data, Duan Hongbiao, vice editor-in-chief of Jingwei Newsroom of China News Network. Meng Dan, deputy director of Science and Technology Commission of Fengtai District, attend the event.


Concerning the issue “how far from VR entrepreneurship and actual consumption”, Mr. Wen Di of nuts venture reminds entrepreneurs that when the market seems promising, entrepreneurs should make good positioning of the business, and do not blindly invest in order to enter a field. He believes that there are a plenty of market opportunities regarding VR applications, and the particularly large unicorn will not appear, but the leading application companies, who are engaged in different subdivision fields of the game, real estate, entertainment and education, will emerge.

Cui Haiqing, partner of Storm Mirror and Bliss interactive, as China's first entrepreneur to enter the VR industry, believes that in the future, the virtual reality will be a new stage of network development abreast of the PC era and the mobile Internet era. He said that as technology advances, users would have better VR device experience and each user will spend more time gradually in the VR world. The biggest breakthrough of virtual reality technology is to break the boundaries of space and build a VR social world, which is " VR + Internet + social model shaped by Bliss Kingdom with effort..

 

Except that entrepreneurs talked about their understanding of virtual reality and the startup experiences, there were also roadshow interactive sessions. The core members of three startups teams, Wipace, Naochuanyue VR, Wei Li Ti, interacted and communicated with guests.

The first roadshow was presented by Zhang Lei, CEO of Wei Li Ti. The company aims to create a professional platform of VR content generation and sharing. It builds a bridge between VR content demander and small and micro content production teams to integrate the resources of both parties, thus promoting the development of the platform, and then generating commercial value.


Next roadshow was brought by Wang Wenhao, partner of Naochuanyue VR. The company is dedicated to providing mobile phone users with content aggregation platform of experiencing VR (virtual reality) contents, panoramic VR video downloading and playing, panoramic VR games downloading, full-immersion local video playing and other functions. Since its launch in January, users have a monthly increase of 5 to 10 times, with a total of hundreds of thousands of users.


The last one participating the roadshow is Meng Zhifeng, co-founder of Wipace Technology. Its product is called  Wipace Shoe, which can be combined with VR and it is only a Chinese coin size (diameter of 25mm) with the weight of only 8.9 grams. It can be connected to a mobile phone, PC, tablet PC, etc. It can be worn and young people can get rid of the bound of space and be in motion through motion sensing game experiences.



Wu Wei and Liu Dongdong, as analysts, reviewed in detail the commercial direction and market opportunities of the roadshow projects. Entrepreneurs obtained the most valuable experience and the opportunity to further communicate with various investment institutions.

Meanwhile, Ruan Yubo, a very young entrepreneur born after 1997 and founder of Alixinba Technology Co., Ltd., was invited to tell his boyhood hobby regarding scientific discoveries, and he gradually evolves into an entrepreneur in the field of science and technology. That is the passion for innovation of the younger generation.


In addition to the salon exchange activities, a VR technology experience zone was set up, including the intelligent interactive robot of Luobo Tech, VR machine of Aike Technology, 3D cinema of Bliss Interaction, VR glasses of Pimax Technology and other cool equipment breaking through the real space boundaries, which makes people upset the senses once again.

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