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HONG KONG: China's Tencent<\/a> Holdings announced to its staff on Monday the official formation of an \"extended reality\" (XR) unit, three people familiar with the matter said, formally placing its bets on the metaverse<\/a> concept of virtual worlds.
The unit is tasked with building up the extended reality business for Tencent<\/a> including both software and hardware, the sources said, adding that it will be led by Tencent Games Global's Chief Technology Officer Li Shen and will be part of the company's Interactive Entertainment business group.
Two of the sources said the unit will eventually have over 300 staff, a generous figure given how Tencent has been cost cutting and slowing down hiring. However, they also cautioned that the hiring plans are still fluid, as the company will adjust the unit's headcount based on its performance.
The unit was first formed earlier this year but remained shrouded in secrecy, the three sources said. Extended reality is a term that refers to immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality, which are seen to be the building blocks of the metaverse<\/a>.
Tencent, China's most valuable company, declined to comment.
Investors, entrepreneurs and established tech giants around the world have latched on to the concept of the metaverse, ever since Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, CEO of Facebook which recently changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc<\/a>, announced that he would devote the future of his company to building a metaverse.
Companies from Microsoft<\/a> to Disney have announced they are also working on their own metaverses, with Chinese and U.S. firms from TikTok owner-ByteDance to Apple<\/a> also building up their headset units involving XR technologies.
The XR unit will mark a rare foray into hardware for Tencent, which is mostly known for its software such as its suite of games as well as social media applications.
One of the sources said the unit was viewed internally as a passion project of Tencent founder and chief executive Pony Ma who first highlighted the importance of the metaverse, or what he called an \"all-real internet<\/a>\", in late 2020.
The introduction of the new team stands in contrast to downsizing happening in other parts of Tencent, which has been implementing cost control measures and scaling back non-core businesses, such as the shuttering of its Penguin Esports unit, to cope with the fall-out from a regulatory crackdown.
Tencent has remained largely coy, publicly, about its metaverse plans. Last November, it told analysts it had a lot of \"tech and capability building blocks\" to approach the metaverse opportunity, but did not go into details.
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腾讯形式扩展现实的单位metaverse比赛蓄势待发:来源
单位的任务是与腾讯建立扩展现实业务包括软件和硬件,消息人士补充说,它将由腾讯游戏全球首席技术官李沈,将公司的互动娱乐业务集团的一部分。
香港:中国腾讯持有员工周一官方宣布成立一个“扩展现实”(XR)单位,三个知情人士说,正式将其押注metaverse虚拟世界的概念。
单位负责建立业务扩展的现实腾讯包括软件和硬件,消息人士补充说,它将由腾讯游戏全球首席技术官李沈,将公司的互动娱乐业务集团的一部分。
两位消息人士表示,单位最终将有超过300名员工,慷慨的图鉴于腾讯一直在削减成本和降低招聘。然而,他们也警告说,招聘计划仍然是液体,随着公司将调整单元的员工,根据其性能。
单位今年早些时候首先形成,但仍处于保密状态,三个消息来源说。扩展的现实是一个术语,指的是身临其境的技术,如虚拟现实和增强现实,这是看到的构建块metaverse。
中国最有价值的公司,腾讯拒绝置评。
世界各地的投资者、企业家和老牌科技巨头对metaverse的概念,产生了兴趣马克•扎克伯格Facebook的首席执行官最近更名为元平台公司宣布,他将把他的公司的未来建立metaverse。
公司从微软迪斯尼已经宣布他们也致力于自己的metaverse,与中国和美国公司从TikTok owner-ByteDance苹果还建立他们的耳机单元涉及XR技术。
XR单位将标志着一种罕见的腾讯进军硬件,大部分是闻名的软件如套游戏以及社交媒体的应用程序。
一名消息人士表示,单位内部被看成是一种激情的项目腾讯创始人兼首席执行官马化腾首先强调metaverse的重要性,或他所称的“所有的互联网”,在2020年晚些时候。
引入新团队站在裁员发生在腾讯的其他部分相比,实施成本控制措施和减少非核心业务,如企鹅的电子竞技的关闭装置,以应对监管镇压的后果。
腾讯一直忸怩作态,公开对其metaverse的计划。去年11月,它告诉分析师有很多“技术和能力积木”接近metaverse的机会,但没有进入细节。
