This "outlet", which is being rapidly forgotten by the domestic gaming industry, has undergone some new changes recently. The Chinese box office in the first week was nearly 400 million. The entire world view of this film is based on a VR game called "Oasis".

There has been no big news in the VR market for a long time. This "outlet" that is being quickly forgotten by the domestic game industry has recently undergone some new changes.

First of all, Spielberg's science fiction film "Ready Player One " achieved good results when it was released globally last weekend. The box office in China in the first week was nearly 400 million. The entire world view of this film is based on a movie called "Oasis". "On top of the VR games, after watching the hot and exciting movie scenes, ordinary consumers have once again ignited their longing for a bright future of VR.

Secondly, VR startup Zhongzheng is expected to usher in its first official IPO company, which is called StarVR.

According to foreign media reports, StarVR announced last week that it has completed its application for public issuance in Taiwan. After approval, the company's board of directors will further apply to the Taipei Stock Exchange and it will be listed in Taiwan in mid-April.

StarVR company’s total share capital is 48.218 million ordinary shares, with a par value of NT$10 (US$0.34). The company’s valuation is only US$16 million. Judging from this valuation, it is lower than many VR hardware startups in mainland China. The company's valuation is even lower than that of some VR game developers. It is difficult for GameLook to understand the significance of StarVR being listed at a low price. Bo Andersson Klint, chairman of

StarVR, said: " virtual reality has huge potential in the enterprise and offline entertainment markets. We work closely with customers and industry partners to create a virtual reality platform specifically for professional users. Virtual Reality.”

StarVR’s offline entertainment platform has been launched around the world, including iMAX VR centers in Los Angeles and New York, Sega Game Center in Tokyo, and the newly opened VR park in Dubai.

StarVR is the virtual reality department of Swedish developer Starbreeze. Taiwanese IT company Acer holds 66.7% of the shares of StarVR. The company's Chinese name is also called "Hongxing Technology", so it is natural for StarVR to choose to be listed in Taiwan.

According to the current regulations in Taiwan, a company must log on to the emerging market for six months before applying for listing in Taiwan. Therefore, it can generally apply for listing and listing on the emerging market as soon as six months after logging on to the emerging market. According to GameLook understands that Taiwan's emerging market can be understood as the New Third Board market in mainland China.

Gao Shuguo, general manager of Acer's information products business who is also the vice chairman of StarVR, said that StarVR will follow the technology listing process, first log in and then go public, and return the operating results to shareholders.

StarVR’s main product is the StarVR headset, which not only provides a large field of view with a 210-degree horizontal viewing angle and a 130-degree vertical viewing angle, but also supports 5K high-definition resolution. The device has two 5.5-inch high-definition lenses, using Fresnel lenses. The screen does not use a common lens combination, but uses a larger lens with an angle; real-time 6 degrees of freedom tracking, 360-degree sub-millimeter optical tracking, supports 2-48 or even more cameras, and also supports multiple users experience.

This hardware is provided with financial and equipment support by Acer and technical support by Starbreeze VR. It weighs only 380 grams. Its triangular appearance and large size can prevent users from affecting the experience due to the leakage of natural light. In terms of configuration, StarVR can be compared with the three major VR headsets in the industry: Oculus, HTC Vive and Sony PSVR. Of course, it should be noted that 5K resolution refers to the image size, which does not mean that the image quality is much higher than that of the three major helmets.

At present, in addition to the sales of VR HMD (head display), StarVR's main performance also includes other revenue sharing such as rental, ticket splitting and subsequent equipment maintenance, software applications and partial content provision.

StarVR was only established in the second half of 2016. After official shipments began in the fourth quarter, the first year of operation has achieved breakeven. It is understood that last year, StarVR entered more subdivided industries, expanded new customers, shipped and related complete sets Orders for solutions have grown, and operations have also grown steadily.

However, Starbreeze, the parent company of StarVR, has been in financial trouble recently. After the delay of the next big IP "The Walking Dead" adaptation game "Overkill's The Walking Dead" in 2017, Starbreeze suffered a pre-tax loss of US$22.2 million in 2017.To stay afloat, the company executed a new stock offering worth $29.9 million, and just last week, Starbreeze chose to sell the rights to issue Dead by Daylight.