Today’s hot spots: VR social platform VRChat launched a paid subscription service with advanced features; Snapchat will hold an AR display event Lens Fest on December 8; VR game "Half-life: Alex" has 2 million users on Steam, etc.
Industry
Steam latest sales list: "Cyberpunk 2077" three consecutive championships; Valve Index VR kit third
in the latest week (November 30 to December 6) in the Steam platform sales ranking, will be December The "Cyberpunk 2077" released on the 10th won the championship for three consecutive weeks, and the newly launched "CS: GO Crazy Teeth" ranked second. The Valve Index VR kit, which has been in the top ten for 13 consecutive weeks, ranked third. And "Honor", which had won four consecutive championships before, still ranked fourth this week.
VR social platform VRChat launched a paid subscription service with advanced features
VR social platform VRChat recently launched a paid subscription service for SteamVR headsets. For only US$9.99 per month (US$99.99 per year), subscribers can unlock various advanced features that are designed to help them distinguish themselves from the thousands of users occupying VRC servers.
A number of projects have been signed and landed, and Shijingshan accelerates the creation of a high land of value for the VR industry
On the morning of December 6, the 6th China Virtual Reality Industry-University-Research Conference was held in Shijingshan District. At the meeting, the China Virtual Reality Technology and Industry Innovation Platform and the Shijingshan Government signed a cooperation framework on the "Beijing Virtual Reality Collaborative Innovation Center", "National Key R&D Program Projects in the Virtual Reality Field", and "Virtual Reality Industry Investment and Financing Cooperation Platform" projects. protocol.
The U.S. Army’s HoloLens-based IVAS system’s budget for 2021 has been cut by more than 10,000 units.
In the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for the 2021 fiscal year, legislators in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives decided to reduce the integrated vision for the U.S. Army based on Microsoft HoloLens Enhance the system’s budget while limiting the US Army’s flexible funding quota before submitting a military AR head-up display briefing to the committee. In a joint explanatory statement issued a few days ago, the Senate and House of Representatives formally cut the IVAS budget by 230 million US dollars.
Snapchat will host an AR display event Lens Festz on December 8th AR filter creation. The
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Google’s self-developed 5nm SoC chip was exposed and has been taped out: 8-core ARM architecture
The latest report from Axios claims that Google’s SoC chip codenamed Whitechapel has been successfully taped out recently. This SoC is based on Samsung's 5nm LPE process and 8-core ARM architecture. In addition to CPU and GPU, it also integrates Google's TPU neural network acceleration unit.
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VR game "Half-Life: Alex" has 2 million users on Steam
According to Steam third-party data site SteamSpy, the VR exclusive action-adventure game "Half-Life: Alex" produced and released by Valve is on Steam. Has more than 2 million users. The developer of the
VR sci-fi shooter "Farpoint" announced a new project,
Impulse Gear, which released its first-person sci-fi-themed shooter game "Farpoint" for PSVR as early as 2017, which has aroused excellent response. But since then, there has been no news from the studio. Recently, the studio reappeared and confirmed that a new project is underway.
