Continue to be in the doldrums: China's first VR / AR shipments in the second quarter were 156000 units, down 49.51% from the same period last year.

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According to the White Paper, this year's Q2, China shipped a total of 156000 VR / AR heads (including ten thousand VR11 and ten thousand AR4.6), a decrease of 49.51 percent compared with the same period last year. CTOnews.com noted that in 2022, Q2 China shipped 297000 VR units and 12000 AR shipments.

Generally speaking, China's virtual reality (VR) equipment will be in a situation of oversupply in the short term, mainly because there is still a shortage of VR hardware content ecology in China. According to the research data of Perkins Coi, among the factors that affect users' use of VR in 2021, 27% of users think that the current VR-related content is of low quality, limited quantity and low accessibility, while phenomenal content is rare.

In addition, Zhao Qinping, honorary chairman of the Virtual reality Industry Alliance and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, released the list of "2023 China's top VR50 enterprises" at the opening ceremony, the fifth time in a row that the Virtual reality Industry Alliance has released the list. Among them, GE'er Co., Ltd., Beijing Baidu Netcom Technology Co., Ltd., and Hongda Communications Co., Ltd. (HTC) ranked in the top three.