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“I felt weightless skiing down the mountain,” Chen, 25, gushes after re-emerging in the material world.Chen, a hospitality worker, said she ventured into one of Shanghai’s VR arcades due to word of mouth from her tech-savvy friends.

“Chinese growth in the next five years could see it dominate AR/VR long-term — and not by a small margin,” Silicon Valley consultancy Digi-Capital said in a report last year. But the government is pushing hard for China to become a world leader in next-generation technologies including artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. VR has been lumped into that favoured class, benefitting from a slew of preferential policies.

At Shanghai’s VR+ Amusement Park, a new game lands only once every three months, officials there said.Firms such as Tencent remain hesitant to dive into the arcade scene until the sector reaches critical mass, analysts explained. Seekers VR, which is based in the eastern city of Wenzhou and owns a franchised chain of 200 arcades in more than 70 cities across China, is working with the Wenzhou government to establish a college focused on educating students about VR and using the technology in lessons.

 

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