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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Tencent to explore hardware opportunities with extended reality unit - The Untold Story

A logo of Tencent is seen at its booth at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China September 4, 2020. (Reuters)

China's Tencent Holdings said it saw multiple opportunities to explore extended reality (XR) technologies in the next 4-5 years and that it had set up a unit focused on exploring the space, confirming an earlier Reuters report.

The company's gaming chief Steven Ma made the comments to local media on the sidelines of a mobile game event the Chinese tech giant held on Monday. Tencent later shared a transcript of the remarks with Reuters.

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