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Many of Douyin's content leaders will be transferred to the VR business

ByteDance is going to increase investment in the field of VR content.

On March 3, according to the "Late Post" report, following Ren Lifeng, the head of watermelon video, Song Binghua, the head of Douyin Variety Show, and Wu Zuomin, director of Douyin Entertainment, will soon be transferred to Byte's VR product Pico.

Poco, a VR all-in-one manufacturer born in 2015, was acquired by ByteDance in September 2021 for billions. In the same year, according to the market research agency IDC report, Pico ranked first in the domestic market share of more than 50%.

According to a number of people familiar with the matter, as of 2021, the Pico series products have sold a total of about 500,000 units, and the team's sales target for 2022 is about one million units.

Byte's increased investment in the business is not limited to high-level job transfers. It is understood that the total number of Pico teams has risen from 200 in September 2021 to more than 300 people, which is also a business that ByteDance is about to expand its enrollment on a large scale in addition to Feishu and e-commerce.

However, although Pico ranks first in the VR market share in the domestic market, there is still a big gap with the popular products in the track. For example, Meta's VR device, the Oculus Quest 2, has sold more than 10 million units.

Some insiders said: "The technical ceiling of VR hardware is not so high, and the gap is not as difficult to make up as imagined." I don't know if the increase in bytes can hand over a good report card in the VR field.

WeChat Pay announced that it will further reduce the payment fee for small and micro merchants

Tenpay Payment Technology Co., Ltd. issued a notice saying that from September 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024, the payment fee discount will be implemented for small and micro merchants that meet the standards, and the payment fees for all payment methods and scenarios on the WeChat payment platform will be discounted by 10% on the basis of the official website published standards. Personal collection code users can participate in the fee reduction and profit reduction activities, and support change withdrawal and reduction.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Users must not be required not to download the APP without reading the full text

The era of mandatory app downloads is coming to an end.

When users browse the web, they always receive APP recommendations with frequent pop-up windows, and they can't read the full text of the App, and they can't read comments without app. In this regard, the Information and Communication Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently held an administrative guidance meeting.

Meeting requirements, as users browse the contents of a page:

First, without the user's consent or active choice, the App shall not be automatically or compulsorily downloaded; when it is recommended to download the App, it should provide obvious "cancel" options at the same time to effectively protect the user's right to know and choose.

Second, without a reasonable and legitimate reason, users must not be required not to download the App and not to read it, or not to let them read the full text.

The third is not to fold the display, active pop-up window, frequent prompts, reduce the experience and other ways to force, mislead users to download, open the App, or jump to the app store, affecting the user's normal browsing information.

In fact, as early as 2016, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Interim Provisions on the Administration of Mobile Intelligent Terminal Application Software Provisioning and Distribution", which proposed that mobile intelligent terminal application software, without explicit and with the consent of users, must not carry out acts that infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of users or endanger network security, such as collecting and using users' personal information, opening application software, bundling and promoting other application software.

In recent years, such acts have been repeatedly prohibited. In the first batch of "APP Circulars on Infringement of User Rights and Interests" in 2022 notified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, "APP compulsory, frequent and excessive requests for permissions" is still a common issue in the circular.

The rise of various types of apps has brought users a rich service experience, but the forced download of APP behavior has deeply hurt the rights and interests of users. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that it will continue to pay attention to the problems reflected by users, strengthen APP monitoring and testing, and guide and urge Internet companies to effectively safeguard the rights and interests of users.

Huawei's patent prevents being used to unlock with a face when coerced

According to the Tianyancha App, recently, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. applied for a patent for "display unlocking method and equipment".

The abstract shows that when the display is in the lock screen state and the bright screen state, the current pupil parameters of the user and the reflected light intensity of the face are obtained through the camera module; if the current pupil parameter is greater than the pupil parameter of the face unlock, the user's current micro-expression is obtained; if the user is currently in a coercive state according to the micro-expression, the preset unlock interface is displayed, and the preset unlock interface includes password unlock, fingerprint unlock, iris unlock, voice unlock and sound wave unlock at least one. This patent prevents the user from unlocking the display of the electronic device through his face when coerced.

Michelle Ice City enters Singapore and Malaysia

Michelle Ice City opened its first local stores in Singapore and Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and still focuses on the "affordable" strategy, with most products priced at less than 15 yuan. Since opening its first overseas store in Vietnam in 2018, Michelle Ice City has entered five Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia.

Realme has reached a deep cooperation with King's Glory

According to 36Kr, the mobile phone brand realme has reached in-depth cooperation with King Glory and become the chief partner of the King glory national competition, and realme will officially lay out the e-sports track.

Previously, realme officially announced that the new true I GT Neo3 will be the first to carry a 150W lightspeed second charge, and some media have exposed that the real me GT Neo3 will launch a rendering of the e-sports version, combined with the fact that realme will launch e-sports mobile phones.

Vivo responded by withdrawing the NEX business unit

Previously, according to Sina Technology, VIVO's high-end sub-brand NEX ushered in major changes, and in an internal structural adjustment in February this year, Vivo abolished the NEX business unit and its subordinate organizations.

On the afternoon of March 3, Jia Jingdong, vice president of vivo brand and general manager of brand and product strategy, responded that the original NEX series' mission of exploration and innovation of new experiences and new forms will not disappear, and will be carried by the flagship product X series.

In addition, Jia Jingdong revealed that soon vivo's X series will usher in its tenth anniversary, and the upcoming X series new product family will also present more innovations and surprises in terms of form and experience, and any expectations of NEX can be answered in the X series new products.

New York vending machines start selling NFT paintings

A special vending machine recently appeared in the Manhattan Financial District of New York City, which sells paintings in the form of non-homogeneous tokens (NFTs) instead of snacks, drinks and other common goods. Non-homogeneous token works are encrypted by blockchain technology, have a unique identity, are unique, and thus ensure that only buyers have ownership of the work.