On March 21, China Entrepreneur quoted a friend insider as saying that Luo Yonghao will completely pay off his debts next month, when he will return to the technology world and enter the consumer-facing VR industry.
Luo Yonghao will become a "signed artist" who makes friends in the future, broadcasting about dozens of shows every year, and the signing fee is about 100 million yuan.
Luo Yonghao's first new hardware is likely to be a VR device. VR equipment manufacturing difficulty is lower than AR equipment, the market has Meta Quest 2, Pico Neo 3, Valve Index and other more mature products, part of the supply chain is also vigorously developing VR equipment required related hardware, Luo Yonghao can make a VR product relatively simple.
If Luo Yonghao wants to make a relatively low-end VR product, Meta Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3 are competitors that it can't get around. Zuckerberg is currently selling meta Quest 2 at a loss in order to expand the number of users as soon as possible to attract more developers to develop applications on Meta's platform. VR devices are currently very lacking in applications, and a sound application ecosystem can attract more consumers to buy hardware products.
Apple's VR devices may be released in 2023. According to the news from the supply chain, the "transparency mode" of Apple's VR devices has done a better job, that is, the VR devices will display the images taken by the camera in real time. If users want to return to reality halfway, they can switch to "transparency mode" without frequently wearing VR glasses, which is very friendly to users wearing glasses. If Luo Yonghao wants to make high-end VR products, it is necessary to make more efforts in the "transparency mode".
Luo Yonghao will do VR/AR products at this time node, and there is a high probability that VR/AR devices will be released after Apple. Apple has a strong appeal among developers, and once Apple releases VR glasses, vr's software ecology should be much richer. After developers develop applications on the Apple platform, they will also be ported to other platforms, and the application ecology of other platforms will gradually be enriched.
Luo Yonghao will face many challenges in doing VR equipment, Meta is losing money in selling Quest 2, Pico backed by ByteDance also has money to lose money for the market, Luo Yonghao's new start-up is difficult to burn money with opponents, he must come up with enough product innovation to win the favor of consumers.