Taiwan Tech Giant HTC Vive Hits SXSW With VR Productions and Ideas for the Future of Entertainment

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Vivienne Chow Taiwan-based tech giant HTC Vive approaches this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) event as an important milestone.

The global leader in virtual reality will be presenting two of its recent original creations that will lay the groundwork for the future gameplay of VR products in the highly anticipated Web 3.0 era.The two featured productions, “The Sick Rose” and “Beatday — The Beginning — Mini VR Concert,” pictured above, are representative of HTC Vive Originals’ future direction, said its president Liu Szu-ming.“Riding on the state-of-art VR technology, Vive Originals will continue to create entertainment experiences that have high cultural values for the metaverse.

These content outputs include film, music, animation, interactive art and performing arts,” Liu told Variety. “With the development of VR technology at the core of our development, our future creative output will incorporate elements such as interactivity, 3-D aesthetics, blockchain, encrypted information channels and AI technologies.”Pandemic-themed “The Sick Rose” is a stop-motion animated work co-directed by Tang Zhi-Zhong and Huang Yun-Hsien.

The title, which follows a sick little girl’s fantastic journey during the pandemic, debuted at the VR competition section of the Venice Film Festival last year.