An attendee wears a Lenovo Group Ltd. augmented reality (AR) headset at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg
An attendee wears a Lenovo Group Ltd. augmented reality (AR) headset at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg
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Inside China Tech: We thought VR was just hype till we tried Sandbox VR (Trailer)

  • Next episode on ICT, we try Sandbox VR games and learn about how Steve Zhao, CEO of Sandbox VR, staked his life savings to create a real-life holodeck

Zen SooYang Yang
Zen Soo and Yang Yang

Updated: 3:55pm, 15 Jul, 2019

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An attendee wears a Lenovo Group Ltd. augmented reality (AR) headset at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg
An attendee wears a Lenovo Group Ltd. augmented reality (AR) headset at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27, 2018. Photo: Bloomberg

 

In our next episode of Inside China Tech, technology reporter Zen Soo gets her mind blown by Sandbox VR games and learns about its start-up story. Steve Zhao, CEO of Sandbox VR, tells her how he risked his life savings for 10 years to pull his VR gaming company from the brink of shutting down, and created a real-life Holodeck.

This episode will come out on July 22nd. Listen and subscribe on Spotify, iTunes, and Stitcher.

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Zen Soo

Zen Soo

Zen Soo worked at the Post from 2015 until 2019. She covered China technology, in particular e-commerce, online to offline and mobile payments. She also wrote about Southeast Asian tech companies.

Yang Yang

Yang Yang

Yang Yang was a podcast producer at the Post from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Post in 2019, Yang was a TV producer and editor for 2M Media Group in Washington, where she produced mini-documentaries and studio interviews.