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Chinese tech giants Tencent, Huawei team up to develop mobile cloud gaming platform, explore AR and VR in games
- Huawei and Tencent will set up a game development lab exploring the use of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud gaming, AI, VR and AR in the game industry
- Cloud gaming is one of the hottest areas in the industry, allowing players to stream games just like they would a movie
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Two of China's biggest tech giants are working together on one of the hottest emerging areas in mobile entertainment – cloud gaming.
Under the collaboration announced at the live-streamed Huawei Developer Conference 2020 on Friday, Huawei Technologies and Tencent Holdings will jointly set up a game development lab exploring the use of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud gaming, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in the game industry.
One of the key projects will be to tap the computing power of Huawei’s Kunpeng processor to jointly develop Tencent’s GameMatrix cloud gaming platform into an “industry-leading, high-quality and low-cost mobile cloud gaming solution”, Tencent wrote in a post on WeChat.
In addition, the lab will work on ways to optimise game engine features, rendering, and power consumption, jointly develop new chip features and debugging tools and apply technologies such as AI, VR and AR to create new gameplay formats, according to the post.
Tencent already runs the world's biggest video games business by revenue, but gaming is a relatively new field for telecoms giant Huawei, which has been pushing for its own app ecosystem for its smartphones after being cut off from Google under a US trade ban.
“For Tencent, the cooperation on the one hand shows its support of the home-grown Kunpeng industrial ecosystem and on the other hand, gives players using Huawei smartphones access to its cloud games,” said Wen Hao, an analyst form Tianfeng Securities.
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