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WATCH: Virtual reality gaming arcades springing up across China

Agence France-Presse
April 9, 2019 | 6:46pm
WATCH: Virtual reality gaming arcades springing up across China
In this photo taken on February 13, 2019, a woman plays a video game using a virtual-reality headset at an arcade in Shanghai.
AFP/Matthew Knight

SHANGHAI, China — Virtual reality (VR) gaming arcades are springing up across China attracting new gamers in a test of whether the expensive technology can go mainstream.

China had an estimated 3,000 VR arcades in 2016, and the market is forecast to grow 13-fold from 2016-2021 to amount to 782 million USD, according to a joint report by iResearch Consulting Group and Greenlight Insights. 

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