Virtual reality boom brings giant robots, cyberpunk castles to China


  • TECH
  • Friday, 24 Nov 2017

A giant robot statue at the Oriental Science Fiction Valley theme park in Guiyang.

GUIYANG:: Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China's poorest provinces.

Welcome to China's first virtual reality theme park, which aims to ride a boom in demand for virtual entertainment that is set to propel tenfold growth in the country's virtual reality market, to hit almost US$8.5bil (RM35bil) by 2020.

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