O cold water bath in Pico, a division of Bytedance dedicated to the development of hardware and metaverse solutions, comes after another Chinese technology giant, Tencent, admitted problems with the current market situation. In theory, shortly after the launch of Pico, Bytedance reported optimism with the virtual reality market, as months after the initiative the company captured 15% of the headset market in Asia. At the time, Pico CEO Henry Zhou said he expected to sell more than a million units of the brand's headset.
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The ambition remains, but the strategy must change. With this new series of cuts and the discredit with the moment of the metaverse, the owner of TikTok could lose even more market share to Meta in the virtual reality scenario, even with all the difficulties, the North American company is still at the forefront of the economy metaversonic.
It is worth remembering that layoffs do not just happen in the Asian scenario. We have already reported on Newsverse than other North American giants, such as Meta and Microsoft are having trouble sustaining their metaverse plans.