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Coronavirus Impact on VR Goods from China

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
Just wondering what people's thoughts are on this with regards to products made in China. Things like the Valve Index and Pimax headsets are manufactured in this country not sure about Rift. Does the current lock-down mean delays in these and many other goods coming from the region especially after CNY. Not so much for fear of spreading the virus as that's virtually impossible but delays due to the restrictions on the workforce? Any ideas?


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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Well the virus has caused a major impact against the VR scene - this show was to have seen launches of a number of new systems held off showing at CES:

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https://www.cnet.com/news/gsma-officially-cancels-mwc-2020-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/?ftag=COS-05-10...
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

TomCgcmfc
MVP
MVP
Very sad, I was looking forward to hearing about new VR developments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51474116

i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 32Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers

Zenbane
MVP
MVP
Coronavirus has come to my State! Only a matter of time before it tries to infiltrate Casa Grayskull.

Lblnc
Honored Guest
I order an oqulus quest on January 4th and today i received a mail saying my order is in process to be shipping , in the page my shipping date is feb 28 so i hope i get it soon. 

Anonymous
Not applicable
Over here in the UK people have started to call it the Kung Flu lol ???

TomCgcmfc
MVP
MVP
Our April/2020 cruise around Japan with Celebrity cruises got cancelled yesterday (full refund plus 25% discount on any future Celebrity cruises).  They are cancelling their remaining 2020 Asian cruise season and redeploying their ships to the west coast of North America.  I hope they don't bring any stowaway bugs with them, lol!
i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 32Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers

Anonymous
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I heard someone on the radio the other day saying they had booked a cruise to that part of the world and the travel agents wouldn't give them a refund for cancelling it. They didn't have any luck with ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) either surprisingly.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary

snowdog said:

I heard someone on the radio the other day saying they had booked a cruise to that part of the world and the travel agents wouldn't give them a refund for cancelling it. They didn't have any luck with ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) either surprisingly.



Yeah, that was Radio 4 - they (ABTA) have now reversed previous decisions! They are already getting a major black-eye, no need to make it worse!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959