[1]China’s Alibaba online retail giant told China Daily [2] that it is developing virtual-reality-enabled mobile payment technology, which could allow users to pay bills in a 3-D virtual world by nodding their heads or making other gestures to log in payment accounts. Read the full story here [2].
The company. which is known as China’s Amazon, has also unveiled its Buy+ virtual shopping platform last weekend in Shanghai. Read the CNBC story here [3].
And, yesterday, Alibaba followed up with the announcement of a partnership with HTC [4]Â that will lead to the use of more cloud computing for virtual reality applications. HTC makes the high-end HTC Vive virtual reality headset.
Watch a video preview of the Buy+ platform below (in Chinese):
In May [5], Alibaba teamed up with P&G China on the “VR Boy Friend†and “VR Girl Friendâ€Â apps which feature popular young Chinese actors Yang Yang [6] and Dilireba [7] and virtual shopping for P&G Rejoice products.