ANTVR

Once considered one of China’s most promising hardware startups, ANTVR has just been blasted with a devastating (but questionable) report in the Chinese press.

China needs at least a few brave – and preferably well-funded – companies to kickstart its VR market, else risk falling behind.

Even though a crowdfunding campaign is growing to be a obligatory phase of every hardware startup’s lifecycle in China, it doesn’t come without its drawbacks.

We’ve all heard of Nest, Oculus Rift, Pebble, Dropcam, and SmartThings – but what are the hottest hardware startups coming out of China?

Mad Street Den uses artificial intelligence to enable any smartphone with a camera to detect facial expressions and react to them.

ANTVR was clearly designed for Asian faces with flatter noses. I could see the bottom edge of the screen, and I noticed some distortion in the periphery.

On the optics front, ANTVR uses an aspherical lens, which produces a true 4:3 display without the edge distortion produced by spherical lenses like those in the Oculus Rift.

You’ve heard of the Oculus Rift, but the ANTVR might just be better. We got a chance to sit down with the project’s founder and ask him why.

You’ve heard of the Oculus Rift, but the ANTVR might just be better. We got a chance to sit down with the project’s founder and ask him why.