Google Invests $250M to Tap HTC’s VR Expertise for Android Growth

Sunita Somvanshi

Representative Image. Boy Wearing a Black and White Virtual Reality Goggles. Jessica Lewis (Pexels).

Google is investing $250 million to bring HTC’s virtual reality experts onto its team. Think of it like bringing the creators of a popular VR headset (the HTC Vive) to help build Google’s next big tech platform.

Virtual reality lets you step into digital worlds using special headsets. Now Google wants to make these experiences work better on Android phones and devices. They’re getting help from the people who already know how to do it well.

“They are an incredibly strong technical team with a proven track record in the VR space,” Google said about HTC’s team. What makes this deal special is that Google isn’t just buying the technology – they’re bringing in the brains behind it. 

HTC isn’t going away though. Their vice president Lu Chia-te explained it clearly: “This is not a buyout. HTC will still make and improve our own VR products.” It’s more like sharing knowledge than selling the whole company.


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This matters because virtual reality is changing how we do things. The technology opens up new ways to experience and interact with digital content across different sectors like gaming and entertainment.

Google and HTC have worked together before. In 2017, Google bought part of HTC’s phone team for $1.1 billion. This new deal shows they work well together.

Dr. Emily Chen, who studies tech at Taipei University, says this helps Google compete with companies like Meta and Apple. They’re all racing to build better virtual worlds.

The deal means Google can use HTC’s VR technology, but HTC can still use it too. Both companies will keep working together to make VR better and more useful. When the deal finishes in the first quarter of this year, we might start seeing new ways to use VR on our Android devices. 

This isn’t just about gaming or entertainment. As VR technology improves, it could open up new possibilities through Google’s widespread Android platform.

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