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REDSTAR Hangzhou May 2019

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CULTURE // 广 告 • 文 化<br />

FXG VIRTUAL REALITY:<br />

CAPTURING AND<br />

CREATING REALITIES<br />

IN HANGZHOU AND<br />

AROUND THE GLOBE<br />

By Kyla Robertson<br />

Picture an emergency scene at a<br />

hospital where time-pressed doctors<br />

are waiting by the ambulance<br />

loading area for an incoming patient,<br />

each second a doctor spends waiting is<br />

invaluable. Imagine the difference it could<br />

make for the patient if a doctor were able<br />

to spend this precious time, waiting for the<br />

patient’s arrival, wearing a Virtual Reality<br />

(VR) headset with a 360-degree live stream<br />

video of the inside of the ambulance.<br />

This transformative technology exists<br />

and <strong>Hangzhou</strong>-based VR company, FXG,<br />

is bringing concepts like this to fruition.<br />

FXG was founded two years ago and has<br />

grown to include almost 30 employees<br />

in both their <strong>Hangzhou</strong> office and US<br />

subsidiary. Occupying three different<br />

office spaces within their incubator in<br />

Dream Town, FXG creates VR content as<br />

26 redstarhangzhou.com

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