On December 21, vivo held an open day in the vivo parlor at its global headquarters in Dongguan. Hu Baishan, executive vice president and chief operating officer of vivo, talked about his views on the current economic environment at the scene, and Hu Baishan believes that smartphones are still a good industry and will continue to recover next year.
According to the data released by vivo, vivo currently has 7 major R&D centers around the world, with more than 13,000 R&D personnel, accounting for 75% of the company's total headcount, with an average increase of 20% in R&D investment in the past three years, more than 40,000 patent applications, and more than 400 industry technical standards.
According to reports, the technology brand "Blue Technology" released by vivo in 2023 is based on a user-oriented innovation system, which collaborates with the industrial chain to achieve a number of technological breakthroughs in vivo's long track.
At the scene, Hu Baishan also shared several directions of future technology, one is a humanoid robot, the other is MR, the technology is expected to be productized within three years, and said that vivo is laying out these two tracks.
It is reported that vivo takes user experience as the core, uses the market to feed back technology, participates more in technology development in advance, invests a lot of money and manpower from the demand stage, and adheres to long-term joint research and development with industry chain partners to promote technological progress and popularization, lead the progress of industry standards, and promote industrial collaborative innovation.