The mobile Internet company’s investment vehicle has quietly backed more than 40 companies since launching in late 2013 and will focus on virtual reality and health care going forward, VentureWire has learned.

“We want to get into virtual reality,” DeNA Venture Capital Group Principal James Riney said. “It’s a good fit for DeNA because obviously there’s the gaming angle.”

“Virtual reality is going to be mainstream in two to three years,” said Mr. Riney, adding that he expects to first see chat VR applications like Showroom gain popularity.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/03/20/new-nintendo-partner-dena-has-venture-arm-to-back-virtual-reality-startups/?mod=yahoo_hs

Will this have any effect on Nintendo ? Any theories ?

That's a misleading title if I've ever seen one.

Hmm whats the difference to the article title. I just made it shorter. So it has a Venture Arm to back Virtual Reality Startups.

Hm, this has nothing to do with Nintendo...DeNA is still its own thing.

So will everything that DeNA does now be linked to back Nintendo even though it's not? I mean DeNA is its own thing so if they do something, that really doesn't mean that Nintendo has anything care worthy to do with it

What I will say is this ... Miyamoto seemed to hedge on the VR issue a bit. At E3 last year he said while the tech was interesting he didn't like the alienating/non-inclusive (Nintendo believes in the family gathering around the TV to play) aspects of VR. 

But a few months later, Nintendo patented head tracking glasses, while not exactly VR ... it sort of was a step in that direction.

When asked about VR again last October (more recently), Miyamoto was curiously less talkative ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11201171/nintendo-super-mario-pikmin-tokyo-film-festival-mandarin-oriental-tokyo-sega-mario-kart-zelda-wii-oculus-rift.html

What next? At the mention of the rise of Oculus Rift, Miyamoto looks guarded: he likes the idea of virtual reality, and previously experimented with the technology in 1995, with the Virtual Boy, but was worried by the manner in which players hunched over the apparatus: “It didn’t look beautiful to me,” he says, “which was something of a concern.”

As to whether Nintendo are developing a more elegant version of the technology, his lips are presently sealed. “I have nothing to tell you about Nintendo’s involvement in virtual reality. We have nothing to announce yet,” he says.

The we have nothing to announce ... yet part kinda stuck out as interesting. Maybe they are working on something VR related, though this DeNA thing may have nothing to do with it. Then again ...

This doesn't mean for sure that Nintendo will jump in, because this is DeNA..

The title could have been shortened further to not include "Nintendo Partner"

This doesn't seem to directly involve Nintendo in any way.

For some time now I think one of possibilities for next Nintendo home console is them trying to pull another Wii - one of the paths might be console with 3-4x WiiU power + VR glasses for $250.