Since the beginning of this year, with the concept of "metaverse" on fire, all walks of life have begun to try to layout in this regard, although the metacosm is still not clearly and accurately defined, but the rise of new things can always bring more fresh things to ordinary people, and it is also a pleasure. As we all know, Huya is one of the leaders of domestic game live broadcasting platforms, and recently it has also begun to "rush" on the track of the meta-universe.
Recently, the live broadcast of the "Red Pink Showdown Anniversary Song Party" held jointly by Huya and "Mini World" has attracted the attention of players, and the small partners familiar with "Mini World" should know the role of Hua Xiaolou, she is the "virtual idol" in the mini world, a singer with cute looks and sweet singing. And this time, not only Hua Xiaolou appeared on the scene, but also the Huya virtual idol "Double Ponytail"!
It is reported that this is the first time that "double ponytail" appeared in the 3D digital human image of a real person, her predecessor is actually the role of the original IP "Guanbo Niang" launched by Huya as early as 2018, when "Guanbo Niang" quickly won the love of countless players with its cute "Tiger Ear" shape and the image of an e-sports girl full of vitality, and now with the improvement of live broadcast technology, she finally appeared vividly in front of netizens!
Live broadcast scene "double ponytail" and Hua Xiaolou with the same frame of the dream linkage, together with the ancient style singer "Little Qu'er", Xiao Yiqing cooperated to sing a beautiful song, during the two virtual idols also carried out game interaction, I have to say that whether it is the expression of the look, or the action tone is not much different from the real person, coupled with the super high appearance and playful and cute personality, it is difficult for people to see it and not love ah! On this night, the peak popularity of Huya live broadcast exceeded 1.12 million, and this was also the first linkage cooperation between Huya and "Mini World" based on virtual idols.
It is reported that this "double ponytail" of the debut song is not simple, her image is based on Huya's self-developed virtual real processing engine generation, the engine not only has 3D rendering capabilities, but also can achieve AR interaction and other functions through scripting; and her live interaction is achieved with the help of Huya's self-developed limb drive and expression capture system, coupled with the newly developed Unreal Engine rendering technology scheme, real-time virtual and real synthesis, there is such a vivid, playful and real "double ponytail".
I have to say that the development of Huya in the field of live broadcasting in recent years is indeed very advanced, in addition to the vigorous development of e-sports, games, and public welfare live broadcasting, live broadcast technology is also constantly iterating. As early as August this year, Huya launched the "all-round 3D avatar AI-driven" program, where anchors only need to use simple mobile devices to achieve live broadcasting of virtual images, which greatly reduces the threshold for high-quality content production.
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It is not difficult to foresee that the future live broadcast will become more and more diversified, and Huya also admitted that the follow-up will increase the development and operation of virtual idol IP, create high-quality IP content at the same time will continue to optimize face capture, motion capture, speech synthesis and other live broadcast technology, so that virtual idols become more real, you wait and see!