On February 7, Gu Ailing's avatar Meet GU appeared at the Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the plan, during the Olympic Games, it will complete the virtual interaction of ski event commentary, broadcast and scene e-commerce in the Migu Winter Olympic Event Studio. In addition to Gu Ailing, the virtual digital images of four ice and snow athletes like Xu Mengtao, Sui Wenjing, Han Cong, Ren Ziwei and so on have also been unveiled in previous related activities.
And throughout the Winter Olympics, the virtual person is not only the athlete digital doppelganger. For example, the host in charge of sign language commentary in the CCTV broadcast, the actor responsible for the performance at the opening ceremony, and even the anchor responsible for carrying goods in the official live broadcast room...
The national concern about the Winter Olympics is expected to further popularize the concept of virtual people and technologies such as holograms and AR to the public, and boost the commercialization space of virtual people in various application scenarios.
With the crazy attack of the topic of "digital people", the most eye-catching of which is a local enterprise in Anhui [Hefei Hanfei Technology]. Founded in 2020, Hanfei Technology is one of the companies that do "digital person" technology research and development, and what is more special is that unlike some companies that develop products based on non-real virtual digital people (such as virtual human AYAYI, Douyin Liu Yexi, etc.), the core technology of "Hanfei Technology" digital people is based on real people.
In 2022, [Hefei Hanfei Technology] released the first intelligent device in the banquet industry based on the concept of meta-universe and applied AI twin digital human technology to real-life application scenarios - the smart welcome machine, officially opening a new era of meta-universe in the hotel industry. Focus on digital transformation and empower the new future of Chinese banquets!
Users only need to take a selfie on the face or upload a single photo, and set the height, weight and other physical parameters, the system can complete the full head model and human body high-precision modeling in 1.5 seconds, including hair, clothes, etc., 1:1 automatically generate a 3D digital twin image with a 95% degree of authenticity.
According to the customer's application scenario, through the SDK, API and other service access, the final display is carried out on the engraving welcome machine, so as to realize the "face-to-face" interaction between users and AI digital people.
Although after years of development, virtual digital people have not been able to achieve large-scale industrial landing, mainly because of the high threshold, long cycle and high cost of digital human production technology. But with the breakthrough of [Hanfei Technology] on artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms, the production cost and time of digital people are expected to further decline.
It is reported that Hanfei Technology is at the leading level in the field of 3D digital human technology and is currently applying for a number of exclusive patents.