Digital humans have long been considered the entrance to the metaverse.
The development of digital humans
From the Japanese media in the 80s of the 20th century because Lin Mingmei proposed the concept of 1.0 paper man "virtual idol", to the emergence of "Hatsune Miku" in the virtual digital human 2.0 stage, and then to the 3.0 digital person "Liu Yexi" who is now popular overnight. The virtual digital human industry chain has gradually matured, forming a complete virtual digital human industry chain composed of upstream production and rendering tools, midstream virtual human driving and operation, and downstream scene applications.
The maturity of the industrial chain has spawned low-cost digital human application software, and many price-sensitive small and medium-sized enterprises, even individuals, have begun to try to customize a "digital twin" for themselves.
Industry Empowerment Center
Yancheng is the first Baidu Intelligent Cloud digital human industrial base in China built by Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Yigao Intelligent in Yan, the project is led by Baidu Intelligent Cloud, and Yigao Intelligent operates to provide technical support, ecological construction and industrial empowerment for the park. The two sides jointly build an integrated industrial base integrating "service platform + carrier space + service system", and strive to build an innovation ecological chain of Yancheng's digital human industry from large enterprises to small enterprises, which has played a good role in accelerating the growth of innovative enterprises in the base.
What is the Xiling platform?
Baidu Intelligent Cloud has been developing and advancing in the metaverse digital human track, with a hyper-realistic digital human service platform, and the Xiling platform has also been deployed by Baidu Intelligent Cloud in the Yancheng Metaverse Digital Human Industry Base to help relevant enterprises in the base create a hyper-realistic virtual digital human image. Xiling platform is a full-scenario platform product integrating digital human production, content creation, and business configuration services, which can realize the construction of multi-scenario applications such as "listening, speaking, understanding and interacting" of virtual digital humans through the four engines of "portrait driven, intelligent dialogue, voice interaction, and intelligent recommendation". It is a platform-level product that has both performing arts digital human and service digital human.
'Virtual doppelganger'" metaverse ideal
For the metaverse-related enterprises settled in the park, there is not only the technical support of Baidu Intelligent Cloud, the operation services of Yigao Intelligence, but also the high support of the settled enterprises in Yannan High-tech Zone, and a number of investment promotion policies and talent policies, which greatly reduce the start-up costs of the settled enterprises in the park. Bring more outstanding enterprises and peers to the digital human industry, learn from each other, grow together, and accelerate the realization of the metaverse ideal of "everyone has a 'virtual avatar'".