Dawa Future
- Chinese name
- 达瓦未来
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 达瓦未来(重庆)影像科技有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
91500118MA5YWMHK3Tregistered in Chongqing 重庆- 7317182034
Hyperreal and film-grade studios
Dawa Future (达瓦未来(重庆)影像科技有限公司), registered in Chongqing’s Yongchuan district and formerly named Chongqing Hengtai Haoyu Software Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆恒泰浩宇软件科技有限公司), is a digital imaging company led by its founder and chief executive Lu Qi (卢琪), a recipient of the China Youth May Fourth Medal. Lu Qi first set up the business in Beijing as Dawa Future (Beijing) Imaging Technology Co., Ltd. (达瓦未来(北京)影像科技有限公司), which runs the idawa.cn platform, before basing it in Yongchuan.
On 16 December 2019 the Chongqing company released what it presented as China’s first real-time digital human: a virtual character with a face entirely different from the performer’s, which speaks and moves as the performer does, at the same moment. Its other work includes virtual production for film and television, among it the virtual shooting for the film The Battle at Lake Changjin (长津湖), and simulation systems used for the 2019 National Day parade.