Shanghai Oriental Media Technology (SMT)
- Registered name
- 上海东方传媒技术有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
913101171322121520registered in Shanghai 上海- Website
- 东方传媒技术 (Official)
- SMGTECH (Official)
State media anchors · Capture systems
Shanghai Oriental Media Technology (上海东方传媒技术有限公司, SMT), the technology company of Shanghai Media Group, builds digital humans through its Ziwu Studio (子午工作室).
With SMG’s integrated media centre it developed Shen Yiya (申䒕雅), SMG’s virtual news anchor, which began as a cartoon presenter in 2020 and became a hyper-real 3D anchor reporting from the 2022 National People’s Congress sessions, built with motion and facial capture. Its other work includes Dragon TV’s virtual host Dongfang Ai (东方嫒), a high-fidelity digital human of the writer Lu Xun, and the digital guide Dudu for Shanghai International Automobile City.
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