2022 Virtual Beings Group China Timeline

2022 Virtual Beings Group China Timeline

2022, December - Combining virtual and real, linking to the future, the 2023 ChinaJoy digital human exhibition area is now attracting investment!
2022, December - The Rise of Virtual Influencers in China
2022, December - Autohome’s digital human “Gong Jiuyu” selected into the 2022 China Top 10 Super Realistic Virtual Human list
2022, December - SenseTime AIGC “virtual IP” live broadcast, “digital employees” help Ningbo Bank reach customers efficiently
2022, December - Leading manufacturers are expected to benefit from the standardization of “digital character” related services
2022, December - Why Meitu, China’s Adorable A.I. Anime Filter, Just Skyrocketed to the Top of International App Charts
2022, December - Zhipu AI: Let machines think like humans in the future
2022, December - Swift Zhixuan: Create virtual characters and generate videos in seconds
2022, December - Tiaoyue Intelligent raises funding for generative AI / AI digital human marketing solutions
2022, December - Live preview: “Yuanwa” virtual human productivity service platform
2022, December - AI digital human “Xiao Yi” made a wonderful appearance
2022, December - Digital Human Industry Development Trends 2023
2022, December - China’s virtual human industry in 2022: the popularity of the metaverse increases, and the commercial value of virtual characters continues to be released
2022, December - Commercial slicing of digital human beings: China Information cuts into the digital human scene of banks
2022, November - China Hi-Tech Fair spotlights how AI makes metaverse available for everyone
2022, November - Proximity Planet: Experience the real-time interaction of social and AI virtual humans in the new generation metaverse
2022, November - Internet Society of China’s “Digital Human Boutique Show” appears at iDWF Mutual Expo “Metaverse Starlight Ceremony”
2022, November - Haier Biotech enters the metaverse and releases the industry’s first smart laboratory digital human
2022, November - The virtual person “Orange Shuangshuang” made its live broadcast debut; the first national-style virtual family is here
2022, November - 2022 China 5G+ Industrial Internet Conference: staff appear on stage with an AI virtual human modeled on themselves
2022, November - The all-round virtual anchor appeared at the Hi-Tech Fair and is proficient in more than 30 languages (iFlytek “Xiaoqing”)
2022, November - Experience “Digital Humans” and feel the metaverse (2022 World VR Industry Conference perspective)
2022, November - Tuoyuan Wisdom virtual digital human debuts at Zhuhai Air Show
2022, November - Wuzhen Summit: create your own “digital human” in one second
2022, November - Dancing with the dynamism of digital humans
2022, November - Chinese AI chatbot Xiaoice bags $138m to accelerate virtual employee technology
2022, October - How to solve the problem of digital human supervision? (mentions CAICT leading digital-human standards work, incl. ITU / China Communications Standards Association)
2022, October - Sekaie and Hong Kong AI startup Pantheon Lab launch a “realistic virtual humans” service for marketing/advertising
2022, October - Press center for the 20th CPC National Congress: hyper-realistic digital human draws attention at the press center
2022, October - Ageless and scandal-proof: Chinese tech groups bank on virtual influencers
2022, October - Notice on launching the 2022 (21st) China Internet Conference “Digital People Boutique Show”
2022, October - Xinhuanet adds the concept of ‘Virtual Digital Human’
2022, September - Black technology “restores” Li Qingzhao’s appearance; face recognition experiences at cultural tourism expo / crafts conference
2022, September - Customized car avatars, intelligent sign language “translators”, “Zidong Taichu” breeds new AI scenarios in China
2022, September - Many bank “digital people" employees take up jobs
2022, September - Shanghai’s prime AR theater “VAPOLLO THEATER” has formed a partnership with Kodansha’s Mixalive TOKYO
2022, September - DAMO Academy, research division of Alibaba Group (Dong Dong / Winter Olympics virtual influencer)
2022, September - Building a Beautiful Digital Human Era – the inaugural meeting of the Digital Human Working Committee was successfully held
2022, September - (LUSTER+Zhipu AI demoed QR sign-language digital human at CIFTIS) [ Source removed from Facebook .]
2022, September - The Digital Man is here! In addition to virtual anchors, there are also these roles
2022, September - “There is no risk as an advertising model”… Where did the Chinese virtual man come from?
2022, September - Play the Metaverse in the Haidian Exhibition Area of the 2022 Service Trade Fair and feel the Internet 3.0 era
2022, September - Beijing will regulate “digital humans” in the metaverse and beyond
2022, September - Zhejiang’s CIFTIS booth in Beijing highlights metaverse tech, virtual humans, and blockchain
2022, September - The digital human industry is accelerating towards maturity
2022, September - The Zhejiang exhibition area at CIFTIS (Beijing) is set to amaze visitors by focusing on …
2022, August - Beijing city eyes US$7.5 billion virtual human industry that uses Web3 tech (SCMP link)
2022, August - Siku Media releases first virtual digital human “Lingxi” focused on national style/culture
2022, August - Virtual Digital Human TOP50 Ranking (Phase 2))
2022, August - Weibo “fancy” virtual idols but “virtual people” must be stable?
2022, August - Chinese digital actor “Chuncao” debuts; launch ceremony and strategic cooperation in Beijing (real-time cloud rendering)
2022, August - Secretary Cai Qi investigated Beijing Metaverse Application Innovation Center (Tongzhou) (industry inspection)
2022, August - Government Computer News: Beijing invests in virtual humans; city aims to invest nearly $900M to build ecosystem leveraging Web3
2022, August - Digital human seen as new growth point for digital economy; Beijing releases first domestic digital human spec/initiative
2022, August - [Exclusive] “Star Maker” Na Byung-jun comeback with ‘Mixlong’, a virtual human (Korea/China shareholder context)
2022, July - By technical classification, Virtual Humans can be divided into live-driven and compute-driven (Virtual Humans: These Undervalued Tech Stocks to Buy Now to Retire Rich)
2022, July - OXYZ3 Completes Angel Round Financing, Exclusive Investment from Next World Culture
2022, July - Who is responsible for problems with virtual idol endorsement products?
2022, July - Digital human anchors can be used at low cost! Baidu and Chuangjiang Technology jointly release a hyper-realistic digital human live broadcast platform
2022, July - Xiaomi Obtains Patent for Unique Virtual Character Creation
2022, July - Virtual idol industry attracting gold diggers
2022, July - The annual income of the head Vtuber exceeds 10 million? (Talking about the current Chinese and Japanese virtual anchor industry)
2022, July - Sequoia China Unveils Hong, A Digital Virtual Employee
2022, July - Open the post-paid model of virtual digital human business, Pingzhi Information join hands with Zhejiang Mobile to cultivate the market
2022, July - The virtual anchor joins the ‘anti-fraud’ team, and the digital human race is ‘rolled up’
2022, July - Most popular use cases of digital avatars in China
2022, June - Virtual idol “Jiuli” Dragon Boat Festival blessing video played on Shanghai Bund landmark screen
2022, May - Legal Risk Report of Virtual Digital Human Industry (Finance.Sina.com.cn link / legal & compliance discussion)
2022, April - iiMedia Research | 2022 China Virtual Human Industry Commercialization Research Report (market sizing, industry chain map reference)
2022, March - China’s first metaverse digital human accelerator launched (co-creation platform)
2022, March - Interactive dialogue with deceased relatives; “Chinese version of Coco” (ethics/social discussion)
2022, February - China will promote wide application of virtual anchors and animated sign-language presenters in broadcasting & education programming (NRTA plan cited)
2022, February - Beijing 2022: CGTN post about Plushenko interacting with Alena, a Sino-Russian complete virtual character (ahead of Winter Olympics)
2022, February - Chinese tech company develops AI coach to help athlete win at Beijing 2022
2022, February - The large-scale implementation of virtual digital humans faces three major problems (industry chain fragmentation; barriers; scenarios)
2022, February - Telecommunication Union Standardization Bureau (ITU-T) item referencing China’s communications / digital human-related standardization
2022, January - Late singer Teresa Teng ‘appears’ on stage in Chinese countdown concert
2022, January - Tencent to help Japanese companies enter the metaverse; offering virtual humans with Japanese-language capabilities
2022, January - What you need to know about China’s AI ethics rules
2022, January - Using “deepfake” technology in China may require identity verification in future: cyberspace regulator
2022, January - Rising with the metaverse, virtual human market size in China may reach $42.4 billion by 2030
2022, January - Reflections on the Ethics of Life and Death in the Age of Virtual Digital Humans in the Metaverse
2022, January - In the age of AI, humans learn to coexist with their cyber counterparts