Virtual host recorded the show? Microsoft Xiaoice Announces New Twin Virtual Human Digital Technology

On December 20, Xiaoice announced the new digital twin virtual reality technology and announced the first batch of virtual hosts with this technology as well as "All Jing AI TV" with Financial News. Every day.

Compared with other technologies, Xiaoice's framework not only enhances the total naturalness of virtual humans to the level indistinguishable from real humans, but also realizes the unmanned operation of the whole process of video receiving, editing and broadcasting. for the first time. Because the performance of the two virtual anchors is so close to real people, many viewers always think of a program closed by real people.

According to the published data, the leader of XiaoIce is the Microsoft XiaoIce team. On July 13 of last year, Microsoft announced that it would transform XiaoIce into an independent company.

In fact, all of Microsoft's development in the digital twins and meta-universes has been planned for a long time. ("Meta-Universe" is derived from the sci-fi concept of the new "Avalanche" and now XR (extended reality), digital twins, blockchain, and AI (intelligent intelligence).

On November 11, it was announced that Blackshark.ai, the Austrian digital twin platform that supports Microsoft's flight simulators, completed a $ 20 million A round of funding led by the capital firm. risk Microsoft M12 and Point72 Ventures. Brian McClendon, co-founder of Google Earth, and Qasar Younis, former COO of Y Combinator, join the advisory team. The new money will be used to develop and expand the technology to clone the world. Blackshark.ai has sold out the Bongfish game studio, aiming to take the high-tech world beyond the park. The basis of digital technology is to accurately convert wide 2D images to 3D images through machine learning, critical thinking, and computational capabilities. The meta world will be one of the future directions.

On November 4, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said in an interview with the European Web Summit: "All tech companies will enter the global meta, and companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple will create our own version," he said. he declared. noted. Smith thinks it's important that the hype sees the technology in the long term. I think the metaverse would be huge and very important. You need to be able to protect your privacy and digital security, and avoid inaccurate data and management. He says: We're all talking about the meta world. Looks like we are entering a new phase. But it is different from the paradise where we will go after death. We will always be with people in the real world. He called for collaboration when creating the metaverse to promote collaboration. Early news from Carbon Chain indicates that Microsoft is testing meta-world companies and plans to announce the first half of next year.

In addition, on November 19, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced at the “2021 Sequoia Digital Technology Global Leaders Summit” that he is very happy with the change and will continue to think fully to understand the picture. . Like the meta-world of innovation.

Nadella said the meta-world is moving through the physical and digital world, bringing together people, products and disciplines in business and Internet users. You might need. And in a way, the popularity of streaming video conferencing has given us extensive experience with 2D metacosm. The three-dimensional meta-world that transcends time and space is undoubtedly an important direction of development.

It should be noted that Morgan Stanley recently published a research report which assigned Microsoft (MSFT.US) a "commercial" rating. And he named Microsoft as the first choice for the software industry in 2022. Keith Weiss, analyst at Morgan Stanley, said: Has invested a lot, "said Keith Weiss, analyst at Morgan Stanley. Nadella has turned this area into a business enterprise with all strategic plans looking to the future.