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NEW Device!!! WiMi HoloVR / FCC ID: 2AXW3-HOVRL1
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WIMI produces REAL future products!!
WIMI is NOT a FAKE company!!
My appeal to ALL silent and active members of this forum is:
Please publish your personal opinion regarding WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc (WIMI).
Thanks in advance for your ACTIVE releases on WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc (WIMI).
Date Filed: January 24, 2022
FCC ID: 2AXW3-HOVRL1
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@ 'MuskVoice FCC.reports of Beijing WiMi Hologram Cloud Software Co., Ltd.
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https://fcc.report/company/Beijing-Wimi-Hologram-Cloud-Software-Co-L-T-D
Date Filed: April 11, 2020
FCC ID: 2AXW3-WMH0D3
is a Portable Media Player
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is a HoloAR HUD
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Formular SC 13G/A Sensefuture Holdings Ltd
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https://sec.report/Document/0001213900-22-003172/
Published: 2022-01-24 06:14:56-05:00
Submitted: 2022-01-24
Filing Agent: CIK: 0001213900
Please read the FULL REPORT at:
https://sec.report/Document/0001213900-22-003172/
Form 6-K Wimi Hologram Cloud Inc.
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https://sec.report/Document/0001213900-22-003356/
Published: 2022-01-24 17:00:05-05:00
Submitted: 2022-01-24
Filing Agent: CIK: 0001213900
Please read the FULL REPORT at:
https://sec.report/Document/0001213900-22-003356/
CloudMD Announces Update on VisionPros.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudmd-announces-visionpros-120000340.html
Mon, January 24, 2022, 1:00 PM
CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (TSXV: DOC, OTCQX: DOCRF, Frankfurt: 6PH), a healthcare technology company transforming the delivery of care, is providing an update on its subsidiary, VisionPros, which was acquired on June 23, 2021. The Company has been advised of claims from certain suppliers to VisionPros for the repayment of rebates and reassessments for approximately $3.73 million (the “Claims”). The Claims arise from violations of existing distribution agreements VisionPros has with these suppliers and are in relation to the business conducted by VisionPros prior to its acquisition by CloudMD. The Company has strong relationships with these suppliers and is working cooperatively with them to assess the Claims and to negotiate the terms of new distribution agreements.
CloudMD’s Board of Directors has authorized the Audit Committee to conduct a comprehensive review of the Claims and the business of VisionPros. In connection with that review, the Audit Committee will consider, among other things, the amount of goodwill for this acquisition that will be reflected in the Company’s annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021.
The Audit Committee will also review and assess the avenues available to the Company for recovery against the former owners of VisionPros in connection with the Claims, which would be in addition to the indemnification holdback of 1,090,909 shares and $3 million of cash as provided in the definitive agreement for the acquisition.
The Audit Committee has commenced its review and the Company will make further announcements as appropriate.
About CloudMD Software & Services
CloudMD is transforming the delivery of healthcare using technology and by providing a patient-centric approach, with an emphasis on continuity of care. By leveraging healthcare technology, the Company is building one, connected platform that addresses all points of a patient’s healthcare journey and provides better access to care and improved outcomes. Through CloudMD’s proprietary technology, the Company delivers quality healthcare through a holistic offering including hybrid primary care clinics, specialist care, telemedicine, mental health support, healthcare navigation, educational resources, and artificial intelligence (AI). CloudMD’s business is separated into three main divisions: Clinics and Pharmacies, Digital Solution and Enterprise Health Solutions, the Company’s fastest growing division. CloudMD’s Enterprise Health Solutions Division has built a leading employer healthcare solutions, including its Comprehensive Integrated Health Services Platform, which offers one comprehensive, digitally connected platform for educational institutions, corporations, insurers, and advisors to better manage the health and wellness of their students, employees, and customers.
CloudMD currently services a combined ecosystem of over 7,000 psychiatrists, approximately 4,500 therapists and counsellors, approximately 4,000 psychologists, over 22,000 family physicians, over 34,000 medical specialists, over 1,500 allied health professionals, over 500 clinics, and over 5 million individuals across North America.
For more information visit:
https://investors.cloudmd.ca/
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“Dr. Essam Hamza, MD"
Chief Executive Officer
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
Julia Becker
VP, Investor Relations
julia@cloudmd.ca
(604)785-0850
Financial Calendar 2022
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https://news.cision.com/artificial-solutions-international-ab/r/financial-calendar-2022,c3489577
THU, JAN 20, 2022 14:28 CET
Artificial Solutions® (SSME:ASAI) communicates planned financial reporting dates 2022.
Interim Reports
Fourth Quarter 2021 – February 17, 2022
First Quarter 2022 – April 29, 2022
Second Quarter 2022 – August 17, 2022
Third Quarter 2022 – October 26, 2022
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
AGM will be held on May 30, 2022. Exact time will be communicated in the notice for the AGM.
Reporting Language
With start with the fourth quarter 2021 interim report, Artificial Solutions will only provide financial reporting in the English language. Previously, the company has provided interim reports in both Swedish and English.
For further information, please contact:
Fredrik Törgren, CFO, Artificial Solutions
Telephone: +46 (0)70 355 08 29
e-Mail: fredrik.torgren@artificial-solutions.com
Artificial Solutions’ patents valued to 1,6 Billion SEK.
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https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/artificial-solutions-patents-valued-to-16-billion-sek
January 17, 2022
Artificial Solutions International AB
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/
has invested significant amounts in R&D and in patenting its unique technology in Natural Language Interaction (NLI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies in recent years.
An updated intellectual property valuation analysis by OxFirst Ltd. shows that the valuation has risen to over SEK 1,6 billion, up from SEK 1,4 billion in 2019.
The patents are cited by some of the most influential companies in the Conversational AI space, including Apple, Nuance, Google and IBM, confirming Artificial Solutions as a leading innovator in the Conversational AI sector.
A cited citation is also referred to as a forward citation.
“Our technology is used by world leading companies to create the best customer experiences possible in a plethora of languages. We power the largest multilingual Conversational AI-project in Europe and our clients achieve outstanding customer loyalty scores with higher levels of automation they originally thought possible” says Per Ottosson, CEO of Artificial Solutions.
Artificial Solutions has significantly more forward citations than the average peer in Software (305 vs. 33). Forward citations indicate that newer patents acknowledge the importance of a foundational patent in the space.
The valuation considers how the scope and influence of Artificial Solutions´ intellectual property has expanded and bases its conclusion on the patents overall market opportunity combined with the potential opportunities in the Conversational AI market.
Our patents cited by Apple, Nuance, Google and IBM are key components within Artificial Solutions platform, Teneo
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/teneo
to develop bots and conversational IVR’s. With Artificial Solutions customers can add Teneo to any existing conversational AI development and expand with functionality, such as any of Teneo´s 86 languages.
The product is delivered as a Cloud based SaaS service to global businesses such as Telefonica Germany, HelloFresh, AT&T, Medtronic and Škoda, part of Volkswagen Group.
FCC ID of WIMI HoloAR Lens is 2AXW3-HOARL1
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FCC ID: 2AXW3-HOARL1
Beijing WiMi Hologram Cloud Software Co., Ltd.
Room#816, 8th Floor, Building 6, Yard 49 Badaodai Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, N/A N/A China
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WiMi HoloAR Lens Approved by the Federal Communications Commission to Enter the U.S. Market.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wimi-holoar-lens-approved-federal-130000353.html
Thu, January 20, 2022, 2:00 PM
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (Nasdaq: WIMI), a leading holographic AR application technology provider in global, today announced that its Augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD) product for the consumer market, "WIMI HoloAR Lens" has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission to enter the U.S. market.
"WIMI HoloAR Lens" approved by the Federal Communications Commission, is the first split glasses compatible with 6DOF spatial positioning scheme with dual cameras at home and abroad, which is conducive to rich use scenarios of spatial interaction. Holographic AR technology has been upgraded for multi-scene interaction applications such as spatial interaction and spatial positioning. More support for Metaverse multi-application development and user experience. "WIMI HoloAR Lens" has better product parameters than similar products, and is a more humanized and easy to wear AR projection display device. The WIMI HoloAR Lens can be expanded and connected to PCS, drones, Android and IOS smart phones. It is portable and mobile intelligent display device in multiple scenarios.
Compared with the 30-55 degree visual Angle in the industry, the product has a larger visual angle of 63 degrees, which greatly enhances the product's sense of visual immersion. The product can reach 10 meters 600 inches of huge screen display effect, 1920*1080p HIGH-DEFINITION display screen, 50,000/1 contrast, and 80 million full color, 1800Nit high brightness screen, 90Hz high refresh rate, so that users get more clear and realistic display effect; The whole machine is only 78G, the sense of pressure on the customer's face is very low, comfortable to wear, suitable for daily travel, high-speed rail, plane, subway, outdoor virtual communication and video conference; Also suitable for family fitness, family education and many other scenes; The optical program integrates the refractive error adjustment of 0-500 degrees, so that the virtual image can be seen clearly without the addition of myopia lens. The product has the strong advantage of expansion and upgrade. It can be equipped with 6DOF interactive scenes with dual controllers, open the entertainment application scenes of the product, and realize full stack support for Steam games. It is expected to be the main entry point for metaverse holographic AR's new technology in communication, social and entertainment interaction.
Shi Shuo, CEO of WiMi, said, "WIMI HoloAR Lens, an augmented reality (AR) headset display (HMD) product, has been approved by the FEDERAL Communications Commission to enter the US market and will be widely used in virtual social, virtual entertainment, virtual education, virtual communication and other fields.
In the first half of 2021, our global operating revenue increased approximately 202.2% year on year, our gross profit increased 189.8% year on year, our net profit increased 40.3% year on year, and our R&D expenses increased 463.6% year on year. We invested heavily in r&d to maintain our competitive edge in the Metaverse and holographic AR industries. With the widespread adoption of Metaverse, the holographic cloud industry in which WIMI is located will see explosive growth. We will continue to create long-term value for the company's shareholders by taking advantage of the growth opportunities in the Metaverse market and continuing to improve our Metaverse product matrix and expand our Metaverse market share."
About WIMI Hologram Cloud
WIMI Hologram Cloud, Inc.(NASDAQ: WIMI) was founded in 2015, which is a holographic cloud comprehensive technical solution provider that focuses on professional areas including holographic AR automotive HUD software, 3D holographic pulse LiDAR, head-mounted light field holographic equipment,holographic semiconductor, holographic cloud software, holographic car navigation,metaverse holographic AR and VR equipment, metaverse holographic cloud software and others. Its services and holographic AR technologies include holographic AR automotive application, 3D holographic pulse LiDAR technology, holographic vision semiconductor technology, holographic software development, holographic AR advertising technology, holographic AR entertainment technology, holographic ARSDK payment, interactive holographic virtual communication, metaverse holographic AR technology, metaverse virtual cloud service,and other holographic AR technologies.
WIMI accelerates the deployment of holographic communications, leading the digitalization of smart cities.
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https://t.cj.sina.com.cn/articles/view/7462728370/1bcd032b2001019a6h?from=tech&subch=telecom
January 20, 2022 15:05Smile and talk about technology
So far, more than 1,000 smart cities have been launched or under construction in the world, and Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea are the leading regions of smart cities. From a global perspective, the market size of smart city-related industries is expected to increase from US$424.68 billion in 2018 to US$1,201.69 billion in 2022, with a compound annual growth rate of 23.1%. In terms of the number of smart cities built in China, more than 500 pilot cities have taken the lead, and a number of smart city clusters such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta have been formed.
The construction of smart cities has a high proportion of informatization and strong demand. More than 500 cities have clearly stated in the government work report or the "13th Five-Year Plan", or are building smart cities. It can be seen that the smart city market is very large, and its potential will be released in the "13th Five-Year Plan". At the same time, urban construction was reiterated in the "14th Five-Year Plan". In the field of life services, promote the application of information technology in life services, transportation and other fields, and enhance the construction of smart cities.
As one of the new infrastructure constructions, smart city construction is an advanced form of future urban development and an inevitable product of the development of the times. With the rapid development of new generation information technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, smart cities will also enter a new stage of development. . Smart city construction is guided by market demand, actively focuses on urban scenarios and specific problems in urban development, and uses digital transformation to support stable economic and social operation, efficient and coordinated government operation, and high-quality development of enterprises.
As the construction of smart cities has entered a new stage of development, the construction of smart cities in my country has formed an overall construction pattern that blooms everywhere. The value of intelligence to the city has derived a scientific methodology including top-level planning and basic transformation. Smart city management, smart transportation, smart security, and smart medical care are the key directions of current smart city investment. Where will the east wind of smart cities blow in 2022? This may be a hot topic that many people are concerned about.
From the perspective of the development of urban governance itself, improving a city's digital governance capability is undoubtedly the most critical aspect of urban governance's modernization. WiMi Holographic (WIMI.US), which is deeply involved in smart city technology, supports digital transformation through innovative holographic communication technologies and solutions, and gives its own judgment.
When it comes to smart city participants, the "giants" such as Alibaba and Tencent are often the most focused. They either have unique innate advantages in the field of infrastructure, or they have huge Internet traffic. Why can WIMI become the mainstay? Today, 5G goes hand in hand with cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. The deep integration of 5G and these technologies is expected to form a new basic pattern and promote more new applications to become a reality.
In the process of smart city construction, the storage space and computing power of terminal equipment will be limited. The "smart" part of WIMI is that it has been able to continue to innovate on the industrial road of 5G, XR and artificial intelligence for many years, relying on the leading advantages of 5G, XR, AR cloud navigation, cloud rendering and other technologies, and thus formed a "5G cloud-edge collaboration +" smart city ecological strategy.
Due to the change of 5G communication network bandwidth, holographic communication gradually shows incomparable advantages, and high-end holographic applications are gradually applied to social media, communication, navigation and other application scenarios. WIMI Holographic Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications will be deeply integrated with 5G, ensuring the holographic AR remote communication and data transmission without jamming, as well as multi-terminal remote collaboration, enabling cloud + cloud collaboration collaboration is more efficient.
In the construction of the smart city, WIMI combines the 5G smart system for real-time scanning and spatial map collection, and builds a smart city digital twin map with full cloud storage and processing, and realizes cloud storage, cloud processing and updating. Ultra-large-scale map data can be created in the cloud and interacted with terminals. High-precision positioning and path planning can be achieved while building digital twin scenarios. Combined with 5G network and cloud-edge collaborative processing, it can fully support various complex road conditions. So as to promote the construction and development of smart cities.
In addition, smart cities in the era of big data are significantly different from traditional smart cities. In terms of platform layer, traditional smart cities are mostly display-based, lacking the integration and sharing of underlying data; smart cities in the era of big data propose the construction of a city-level general platform to integrate information, with underlying data support and strong basic guarantees. WIMI has IoT capabilities, AI big data capabilities, algorithm capabilities and digital twin capabilities, and is also the capability base for smart cities.
Smart city is a definite and huge market, just as in the metaverse conception, at present, many cities around the world have also formulated development strategies for the city metaverse. For example, South Korea proposed the "Metaverse Seoul Five-Year Plan": to achieve full coverage of 5G signals by 2022, and to create "a coexisting city, a global leader, a safe city and a future emotional city".
Coincidentally, 8 cities and regional governments in China have proposed to build a metaverse city, covering cultural tourism, street management, urban services and other fields. WIMI combines the application scenarios it is good at, and refines and summarizes the exploration and practice of smart cities, involving content from multiple dimensions such as capability systems and industry cases, providing peers with a paradigm that can be used for reference.
To a certain extent, WIMI has played the role of leading the outline and provided a feasible idea for the breakthrough of smart cities. The investment scale of smart cities in China is huge. In the future, with the development of smart cities and the penetration and application of new-generation information technology in the field of people's livelihood, the investment in informatization and intelligent construction related to smart people's livelihood will further increase, and the corresponding market scale will gradually expand.
The contracted sales of DIT Group surged by 119% in 2021.
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http://dit.aconnect.com.hk/document/press/pressEN_220119.pdf
19 January 2022, Hong Kong
DIT Group Limited (“DIT” or the “Group”, SEHK stock code: 726), an innovative high-tech company specializing businesses in the whole value chain of prefabricated construction (“PC”) in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), is pleased to announce that the Group has a significant improvement in its operating results in 2021. The Group’s contracted sales increased by approximately 119% from approximately RMB2.601 billion for the year ended 31 December 2020 to approximately RMB4.669 billion for the year ended 31 December 2021.
The growth in contracted sales, production volume and sales volume is mainly attributed to an increasing demand in the prefabricated construction industry driven by the accelerated implementation of carbon neutrality policy across the country, the rapid rise in the production capacity of the Group’s PC components and better economies of scale, as well as the excellent business service ability in the whole industry chain and brand advantages that have been continuously recognized by the market and customers.
DIT Group’s chief executive officer and executive director Guo Weiqiang said, “We are confident in the prefabricated construction industry in China, which is greatly supported by the central government. It is expected that the development scale of prefabricated construction industry in China will continue its rapid growth. In line with the government’s strategic goal of carbon neutrality, we actively promoted prefabricated construction technology that can reduce carbon emissions from construction activities, accelerated the green transformation and upgrading of the construction industry and practiced sustainable development, striving to become a provider of integrated smart building solutions.”
For further information, please contact:
DIT Group Limited
Ms. Vanessa Sun
Senior Investor Relations Manager
Email: vanessa.sun@cmdrawin.com
iPR Ogilvy Limited
Tina Law / Connie Tsang
Tel: (852) 2136 6181 / 3920 7637
Email: dit@iprogilvy.com
New technologies, new models, and new formats of leading enterprises tell the second or third things about the service trade fair.
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https://t.cj.sina.com.cn/articles/view/1988645095/768850e7020010z7t
January 19, 2022 22:50 Beijing Business Daily
On January 19, a series of collective interviews after the 2021 Service Trade Fair will hold a special session on telecommunications, computer and information services, engineering consulting and construction services, from COFCO Corporation, ChinaSoft International Co., Ltd., China Construction First Bureau (Group) Co., Ltd. The relevant persons in charge of the company, Shanghai Baoye Group Co., Ltd., and Beijing Worth Buy Technology Co., Ltd. introduced their stories of growing together with the Service Trade Association.
Integrating into the global food supply chain through the Service Trade Fair
As an exhibitor of the 2021 Service Trade Fair, COFCO Group brought its brand products such as Fulinmen, Xiangxue, Great Wall, Jiuguijiu, China Tea, Meilin and Mengniu to the special exhibition area of ??"Supply Chain and Business Services" at the venue of Shougang Park. The world showcases the rich achievements COFCO has created to enrich the Chinese people's dining table and meet the people's growing needs for a better life.
During the current service trade fair, the specialized companies under COFCO Group—COFCO International, COFCO Oil, COFCO Grain, and COFCO Capital signed strategic cooperation agreements with JD.com, Jingbangda, Minsheng Bank, DBS Bank, etc. To lead the upgrading, transformation and stable development of the agricultural and grain supply chain and help economic development.
Chen Gang, Director of the External Cooperation Department of COFCO, introduced that at this service trade fair, COFCO organized and co-organized the "International Forum on the Development and Investment of Modern Grain Supply Chain", and jointly advocated with the Forum Organizing Committee for well-known associations in the grain industry, multinational companies, well-known Enterprises and professional organizations jointly initiated the establishment of the International Grain Modern Supply Chain Alliance. The alliance is committed to building an international exchange platform for the food supply chain industry, optimizing the construction of industry standards and rules, building a resource sharing mechanism, and cultivating and guiding new models of industry cooperation.
Chen Gang said that COFCO will actively integrate into the global food supply chain with the help of the service trade fair platform, carry out extensive and in-depth trade cooperation with international food and agricultural business partners, earnestly fulfill its corporate social responsibility, and make every effort to promote the development of global agricultural product trade to a new level.
Promote the deep integration of digitalization and the real economy
Daxing International Airport is a major landmark project in the capital, and it is also a benchmark project for the construction of "Four-Type Airport - Safe, Green, Smart, and Human". At the 2021 Service Trade Fair, the "Beijing Daxing Airport Intelligent Data Center System Project" undertaken by Chinasoft International won the honor of a demonstration case of scientific and technological innovation services at this Service Trade Fair, and was displayed on the first floor of the National Convention Center Exhibition Hall.
According to Deng Zhengbao, general manager of the Big Data Business Center of Chinasoft International Consulting and Systems Department, the intelligent data center introduces real-time processing technologies such as complex events and big data on the basis of traditional data warehouses, and integrates all flight production, passenger services, security, Operating data, establishing an integrated and shared big data management and analysis platform.
At present, the eight major applications of the intelligent data center have been promoted and used in various departments of the Daxing Airport Management Center. In addition, the external service customers include various airlines, China Aviation Oil, Power Energy, Capital Airport Group Corporation, and the Civil Aviation Administration Operation Monitoring Center, etc. unit.
Deng Zhengbao said that the theme of the 2021 CIFTIS is "Digital opens the future, service promotes development", which coincides with the concept of "Chinasoft International - Digital Transformation Expert". Chinasoft International will actively respond to my country's strategic deployment of digital governance and promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy at full speed.
Uncover the smart construction behind the super engineering
At the 2021 Service Trade Fair, the Construction and Development Company of China Construction First Bureau will focus on promoting a series of model projects such as Moscow China Trade Center and Beijing Daxing Airport Comprehensive Pipe Gallery, as well as smart construction technologies and smart construction sites through large screens, sand tables, physical models and smart facilities. The system brings the audience an immersive journey of intelligent construction experience.
Song Yu, deputy general manager of China Construction First Bureau Group Construction Development Co., Ltd., introduced that smart construction is the biggest highlight of this exhibition. For example, the digital emergency command platform displayed through the "robot + 5G large screen" is the first smart construction site system with independent intellectual property rights in China Construction. On the headquarters side, it can regularly update the key operating indicators and data of more than 200 projects, and remotely realize real-time video and early warning, project operation analysis, and emergency management functions for the company's projects; on the project side, with the help of BIM, AI, thermal imaging, etc. technology to achieve real-time control of the construction site. For example, once a fire breaks out or employees enter the construction area without wearing a helmet, the system can automatically sound the alarm, forming a "clairvoyance" of project management and control.
National Snowmobile and Sled Center wins multiple "firsts"
The National Snowmobile Sled Center, built by Shanghai Baoye, is located on the southwest side of the Yanqing Division of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. One of the new competition venues with the most complex construction technology. The track has a total length of 1975 meters, a maximum design speed of 134.4 kilometers per hour, a vertical drop of more than 121 meters, and has a world-unique 360° roundabout.
Lu Zili, deputy general manager of Shanghai Baoye Group Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch, introduced that the National Snowmobile and Sled Center project has led many "firsts" in China: the successful development of high-strength and high-performance shotcrete for racetracks has filled the domestic gap; Adopting ammonia refrigeration system and track ice making and repairing technology, it established the first ice maker team for snowmobile sleigh track in China, which was the first in China. The key technology for the construction of the special-shaped curved surface of the snowmobile sled track was also awarded the demonstration case of scientific and technological innovation services in this session of the CIFTIS.
Lu Zili said that through the exhibition and publicity on the platform of the Service Trade Fair for two consecutive years, the company has undertaken the Beijing Universal Studios-Transformers area, the Beijing City Sub-Center Third Hall Yixin Auxiliary Supporting Project, Zhangjiakou Beijing University Third Hospital and other Winter Olympics The auxiliary projects of the conference, the two "double million" resettlement housing projects in the Xiongdong A1 tender section of Xiong'an New District and the Rongxi District A1 tender section, have received significant attention during the construction process. Shanghai Baoye is located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The popularity and corporate influence have been greatly improved.
Empowering Industry Development with Consumption Data Insights
At this service trade fair, Beijing Worth Buy Technology Co., Ltd. comprehensively demonstrated the group's new strategic layout for the digital economy era through graphics, video, interaction, on-site experience and other forms, vividly presenting the company's own consumption based on content and digital intelligence.
According to Xu Diye, the public relations director of Beijing Worthbuy Technology Co., Ltd., in the group introduction area of ??Worthbuy's booth, the company's current business layout in the three major sectors of "consumer content, marketing services, and consumer data" was systematically introduced in an interactive way. and development results. In the experience area, on-site audiences can experience for themselves what is provided by the Worth Buying App, consumer MCN, Huaxia Fengwu App, etc. in the whole network, with good price information, long pictures and texts, light and short pictures and texts, short videos, live broadcasts Rich consumer content presented in multiple forms, as well as a thousand-person consumer experience supported by digital and intelligent technology.
At the current service trade fair, "What's Worth Buying" released the "Consumption Trend Report in the Post-epidemic Era", which panoramically depicted the eight major categories of "home appliances, home furnishing, digital, food, maternal and child, health services, sports and fitness, skin care and makeup" The latest new consumption trends of the industry in the post-epidemic era have concentratedly demonstrated the group's professional ability to "output data insights and empower industry development".
Beijing Business Daily reporter Xu Hui
CloudMD Announces Closing of MindBeacon Acquisition, Creating One of North America’s Most Comprehensive Integrated Health Offerings.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudmd-announces-closing-mindbeacon-acquisition-123000016.html
January 14, 2022, 1:30 PM
- CloudMD’s established, proprietary mental health platform offering assessment, navigation, coaching, and work life services paired with MindBeacon’s iCBT, virtual therapy and assessment solutions, creates one of the most comprehensive integrated suite of mental health solutions in Canada – focused on health outcomes for users across a diverse set of purchasing channels.
- CloudMD’s Integrated Health Services Platform offers a single point of access to a full range of mental and physical health services, providing users with a seamless experience and clients with meaningful data and analytics.
- The acquisition is expected to accelerate CloudMD’s U.S. presence through expanded behavioural health capabilities, modalities, cross-selling synergies and MindBeacon’s recent acquisition of a U.S.-based mental health provider that provides both EAP and a much broader range of behavioural health services to employer populations.
CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (TSXV: DOC, OTCQX: DOCRF, Frankfurt: 6PH), a healthcare technology company transforming the delivery of care, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the previously announced acquisition of MindBeacon Holdings Inc.,
https://investors.cloudmd.ca/cloudmd-to-acquire-mindbeacon-one-of-north-americas-leading-clinically-validated-icbt-solutions/
one of North America’s leading providers of digital mental health care, pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement Pursuant to the Arrangement, former MindBeacon shareholders are entitled to receive $1.22 of cash plus 2.285 common shares of CloudMD for each common share of MindBeacon. Following completion of the Arrangement, CloudMD has 287,675,749 common shares issued and outstanding, of which approximately 19.1% are owned by former MindBeacon shareholders.
MindBeacon’s robust digital mental healthcare platform, combined with its network of over 500 licensed therapists and advanced clinical psychologists, offers a full continuum of care centered around providing users the freedom to choose how, when and where they engage with support.
“We are thrilled to close the acquisition of MindBeacon, and would like to thank their shareholders, directors and management for the support and collaboration during this process. By uniting CloudMD and MindBeacon’s platforms, we will create a leading, fully-integrated health offering that provides effective stepped care across the entire spectrum of physical and mental healthcare,” said Dr. Essam Hamza, CEO of CloudMD. “The acquisition is expected to accelerate our U.S expansion strategy, a key focus for us in 2022, and improve organic growth by opening new distribution channels and through cross-selling to our 5,500 corporate clients. In addition, we have identified significant cost savings and are excited to integrate MindBeacon’s team and operations to realize further synergies between the businesses. Finally, I’d like to thank our shareholders and key stakeholders who have supported CloudMD’s vision and journey. I am looking forward to 2022 and our continued growth and transformation.”
MindBeacon pioneered the digital delivery of evidence-based therapy through a computer or mobile device. As a result, over 50,000 people have been treated by MindBeacon’s therapist assisted internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (“TAiCBT”), [b[color=green]]receiving help 5 times faster than traditional community mental health care. MindBeacon’s TAiCBT delivers impressive outcomes, with 82% of clients reporting self-improvement in mental health, and 67% reporting clinically significant improvement.[/color]
“As the need for accessible mental health support continues to grow, it is imperative that the sector innovates to increase accessibility, improve results and reduce costs. The progression of our Integrated Health Services Platform, our partnership with employers, advisors and insurers and the acquisition of MindBeacon, demonstrates our dedication to being a leader in innovating the mental health space,” said Karen Adams, President of CloudMD. “MindBeacon has one of the best clinically-proven solutions in the market today and by adding it to our platform, we can offer a broad range of synchronous and asynchronous services in a cost-effective, stigma-reducing way that meets patients when and where they need. We will be integrating MindBeacon and all our mental health solutions to support individuals at work, off work or returning to work.”
“CloudMD's Comprehensive Integrated Health Services Platform is the perfect home for MindBeacon's mental health capabilities. Together, we're an industry-leading holistic health company,” said Sam Duboc, Former Executive Chair of MindBeacon. “I'm thrilled that this opportunity will be able to positively impact our patients and I'd like to thank our shareholders for their overwhelming support and recognition of how much more we will be able to accomplish together.”
The addition of MindBeacon to CloudMD’s holistic offering positions the Company as a leader within the fast-growing global behavioural healthcare market, which is expected to grow to US$242 billion by 2027, with a compounded annual growth rate of 5.02% between 2020 and 2027.
The acquisition is expected to be synergistic by offering the following benefits:
- Combined, the digital health platform is expected to be one of North America’s leading fully-integrated health offerings, with a clinically-validated, broad continuum of care to address mild, moderate, acute and chronic mental and physical care.
- Integration into CloudMD’s Comprehensive Integrated Health Services Platform will expand the breadth of interactive technologies and tool sets within behavioural health to support clients with longitudinal multi-dimensional care.
- Data interoperability and increased analytic touchpoints will provide additional valuable data around healthcare outcomes and improve network effects.
- Significant cross-selling opportunities through a combined network of 5,500 corporate clients, over 5 million lives, and extensive government contracts.
- Drive U.S. expansion through additional capabilities, modalities, cross-selling opportunities and MindBeacon’s recent acquisition of a U.S.-based mental health provider.
- MindBeacon’s “Beacon in a Box” white label iCBT SaaS offering complements CloudMD’s Digital Health Solutions division and may be sold directly to its network of over 20,000 regulated healthcare professionals.
- Overall cost synergies, including MindBeacon, now exceed $4 million.
The companies have already started to integrate MindBeacon’s healthcare solutions into CloudMD’s broad continuum of care. Management anticipates that the acquisition will generate significant run-rate synergies beginning in the first quarter of this year. Such synergies are expected to be realized through cost rationalization, process integration and the scale of the combined organization. The complementary nature of the combined digital health offering is also expected to fuel product cross-selling opportunities to existing CloudMD and MindBeacon clients.
In connection with closing of the Arrangement, CloudMD expanded its management team to include John Plunkett (MindBeacon’s former Chief Financial Officer) as EVP, Transformation and Strategic Planning and Adam Kelly (MindBeacon’s former President and Chief Commercial Officer) as Chief Commercial Officer, with both positions reporting to Karen Adams.
Delisting of MindBeacon Common Shares
CloudMD intends to cause MindBeacon to delist its common shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”), to submit an application for it to cease to be a reporting issuer, and to otherwise terminate its public company reporting requirements as soon as possible thereafter.
About CloudMD Software & Services
CloudMD is transforming the delivery of healthcare using technology and by providing a patient-centric approach, with an emphasis on continuity of care. By leveraging healthcare technology, the Company is building one, connected platform that addresses all points of a patient’s healthcare journey and provides better access to care and improved outcomes. Through CloudMD’s proprietary technology, the Company delivers quality healthcare through a holistic offering including hybrid primary care clinics, specialist care, telemedicine, mental health support, healthcare navigation, educational resources, and artificial intelligence (AI). CloudMD’s business is separated into three main divisions: Clinics and Pharmacies, Digital Solution and Enterprise Health Solutions, the Company’s fastest growing division. CloudMD’s Enterprise Health Solutions Division has built a leading employer healthcare solutions, including its Comprehensive Integrated Health Services Platform, which offers one comprehensive, digitally connected platform for educational institutions, corporations, insurers, and advisors to better manage the health and wellness of their students, employees, and customers.
CloudMD currently services a combined ecosystem of over 7,000 psychiatrists, approximately 4,500 therapists and counsellors, approximately 4,000 psychologists, over 22,000 family physicians, over 34,000 medical specialists, over 1,500 allied health professionals, over 500 clinics, and over 5 million individuals across North America. For more information visit:
https://investors.cloudmd.ca/
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“Dr. Essam Hamza, MD"
Chief Executive Officer
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Metaverse continues to heat up, WIMI Holographic 5G light field vision interacts with AI virtual human.
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https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2022-01-14/doc-ikyamrmz5171792.shtml
2022-01-14 14:48Upstream News
When it comes to the Metaverse, whether you accept it or not, you have to admit that it was the hottest outlet in the technology industry last year. Zuckerberg renamed the company Meta, and Microsoft and Google are also actively participating in the platform and content construction of the Metaverse. However, the metaverse is still not a rigorous academic concept at present. The current metaverse is more of an exploration, and it may have practicality in the fields of games, social interaction and entertainment.
In the future, the metaverse may promote the gradual digitization of individuals and form a presence in the digital world, thereby forming personal digital assets and digital identities. It lies in the bearing of digital assets and digital identities, in which virtual humans play a very important role. It is reported that a virtual human is a virtual image with appearance characteristics and behavior patterns produced by technological means such as modeling, motion capture or AI, and presented through a display device. The value created by virtual human is mainly to break the physical space limitation and provide more sense of immersion, participation and interaction.
The current virtual digital human industry chain consists of technical solutions (basic layer, platform layer) and content application (application layer). From the perspective of the virtual digital human industry pattern, a stable pattern has been formed at the base layer, and cutting-edge enterprises at the application layer have emerged. Foreign giants focus on the basic layer and platform layer; domestic leading companies focus on the platform layer and application layer, and more are self-developed AI systems and explore the application of virtual humans in social activities, news media, cultural tourism and other fields. For example, Imma, a blogger who can wear fashion makeup, Hua Zhibing, a student of Tsinghua University who can sing and play the piano, CCTV News launched the first AI sign language anchor to broadcast the Winter Olympics...
However, the virtual human is still in the stage of only image and concept, and the current technology cannot support the greater commercial value of virtual human, but a large number of brands are willing to pay for it. For example, AYAYI, which takes the fashion icon route, has cooperated with brands such as LV, L'Oreal, and Porsche, while Axi has cooperated with brands such as Chery Automobile and JD.com, covering fields such as automobiles, food, fast-moving consumer goods, and accessories. What the brand sees is the trendy and technological sense of virtual people, especially under the heating of the Metaverse, virtual people are pouring into the real world in large numbers. There are almost metaverse words in the posters and copywriting of each advertisement. These brands want to try to hook up with the metaverse label on the virtual person to attract young people in the Z era.
The technical application of virtual human involves two processes:
Making virtual human and users using virtual human. The production of virtual human is divided into two steps, the first step is to create a static virtual human, and the second step is to make the virtual human alive. Making a static virtual human involves modeling and rendering technology, and there are two ways to make a virtual human come alive.
- One is to create a real-life-driven virtual human through motion facial capture technology;
- the other is to use AI technology and speech synthesis technology. And CG technology to produce algorithm-driven virtual human. Finally, in order to allow users to gain a stronger sense of immersion, participation and interaction when using virtual humans, XR/VR/AR and holographic imaging technologies are applied to the user's use.
When the virtual human industry technology achieves a qualitative breakthrough, the commercialization of virtual human can usher in a greater imagination space. In addition to Baidu, NetEase, Tencent and other major Internet companies, some technology companies with the ability to develop virtual human modeling, AI, motion capture, rendering and other art capabilities, such as WIMI, also followed suit. In the new track of Metaverse, Metaverse-related industries are ecologically prosperous, and the layout of the industrial chain is perfect. WIMI is accelerating the layout of "metaverse" in the industry. In a nutshell, the arrival of the metaverse provides the best soil and opportunity for the interaction between WIMI's 5G light field vision and AI virtual human.
In fact, before the Metaverse became popular, WIMI had already focused on 5G, AI and AR, and conducted several years of research. For Metaverse WIMI also has a Metaverse Division, which focuses on the application of augmented reality, virtual reality, 5G and other technologies in the research and development of Metaverse. In addition, WIMI has established an academy of sciences, dedicated to holographic AI vision to explore unknown technologies, and to carry out basic science and innovative technology research. At present, WIMI has achieved computer vision AI, and the precision of synthetic image information acquisition is higher than the industry level. Computer holographic vision The AI ??synthesis processing capability is better than the industry average.
From the current situation, 5G is a technological advancement of a basic communication method for human beings. The integration of 5G with emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence is showing strong scientific and technological vitality and broad market potential. A good 5G industry ecology is taking shape, the industry environment is getting better and better, and government departments strongly support 5G development in terms of policies. It is worth affirming that the R&D personnel of WIMI Academy of Holography, based on 5G, proposed a holographic virtual character picture and sound reconstruction technology, that is, the use of human skeleton dynamic capture, real-time image rendering, speech recognition technology, and sound simulation technology to present virtual people. WIMI obtains data information from the base layer and reproduces character movements through software algorithms, providing a one-stop virtual human interaction solution for 5G+AI vision.
Under the tuyere of the metaverse, the virtual human has an important connection with the metaverse, and the virtual human provides a way of interaction with strong visual effects between the real world and the virtual world. At present, the industry is developing towards novelty, convenience and diversification. All platforms and giants are carrying out technological innovation and improvement of virtual human. In the future, virtual humans will take advantage of their natural advantages such as diversity and high immersion to occupy a place in the metaverse industry, and there may be a wave of reshuffles.
Chairman of the Board Chen Yuhong increased his holdings of China Software International (00354) 600,000 shares at HK$8.32 per share.
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https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/hkstock/marketalerts/2022-01-13/doc-ikyakumy0162195.shtml
January 13, 2022 17:12 Zhitong Financial Network
The latest information from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange shows that on January 12, Chen Yuhong, chairman of the board of directors, increased his holdings of China Software International (00354) 600,000 shares at a price of HK$8.32 per share, with a total amount of HK$4.992 million. After the increase in holdings, the latest number of shares held is about 380 million shares, and the latest shareholding ratio is 12.37%
MINDBEACON ANNOUNCES VOTING RESULTS FROM SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mindbeacon-announces-voting-results-special-014600788.html
Tue, January 11, 2022, 2:46 AM
MindBeacon Holdings Inc. (TSX: MBCN) is pleased to announce that the shareholders of the Company have approved the plan of arrangement previously announced on November 15, 2021, pursuant to which CloudMD Software & Services Inc. will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company. In accordance with the terms of the arrangement agreement entered into on November 14, 2021, each common share of MindBeacon will be exchanged for $1.22 of cash and 2.285 common shares of CloudMD. Upon completion of the Arrangement, former shareholders of MindBeacon will hold approximately 19.1% of CloudMD.
16,189,566 votes, or approximately 98.94%% of the votes cast at the special meeting of Shareholders held on January 10, 2022, were cast in favour of the special resolution approving the Arrangement. 16,179,566 votes, or approximately 98.94%% of the votes cast at the Meeting, excluding Shares required to be excluded pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"), were cast in favour of the Arrangement. The special resolution approving the Arrangement was required to be passed by (i) at least two-thirds (66 2/3%) of the votes cast at the Meeting by the Shareholders voting virtually or represented by proxy at the Meeting and (ii) a simple majority of the votes cast by the Shareholders voting virtually or represented by proxy at the Meeting, excluding Shares required to be excluded pursuant to MI 61-101. Details of the voting results will be filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR at
https://www.sedar.com/
The Company will apply for a final order of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) on January 12, 2022. Closing of the Arrangement remains subject to certain customary closing conditions including court approval. Subject to the satisfaction of these closing conditions, it is anticipated that the Arrangement will be completed on or about January 14, 2022.
Further details regarding the Arrangement, including the principal closing conditions and the benefits for MindBeacon shareholders, can be found in the Company's Management Information Circular, which was mailed to shareholders on December 17, 2021 and can be found under MindBeacon's SEDAR profile.
About MindBeacon Holdings Inc.
MindBeacon provides a continuum of mental healthcare that includes self-guided psychoeducational and wellness content, Peer-to-Peer Support, Therapist Guided Programs and Live Therapy Sessions all offered virtually through its secure and private platform. As one of the first commercially available, digitally-native platforms to offer therapist-assisted internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Canada, MindBeacon's professional service is designed around end users – their health, their way. Working with employers, insurance carriers and government ministries, MindBeacon offers services that are accessible, available, affordable and, most importantly, proven to be effective. MindBeacon is changing the therapy landscape by making professional care available to every person, no matter when, where and how they choose to access it.
For more information visit:
https://www.mindbeacon.com/
About CloudMD Software & Services Inc.
CloudMD (TSXV: DOC, OTCQX: DOCRF, Frankfurt: 6PH) is digitizing the delivery of healthcare by providing a patient-centric approach, with an emphasis on continuity of care. By leveraging healthcare technology, CloudMD is building one, connected platform that addresses all points of a patient's healthcare journey and provides better access to care and improved outcomes. Through CloudMD's proprietary technology, the company delivers quality healthcare through a holistic offering including hybrid primary care clinics, specialist care, telemedicine, mental health support, healthcare navigation, educational resources, and artificial intelligence (AI). CloudMD's Enterprise Health Solutions Division includes one of the top 4 Employee Assistance Programs in Canada and offers one comprehensive, digitally connected platform for corporations, insurers, and advisors to better manage the health and wellness of their employees and customers.
CloudMD currently services a combined ecosystem of over 7,000 psychiatrists, approximately 4,500 therapists and counsellors, approximately 4,000 psychologists, over 22,000 family physicians, over 34,000 medical specialists, over 1,500 allied health professionals, over 500 clinics, and over 5 million individuals across North America.
For more information visit:
https://investors.cloudmd.ca/
VR/AR, Digitization, Metaverse WIMI naked eye light field vision lead the 5G market.
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https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/vr-ar-digitization-metaverse-wimi-naked-eye-light-field-vision-lead-the-5g-market
ByGetNewsPublishedJanuary 6, 2022
When an enterprise has keen observation and quick strategic decision ability, it will certainly become the leader of The Times. When WIMI meets VR/AR, digitization, metaverse… What kind of spark will be rubbed, which is the real label of WIMI, many problems need to be considered comprehensively.
When WIMI meets digitization, it aims to discuss how to deeply integrate diversified content with technology in the digital era, and explore the future to break through the cognition of the real world. When “everything can be metaverse”, let the market see the business opportunities of WIMI, in the eyes of some industry people, metaverse provides more diversified application scenarios for WIMI. VR/AR as the front end of the metaverse to reach users, VR/AR devices make people more naturally immersed in the network, but also attract more users from the mobile phone to the metaverse.
This series of “mysterious code” connecting virtual and reality will make WIMI promising. In his field, there will continue to be opportunities for C-end and B-end, as well as VR/AR and other large-scale applications. In addition, in the field of ICT, the main growth direction in the next few years is the digitization of government and enterprise business. WIMI is accelerating the cultivation of supply chain, and using its own capabilities to help partners in the industry chain to enhance their capabilities. To this end, we excavates the layout direction of the potential of WIMI, and looks forward to injecting new power into the development of the industry with the enhancement of capacity.
VR/AR has good growth prospects
According to IDC statistics, the global VR/AR overall market size in 2020 is about 90 billion yuan, the global VR/AR device shipment of 10 million is expected to reach in 2021, VR/AR device is in a positive industry cycle node. VR/AR equipment as a hardware carrier to access 3D Internet, its growth path can completely copy the path of computers or smart phones. In the future, will there be a kind of AR glasses that can replace the current mobile phone?
As early as its establishment, WIMI has developed AR tools and content, and set up a professional team and developed AR and VR products together. The company’s main products and related supporting production business have been deeply applied in VR and AR fields. Currently, WIMI Has developed the XR headset “WiMi Hologram SoftLight”, new Augmented Reality (AR) Head-mounted Display (HMD) – “WiMi HoloAR Lens” and holographic pulse laser radar product “WiMi HoloPluse LiDAR” and other holographic product portfolio.
With the gradual maturity of WIMI ecology, the integration of augmented reality technology (AR) and industrial applications is entering a burst period. Through the merger and acquisition of relevant investment layout, WIMI has obtained the industrial aggregation and support of many R & D companies in the AR industry, forming a strong holographic AR technology R & D ecosystem, and building a holographic AR value chain with great potential for expansion. In addition, WIMI has also carried out production and research cooperation with experts from Tsinghua University, and established the Holography Academy RESEARCH and development Center in the headquarters, providing one-stop intelligent services from research, development, design and testing to production, helping the company grasp the future innovation.
Metaverse is another “door” opened by WIMI
The metaverse concept continues to be hotly debated and has become a hot topic of investment in the industry because of the convergence of technologies in various fields. As a result, the metaverse is seen as a possible replacement for mobile phones, and is widely regarded by Internet giants. With Facebook renamed “Meta” as the inflection point, the current global tech giants are speeding up their run to the metaverse. Microsoft executives said the company will focus on creating office and collaboration apps that connect different universes and will introduce Mesh, a virtual experience collaboration platform, into Teams, its office collaboration software. NVIDIA focuses on building the hardware platform of the meta-universe based on the core.
The metaverse is a super complex of many cutting-edge technologies, and advanced technologies fill the entire industrial loop. Such as data processing using artificial intelligence, cloud computing technology; Network environment construction relies on 5G technology; The virtual and real interaction and connection use 3D rendering, expanding reality, brain-computer interface, wearable technology, etc. All of these technologies are in the rapid development stage and have accumulated the technological foundation for the development of the meta-universe. WIMI collects software and hardware talents in VR/AR field. On the one hand, it starts to lay out VR/AR, cloud computing, AI, 5G, 3D and other technical development, and on the other hand, it lays out VR/AR content production and content operation. Metaverse scene applications are mostly VR/AR content and service market, and WIMI lays out in the direction of manufacturing + content operation.
Digitization is the determination of WIMI transformation and reform
The concept of digitalization has been prevailing for several years. Basically, all walks of life are talking about digital transformation, and many enterprises have invested a lot of resources in digital construction. With the advent of the era of digital economy, Through years of in-depth exploration of the industry, research and development, continuous accumulation of operational experience and the extensive layout of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, WIMI company has independently innovated and established a series of sustainable development ecological business models. On the premise of maintaining the steady progress of traditional entertainment business, WIMI vigorously develops cloud service business and emerging industries, realizing the dual-core drive mode of entertainment business and cloud service as the main business.
In the next few years, the growth direction of the enterprise is the continuous digitalization of the business. In the face of such opportunities, WIMI should combine its advantages in connection and computing and the accumulation of artificial intelligence with the industry to help realize the digital transformation of the industry. Technology needs to be applied to give full play to its value. WIMI will combine 5G with artificial intelligence, cloud and enterprise application scenarios to release the potential of all things connected and intelligent, which has been included in the enterprise planning. In the new round of information technology revolution, the combination of digital technology and the real world becomes more in-depth, enhancing people’s ability to perceive and link the world through the digital platform. The layout of WIMI metaverse, conceptually, is also in line with the goal of iteratively penetrating and integrating the reality of digital ecology.
The era of rapid development of science and technology is always full of challenges and opportunities. Since the metaverse is likely to stimulate greater vitality of the digital economy, the simultaneous implementation of infrastructure and other aspects required for the construction of the metaverse will stimulate a new round of digital scientific and technological revolution. As AR/VR/MR and other technologies tend to mature, AR/VR technology has become the core direction of the development of the metaverse. As for WIMI, the enterprise is about to follow this direction, which could be an opportunity of technological innovation. The new vision of future development will guide this emerging field to develop in a healthy and orderly way. Enterprises should have a broad vision. Those who do not plan for the overall situation will not be able to plan for the whole city.
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https://gforgadget.com/ Products that we discovered at CES 2022
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https://gforgadget.com/product-category/ces-2022/
January 9, 2022
Thin Cast – Smart Mirror by Capstone
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https://gforgadget.com/cool-gadgets/capstone-thincast-smart-mirror/
Mirrors are too common, how about a smart mirror that runs on Android, has a touch display and in-built speakers? Meet Thin Cast. Unlike many other smart mirrors on the market, this one uses Android OS which means you can install any android app on this mirror. It comes with a clean OS, no bloatware, no useless apps. But please note that some apps/games that make use of gyroscope and other sensors will not work on this mirror.
The mirror has a touch display that can display anything, including a Youtube video, movie or your health stats. It is also equipped with speakers so you can play music or podcasts while taking a shower.
Thin Cast also supports Smartphone screen mirroring feature. With this, you can simply mirror your entire phone screen to the mirror’s display. It works with both Android and iOS. Moreover, it supports Bluetooth connection to external speakers or headphones. You can also buy their Bluetooth remote control add-on. This is for the touchless operation of the mirror.
One other cool feature of this mirror is that it works with a power bank. On a power bank, it lasts about 5 hours. But please note that it works with Thin cast power bank only. No other power bank can be used with this mirror. Also, the Thin cast power bank cannot be used to power any other devices like smartphones. It is because the power output of this power bank is tailored for the mirror and maybe too much for a smartphone.
The product is available in two versions. Wardrobe and standard. The standard version is best for bathrooms while the wardrobe version is for your wardrobe/closet or room.
Reference: Smart Mirror NEW and OLD Design
I sent the following message to:
James Gerry McClinton - Chief Financial Officer and Director gmcclinton@capstonecompaniesinc.com
Larry Paul Sloven - President & Managing Director LPSHK@aol.com
George Wolf - Corporate Business Development gwolf@capstoneindustries.com
Technical Support: info@capstoneindustries.com
Max Borges Agency Valerie Fuentes valeriefuentes@maxborgesagency.com
I am curious if I will get an answer or a reaction THIS TIME....
"Dear ...
- You are currently represented at CES and present the smart mirror to the public.
- Unfortunately, there are still pictures, videos and product descriptions on your homepages with content from the old mirror version with LED light strips.
- With this striking mistake you are unnecessarily jeopardizing the trust of potential private buyers and trading partners.
Why:
- still do you show the old mirror design on your homepages?
sources:
https://capstonecompaniesinc.com/ , https://capstonecompaniesinc.com/products/
https://capstoneindustries.com/products/
and not the actually design
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81xJGpkTtpS._AC_SL1500_.jpg
- why do you still advertise the OLD mirror version in the background video?
https://capstoneindustries.com/products/
- are pictures of the OLD mirror design published in the current reporting?
sources:
https://flipboard.com/@gadgetflow/gadget-flow-i9t3q8j0z/capstone-smart-mirror-lets-you-check-the-time-download-videos-play-music-and-/a-JvtaMtosR82SZeVJ_PXViA%3Aa%3A101957400-82319adc79%2Fthegadgetflow.com
https://www.technicalripon.com/smartphone/capstone-smart-mirror-lets-you-check-the-time-download-videos-play-music-and-more/
https://lenexworld.com/capstone-smart-mirror-lets-you-check-the-time-download-videos-play-music-and-more/
My request to you and your board members:
- Please check your homepages IMMEDIATELY and delete all pictures, videos and product descriptions with content from the old mirror versions with LED light strips, THANK YOU.
- Please revise your homepages with CURRENT pictures, videos and product descriptions with contents of the CURRENT mirror version, THANKS.
PS:
- Your manufacturer of Capstone products in Thailand "Pro Concept Manufacturer Co., Ltd." also still uses the OLD mirror design with LED light strips.
source:
http://pcm-thailand.com/big_ai_index.html
- I sent this angry message to Ms. Aimee C. Brown on Monday December 13th, 2021, she ignored my urgent message.
- I have been a shareholder in your company since 2001!!! At that time it operated under the name China Direct Corporation (CHDT) and sold generators.
NFT hits the circle! WiMi Holographic Digital Twin Application Leads New Experience of Meta Universe.
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https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2022-01-06/doc-ikyamrmz3488275.shtml
Upstream News January 06, 2022 12:59
NFT stands for Non Fungible Token, which is a non-homogeneous token, which is an asset type based on blockchain technology. The opposite of encrypted assets is Fungible Token (FT). Bitcoin or Ethereum are homogenized tokens, similar to "standardized products" in traditional finance. Compared with homogenized tokens, NFT is more "personalized", similar to "non-standard products" in traditional finance.
On March 11, 2021, one of the world's largest traditional auction houses, Christie's, auctioned the digital artist Beeple's NFT work ``Everydays: The First 5000 Days'' in the form of NFT for the first time in history. , With a reserve price of US$100, it was finally sold for US$69.346 million, making it the third highest price for a living artist's auction. This auction allowed NFT to be understood by outsiders.
On March 22, the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, gave a boost to the prosperity of the NFT, selling his first tweet NFT in 2006 for nearly $3 million. Copy.
In May, Christie’s auctioned the NFT works of CryptoPunks, which included 9 24x24, 8-bit style pixel punk avatars. The lot was sold for US$16,964,500.
Art collections are just the tip of the iceberg of NFT applications. "At present, NFT has been applied in copyright and digital collections. I believe that in the future, NFT will be more widely integrated with the real economy, cross-integrated with XR, digital twins, and future industries, and open up the great innovation of the digital renaissance. "Wang Juan, secretary general of the Digital Economy Committee of the Beijing Computer Society, told a reporter from China Times.
According to a report by the market research agency Chainalysis, the size of the NFT market in 2021 has reached at least US$26.9 billion, or approximately RMB 170 billion. According to Collins statistics, the usage rate of the term "NFT" increased by 110,000% in 2021. After defeating a series of candidates including "Meta universe" and "Vaccine", it was elected as the "Collins Dictionary" 2021 Vocabulary . At the same time, the search volume of NFT on Google has also soared to the highest level in history.
Just entering 2022, NFT is on fire again.
On January 1, the NFT project Phanta Bear was sold for the first time with a limited edition of NFT project under the name of Ezek and Jay Chou. The unit price is 6,200 yuan, and the total price is 62 million yuan. It is understood that NFT, or Non-Fungible Token, is regarded as an item of the blockchain and is a unique asset in the digital world, which can be bought and sold and used to represent some commodities in the real world. , But the way it exists is intangible.
Recently, giant companies have continuously announced their NFT products and layout. On December 17, sportswear giant Adidas launched an NFT series of adidas Originals clothing, officially entering the metaverse under the name "Into the Metaverse". Data showed that all 30,000 NFT products were quickly sold out, with sales revenue exceeding 23 million U.S. dollars. Just three days ago, Nike announced the acquisition of NFT fashion and collectibles startup RTFKT, hoping to accelerate the pace of expansion in the fast-growing "metauniverse". Previously, Nike had cooperated with the video game platform Roblox to launch it for the first time in the metauniverse. "Nike World".
In addition, according to media reports, as the first holographic AR stock, WIMI Hologram, Nasdaq stock code: WIMI. The application of WiMi Hologram in Metaverse is also far ahead. WiMi Hologram's massive IP and virtual images can all be NFT. NFT has great value to WiMi Hologram's virtual assets. WiMi Hologram has established a team for Metaverse and invested relevant resources.
In terms of meta-universe software technology, WiMi Hologram is based on imaging detection and recognition technology, template matching and detection technology, video processing and recognition technology, holographic 3D layer replacement technology in imaging recognition, and dynamic fusion processing technology in imaging tracking. AR content is embedded in virtual applications. WiMi Hologram holographic AR content and holographic imaging services based on image detection, recognition, template matching, image dynamic fusion and replacement, will generate commercial value in the commercial applications of Meta Universe.
In terms of meta-universe holographic applications, WiMi Hologram has a comprehensive holographic IP rights content library, and the virtual holographic content covers from 3D models to holographic virtual products. WiMi Hologram has a total of 4,654 holographic virtual IP rights content, which can be used for WiMi Hologram's holographic AR products and solutions, covering a wide range of categories, including holographic animation, virtual live broadcast, virtual idol and virtual social networking. The virtual assets of WiMi Hologram will generate commercial value in the meta universe.
In terms of meta-universe hologram hardware, WiMi Hologram has launched a related holographic XR head-mounted display product "WiMi Hologram SoftLight", and this product has been licensed by the US FFC and approved to enter the US market. The product accelerates iteration in terms of image color management, dockable devices, and wearing experience, which also lays the foundation for WiMi Hologram in the meta universe head-mounted display market.
WiMi Hologram is currently the leading holographic platform in China. After six years of development, it has established a complete holographic technology research and development system, holographic content production and storage system, and holographic commercialization system. As of December 31, 2020, the company has 195 technical patents related to image processing and display, model input/output, and 3D modeling, and has 325 software copyrights. It has produced high-quality, high-fidelity holographic content. 4600 items. In the first half of 2021, WiMi Hologram's global operating income increased by approximately 202.2% year-on-year, WiMi Hologram's gross profit increased by 189.8% year-on-year, WiMi Hologram's net profit increased by 40.3% year-on-year, and WiMi Hologram's research and development expenses increased by 463.6% year-on-year. .
According to industry analysts, Internet giants have a strong technical team and a large number of application scenarios. They have a first-mover advantage on the blockchain. They can integrate upstream and downstream industrial chains through blockchain technology to further enrich and expand their original business.
The current development of NFT in China pays more attention to the integration of physical industries, such as digital art collection and digital cultural creation, but the current application of NFT in these fields in China has certain limitations, such as a small audience and unclear commercial closed loops. Since NFT can provide uniqueness certification for digital goods or assets technically, NFT can be widely used in the fields of copyright protection, financial asset digitization, digital identity construction and other fields in the future.
To be sure, NFT is a very young and imaginative field. With time and technological iteration, NFT will continue to develop and improve the industrial ecology and become an important value carrier in the digital economy era. However, after a year of popularity, and under the continuous attention of various countries' supervision, the NFT market will gradually become more rational and develop in an orderly manner under the premise of safety and compliance.
On the Eve of Large-scale Commercial Use of 5G Technology, WIMI Hologram AR+AI Vision Application Leads the Trend.
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https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/on-the-eve-of-large-scale-commercial-use-of-5g-technology-wimi-hologram-arai-vision-application-leads-the-trend
ByGetNewsPublishedJanuary 5, 2022
As we all know, 5G is not a simple enhancement on the basis of 4G. It breaks the space limit of information transmission and can be widely used in holographic, live broadcasting, education, medical and other fields. With the arrival of THE 5G era, hardware equipment updates are gradually improving, and b-end and C-end permeability is gradually increasing, which is gradually becoming a reality. VR/AR industry has entered the stage of accelerated growth and gradually entered the fast track of industrialization development. Holographic imaging, artificial intelligence, Internet of vehicles and other technologies are also changing our lives at a speed that we can hardly imagine.
The commercialization of 5G brings AR augmented reality and VR virtual reality back to the public. In fact, VR/AR has always been with us, and the commercialization of 5G has only strengthened its image in front of the public. It is well known that 5G network has a high loading rate and low latency, which further improves user experience. However, if it is used as a non-commercial application, it does not exert much effect on daily life. 5G network is practically useless. However, IN promoting the development of AR augmented reality and VR virtual reality technology, 5G has an important impact of historic reform. In 2020, AR augmented reality and VR virtual reality will usher in a critical period of development, and will blossom fully in 2021, which can be said to be due to the implementation of 5G commercial policy.
5G+ holographic technology enables ultra-high definition and low time delay transmission
Holographic technology is the recording and reproducing technology of recording and reproducing the real 3d image of the object by using the principles of interference and diffraction. It is the use of interference principle to record the object light wave information, which is the shooting process:
the object under laser irradiation to form a diffuse object beam; The other part of the laser beam as a reference beam to the holographic film, and the object beam superposition interference, the object light wave on the phase and amplitude of the change in space intensity, thus using the contrast and spacing between interference fringes to record all the information of the object light wave. The reproduced image has a strong three-dimensional sense and a real visual effect. Each part of the hologram records the light information of each point on the object, so in principle each part of it can reproduce the whole image of the original object, through multiple exposures can also record multiple different images on the same negative, and can be separately displayed without interference.
In fact holographic technology is not developed in the latest technology, its history can be followed by the 1960 s, holographic technology continues today need to deal with 100 times more information than ordinary camera, the shooting as well as the processing and transmission platform is put forward very high requirements, so the earliest holographic technique is only used to deal with static images. To achieve ultra-low delay transmission of high-definition images, holographic imaging will have to wait until 5G is commercially available.
Holographic imaging technology has made a creative breakthrough with 5G technology. As a new generation of mobile communication technology, 5G has been at the forefront of technological innovation, standard construction, license issuance and commercial use in recent years. Its features such as large bandwidth, high reliability, low delay and mass connection have been gradually accepted by the public. China’s mobile operators alone have more than 10 million 5G subscribers.
5G is not only an innovative technology in itself, but also an information and communication infrastructure that can be effectively integrated with other innovative technologies to promote their large-scale application. The combination of 5G and VR/AR can be said to be a historical inevitability and technological change, and the application of 5G and VR/AR is not limited to military drills and game development, but will focus on social, navigation, film and television content. In the field of VR/AR, enterprises will become the main driver of technological innovation and the main body of standardization formulation, which requires the joint promotion of academia and the business community.
There are signs that VR/AR may become the next generation of Internet portals. Now the industry is generally optimistic that VR/AR will replace one of the next terminal entrance of smart phones. It is expected that in the next 3 to 5 years, VR/AR users will grow by leaps and leaps from tens of millions to hundreds of millions. At present, domestic and foreign enterprises are actively building VR/AR hardware and content ecology, striving to take the lead in VR/AR field layout. It is reported that companies such as Microsoft, Google, WIMI and Apple have built their own holographic platforms. In terms of hardware content, it has a complete technology research and development system, content production and reserve system and commercialization system.
It is reported that WIMI was founded in 2015, NASDAQ stock code - WiMi.
WIMI focuses on holographic cloud services, Mainly gathered in car AR holographic HUD, 3D holographic pulse LiDAR, Light field holographic headset, holographic semiconductor, holographic cloud software, holographic car navigation and other professional fields, covering from the holographic car AR technology, 3 d holographic pulse LiDAR holographic visual semiconductor technology, holographic technology, software development, holographic AR advertising technology, holographic AR entertainment technology , holographic AR SDK payment, interactive holographic communication and other holographic AR technology links, is a holographic cloud comprehensive technology solution provider.
The development of hardware is crucial to the development of VR/AR industry, and people’s entertainment methods and consumption habits will be updated with the change of technology. VR/AR technology has played a lot of roles in various application scenarios. It not only has an impact on work, life and study, but also attracts more new capitalists to participate in it. The VR/AR market expands, and hardware vendors, content vendors and channel vendors form a “tripartite rivalry”. Centering on the entire market, enterprises actively research and develop popular products to promote the arrival of VR/AR entertainment consumption era.
WIMI is also in the layout of VR/AR hardware field - AR head-mounted display. According to WIMI, with the increase of 5G commercialization promotion, AR product application in the Internet of things, medical, electronic consumer, automotive electronics and other fields of commercialization will accelerate the pace. Company for many years committed to the accumulation of AR core optical display technology and performance increase, more than in the AR technology and expand product line layout, combined with its own industrial advantages and technological advantages, the deep core optical products in the industry, lead to promote the development of AR wearing display business in the automotive industry, the application in the field of consumer electronics.
WIMI 5G+AI algorithm and technology leads our life
Before 2018, the domestic algorithm is still based on volume-price data + manual calculation. After 2018, the whole market gradually entered the era of AI algorithm, which further improved the returns of the whole quantitative investment from factors mining, portfolio management, risk optimization and other aspects. After 2019, the size of the entire computational quantification industry grows rapidly, which is a very important driving force for the development of the entire industry. By 2020, authorities believe that the computational quantification industry has reached the stage of 5G+AI algorithm. On the whole, after the industry exceeds 700 billion, the development trend of 5G+AI algorithm will be unstoppable in the future. Artificial intelligence has evolved from simple algorithm + database development to machine learning + deep understanding.
As the 5G holographic communication network bandwidth changes, the 5G holographic application market is exploding, holographic interactive entertainment, holographic conference and other high-end applications gradually popularize to the holographic social, holographic communication, holographic navigation, holographic home applications and other directions. WIMI said, the company will develop 5G as the core strategy, sustained investment for many years, continuous innovation, has the full ability to 5G end-to-end solutions, relying on the wireless and core network, holographic chip, terminal and industry application of leading technology, products and solutions such as advantage, accelerating the global 5G commercial scale deployment. Based on holographic AI facial recognition technology and holographic AI facial change technology as the core technology, WIMI program supports holographic cloud platform services and 5G communication holographic applications with multiple technological innovation systems.
The holographic image processing function of WIMI is optimized and improved on a regular basis, for holographic AI facial recognition technology and holographic AI facial changes technology, based on image detection, recognition and template matching, image dynamic holographic image fusion and replace high speed processing algorithms:
speed of image information processing, and ensure the rendering, processing rates up to 10 GB per second. Stealth polyester optical imaging film:
the key component of holographic imaging, so that the holographic image perfect imaging display. Holographic cloud spectrum platform:
an interactive platform with data storage, image restoration and holographic social properties covering the whole country. Based on imaging detection and recognition technology, template matching and detection technology, video processing and recognition technology, holographic 3D layer replacement technology in imaging recognition and dynamic fusion processing technology in imaging tracking, WIMI is embedded in online face video, and these technologies will be applied to the strategic blueprint of the company.
In hardware research and development, WIMI invests in 5G and AR headset equipment to achieve leading key technologies. In pattern optimization, we continue to improve market share and cooperate closely with many partners. WIMI won the bidding of China Mobile and media Cloud platform phase II holographic remote interaction project. On February 10, 2021, the official website of China Mobile announced the bid-winning result, which showed that WIMI finally won the bid beyond other competitors in the field of holography and communication.
With the coverage of 5G network, the three operators have started a customer war, and the cooperation between WIMI and Mobile has enhanced the advantage of attracting customers. WIMI will bring at least millions or even tens of millions of users to the mobile consumer end, and China Mobile can also boost the development of VR/AR industry. WIMI hologram is mainly used for AR video, AR live broadcast and VR games, mainly with the help of 5G low-delay immersive experience, to bring unique consumer experience.
No matter how far VR/AR technologies will eventually reach in the future, domestic Internet companies have started to layout the market. With the development of The Times, the rising opportunity of WIMI has just begun, and ours future life will be more and more rich and satisfy.
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Conversational AI Trends for 2022.
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https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/conversational-ai-trends-for-2022
January 4, 2022
The Conversational AI sector made significant progress last year, as technological innovation and its adoption across international vertical markets drove growth and disruption for many of the industry’s key stakeholders, influencers, investors and organisations.
An even greater level of advancement is anticipated for the sector in 2022 as a number of developmental trends are set to define the next 12 months and beyond, according to industry experts from Artificial Solutions.
1. CAI joins the Omnichannel
As the volume of use cases grows across international markets, Conversational AI is quickly becoming a channel that marketeers, business owners and C-suite executives regard as essential for digital growth.
This year, we anticipate that CAI will join the likes of SEO, PPC, UX, UI, PR and Social Media as a core channel for businesses and enterprises to strategise around. As shown by the likes of ŠKODA and Swisscom in 2021, who committed significant resources towards their CAI teams and output.
“You might think of a chatbot as a helper that guides you through a website. It makes it easier for users to get oriented, saves time, and saves costs for companies. But a chatbot can also be seen as a sales tool and a means for collecting leads – potential customers. And that’s exactly how we work with digital assistants at ŠKODA.” Michal Reichl, Product Owner.
Investing resources correctly can drive results rivalling any major channel as a digital engagement and conversation tool. As a result, we anticipate that professionals working outside of the sector will become more aware of the potential of the technology and invest in their own education on the subject, driving the increase of marketers learning the skills required to build solutions. The greatest increase may come from content marketing specialists, who have a strong understanding of writing and communications.
For organizations investing in CAI, the question may be:
‘Do I train a developer to write or do I train a writer to develop?’
This may seem like an irrational point to make for those operating within the industry. You can’t just teach a social media guy to code, right? Granted, creating a complex CAI system is no breeze, however, the demand for software developers is at an all time high
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/09/09/rising-stars-of-the-tech-world-why-developers-are-job-market-royalty/?sh=a35ad7c8718e
and even higher for those with the skills to build conversational solutions. And so, the task may be handed to communications professionals as time moves on and the demand for developers grows.
By 2024, 80% of technology products and services will be built by those who are not technology professionals, according to Gartner.
“Growth in digital data, low-code development tools and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development are among the many factors that enable the democratization of technology development beyond IT professionals.” Rajesh Kandaswamy, Research Vice President, Gartner.
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-06-10-gartner-says-the-majority-of-technology-products-and-services-will-be-built-by-professionals-outside-of-it-by-2024
Therefore, the knock on effect of CAI becoming much more mainstream, may see a transformation in the jobs market and the skills listed on job descriptions across the CAI space.
2. True Data Encryption Reaches CAI
A chatbot can collect a vast amount of data from a single user during a short time and when that data is plugged into tools such as Microsoft’s Power BI,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsDQq3XTebg
the potential to generate insights and make key findings is limitless.
The key issue for some organisations is that user data can be sensitive and so, mining it for insights is prohibited. However, that may all be about to change as data encryption looks set to be incorporated into the industry.
“It’s exciting that we may have the power to encrypt data at ingestion, making it possible to use our technology even in the most sensitive data environments.” Per Ottosson, CEO, Artificial Solutions.
The volume of data gathered by retailers alone, is anticipated to surpass 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to Deloitte.
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/consumer-business/us-retail-privacy-survey-2019.pdf
Simply put, encryption will no longer be a ‘nice to have’ it will be a necessity for Conversational AI moving forward as the sheer volume of data it gathers will be so vast, that protecting it will be a serious challenge, especially if that data is sensitive.
However, if the data is encrypted at ingestion, this will add highly stringent protection at the earliest stage.
As the industry wakes up to the need for encryption, so will organisations utilizing it. As a result, a race to create encryption may ensue as it becomes the major selling point for providers of CAI tech.
3. Chat First, Visit Later?
Conversational AI solutions can now be built and integrated seamlessly with the likes of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and Google Assistant.
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/the-power-of-teneo-connectors-customer-experience
And as the volume of mobile phone messaging users increases YOY, it has become clear that businesses have an opportunity to own entire sales funnels via these apps and channels.
The technology is already yielding major results as proven by the likes of Kids DXB, which is a Dubai-based business that offers a variety of learning, sport and fun activities for children. They organize holiday camps, birthday parties and offer coaching for a variety of sports.
To improve customer acquisition and experience, the company created a WhatsApp assistant that not only gathers new lead data but also provides information about all of the services in a comprehensive and convenient manner.
With the added potential of in-app purchases, we expect that messaging app chatbots will rise significantly through the course of 2022 as businesses realize the potential offered by direct chat that takes place outside of their digital properties and websites.
“This year, I see a lot of companies taking serious ownership of their conversational AI journey and making it part of their overall strategy. It has to sit in there in the long run, next to the more traditional channels. It will be exciting to see how our clients work with their implementations in that way with their strategic, long term goals.” Britta G. M. Jensen, Lead Conversational AI Consultant, Artificial Solutions.
4. Sustainability and C02 Reductions
The Conversational AI sector has a role to play in helping to reduce global C02 emissions and the importance of doing so is more important than ever before.
We´re not going to throw all kinds of scary statistics at you in this section, because we all know how serious the situation is, don’t we?
For the CAI industry, there is a direct impact that can be made through the implementation of its technology across international markets, especially with businesses that operate with contact centres.
Using a single CAI solution, an organization could reduce its energy consumption drastically. Customers would spend less time on the phone waiting if a complex voice bot could guide them to a resolution before a human reaches them. Furthermore, reducing the need for customer assistants to travel to a large centre could significantly reduce C02 emissions for a single company.
Leaders across the CAI sector are also making a concerted effort to reduce their impact on the environment.
https://vui.agency/en/blog/sustainability-in-action-at-vui-agency-in-2021
If you would like to know how you or your business can be more sustainable, consider switching your internet browser to Ecosia.
https://www.ecosia.org/?c=en
If you operate in the tech sector its a ‘no brainer’ as each search helps to plant a tree in an area of the world that the NGO is working to reforest.
See the video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDA1ynrHTU&t=13s
You can even sign up your entire organisation and receive a unique tracking code which keeps count of all of the trees you’ll be responsible for planting, allowing you to make a carbon offset calculation each month.
5. Next-Gen Chat
Issues surrounding inequality and diversity
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/automation-ai-addressing-inequality
are never far away from any future trends discussion, so you may think that the nuances of the subject have been fully exhausted by now, but from a CAI perspective, there is a unique angle that few of you are likely to have considered.
The next phase of CAI is expected to centre on bots with real personality and with a level of character that we have yet to experience. And so, with greater thought and experience being used to develop bots with , the importance on diversity enters the conversation.
“Diversity is becoming a higher priority for Generation Z and employer practices and culture are going to increasingly be weighted by their focus and results in building a stronger culture of inclusion.” Gavriella Schuster, Advisory Board Chairwoman, Artificial Solutions
The importance of language and dialect is clear enough. An internationally deployed chatbot needs to be able to straddle boarders and communicate with users in their native language and this is exemplified by the focus on languages on the Teneo platform, which has over 86 languages available to developers. But is language simply enough?
“A conversational interface enables the most direct and intuitive way of interacting with your customers. Imagine your assistant persona as being an employee or visionary of your company or organization.”
“You’d want them to be knowledgeable, empathetic, and polite in any conversation. You would also maybe imagine them showing presence, aware of the context, and knowing when to be silent and listen in any conversational situation.” Dr. Laura Dreessen, Senior Voice Architect, VUI Agency.
With this in mind, wouldn’t you want your organization to also have a voice that connects to people from a diverse mix of backgrounds?
This may well become the next big challenge for the CAI sector, but it´s one that is worth following closely over the next year. We´re certainly looking forward to hearing about chatbots that have been created to connect with a specific minority community or group, much like the one featured in Wired here.
https://www.wired.com/story/digital-assistant-smart-device-gender-identity/
6. Rules of the Game
As the evolution and revolution of the tech sector rolls on, growing calls are being made to create legislation that has oversight of what is being created and why.
Prominently, the European Commission has proposed 3 inter related legal initiatives that will contribute to building trustworthy AI in 2022 and beyond.
They consist of:
- A European legal framework for AI to address fundamental rights and safety risks specific to the AI systems.
- EU rules to address liability issues related to new technologies, including AI systems (last quarter 2021-first quarter 2022);
- A revision of sectoral safety legislation (e.g. Machinery Regulation, General Product Safety Directive, second quarter 2021).
The the implementation of GDPR and the protection it provides to users and their data has been a major success and data breaches are now treated as extremely serious matters by businesses in Europe. Bad practices, such as database sales, have been wiped away and we are all the better for it.
Regulation can often be seen as a negative influence when it comes to the development of technology, however, in order to protect the burgeoning AI sector in Europe and to prevent regulation getting in the way of pregress, industry the EU is offering major investment as part of its proposal.
“The Commission and Member States agreed to boost excellence in AI by joining forces on AI policy and investment. The revised Coordinated Plan on AI outlines a vision to accelerate, act, and align priorities with the current European and global AI landscape and bring AI strategy into action.”
“Maximising resources and coordinating investments is a critical component of the Commission’s AI strategy. Through the Digital Europe and Horizon Europe programmes, the Commission plans to invest €1 billion per year in AI. It will mobilise additional investments from the private sector and the Member States in order to reach an annual investment volume of €20 billion over the course of the digital decade.”
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https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-approach-artificial-intelligence
7. Our Future Ahead
Finally, we asked our team what excites them the most about the next 12 months and what else they predict for the near future.
Per Ottosson, CEO
“I´ m excited about the potential that SaaS and Azure bring to our clients, saving big amounts of CO2 and scaling effortlessly. And we will replace the IVRs during 2022. I also think that Google overstated the potential in their Agent Assists solution ability to go to automation and that will be a big news story in 2022.”
Recommended read: “Kai-Fu Lees book AI Superpowers. Read it and you will decide to dive straight into your AI projects.”
Gavriella Schuster, Chairwoman of the Advisory Board
“The great resignation shows no sign of slowdown. With the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, employees are rethinking their priorities and their current jobs. In order for employers to retain their employees they are going to have to reconsider inclusion and engagement strategies like flexible work, family leave and ways to further include and engage all of their staff.”
“My ambition for 2022 is to build a community of allies who will support and mentor each other on their journey to a better understanding of what it means to be an ally. A community committed to learning how to lead with compassion, empathy, and to work with intention to use their power and privilege to help woman and other underrepresented minorities to thrive in the workforce.”
Read Artificial Solutions Diversity Manifesto, here.
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/artificial-solutions-our-diversity-manifesto
Britta G. M. Jensen, Lead Conversational AI Consultant
“I have always found the broad span of projects – sectors, channels, scopes, use cases – amazing. There are so many options! I am always curious to see what new ideas and implementations are brought to life based on the ideas of the people sitting and defining the conversational AI user experience that is right for their company. I also think we are going to see some great advances in the NLU field with more sophisticated learning algorithms.”
Recommended read: Don’t miss out on all the good stuff that is being shared in the Forum on Teneo Developers.
https://community.teneo.ai/
Linette Manuel, Developer Advocate
“I am really excited to see more use cases that incorporate predictive models and leverage data in the conversation design. From the perspective of the evolution of human computer interaction I am looking forward to seeing expansion to other technologies, such as AR or VR or any Metaverses.”
“I would love to look back on 2022 at the end of the year and see a big amount of progress in the development of our Teneo Community.”
https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/teneo-platform/?viewAsMember=true
Recommended read: QualityLand is a great satiric fiction, from the educational books I would recommend of course Cathy Pearl’s Book Designing Voice User interfaces or Voice Technology in Healthcare, written by Teri Fisher, Harry P. Pappas, Sandhya Pruthi and David Metcalf.
Best Practices for Smart IVR Use Cases in Contact Centers.
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https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/best-practices-for-smart-ivr-use-cases-in-contact-centers
January 3, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges into our lives. Different industries had to adjust their businesses and shift customer interactions to the virtual online space. Many companies that were doubtful about adopting new approaches and leveraging automation were urged to explore different strategies to ensure and sustain excellent customer care and voice bots emerged as one of the leading technologies to support contact centers, with Intelligent IVR recording significant new traction.
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/the-power-of-teneo-connectors-customer-experience
This article is here to give you:
• Good examples of Intelligent IVRs
• Best practices on how to implement an Intelligent IVR system
• Steps to take into consideration
• Necessary clues to replace your old IVR
Voice is not enough – multimodal approach is the key
The IVR, or Interactive Voice Response,
https://www.ttec.com/glossary/interactive-voice-response
has been considered the father of VUI (Voice User Interface), starting the great era of voice interaction in the early 2000s.
Technology has become a standard for contact centers. Most of us, however, have unpleasant associations with IVRs. “Press nine if you are interested in orders. Press two if you want to cancel your order.”
Many of us have been stuck in the loop of long key pressing. Not to mention the frustration of hitting the wrong number. If we were lucky enough and the IVR was well designed, we were given an option to start over.
The keypress assignment was not the original idea of IVR. In fact, the first IVRs were designed to understand voice commands, but the interaction shifted towards buttons due to the early stage of speech recognition technologies. Since then, we have witnessed a massive improvement in speech recognition technologies.
It makes perfect sense that the contact centers are cycling back to the original purpose of IVRs and pushing the borders even further with a multimodal approach, taking advantage of the best qualities that voice, touch, and text interactions offer.
Use and design of Intelligent Routing Systems for IVR
What is the best use case for voice assistants? The idea of choosing the correct use case to automate fully has to be decided carefully. However, the contact center you are designing a voice bot for does not need to start with full automation of your customer care processes. Helping your customers connect to the right agent as quickly as possible is a perfect start.
Businesses have started to implement Intelligent Routing into their contact centers. When designed appropriately, intelligent routing can cut down the time customers spend in the “virtual lobbies,” the overall average handling time, increase overall customer satisfaction and help with the increase of the NPS (Net Promoter Score).
As Conversational Designers, we always need to ensure that we won’t recreate the unpleasant associations with Smart IVRs. It is always good to avoid any loops your customers may be stuck in.
How you design your voice solution matters. Train your voice bot to understand that the customer wants to be transferred to a human agent and avoid too much stubbornness. Think about different users. Voice technologies are yet at the beginning of the path towards inclusiveness.
https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/automation-ai-addressing-inequality
Adding a rule that will hand over the call to a human agent can be appreciated not only by customers with speech difficulties
Remember, the goal is to help route the customer to the right human agent promptly.
Your contact center might be quite robust, therefore building an intelligent routing system can seem to be a challenge. However, the existing data of interactions with your customers are an excellent resource for you. Take your time to analyze any recordings, e-mails, and live chat messages to help you design your flows and enrich your training and testing datasets.
The leverage of customers’ data can increase your NPS
Your prior interactions with customers have even more advantages. Proper use of the gathered information supports the happy path of the interaction between the customer and the digital assistant. Moreover, it helps achieve a seamless handover.
Make your assistant smarter, use personalized interactions such as addressed greetings, and apply a set of rules to predict why the customer is calling. Use the available data from your CRMs, trace behavioral anomalies and apply them to your conversational solutions.
Usages of predictive rules and models can be seen across different industries. An example from retail can be a customer calling the day after not receiving his package. There is a considerable probability that his call is regarding the unfulfilled delivery. The voice bot can lead the conversation and ask right away if the customer’s call is about his undelivered package.
In the Telco industry, predictions can be applied on irregular amounts on the customer’s invoice, reoccurring calls during widespread service outages, and even to support the upsell of your product. The digital assistant does not need to handle the sale itself. Instead, it can cleverly find out the customer’s interest and redirect the call to your most successful sales agent.
Repetitive IVR tasks can be fully automated
There are several use-cases that the digital assistant can fully automate. For example, transport companies and travel agencies use fully automated digital assistants to cancel or change tickets and provide information about the travel conditions and terms.
In retail, we can frequently encounter automated bot handling changes in delivery details, extensions of package storage duration, canceling of any orders. Moreover, several voice bots are trained to schedule meetings or medical examinations. The Telecommunication industry holds several successful use cases, from small ones such as resetting PINs or blocking SIM cards to more complex solutions – a digital assistant guiding a customer to troubleshoot their router.
Many of your users will appreciate the 24/7 availability of your voice assistant. Working hours should not be an obstacle to blocking your credit card.
The general hesitations about leaving the voice bot to handle the conversation without human intervention come from a reasonable fear of voice technologies’ limits and previous poor experience. Correctly chosen use-case and multimodal approach, combined with omnichannel strategy, are the best rules to follow.
When analyzing your customers’ input data, look for the common variables. Unlike chatbots, voice bots have difficulties handling names, e-mails, and numbers with several digits. Several speech-to-text providers such as Google or Microsoft enable you to add data into the speech training models to slightly adjust speech recognition to your needs.
Despite this great option, you might still think of several workarounds for your solution. There is so much you as a conversational designer and your team can do to provide the best user experience and minimize bumps in the road with voice solutions.
Add some code into your flows and pull any valuable data from your CRMs. Don’t make your customers repeat information you already have. Details like names, addresses, or e-mails are usually linked to your customer’s account. Shorten the identification process and use the phone number to identify your customer at the beginning of your call.
If confirmations of these details are necessary, design your voice assistant to be proactive in the conversation, not passive. For example, a question like “Am I speaking to Mr. Henderson?” narrows the likelihood of incomprehension and leads the customer to a more straightforward answer.
In comparison, the question “Can you tell me your name?” not only risks the wrong transcription but can also seem unprofessional when asking a client your company bills each month for your provided service.
Gaining the skill of Pronunciation Lexicon and Speech Synthesis Markup Language or adding a member to your team with this particular skill set is a great advantage and can ameliorate the pronunciation of uncommon words and names.
If your customer is calling from an unknown number, make sure to store the data for any further interactions. Know your customers and help your digital assistant to know your customers. Assure your solution is GDPR compliant. Ask for consent, and handle your customer’s private data carefully.
You may want to automate processes that require a higher level of security. For today’s article, let’s omit the voice biometrics option, which would need an article itself, and look at more standard practices, such as PINs and security codes.
When asking for any security code, think of the minimal amount of digits your digital assistant needs to identify your user. A multimodal approach can be handy if the number is longer than four digits. Ask your user to type the number on their phone. Therefore, your voice bot won’t struggle with the comprehension of the number. Moreover, the customer can easily see, check, and change their number.
In some cases, you might need to get precise details from your customer. Be authentic, meet the client halfway, and let them type the specific information via their preferred channel. Is your customer’s preferred channel Whatsapp? Be proactive and send a reminder message immediately after the call.
Creating a successful digital assistant requires several building blocks, such as perfect conversational flows with clever and engaging copywriting and the application of predictive rules or models. However, once done, it can result in a powerful solution that can leverage the business potential and improve the customers’ level of satisfaction reflected on your NPS.
Cogobuy (00400) and Chinasoft International (00354) strategic technology cooperation to deploy OpenHarmony into the tens of billions of AIoT industry market.
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January 06, 2022 21:10 Zhitong Finance APP
Zhitong Finance APP learned that on January 6, Cogobuy (00400) announced the signing of a strategic technology cooperation agreement with Chinasoft International (00354). As an industrial connector, Ketong relies on its technology and resources in the chip field, combined with Chinasoft International's software capabilities and technology accumulation in the AIoT industry, and the two parties have joined forces to jointly promote the application of OpenHarmony in related ecosystems and industries.
Cogobuy's Cogobuy Technology and ChinaSoft International will integrate and launch a complete "OpenHarmony+" solution suite to empower smart finance, smart city, industrial manufacturing, new energy, car networking and other industries, and further promote smart hardware and Technical application standardization.
In addition, the two parties plan to complete the joint development of the OpenHarmony collaborative innovation platform within 2022, and establish a complete technical service capability in Suzhou, Yancheng, Tianjin and other places.
It is understood that Ketong Technology mainly provides chip application design solutions and marketing services for domestic AIoT smart hardware companies, connecting with more than 50% of the world’s high-end chip suppliers and many top domestic chip companies, and serving more than 100 upstream global companies. High-end chip suppliers and tens of thousands of AIoT smart hardware companies downstream. The launch of the "OpenHarmony+" solution kit helps customers in the downstream smart hardware field to quickly complete the development and mass production of smart hardware products in an efficient way with low code and low R&D costs.
Mr. Kang Jingwei, Chief Executive Officer of Cogobuy, said: "As the demand for chips and AIoT technology applications continues to increase, the Group has long been aware of new market opportunities and has released the first BMS module for power batteries based on Hongmeng Software. It will launch the OpenHarmony solution in financial terminals. The group actively implants OpenHarmony into tens of billions of smart hardware products, strategically deploys the AIoT industry chain market, and is expected to be driven by the strong demand for chip business and the new OpenHarmony business. The business will grow strongly.”
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All Capstone Industries Inc. Trademark & Patent Filings:
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USPTO Trademark & Patent Filings
Trademark applications and grants for Capstone Industries, Inc.. Capstone Industries, Inc. has 50 trademark applications. The latest application filed is for "CAPSTONE CONNECTED"
https://uspto.report/TM/90758255
Status: LIVE APPLICATION Awaiting Examination
Timeline
2021-06-07 Application Filed
2021-06-10 Location: NEW APPLICATION PROCESSING
2021-06-10 Status: Live/Pending
2021-06-10 Status: New application will be assigned to an examining attorney approximately 3 months after filing date.
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2020-10-29 Application Filed
2020-11-02 Location: NEW APPLICATION PROCESSING
2020-11-02 Status: Live/Pending
2020-11-02 Transaction Date
2021-05-11 Published
2021-07-06 Location: INTENT TO USE SECTION
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Status LIVE APPLICATION Under Examination
Timeline
2020-07-10 Application Filed
2020-07-14 Location: NEW APPLICATION PROCESSING
2020-07-14 Status: Live/Pending
2020-07-14 Transaction Date
2020-10-28 Location: TMO LAW OFFICE 116 - EXAMINING ATTORNEY ASSIGNED
2020-10-28 Status: A non-final Office action has been sent (issued) to the applicant. This is a letter from the examining attorney requiring additi
The product placement of the smart mirrors has been significantly delayed because many CAPSTONE CONNECTED trademark registrations have been refused or invalidated.
There have been several in the past CAPSTONE CONNECTED trademark registrations have been rejected or invalidated:
https://uspto.report/TM/88206869
Status: DEAD APPLICATION Refused Dismissed or Invalidated
Timeline
2018-11-27 Application Filed
2019-01-01 Date of First Use
2019-01-01 Date of Use In Commerce
2019-04-09 Published
2019-04-09 Published for Opposition
2019-07-31 Location: TMEG LAW OFFICE 109 - EXAMINING ATTORNEY ASSIGNED
2019-07-31 Status: Live/Pending
2019-07-31 Transaction Date
2020-08-19 Location: TMEG LAW OFFICE 109 - EXAMINING ATTORNEY ASSIGNED
2020-08-19 Status: Abandoned because the applicant failed to respond or filed a late response to an Office action. To view all documents in this fi
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Status: DEAD APPLICATION Refused Dismissed or Invalidated
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2018-11-20 Application Filed
2019-09-04 Abandon
2019-09-25 Location: TMO LAW OFFICE 115 - EXAMINING ATTORNEY ASSIGNED
2019-09-25 Status: Abandoned because the applicant failed to respond or filed a late response to an Office action. To view all documents in this fi
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2018-04-12 Application Filed
2019-02-04 Abandon
2019-02-27 Location: TMO LAW OFFICE 113 - EXAMINING ATTORNEY ASSIGNED
2019-02-27 Status: Dead/Abandoned
2019-02-27 Transaction Date
Inventory of the 3 major trends of technology investment in 2022, Metaverse, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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2021-12-30 18:23 HKT
U.S. stocks fluctuated at the end of the year, and some technology stocks fell. The market turbulence may continue until 2022. However, short-term fluctuations do not change long-term trends, especially in technology investment. Stock picking is picking industries, and high-growth industries can often give birth to more big bull stocks.
Looking forward to 2022, the three stocks of Microsoft, Snowflake and WiMi Hologram will be involved in the three major trends of technology investment:
- cloud computing,
- data analysis and
- Metaverse.
Cloud Computing: Microsoft (MSFT.US)
In the era of telecommuting, company operations are widely distributed in different countries, and cloud computing has become an indispensable data processing infrastructure. By 2026, the cloud computing market is expected to more than double to $947 billion. In sharp contrast, the cloud service market is controlled by a few technology giants, one of which is Microsoft.
Among Microsoft's three business sectors, cloud computing may have the least knowledge of people, but the volume is the largest, accounting for more than 37% of the company's total revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022, and the growth rate is much higher than the company as a whole income. During the 2019-2021 fiscal year, the compound annual growth rate of Microsoft's cloud business revenue was 24%, and the total revenue growth rate during the same period was only 15%.
The driving force of Microsoft's cloud business is Azure. The platform provides more than 200 different products and services, and some also rely on high-end technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. These technologies can be used to analyze voice and pictures, and even use data to make predictions. However, Azure also faces high-demand services such as application development, security, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Data analysis: Snowflake (SNOW.US)
Ninety percent of the world's data has been created in the past two years, and the amount of data is expected to double in two years. The rapid growth of data has brought huge demand for data analysis and processing, so data management companies such as Snowflake Inc. have emerged.
Snowflake provides on-demand data warehouse services. Customers do not charge for storing data, but only charge for querying and accessing data. Therefore, it has attracted a large number of customers. The number of customers in the company's third quarter increased by 52% year-on-year to 5,416. However, the company's real potential lies in data analysis. The greater the amount of data, the greater the need for client companies to analyze data. This business model has also been financially successful. The number of Snowflake customers who spent more than $1 million in the third quarter increased by 128% year-on-year to 148. In addition, customers who spent $100 a year ago now spend an average of $173.
The company expects the market size to reach $90 billion, so the sales and marketing expenses in the third quarter, as well as R&D expenses as high as $306 million, directly led to a loss of $155 million in the quarter, accounting for approximately 46% of revenue. Although huge losses, but in exchange for market share and new products.
Meta Universe: WiMi Hologram (WIMI.US)
Every technological iteration and innovation will mean a new opportunity, a new challenge, and a new beginning at the same time. With the help of "Meta Universe" energy, the global technology market is ushering in a feast of capital. Morgan Stanley believes that the market size of Meta Universe will reach 8 trillion U.S. dollars. Holography is an active participant in this Internet revolution.
WiMi Hologram holds a number of key patents and holographic content of the Metaverse in the fields of Metaverse, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The current investments include Cloud View Research, Wuxi Sandiren Culture, Simaiyun, Yunfan VR, Shenghuo Technology, Zhida Culture and many other holographic industry companies, in order to open up the holographic upstream and downstream platforms and build a complete Metaverse industry with expansion potential chain. And rapidly develop 3D, AI, and AR technologies, make every effort to build an AR+AI vision platform, and continue to build a fully immersive digital community.
With the continuous improvement of the virtual reality industry policy and continuous promotion of technological innovation and application innovation, the virtual reality industry is one of the key industries of the future digital economy. The virtual reality industry promotes 3D graphics generation, dynamic environment modeling, real-time motion capture, fast rendering processing, etc. Technological innovation. Meta Universe needs AR/VR, cloud computing, AI, 5G and other advanced technology assistance. WiMi Hologram has a certain technical foundation to enter Meta Universe in the professional field. From another perspective, the essence is that WiMi Hologram raises the ceiling of its own development. Further deepen the action in the field of holography.
WiMi Hologram strategically invests in Silome Technology to jointly build a VR/AR industry application ecosystem.
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2021-12-29 21:18 HKT
Since the development of the global VR/AR industry, it has gone through the concept period, the vent period and the cold winter period, and is currently in a new wave of growth stage.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence, VR/AR and other technologies will change people's freedom, social interaction and life. Through interactive and immersive experiences, the body and spatial consciousness will interact, breaking the limitations of time and space, and changing the production and lifestyle. In the process of digital transformation, AR/VR will play a role no less than big data, etc. It will become a digital transformation weapon together with emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.
According to IDC statistics, in 2020, the global AR/VR market-related expenditure will be US$12.07 billion, with a compound growth rate of 54% in the future, while the size of the Chinese market is approximately US$6.6 billion, with a compound growth rate of 47% in the next few years. Among them, the current market size of the four major links of hardware, content, software, and services accounted for 37%, 36%, 19%, and 8%, respectively.
At present, VR/AR technology has entered the “+ era” of industry application. VR/AR technology will be widely used in various industries such as medical field, education field, industrial field, smart city, art and entertainment, and scientific computing visualization. In the future, VR/AR will have more commercial scenarios to be explored in industry applications, and targeted solutions to application pain points in the market. The large bandwidth and low latency of 5G will change the form and experience of VR/AR products, release more industry solutions, and bring possibilities for the disruptive outbreak of VR/AR, the market for digital VR/AR system solutions The application prospect is huge.
Founded in 2014, Shenzhen Shilemei Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a professional digital VR/AR system solution provider. The company is an innovative company with creative content as its main focus and multi-dimensional professional capabilities such as scene innovation and technology research and development. Technology companies. The company focuses on the development and research of software and hardware systems and industry application solutions in the fields of computer vision, digital imaging, VR, and AR. Relying on natural open interaction, somatosensory control, VR and AR technologies, customize and develop various interesting, novel, innovative and fun content applications, and provide customers in various industries with digital VR/AR system solutions that integrate software and hardware. Vertical To build a system of products and solutions based on the VR/AR+ industry. At present, most of the customers served by the company are government enterprises and listed companies, and the customer resources are high-quality and stable. The company's digital VR/AR system solutions are now widely used in smart cities, cultural tourism, education, games and other fields, and the company has a number of related software copyrights and works copyrights.
In 2020, Silomey Information also received a strategic investment from WiMi Hologram (NASDAQ: WIMI), the world's first holographic Metaverse AR listed company.
Public information shows that since its establishment, WiMi.US has focused on various professional technical research work in the field of holographic technology, and has a variety of holographic application technologies for the integration of hardware technology and 3D multimedia holographic application technology. In addition, it also has a variety of content IP property rights for integration investment, based on the explosive dividends of the global holographic industry development, gathering top AR holographic media and technology companies in various fields, and reaching strategic investment cooperation to create an industry holographic industry chain. WiMi Hologram will face the new application ecology of the 5G era, and build an industry holographic ecosystem through the strategic upgrade of technology 5G + cloud + AI.
WiMi Hologram strategically invests in Haibaichuan, AI-Star builds a Metaverse AI squeeze face.
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2021-12-29 18:05 HKT
Beijing Haibaichuan Technology Co., Ltd. is an artificial intelligence technology company. Based on deep learning of artificial intelligence, it has built an AI film-level visual generation system that can replace faces, objects and sounds in the video, and the effect can meet the requirements of film and television. Haibaichuan has received a strategic investment from the world's first Metaverse holographic AR listed company WiMi Hologram (NASDAQ: WIMI).
WiMi Hologram focuses on computer vision holographic cloud services. It is one of the better Metaverse holographic cloud industry integrated entities in China in terms of scale, coverage, and performance. The goal is to become a holographic cloud platform with potential and international influence. Haibaichuan also won the "2020 China Technology Entrepreneurship Association Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Contribution Award" issued by China Technology Entrepreneurship Association. The company's "AI-Star Artificial Intelligence Visual Generation" project is currently used in film and television drama artificial intelligence visual processing and clothing virtual trial installation. , Education, cultural and blog video beauty, virtual stars and corporate exhibitions and other services have applications.
The demand for video in the 5G era is massive. Based on the deep learning film and television-level high-definition video generation algorithm, Beijing Haibaichuan Technology Co., Ltd. has built an AI film-level visual generation system that can generate faces, makeup, clothing, scenes, and objects in the video. Harmony and sound, the effect can meet the requirements of film and television level. Randomly generate video scenes, character actions, based on AI, you can also customize virtual scenes in the Metaverse.
The extremely low-cost generation of artificial intelligence video is bound to explode; Haibaichuan has a national call center, mobile network information service and multi-party communication license issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Its coverage is all over the country. China Telecom has conducted in-depth cooperation on video value-added services and card issuance promotion. It has successively obtained the national high-tech enterprise certification, the Zhongguancun high-tech enterprise certification, and the listing of the New Fourth Board incubator enterprise. It has 60 intellectual property certifications.
In the Metaverse concept of the recent fire, each user will have his own image in the future, and low-cost visual generation will speed up the process of the Metaverse. WiMi Hologram established the Meta Universe Division this year to explore the new functions and underlying technologies of Meta Universe, including graphics processing, algorithms and natural language processing. The core of WiMi Hologram is to strengthen the technical cornerstones through technical iterations, revolve around 5G, artificial intelligence, edge computing, display technology and other basic technology updates and iterations, and promote the continuous improvement of the underlying ecosystem of Metaverse software. Compared with other technological development directions of the Metaverse, WiMi Hologram and Haibaichuan are more focused on the innovation of the multi-faceted foundation of the future Metaverse.
Why are the major Internet giants vying to lay out the "meta universe".
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2021-12-28 19:52 HKT
The five dimensions will lead you to know:
Professor Shen of Tsinghua University believes that Metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies and integrates virtual and reality, which closely integrates the economic system, social system, and identity system of the virtual world and the real world. Why are the major Internet giants scrambling to lay out the meta-universe? It can be understood that the end of the Internet may be the meta universe!
The mobile Internet dividend has reached its peak and has begun to fade. As a carrier of the integration of the virtual world and the real world, Metaverse contains huge opportunities for the transformation of social, travel, games, office and other scenarios.
NFT aspect
As a non-homogeneous token, NFT is different from Bitcoin's equivalent token, which is indivisible and unique. With this characteristic, NFT has become a digital certificate for anchoring various assets. NFT is equivalent to a certificate of ownership. In addition to the artwork mentioned above, game skins, equipment, virtual real estate, etc., can all be anchored through NFT. With this anchoring, NFT can greatly improve the tradability of digital content.
Alibaba launched the NFT trading platform AntChain Fandian, Tencent launched the NFT trading platform Magic Core App, and NetEase's Sansan Studio and Nervina Labs, The NFT project "Little Sheep Three Commemorative Gold Coins" was issued.
Regarding the meta-universe, Luo Yonghao once quoted the view: When we live in the virtual world for much longer than the time in the real world, the meta-universe will come. He believes that this moment will come in the next five to ten years. Therefore, NFT has a bright future. For the wealthy, the early adopters of NFT is an art investment experiment full of fun and demonstrating taste. But for ordinary people, betting on NFT is a wealth risk.
AI aspect
Artificial intelligence is becoming a part of life. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be the focus of discussion. For many of us, the term "artificial intelligence" reminds us of science fiction movies and the fear of humans in movies about robots taking over the world. With the development of computer and information technology, this problem has attracted many people's attention. Like many technological developments in history, the advancement of artificial intelligence has triggered people's worries that manpower will be eliminated. The reality is not so terrible, but it may be more complicated.
According to news, "Greece" will be open to all users on December 27, when Baidu Create 2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference) will be held in "Greece".
Baidu Vice President Ma Jie talked about the AI ??aspect of Metaverse:
I think it's the same as when we looked at Metaverse now. We now want to create a virtual world. We now have a cloud. Now we are building a website. , Regardless of Baidu Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, you can buy a virtual space soon, and you can start uploading the first line of code immediately. If you are a little familiar, this website will already exist online after an hour. This is ours The power brought by the social infrastructure of the times. If we want to do a good job in the infrastructure of the cloud in the meta-universe era, just like now you want to build a website, you can go to Baidu cloud to buy a machine and quickly activate it, and you hope that the meta-universe is like this, it will be a very beautiful thing , Everyone can quickly create their own ideas and release their imagination. This is the most worthwhile place for everyone. We want to build the infrastructure.
AR/VR aspect
Using AR/VR as the interface to enter a virtual world parallel to reality and give people an immersive experience is one of the main understandings of the meta-universe concept.
WiMi Hologram, which has always had the title of "Meta Universe Holographic AR First Unit" in China , its holographic cloud and AR/VR industry has been growing rapidly . It has just released AR/VR headsets recently. New equipment products, dedicated to the research and development of 3D technology and holographic technology, to help improve the user experience of Meta universe.
Due to the surging concept of Metaverse, the market pays more attention to its AR/VR. In order to improve the global R&D layout of Metaverse, WiMi Hologram has developed innovative applications in the AR/VR/MR industry. At the same time, through investment and acquisition of Yunguan Research and Wuxi Sandiren Many Metaverse AR industry companies such as Culture, Simaiyun, Yunfan VR, Shenghuo Technology, and Zhida Culture have established a huge technology research and development ecosystem to consolidate the holographic AR industry.
At the moment, Meta Universe is so hot, AR/VR products are indispensable in Meta Universe. IDC predicts that the shipment of VR headsets will increase from about 5 million units in 2020 to more than 2,800 in 2025. Million units. AR headset shipments are expected to increase from approximately 300,000 units in 2020 to 21 million units in 2025. Various signs indicate that WiMi Hologram has grasped the growth opportunities of the Metaverse market through continuous improvement of the Metaverse product matrix, and is expected to expand its market share in the Metaverse in the future, which is expected to bring long-term value to shareholders.
cloud service
To put it simply, cloud service is to provide cloud computing services. A software usage and delivery model that provides IT resources on demand through the Internet and uses a pay-per-use pricing method. This model is based on subscription licensing and centralized hosting. Gartner predicts that in 2020 alone, cloud services will generate nearly $105 billion in revenue. This is $20 billion higher than Gartner's estimate a year ago (2019).
Alibaba Cloud is currently the leading public cloud service provider in China and Asia, ranking third in the world, second only to Amazon and Microsoft. This division is currently Alibaba's fastest-growing business, despite the loss of a major customer Bytedance just a few months ago. Compared with the same period last year, the average growth of cloud computing revenue in the first half of the year exceeded 30%, and it is expected that it will gain further momentum in the second half of the year. Alibaba's cloud computing business will enjoy the dividends of a large number of corporate IT infrastructures migrated to the cloud in the future. In the past two years, 60% of the main directions of corporate investment have been in the cloud computing field, and 50% of the investment targets are start-ups. In the long run, this trend is expected to continue.
Alibaba's recently launched server chip is more advanced than the processors provided by industry leaders Intel and AMD, and is expected to handle more complex and demanding workloads. At the same time, Alibaba's virtual productivity and collaboration tool DingTalk is similar to the Microsoft team. As the epidemic continues, it is expected that remote work businesses will benefit in the next few years. DingTalk is currently one of China's leading workplace messaging and collaboration applications, with more than 500 million active users worldwide.
Application scenario
Meta universe, as a new concept that can meet the spiritual needs of human beings and the growth space of the Internet market at the same time, has been paid attention to by many tracks. Among them, the smart home field has stood out in many tracks due to its widespread adoption of automated electrical products and rapid user growth, and has become one of the most likely application scenarios for meta-universe landing.
The basic structure of the smart home is no different from the "meta universe". Moreover, in an environment where the shipment of smart homes in China has grown substantially, many technology companies have aimed at the new field of "Meta Universe".
The meta universe mainly covers a seven-layer structure:
- infrastructure,
- human-computer interaction,
- decentralization,
- spatial computing,
- creator ecology,
- exploration, and
- experience.
At this stage, many companies have begun to deploy the "meta universe" value chain. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, AWS, Microsoft and other companies have long been entrenched in the "meta universe" infrastructure layer; while Apple, Huawei and other companies have been deployed in the human-computer interaction layer. The participation of many global leading companies has made this concept a favorite.
The Internet of Things is a technological revolution that represents the future of computing and communication. At present, there are 20 billion Internet of Things connected devices in the world, and the next 5-10 years will reach trillions of connections.
According to data from China Business Intelligence Network, China has become the world's largest IoT market at the end of 2019. Among the 1.5 billion cellular network connection devices in the world, 960 million are from China, accounting for 64%; and, China's smart homes are now The ecology has already begun to scale, and the future integration trend is a foregone conclusion.
Although Metaverse has a promising future, the current Metaverse industry as a whole is still at an early stage. From the perspective of computing power conditions, network technology, and expanded reality, the underlying architectures such as mobile communications, big data, and artificial intelligence are still major bottlenecks. What else will happen in the future? In the "meta universe" era, anything is possible!
@Frenchy2016 WIMI continuously invests strategically in companies.
As a partner or through takeovers.
Unfortunately, I cannot answer whether WIMI will cooperate with Baidu.
The business areas of WIMI and Baidu are very multifaceted.
The business areas of WIMI and Baidu can certainly cross and lead to cooperation.
My following report (Post #487 - Why are the major Internet giants vying to lay out the "meta universe" ) may help you..
GF Securities: Maintain China Software International (00354) "Buy" rating at a reasonable value of HK$15.6
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December 29, 2021 10:19 Zhitong Finance APP
Zhitong Finance APP learned that GF Securities released a research report stating that it maintains China Software International (00354) "Buy" rating. It is expected that the net profit attributable to the parent will be 12.32/15.94/2.044 billion yuan in 2021-23, and the PE will be 20.2/15.6/12.1 times. , To 25 times PE valuation in 22 years, get a reasonable value of 15.6 Hong Kong dollars.
Company announcement: Transfer of 50.83% equity of Shenzhen Kaihong to Hongju Innovation for 76.25 million yuan; At the same time, Hubble, CCB Chinasoft International and Hongju Innovation have injected 200 million yuan into Shenzhen Kaihong. After the completion of the transfer and capital injection, the shareholding structure of Shenzhen Kaihong is as follows: the company holds 19.5%, Yixin Technology (behind Shenzhen State-owned Assets) holds 29.5%, Huawei Hubble holds 20%, and Hongju Innovation holds 31%. .
The main views of GF Securities are as follows:
Shenzhen Kaihong was established under the leadership of the company and introduced strategic investments such as Shenzhen SASAC and Huawei. The company's shareholding was reduced to 19.5%, which is mainly to facilitate Shenzhen Kaihong's follow-up and better development of credit and innovation business.
The shareholding of the Shenzhen SASAC and Huawei Hubble recognizes ChinaSoft International’s ecological capabilities in Hongmeng and can introduce industry resources. Chinasoft International can provide more in-depth services for AIoT, intelligence, and digitalization in various industries, and at the same time, it is actively promoting Hongmeng’s ecological development. Penetration and operation of various industries.
Shenzhen Kaihong is an important platform for the company to expand Hongmeng’s ecological incremental business. Shenzhen Kaihong is positioned as a research and development company with high-tech talents. It mainly produces Hongmeng OS release products. The ecological services (solutions and other services) based on this are mainly provided by Chinasoft International Wait for the company to complete it in collaboration.
With reference to the mobile operating system and ecological value experience, the value ratio of OS products and ecological services can reach 1:6 or even 1:10, and the space for ecological services is very large. Therefore, despite the decline in the shareholding ratio at the OS development level, it has brought about a larger ecological business. At the same time, since Shenzhen Kaihong's early-stage R&D investment expenditure is expected to be relatively large, the impact of non-consolidation on the financial burden of listed companies will also be relatively small. ChinaSoft International has launched strategic cooperation with leading industry customers in industries such as industry, finance, power, party and government, and developed an open source Hongmeng OS release.
The bank believes that the company maintains in-depth cooperation with Huawei and participates in more businesses to drive overall growth. At the same time, non-Huawei customers are growing rapidly. The cloud intelligence business is driven by the rapid penetration of Huawei Cloud and Hongmeng ecology, and has growth prospects.
Meta universe + holographic AR: WiMi Hologram leads 5G immersive experience, more applications on the B side.
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Upstream News at 16:58 December 28, 2021
The concept of meta-universe is blooming all over the world, but there is no truly mature consumer device that can let people enter meta-universe as easily as using a mobile phone. And just like this era of rapid rush, the definition of "meta universe" is currently in a high degree of vagueness and uncertainty. However, Zhiwei has seen that countless industries, enterprises and individual consumers have revolved around the "metauniverse", but they have jointly spelled out the complete face of the "metauniverse" of this era in fragments.
Metaverse is a trend. After this year's explosion, it is necessary to innovate a lot of basic technology research and development, including AR/VR, MR, 5G and other hardware equipment and technological breakthroughs. At present, the main positions of the meta universe are still AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). AR and VR devices are the most attractive and become the entrance to the meta universe world in the future. The current technology and productization are relatively mature VR devices, mainly because of the promotion of Meta's Zuckerberg. From the acquisition of Oculus for US$1.9 billion in 2014 to the present, it is estimated that tens of billions of dollars have been invested, and of course the results are not bad. After several generations of product iterations, today's Quest series has become the absolute leader in the field of VR headsets, and its market share has accounted for half of the country!
Technological development is changing with each passing day, and the AR industry is currently on a very good upward trend. Data shows that more than 20,000 AR applications have been launched worldwide. The most valuable application scenarios of AR include mobility scenarios, such as AR navigation. High-bandwidth, low-latency 5G is the key to realizing AR mobile applications. Nowadays, operators are actively promoting the scale development of 5G, combined with AR and cloud technology, intending to create "5G killer applications." 5G can transfer AR computing from the end side to a more powerful cloud side, accelerating the development of the industry.
As Apple, Microsoft, Google and other companies continue to iterate their products, the AR industry will continue to develop upwards. Apple has a long history of deploying in the AR field. From Google Glass back then, to Magic Leap, to Holo Lens, and the many eye-catching AR glasses on the market today, portability is the basic feature of AR products. In short, AR headsets are defined from the beginning to replace mobile phones. In an interview with a magazine, Cook stated that his views on "Meta Universe" are only called AR, and Apple's recent AR glasses insider news also clearly expressed: "Apple AR glasses will be used to replace Iphone in ten years."
The virtual and real world of the meta-universe is specific to real life, and technologies such as AR and VR mainly carry people's expectations for the meta-universe world at this stage. For companies that have experienced the "AR concept" wave, they are more confident in the heat brought by Metaverse, facing challenges such as the bottleneck of the company's transformation, the change of the C-end of the industry to the B-end, etc. Many companies are looking for solutions, and when WiMi Hologram meets Metaverse, what kind of thinking can the concept boom cause, and what possibilities will the holographic technology revolution bring? In a nutshell, WiMi Hologram Company provides The solutions include "meta universe + holographic content", which mainly provides 3D/5G/AR/VR integrated solutions for the B-side and related vertical fields. At present, the core of the company's solutions is mainly the innovation of software and hardware application content, which is used to help customers solve existing problems in the fields of new entertainment, virtual display, and AR advertising.
In terms of breakdown, WiMi Hologram, as a leading domestic innovative company, has an international listing background, and the NASDAQ stock code is: WIMI. Considered by the industry as one of the first participants in the holographic AR field, WiMi Hologram strives to gradually push the holographic AR technology to the real world. Up to now, it has made a series of breakthroughs and leaps and bounds in the fields of holographic applications such as advertising, entertainment, education, navigation and health. Now, facing the fiery enthusiasm of Metaverse, WiMi Hologram has established the Metaverse Division to dig deep into AR technology, Artificial intelligence, holography, 5G and other immersive and interactive applications. For example, AR head-mounted display devices that use WIMI's holographic AR optical solution have both integrated designs and can be connected to PCs, drones, Android & IOS smartphones. Users only need to wear AR head-mounted display devices for one second. Have a cool, high-definition visual experience.
Since AR equipment entered the market, there have been leading companies that first came first, and then newcomers came to share the pie.In this environment, for WiMi Hologram, it is both an opportunity and a certain pressure. But for many years The time allows WiMi Hologram to have deep technical accumulation and strong technical reserves. At present, the market share of AR is large enough. With a solid foundation, WiMi Hologram's current business matrix is ??gradually enriched, and it provides connectivity, cloud, application, and secure full-service communication and information for the personal (To C) and enterprise (To B) markets.???. In terms of To C business, 5G has penetrated rapidly, and application scenarios have continued to expand. Through extensive cooperation, the company has continuously expanded the ecological landscape of individual user products, and launched 5G special applications such as Holographic Cloud VR/AR, Holographic Cloud Games, Holographic Cloud Social, etc. to meet the needs of individual users and increase customer stickiness.
In terms of To B business, WiMi Hologram Co., Ltd. grasps the storage of enterprise user data, and builds the future industrial 5G digital application ecology to empower thousands of industries. At present, the company expands cloud services, Internet of Things, medical care, education, transportation and other services, and continues to gain a firm foothold in the industry. In terms of academic achievements, it covers cutting-edge work in the field of information display, covering TV image color management, AMOLED manufacturing, micro-display chip design and manufacturing, projection and near-eye display optics, etc.
Right now and the next five years will be the golden period of AR development at the B-end, and companies like WiMi Hologram that have gone through the "AR concept" wave will be prioritized to emerge in the market. As for the C-end market, 2022 will be the starting point, and it will develop along with the development of Apple.
With the complete layout of the giant Meta Universe and the increase of 5G penetration rate, applications across the industry will continue to be popularized and expanded. VR, AR, and ultra-high-definition video will bring rapid growth in traffic usage, and it will be seen in the future of the industry B and C ends How to change.
ChinaSoft International-Shenzhen Kaihong's layout: launching a new blueprint for Hongmeng industry.
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China Software International rose more than 5%, its subsidiary Shenzhen Kaihong wins Huawei Hubble capital injection, Goldman Sachs sings more.
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December 28, 2021 10:08 Gelonghui APP
China Software International rose more than 5% to 10.2 Hong Kong dollars, with a total market value of 31.3 billion Hong Kong dollars. On the evening of December 23, Chinasoft International issued an announcement on the transaction of Shenzhen Kaihong. The company entered into an equity transfer agreement with Shenzhen Kaihong Company. At the same time, it also entered into an agreement with Yixin Technology, Huawei Hubble Investment, Hongju Innovation and other parties. Senior Kaihong signed a capital injection agreement totaling 200 million yuan. ChinaSoft International's stock price fell sharply the day after the announcement. On the 24th, ChinaSoft International held a conference call between management and investors to give a detailed interpretation of the announcement. ChinaSoft International has obtained the dual certification of "Huawei + Hubble Investment" through the operation of Shenzhen Kaihong. Goldman Sachs expects that Shenzhen Kaihong will bring more business opportunities to Chinasoft International, so it remains positive on the stock. The target price of HK$23.6 remains unchanged, and the list of sure buys is continued.
Build a meta-universe ecology, WiMi holographic layout immersive visual equipment provider "fan screen".
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https://inf.news/en/economy/0cbae053204bd9de3ae819d5ccb9d3d5.html
2021-12-24 03:45 HKT
With the development of technologies such as VR, AR, AI, and 5G, some of the technologies that appear in the meta-universe have gradually been realized in reality, and can even be used in some fields. A major feature of Metaverse is that it has a "sense of presence", that is, it needs to create an immersive experience, and immersive visual experience is also a new experience model pursued in the digital age.
Shenzhen Fan Panel Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the leading companies in the domestic holographic fan panel industry and has obtained a seed round of strategic investment from WiMi.US. WiMi Hologram, as the first listed company to build the holographic meta universe AR, has been committed to building the meta universe holographic ecosystem. Fan screen technology After this round of financing, WiMi Hologram will further deepen the layout of 3D holographic immersive experience equipment, deepen the light field and holographic technology, improve technical delivery capabilities, accelerate product launches, and expand the business landscape.
Shenzhen Fan Screen Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2012. It is a leading provider of 3D visual media terminals in China. Since its establishment, the company has been focusing on the development and production of 3D display equipment, and is committed to providing customers with professional display equipment and 3D Visual scheme. Fan screen company created the IoT system model to establish a bridge between display products and advertising distribution, and created the fourth largest display terminal after LED display, LCD display, and projection.
The company has advanced technical strength, a strong talent pool and more than 20 patent certifications for 3D fan screens. It has obtained national high-tech enterprise certification and has also obtained global CE, MSDS and other authoritative certification qualifications. The company's products have been sold to many overseas countries and have been widely recognized by customers at home and abroad.
The 3D fan screen, also known as the "holographic fan screen", is composed of four LED light-emitting blades that use human vision to stay high-speed and rotate for imaging. It has a holographic 3D effect and can also meet the splicing use of large screens. By downloading the "fan screen APP", customers can use remote communication to perform equipment management, cluster management and control, content conversion and delivery, and advertising management for the product, and use the Internet of Things to provide users with the best experience. At present, the fan screen company has more than 100,000 platform users, and its products are widely used in advertising media, exhibitions, stage shows, retail stores, company showrooms, electronic billboards, urban scenic lighting projects, government corporate signs and other scenes.
Fan screen technology company through product development and update iterations, to provide customers with an immersive experience hardware display device overall solution, which has been applied to new experience projects such as script killing, science and technology exhibition halls, cultural tourism, and game scenes. Immersive script killing is relying on the characteristics of the space environment and clever use of holographic visual technology to realize the specific immersive atmosphere required by various script plots, allowing players to enter virtual spaces such as Xianlvyunge, Royal Castle, and Magic Space in one second to experience the shuttle Fun in a diversified space. The immersive script killing relies on the original script as the background, integrating projection special effects, role-playing, and organ props to realize the "panoramic immersion + real-life interaction" mode. Players no longer simply sit around the table and imagine the plot, explore and reason, and can also be in the real scene. The space runs, moves, and is immersed in the plot. Follow-up WiMi Hologram will cooperate closely with fan screens around immersive visual equipment products, which is an important step forward for WiMi Hologram's layout of the meta-universe ecology.
WiMi Hologram is one of the comprehensive holographic cloud industry entities with leading scale, covering the industrial chain and excellent performance in China. It aims to become a holographic cloud platform with potential and international influence. WIMI Hologram focuses on holographic cloud services, mainly focusing on vehicle AR holographic HUD, 3D holographic pulse LiDAR, head-mounted light field holographic equipment, holographic semiconductor, holographic cloud software, holographic car navigation, meta-universe holographic AR/VR equipment, yuan Universe holographic cloud software and other professional fields, covering from holographic vehicle AR technology, 3D holographic pulse LiDAR technology, holographic vision semiconductor technology, holographic software development, holographic AR virtual advertising technology, holographic AR virtual entertainment technology, holographic ARSDK payment, interactive holographic virtual communication , Metaverse holographic AR technology, Metaverse virtual cloud service and other holographic AR technologies, is a holographic cloud comprehensive technical solution provider. WIMI Hologram has made major breakthroughs and leapfrog development in the fields of holographic applications such as advertising, entertainment, education, 5G communications, and aims at in-depth R&D and market applications in all aspects of holographic 3D computer vision collection, AI synthesis, transmission, presentation, and application , And is committed to building a highly expandable and open service platform, building a bridge between holographic technology application and holographic computer vision presentation, realizing the application and presentation of holographic computer vision in different scenarios, and promoting the leap-forward development of the industry. In order to realize the vision of WIMI WIMI holographic "become the creator of China's holographic ecology".
Gates said that Metaverse will revolutionize virtual meetings, and WiMi Hologram remote 5G communications may accelerate penetration.
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December 20, 2021 12:22 Market Information
According to overseas news, Bill Gates reviewed at the end of 2021 that this year gave us a preview of a more digital future. Digitization will continue to exist and Metaverse will revolutionize office work. He predicts that in the next 2 to 3 years, most virtual meetings will shift from two-dimensional images to meta-universe, a 3D space with "virtual images". Before Meta and Microsoft reached a cooperation, a series of actions have been launched in the virtual office scene.
Meta's new free application, Horizon Workrooms, further concretizes "remote office". Users can dial in through Zoom, and they can participate in virtual reality meetings as digital cartoons when they put on their headsets. This opens a new chapter in Meta VR applications and is a small step for Meta to move towards the meta universe. In addition, Nvidia also attaches great importance to the new focus on video conferencing functions. In response to problems such as unclear images of people and poor imaging angles caused by signals during video conferences, NVIDIA performed the latest Vid2Vid Cameo on CVPR 2021 to successfully solve prominent problems in remote office through AI.
Although the remote office penetration rate is still only 1% under the epidemic, the explosion of Meta Universe has made mobile remote office a blue ocean. According to brokerage estimates, by 2025, the total domestic market space of Yuan Universe in social, gaming, short video, online video, e-commerce, mobile office and other fields is about 340-640 billion yuan. Yuan Universe will be the whole society by 2030. Bring broad room for growth. With the acceleration of 5G and digital transformation, users with more complex work scenarios and more diversified communication methods, Meta Universe can help enterprise-level users improve operating efficiency and deal with complex work scenarios and multiple communication methods. It is Business Meta Universe.
Under the epidemic situation, a new generation of cloud video conferencing room solutions are also emerging, and enterprises have higher and higher standards for video conferencing systems. According to Korean media reports, the beta version of the Meta universe video chat platform "2ndblock" under Upbit operator Dunamu will be released soon. At present, most Metaverse platforms in South Korea do not provide video chat services. In contrast, 2ndblock has launched 20 VR avatars for users to choose from, and opened five social areas such as offices, party rooms, and auditoriums. Users can Play games or video chat in a public area, providing face-to-face communication.
Domestic pioneering enterprise of holographic communication technology and application, WIMI consolidates core technology and reserves the next generation of cutting-edge technology. As a professional company for 5G communication holographic applications, WiMi Hologram is committed to independent R&D and investment in 5G core fields, and builds a complete 5G holographic communication application platform. The 5G holographic cloud platform is an interactive platform that covers user image collection and restoration, has data storage, image restoration, and holographic social attributes. It can support various online terminals and personal device applications of WiMi Hologram, and expand holographic social communication and remote office meetings. , Holographic online education and other mainstream 5G holographic applications.
5G technology links everything, can improve the efficiency of the whole process of production and operation, and promote the transformation and upgrading of new and old industries, while remote office meetings are only one type of 5G empowerment, which has become the consensus of the whole society. It is worth mentioning that in terms of key core technologies, WiMi Hologram continues to invest in core VR/AR technologies, and is breaking through key technologies such as cloud computing, 5G and cloud-side collaboration to consolidate its existing advantages. In the development of 5G technology, WiMi Hologram has not only witnessed the development history of 2G to 5G, but the precise cloud network built on the 5G network is also accelerating its penetration into a cutting-edge industry.
WiMi Hologram won the bid for China MobileThe second phase of the holographic remote interaction project with the media cloud platform, and then fully integrated 5G, AR/VR, holographic communication, education and other technologies. With the acceleration of 5G, WiMi Hologram, an innovative enterprise in the holographic communication experiment, is an innovative enterprise that has increased its capital. In addition, WiMi Hologram relies on the innovation of 5G communication applications. At present, the 5G precision cloud network has been applied in industries, transportation, energy and other fields. Precision cloud networks such as WiMi Hologram have been practiced in 5G+ industry, 5G+ transportation and 5G+XR commercial complexes, and continue to develop new 5G usage scenarios.
Entering the 5G era, the world is fighting for time and speed to realize 5G commercial use. No one will doubt the dividends brought by 5G.
In this regard, WiMi Hologram strengthens industry leadership and digital transformation practices, actively explores the in-depth integration of new technologies such as 5G in major equipment and new technologies, and strengthens industrial scale and synergy between upstream and downstream. At the same time, we will advance the capabilities of the industrial digital platform. In terms of next-generation cutting-edge technologies, we will deploy next-generation technologies such as Metaverse and AI in advance to enrich the exploration and reserves of cutting-edge digital technologies and provide further support for the company's existing cloud-network integration business. For example, the provision of higher technical support and higher-value added products and services will bring new development opportunities for industrial digital business.
The development of 5G is not only about the industry, but also about the country and society. On the one hand, 5G, as the next trillion-scale strategic emerging industry, has become the focus of international competition and the foundation of a network power, bringing new changes to the communications industry. On the other hand, the impact of technology on lifestyle has a longer-term significance, because the development of science and technology needs to meet the needs of social development, thereby promoting the development of human society. For example, the innovation of the office virtual conference of Yuan Universe shows that 5G's practical application functions can create more innovations and breakthroughs.
Pathfinder of the meta universe?Why WiMi Hologram is at the forefront of the world.
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https://min.news/en/economy/9999a6461f1dfe7d18c858625cbc3251.html
2021-12-17 03:57 HKT
Metaverse was first proposed by American science fiction writer Neil Stephenson in the novel "Avalanche" in 1992, and has a history of nearly 30 years. Metaverse is a virtual world parallel to the real world and highly interoperable. It is called the ultimate form of the next-generation Internet. Blockchain, interaction, electronic games, artificial intelligence, network and computing, Internet of Things, etc., are the core supporting technologies of Metaverse.
From 2016 to 2019, the AR/VR market was sluggish, and financing fell sharply. The fundamental reason was that the underlying technology development encountered a bottleneck, resulting in a very poor virtual visual experience of AR/VR and the consumer market failed to become active. Nowadays, due to the arrival of the 5G era and the maturity of the underlying technologies such as 3D, XR, AI, and NFT, science fiction has gradually moved into reality. According to IDC data, the compound annual growth rate of China's VR and AR market will reach 67.5% in the next five years.
According to IDC data, global VR/AR terminal shipments in Q1 2021 increased by 45% year-on-year. VR terminal shipments increased by 52.4% year-on-year. Due to the tight global semiconductor supply and demand, shipment growth was suppressed; Facebook's Oculus shipments increased by 207.4% year-on-year, and Oculus Quest 2 was sought after by consumers; The volume of goods increased by 108.6% and 44.7% respectively year-on-year. AR terminal shipments fell by 17.2% year-on-year, mainly due to the slowdown in demand for Microsoft's HoloLens 2, but this data does not include supplies to the military industry, such as the HoloLens 2 purchased by the US Army in March 2021.
According to data, since 2021, the number of new AR/VR-related companies in China has reached a terrifying 3,300, with an average of over 12 new companies every day. Among them, the number of new AR/VR-related companies was the largest in April, exceeding 530. The continuous financing is sufficient to reflect the capital's pursuit of the concept of "metauniverse" and the profound influence of metaverse on future development.
In fact, long before this, giant companies at the forefront of science and technology have already begun to develop VR, AR and other technologies to promote the implementation of the "meta universe" infrastructure. Blockchain and NTF are the important technical foundations of Metaverse, and Metaverse is fiercely promoting the growth of NTF sales. According to Cryptoslam data, as of October 5, 2021, the total sales on the NFT chain exceeded 10 billion U.S. dollars; the NFT sales on the Ethereum chain were 6.76 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the first place. From the current point of view, to realize Metaverse, at this time, anchoring those Metaverse companies that build infrastructure is the safest investment logic.
As far as China is concerned, WiMi Hologram has followed closely in the layout of the meta universe. In general, the current layout of the Metaverse of WiMi Hologram is to aggregate third-party and its own AR software and hardware content through an intermediate platform. In recent years, WiMi Hologram has been working frequently on VR and AR related to the Metaverse.
As a historical witness to the development process of the AR/VR industry, WiMi Hologram is full of confidence in the current wave of Metaverse craze. It is understood that the first WIMI.US of Metaverse Holographic AR is currently the leading holographic platform in China. After six years of development, it has established a complete holographic technology research and development system, holographic content production and storage system, Holographic commercialization system. With leading 3D computer vision technology and SAAS platform technology, it is widely used in holographic advertising, holographic entertainment, holographic education, holographic communication and other fields. With the widespread popularization of Metaverse applications, the holographic cloud industry where the company is located will explode under the upsurge of Metaverse.
Explore the Metaverse circuit and develop in strategizing
When a new concept appeared, in order to realize this "beauty", WiMi Hologram had already been planning for a long time and was ready to go as a pathfinder of the Metaverse circuit. The concept of Metaverse had become a "net celebrity". Mehologram clearly recognizes that for the development of the Metaverse industry, relying on the maturity of the underlying technology is the fundamental driving force for continuous progress.
Therefore, WiMi Hologram established the Holographic Academy of Sciences last year, bringing together experts from world-renowned universities and colleges. Aimed at all aspects of AR forward-looking technology and Metaverse virtual technology innovation research, using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and Internet (Internet) and other technologies to project reality elements one by one into the virtual online world, Let people in reality establish a network clone there to engage in various activities. The maturity of these underlying technologies is the basis for the continuous advancement of Metaverse.
The future development strategy of WiMi Hologram is to vigorously develop the holographic ecology. There are two main holographic ecosystems it locates:
- the first is the technology content ecology, and
- the second is the industrial ecology.
The company will attract more teams to join the holographic industry through its own, including investment, and the WiMi platform produces a large amount of high-quality content. At the same time, it uses holographic technology to empower technology in more application scenarios, so that it can be faster Let more users contact or enjoy the convenience brought by holography.
Throughout the entire Metaverse construction process of WiMi Hologram, it is not difficult to see that it is the industry's leading AR/VR industry chain technology and is also a high-quality IP content value creator. After years of incubation, it has reached pan-social entertainment and AR/VR. The whole ecosystem in the technical field is mature and many achievements have been made. With continuous breakthroughs and innovations, it is becoming a "track pathfinder" in the Metaverse world with diversified values.
Under the boom, the development prospects of "Meta Universe" are still attracting attention. With the continuous development of new technologies, virtual reality "meta universe" related industries may usher in an explosion. To be sure, under the joint promotion of technological evolution and human needs, the realization of the Metaverse scenario is only a matter of time.
Artificial Solutions closes SEK 250 million credit facility.
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WED, DEC 22, 2021 16:54 CET
Today Artificial Solutions International AB closed a 5-year credit facility of SEK 250 million, carrying an interest margin of 9.5% and with a PIK (payment in kind) interest by Capital Four’s fund, Capital Four Private Debt IV Fund. Capital Four is one of the largest independent credit asset management companies in the Nordics with a total of EUR 15 billion in assets under management.
The Company announced the signing of the term sheet for the credit facility already on October 5, 2021 and the transaction is now closed, and Artificial Solutions has received the proceeds from the new credit facility.
The proceeds have partially been used for refinancing the Group´s debt and convertible debt. Following repayment of the debt on December 22, 2021 and the related estimated transactional fees, approximately SEK 105 million in cash is available for supporting the Company’s continued growth and execution of the new SaaS model strategy built on the offering LUIS^Teneo.
Artificial Solutions CEO Per Ottosson comments: “Following the refinancing we also receive cash to support our continued growth from a reputable investor such as Capital Four. This is a sign of trust in our technology, people and new SaaS strategy. We welcome Capital Four as a long-term financing partner.”
This disclosure contains information that Artificial Solutions International AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person, on 22-12-2021 16:54 CET.
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Fredrik Törgren, CFO, Artificial Solutions
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About Artificial Solutions
Artificial Solutions® (SSME:ASAI) is the leading specialist in Conversational AI. We enable communication with applications, websites and devices in everyday, humanlike natural language via voice, text, touch or gesture input.
Artificial Solutions’ advanced conversational AI Teneo®, allows business users and developers to create sophisticated, highly intelligent applications that run across 86 languages and dialects, multiple platforms and channels in record time. The ability to analyse and make use of the enormous quantities of conversational data is fully integrated within Teneo, delivering unprecedented levels of data insight that reveal what customers are truly thinking.
Artificial Solutions’ conversational AI technology makes it easy to implement a wide range of natural language applications such as virtual assistants, conversational bots, speech-based conversational UIs for smart devices and more. It is already used daily by millions of people across hundreds of private and public sector deployments worldwide.
Artificial Solutions International is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Stockholm with short name ASAI. Erik Penser Bank is the Company’s Certified Adviser
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Driving Conversational Customer Experience across the Automotive Industry.
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https://www.artificial-solutions.com/blog/conversational-customer-experience-in-the-automotive-industry
December 15, 2021
The automotive industry has undergone rapid transformation in recent years, as market forces have forced a radical shift in both manufacturing and digital practices. The increased demand for electric / hybrid vehicles has forced car manufacturers to invest billions into research and development while online disruptors operating in the second-hand market have also seized upon opportunities to connect and communicate with buyers online using new and innovative technology.
One such strategy has been the adoption of Conversational Customer Experience and in this article we´ll explain how the trend is driving greater personalization, increasing revenue opportunities, and helping automotive organizations to expand and scale in new international territories.
Digital Transformations and Automotive Disruptors
The impact of COVID-19 can be clearly seen when analyzing the automotive industry and new car sales with a significant drop being recorded from 2019 to 2020 and 2021. However, as shown below, the 2008 financial crisis caused a bigger drop in sales compared to the pandemic.
So, what has changed? You would expect a significantly bigger drop when you consider that carrying out test drives was impossible during large sections of 2020 and 2021. Clearly, the impact of the pandemic has been mitigated and the answer lies online, as the experience of buying a car digitally has become significantly more enjoyable and simplistic.
“For automotive e-commerce related searches, the end of 2020 had the highest interest level ever across most markets. Search queries for buying a car online are significantly above 2019 levels and have shown great momentum: 26 percent in Germany, 82 percent in the UK, and 39 percent in France.”
Mckinsey
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/our-insights/digitization-in-automotive-retail-in-2021-and-beyond
Now, drivers can access thousands of cars at the click of a button, book test drives and make a purchase without leaving their home. But this is not behaviour created by the pandemic. Before the onset of COVID-19, car manufacturers and second-hand marketplaces had invested millions in digital transformation in order to attract and sell to buyers online.
Paul Hennessy, CEO of Vroom, said:
“The traditional dealership model or the traditional peer-to-peer sales where a consumer might be selling or buying a car from a stranger is fraught with friction and a process that was just begging to be disrupted.”
MindBeacon Announces Filing of Management Information Circular for the Meeting to Approve the Acquisition by CloudMD.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mindbeacon-announces-filing-management-information-220000639.html
December 16, 2021
- Combined digital health platform will be one of North America's leading fully-integrated health offerings, with a clinically-validated, broad continuum of care to address mild, moderate, acute and chronic mental and physical care.
- Adds scale and strengthens CloudMD's financial profile – CloudMD expects to have annualized revenues exceeding $185 million (a 19% increase from CloudMD's current revenue run rate of $155 million), as well as improved gross margin of 35%, post-close.
- CloudMD to offer $1.22 in cash and 2.285 common shares of CloudMD per MindBeacon share.
- CloudMD is projected to have cash on hand exceeding $60 million, post-close.
MindBeacon Holdings Inc. (TSX: MBCN) announces that the Management Information Circular and associated Form of Proxy and Letter of Transmittal are being mailed to shareholders of MindBeacon on Friday, December 17, 2021 in connection with a definitive arrangement agreement under which CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (TSXV: DOC) will acquire all of MindBeacon's issued and outstanding common shares for a combination of cash and shares valued at approximately $116 million. Under the terms of the Arrangement Agreement, each common share of MindBeacon will be exchanged for $1.22 of cash and 2.285 common shares of CloudMD. A copy of the letter to MindBeacon shareholders is available below highlighting the key benefits and reasons for the transaction.
With the ongoing pandemic, MindBeacon's Special Meeting of Shareholders is to be held in a virtual only meeting format via live webcast online at
https://web.lumiagm.com/#/458290597
on January 10, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern time).
While these materials will be filed by MindBeacon under its issuer profile and be available for viewing on the SEDAR website
https://www.sedar.com/
a copy of the letter to MindBeacon shareholders is included below. Furthermore, the disclosure in this press release supplements the disclosure in the Information Circular and is deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Information Circular.
How to Vote
Shareholders must vote their proxy before 10:00 a.m. (Eastern time) on January 6, 2022.
MindBeacon shareholders with questions or who need help voting are encouraged to contact Kingsdale Advisors at 1-888-302-5677 toll-free within North America, or 1-416-867-2272 (for collect calls outside North America), or e-mail at contactus@kingsdaleadvisors.com.