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"Avengers", "The Number One Player", "X-Men", "Titanic", "Evil Is Not Suppressing the Righteous", " Xihong City Richest Man ", etc., have the same visual effects company behind more than 100 Chinese and foreign blockbusters - Digital Kingdom. The company was founded in 1993 by James Cameron and was acquired by Hong Kong listed company Aoliang Group (Stock Code: 547) in 2013, which was renamed Digital Kingdom Group Co., Ltd.
For a long time, the positioning of Digital Kingdom is a special effects company. 36Kr also made a report on Digital Kingdom at the beginning of last year. At that time, the Digital Kingdom of had begun to transform and opened a business in the direction of VR, extending from ToB to the consumer market.
Yesterday, Digital Kingdom held its 2018 strategic conference, announced its four major business segments and launched its Oasis plan.
four major business segments
The four major business segments reorganized by Digital Kingdom include: visual effects, virtual reality , virtual people and original IP.
VVFE is the business foundation of Digital Kingdom and its main profit path. Its 2017 financial report showed that the annual revenue was HK$703 million, of which the visual effect revenue was HK$606 million, accounting for 86%. The business team is mainly in Los Angeles and Vancouver. Digital Kingdom 3.0.
virtual reality , founded by James Cameron, is the business direction that Xie An, CEO of Digital Kingdom Group, promoted after taking office. Through three years of promotion, Digital Kingdom VR business has covered three submodules: hardware, channels and content. In terms of hardware, Digital Kingdom acquired VR headset 3glasses; in terms of channels, Digital Kingdom built its own offline VR space DD Space, which has been launched in more than 50 commercial real estate across the country in the form of a VR experience hall. In the future, it wants to become a distribution platform for VR content; in terms of content, it will be developed and produced by Digital Kingdom.
Virtual Human Technology refers to the use of digital special effects technology to restore or reshape a new realistic character. For example, Ballard Pitt, who grew up against the rise in "The Strange Things of Benjamin Button" and Thanos, who was born in "Avengers 3: Infinity War".
It is worth mentioning that this technology can also restore and reshape the late stars and create another more real "Hatsune Miku".
For example, the Kingdom of Digital has reshaped the late rapper 2Pac and the late Asian singer Teng . After obtaining the corresponding copyright of Miss Teresa Teng, the Teresa Teng holographic concert created by Prism Light Entertainment has also been launched in Hangzhou and started commercial operations.
. At this press conference, Meitu's Wu Xinhong also came to the scene and said that it will cooperate in the Digital Kingdom to connect to its 3D facial modeling SDK, and cooperate with the upcoming new version of Meitu Xiuxiu with social functions to enter the "virtual social" field. In terms of
original IP, Digital Kingdom chose to cooperate with WorldShare Media, which has reserved a series of film and television IPs at home and abroad, including cooperation with Dark Horse Comics, the third largest comic label in the United States, which has "disguised monsters", "Alien", and "Duke of Hell".
Oasis OASIS
Oasis is the virtual game world in "Player No. 1" and launched in 2045, and Digital Kingdom is the technology company that creates special effects for the number one player.
Xie An said that Digital Kingdom will connect these four major business segments to , further consolidating the operation model including technology research and development, content production, and multi-channel distribution. Build a virtual world for the consumer market by 2045 - "oasis".
At the end of the press conference, Digital Kingdom used holographic projection and light field technology to reproduce the virtual characters including Teresa Teng, Wong Weizhong, Nicholas Tse, Xie An and Meitu Wu Xinhong.
