A large conference site, the Oriental Pearl Tower... 20 benchmark scenes in Shanghai are open to the Metaverse industry

Source: The Paper

Reporter Yu Kai

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The site of a large conference, the Oriental Pearl Tower, COMAC, Baowu, Yu Garden... These benchmark scenes in Shanghai are open to the Metaverse industry.

On May 26, The Paper (the reporter learned from the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission that Shanghai's first batch of major application scenarios of the metaverse at the municipal level "revealed the list and took command", and opened up 20 sites including the First General Assembly Site, Oriental Pearl Tower, COMAC, Baowu, and Yu Garden. The highly influential benchmarking scene has attracted 237 leading and innovative companies to sign up to participate, including 70 companies from Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Suzhou and other places.

According to the Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, during the solicitation period for major application scenarios of Metaverse, a total of 374 materials required for the construction of scenarios have been received. After preliminary screening, demand confirmation, expert review, on-site inspection and other links, according to the high degree of scene display, clear construction subjects and phased goals, good technological application innovation, strong industry leadership, certain economic and social benefits and closed-loop development Standards such as business models, the first batch of 20 scenarios have been identified as the planned release requirements for "revealing the list and leading the way".

These scenarios cover medical health such as Ruijin Hospital, digital twin cities such as Zhangjiang and Huamu Street, classroom education such as Nanhu Vocational School, commercial operations such as Bailian Group and Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, intelligent manufacturing such as Baowu and Shangfei, Shanghai Film Studio, etc. Cultural and entertainment, major cultural and tourism scenes such as the site of a large conference, the Oriental Pearl Tower, and Dishui Lake.

Since last year, Shanghai has proposed to seize the layout of the new track of the metaverse, focus on expanding reality, and cultivate new momentum for growth and development. The Shanghai Economic and Information Commission has scientifically planned a development strategy, and took the lead in releasing the action plan for cultivating the metaverse, focusing on key technologies and products such as extended reality, and strives to promote the output value of metaverse-related industries to exceed 350 billion yuan within 3 years, and create 10 internationally competitive companies. Leading the integration and development of reality, launched the first batch of metaverse major application scenarios "revealing the list and taking command", promoting extended reality in the fields of industry, cultural tourism, education, etc., creating a number of benchmark application scenarios, and at the same time launching the "Zhangjiang Data The construction of two city-level metaverse industrial innovation parks, namely Chain and Caohejing Yuanchuang Future, focus on content ecology and hard-core technology respectively, forming a dual development engine with one east and one west, one hard and one soft.

According to the Economic and Information Commission, in order to strengthen ecological coordination, since March this year, the Municipal Economic and Information Commission has organized 16 supply-demand matchmaking meetings for major application scenarios, of which 14 scenarios have reached cooperation intentions, and it is expected that centralized contracts can be signed before the end of July.