China revealed this Wednesday his first Panda virtual, an initiative that combines technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), 3d modeling high fidelity and a metaverse to offer an educational and entertainment experience to people around the world.
The virtual design, presented as “the world’s first fully authentic giant panda”has been recreated in great detail, using more than 2 million individual hair strands and high-fidelity modeling techniques to capture the animal’s actual physiological structure.
The project, jointly developed by the Asian giant’s Forest Administration, the China Media Group (CMG) and the technology giant Tencent, aims to bring the public closer to these emblematic animals and promote the conservation of their species.
The technology company’s ‘Hunyuan’ AI model gives the virtual panda the ability to interact with users, answering questions and sharing scientific information about the species.
Xun lives in a “cloud habitat” which replicates on a 1:1 scale the environment of the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve, in the central Chinese province of Sichuan.
This virtual space includes recreations of 79 real plants, as well as rocks, waterfalls and streams, imitating the natural ecosystem of pandas.
The Asian country has already used this type of technology in other projects for the conservation and dissemination of its biodiversity, as in the case of the national tiger and leopard reserve, which can now be visited virtually via telephone.
It has also used AI to identify and analyze snow leopard tracks from 100,000 photographs taken every three months in the national parks where this species lives, which has allowed specialized protection measures to be improved.
Source: Gestion
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