2018 World Conference on VR Industry kicks off in Jiangxi
- By Gao Zhan
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E-mail China.org.cn, October 20, 2018
The 2018 World Conference on VR Industry is being held in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province, Oct. 19-21.
With the theme "VR makes the world better", the event is dedicated to the VR/AR field, bringing together over 2,000 participants from 18 countries and regions to focus on developments in virtual reality, artificial intelligence and 5G technology.
At the opening ceremony, Miao Wei, minister of Industry and Information Technology, said virtual reality had become an important frontier sector in the new generation of the information technology. VR-based technology is expected to become a basic platform for many innovative applications, leading to a new round of technology and industrial transformation, he predicted.
He added that the conference would become a window for the world to understand the development of China's virtual reality industry.
Liu Qi, secretary of Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, said the province was focusing on accelerating the construction of the VR industry, relying on hardware manufacturing, software R&D and content production to jointly build a world-class VR industry center.
Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Chinese retail giant Alibaba who delivered the keynote speech,said VR was an amazing technology; however, it needed to be combined with big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This would help it move from being something of a "toy", a mere novel application, to become a core technology for solving practical problems.
According to organizer, the conference has created an exhibition area of 20,000 square meters. More than 150 domestic and foreign VR/AR companies, including Huawei, Microsoft, HTC, etc., are exhibiting new technologies and products, many of them for the first time.
During the conference, the names of the recipients of the annual gold award and annual innovation award in the VR Industry will also be released.
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