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Wangda Software (网达软件), listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under ticker 603189.SH, is a Chinese software company that has developed a virtual digital human business operated jointly with its subsidiary Shiwu Technology (时未科技), deploying digital human solutions primarily through electronic screen and holographic device carriers. The company has established early-stage commercial deployments across banking and finance, community services, education, and healthcare verticals, offering products that include an AI livestreaming service supporting multi-platform broadcast across Douyin, Kuaishou, Taobao Live, JD Live, Bilibili, and Xiaohongshu, as well as a digital human customization system enabling tailored presenters with voice commentary and product-demonstration functions. Beyond digital human services, Wangda has expanded into adjacent immersive environments through its metaverse meeting platform Mota Meeting (魔塔会议), which integrates spatial computing, 3D modeling, XR, and digital human technologies to build an immersive digital cultural exchange environment. Its broader product ecosystem includes a government affairs metaverse office system and a public security criminal investigation contact tracing system, reflecting a strategy of embedding digital human and spatial computing capabilities into enterprise and institutional workflows rather than concentrating on consumer-facing applications.
Shiwu Technology (时未科技), a subsidiary of listed company Wangda Software (网达软件, 603189.SH), is the primary vehicle through which the Wangda group develops and deploys its digital human and metaverse product lines. The company's independently developed product portfolio advanced in annual increments, with a metaverse audio-visual system launched in 2020, a metaverse digital human system in 2021, and a metaverse meeting system in 2022, with the core team accumulating service records across more than 30 industries, over 300 cases and products, more than 5,000 metaverse scenes, and in excess of 200,000 metaverse digital assets. Its technology contributions to the VR and AI space span VR/AI video players, AI digital human development, AI video-on-demand mobile applications, AI video and application distribution platforms, VR+AI+5G cloud applications, AI video overlay technology, AR-domain AI applications, and smart training systems for education, surgery, and party-building verticals. The broader product ecosystem built jointly with Wangda now includes a digital human face-customization system, a government affairs metaverse office system, and a public security criminal investigation contact tracing system, with ongoing business cooperation with major internet platform companies. Shiwu Technology also partnered with Huawei to co-develop a VR audio and music ecosystem platform and has maintained an academic collaboration with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics on metaverse economic and social applications.
Mota Meeting (魔塔会议) is a metaverse meeting system developed by Shiwu Technology (时未科技) under Wangda Software (网达软件, 603189.SH), built on spatial computing, AI, 3D modeling, XR, immersive interaction, and digital human technologies to construct an immersive digital cultural exchange platform. The system targets work collaboration and academic education use cases, positioning digital humans as a core component of the user experience. Wangda's broader digital human ecosystem connected to the platform includes AI voice generation, video rendering, and an AIGC-driven digital human named Tianyu (天妤), who starred in a short drama series titled Searching Through a Thousand Walls (千壁寻踪) built around the narrative of collecting mural fragments.