iQIYI Launches World's First Virtual Reality Game Show Memoon Player - PR Newswire

, /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online amusement work successful China, released the virtual world (VR) assortment crippled amusement Memoon Player with the archetypal occurrence airing connected Dec. 9. An iQIYI archetypal production, Memoon Player invites viewers to articulation the amusement participants connected their breathtaking escapade successful the VR-constructed mounting of "Memoon land," a virtual abstraction based connected existent geographic regions connected the Moon but created done VR technologies.

Viewers were excited astir the amusement adjacent earlier its airing, with implicit 1.2 cardinal viewers indicating their involvement connected the iQIYI app earlier the show's premiere.

The archetypal occurrence featured amusement participants putting connected their question seizure suits and entering their avatars into the virtual landscape, wherever the avatars interacted, competed successful games, and adjacent performed connected the virtual stage.

Released successful conjunction with the amusement was the "Memoon Land" APP, a virtual interactive abstraction designed to connection users a afloat immersive viewing acquisition with integrated societal elements. The app allows the viewers to not lone articulation the amusement participants successful their adventure, but besides beryllium portion of the games, interact with different viewers, and adjacent acquisition show-inspired merchandise.

Memoon Player showcased a seamless modulation betwixt the virtual and existent worlds, which was enabled by an array of virtual accumulation technologies, including virtual shooting, virtual games, XR, and holography. A accumulation squad of 110 engineers, much than 50 ocular designers, and implicit 60 animators participated successful the making of the show. With assistance from the industry's apical optical question seizure equipment, the squad built a question seizure workplace that tin instrumentality successful the motions of up to 8 avatars astatine 1 time, with the points of seizure for each avatar exceeding a thousand. Working with apical manufacture players including Qualcomm, Baidu, QIYU VR, and others, the squad besides installed implicit 20 workstations for virtual quality skeletal predisposition and UE real-time rendering.

CHEN Wei, Senior Vice President of iQIYI, main shaper and main manager of Memoon Player, pointed to 3 features that acceptable the assortment amusement apart: "The amusement is, archetypal and foremost, joyful, and it brings users overmuch laughter, which is the astir cardinal constituent of entertainment. With its brand-new format unseen successful different assortment shows, Memoon Player besides encourages escapade and imaginativeness from not conscionable the originative squad but besides the viewers. The amusement is besides ground-breaking arsenic the players link to their avatars and participate the parallel satellite which provides an unprecedented viewing experience."

Memoon Player is not conscionable an breathtaking experimentation successful the realm of assortment shows but besides an embodiment of the endless possibilities successful the aboriginal of entertainment. Steadfast successful driving tech-enabled innovation, iQIYI has antecedently launched a fig of VR-integrated amusement projects including The Last One Standing VR, the archetypal sci-fi VR accumulation successful China, and THE9's "X-City" Concert, the world's archetypal extended world (XR) unrecorded performance connected cinematic people LED signifier with photorealistic virtual production. Going forward, the institution remains dedicated to helping usher successful the caller epoch of amusement defined by the integration of exertion and IPs.

SOURCE iQIYI