Korea-based investment firm, Investment arm of Pearl Abyss

Pearl Abyss Capital

32 Ventures specializes in direct investments in early stage companies.

32 Ventures

ZASH is an evolved network of synergetic companies working together to disrupt the media and entertainment industry as we know it today. The ZASH team is managed by a group of smart, if not somewhat brazen, consummate disrupters. ZASH believes its management team has an exceptional and unparalleled ability to pivot because their knowledge and experience are steadfast and unyielding.

ZASH

HYPERREAL

Hyperreal is a metaverse studio and entertainment company that strives to provide immersive entertainment in the world of virtual appearances. The company provides A-list talent and A-list brands with a digital asset to create high watermarks of digital humans in visual effects studios, as well as control over emerging and existing new media technology, allowing animation industries to engage with a global technology audience, strengthen the connection, increase brand awareness, and boost sales.

<div><p>Hyperreal generates digital replicas of humans, targeting celebrities and brands, to become their digital avatars for virtual appearances and virtual commerce.</p></div>

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Hyperreal

Hyperreal® Raises $7 million in Oversubscribed Seed Funding To Expand Its Digital Human And Virtual Production Capabilities

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    Hyperreal generates digital replicas of humans, targeting celebrities and brands, to become their digital avatars for virtual appearances and virtual commerce.
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    Inworld AI provides an engine to build AI characters for gaming, the metaverse, VR/AR, and immersive experiences.
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Inworld AI

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    Soul Machines uses a cloud-based platform called Human OS to create digital humans that are highly realistic in appearance and behavior. This is achieved through the integration of various technologies such as its patented Digital Brain and Autonomous Animation Engine as well as third-party tools like conversational AI, sentiment analytics, and data integration. The Digital Brain is capable of contextualizing and adapting to different situations and can animate realistic human-like behaviors on its own.
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Soul Machines

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    DeepBrainAI allows the creation of digital humans for various purposes: business, recruitment, service, education, and personal. The company offers 100+ AI avatar templates to choose from and speech in 55+ languages. It also offers several digital avatar products such as AI Avatar (digital avatars for retail, banking, education, etc.), AI Human (creation of custom digital avatars), AI Studio (for creating videos), and AI Interview (digital avatars for HR tasks such as recruitment). In March 2023, the company launched its GenAI video synthesis solution, AI Studios 2.0.
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DeepBrain AI

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    Digital Domain is a visual effects and digital production company. Its Digital Human Group applies advanced creation techniques and proprietary technology for feature ﬁlms, real-time capture for live venue events, futuristic gaming experiences, and mobile and next-generation interactive digital human rendering.
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Digital Domain

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    ObEN's platform allows users to create their own digital twin by uploading a picture of themselves to the platform. Virtual celebrities, gaming, entertainment, and live streaming are noted as key uses of ObEN avatars. The avatars are designed to make interaction easy and aim to enhance the naturalness and simplicity of the virtual assistant or digital character. Once the avatar is created, users can live-stream and produce videos by transferring content to ObEN's real-time content creation platform.
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ObEN

Digital humans that engage in two-way conversations for customer service and employee training

Digital humans that deliver responsive interactions for virtual events, social media, and entertainment

Interactive digital humans for applications in education, fashion, sports, and others

Digital humans for one-way customer and employee communications, including presentations, training modules, or informational videos, and the like

Digital humans as characters in movies, news reporting, virtual events, and television shows without two-way user interaction

Digital humans as characters for video games without two-way user interaction

Digital humans for applications in fashion, education, sports, and others without two-way user interaction

Several digital humans are integrated with GenAI models

NLP is used by digital humans to understand, process, and generate natural language

AI and ML are used in digital humans to process data and generate responses

Digital humans can be deployed in the metaverse for a variety of purposes, such as virtual customer service, virtual events, and virtual social interactions.

CJ CheilJedang Corp.

CJ ENM  acquired stake of HYPERREAL which is the Hollywood’s industry leader of hyper-realistic digital humans and performance spaces for A-list talent and brands.

Hyperreal

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