Barkingdog AI (barkingdog.ai / BarkingDog Technology Inc.) is a Taiwan-based startup founded in 2018 that specializes in combining XR (AR/VR/MR) and AI to create digital human and immersive interaction platforms. Its flagship product, AI AMAZE, is a modular digital experience platform (DXP) designed to support enterprises with real-time, intelligent, and personalized virtual human services, such as customer service, tourism guides, training simulations, and interactive marketing. The company provides custom XR content and AI-driven avatars that can chat, translate, dance, and interact across industries ranging from healthcare, education, and transport (e.g., Kaohsiung MRT and cultural venues) to retail and tourism. Barkingdog has been recognized internationally, joining the NVIDIA Inception Program in 2025, and has showcased its solutions at major events including Computex, InnoVEX, and AI Taiwan Future Commerce Expo. Operating from Kaohsiung and Taipei, it positions itself as an XR+AI digital experience pioneer in Asia, integrating speech recognition, NLP, and large language models into its virtual human systems to accelerate enterprise digital transformation.
Chunghwa Telecom (cht.com.tw), Taiwan’s largest telecommunications provider, has been developing applications of AI digital humans through its innovation and 5G programs. The company has pursued patents involving real-time interactive digital humans combined with generative AI for services like memoir generation and livestreaming. Within its 5G Accelerator initiatives, Chunghwa Telecom has highlighted 3D AI digital humans for tourism and cultural use, positioning them as interactive guides in large public venues. It has also been referenced in academic and media discussions on the role of virtual digital humans in the metaverse and AIoT ecosystems, where they function as avatars for customer service, education, cultural storytelling, and immersive experiences.
Heph A.I Studios (heph-ai.com) is a Taiwan-based AI company focused on developing digital avatars and expanding IP commercialization through advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Their solutions aim to make avatar creation faster, enhance operational efficiency, and drive monetization. The company is incubated and funded by Jinhao Industrial Co., Ltd. (stock code: 3011.TW). Heph A.I promotes the idea of "AI Everywhere," emphasizing the integration of technology with humanistic experiences across entertainment, marketing, and enterprise applications. Their digital human projects include collaborations with popular celebrities and public showcases like the AI WAVE SHOW 2025.
Jia Shang Technology is the official Chinese name for Reallusion Inc., a company known for developing real-time animation and digital human creation tools such as iClone, Character Creator, and Cartoon Animator. In Chinese-language contexts, the company operates under this localized name while maintaining its global brand identity as Reallusion. The term digital human is widely used in Chinese to describe highly realistic virtual characters, often rendered with detailed skin, facial features, and animated expressions using tools provided by Jia Shang Technology. These digital humans are applied in fields such as marketing, virtual production, education, and healthcare. Jia Shang Technology is also active in broader technology collaborations and ecosystem development, including partnerships with cloud services and AI companies.
"Virtual Internet Celebrity VTuber" is an emerging industry that combines technology and popular markets. It is currently creating a trend around the world. In order to promote the development of this innovative industry, we established this association in 2019. It operates with four cores of "local culture, international exchange, educational innovation, and virtual technology", and holds "VTuber Character Design Competition" and "VTuber Hackathon Creation Event" every year to help promote Taiwan's cultural characteristics to the global market, and " International Virtual Production Forum", invites well-known experts and scholars related to virtual production from all over the world to come to Taiwan to promote exchanges in Taiwan's real estate industry, and deepen the development of Taiwan's education, create somatosensory immersion teaching, and strive to cultivate the next generation and enhance the competitiveness of Taiwan's virtual production. The new digital era of virtual and real integration is coming, and the association will introduce various forward-looking technologies to bring the power to accelerate the promotion of virtual production in Taiwan!