**[News People] Ahn Min-hee, Giant Step CFO “Virtual humans will appear countless times”**
*Virtual human research since 2016â?¦ Vincent, Yua Han, and Sol, etc., will appear as virtual humans who can talk like AI in the movie ‘Her’*
“After working hard since 2016 to create virtual humans, I have been able to work in various fields such as influencers, models, advertisements, and broadcasting. Numerous virtual humans will appear in the future, and ultimately, they will communicate smoothly with real humans. And I think there will be people who have a direct impact on their lives.â?
Minhee Ahn, chief financial officer of Giant Step, a metaverse company that has developed various virtual humans such as Vincent, Yuah Han, and Sol Lee, said this about the future of the domestic virtual human business.
Virtual humans, which are called various terms such as digital human, meta human, and virtual human, refer to characters that are close to human beings that have implemented appearance, movement, and voice using computer technology. Recently, several virtual humans are working as Instagram influencers and advertising models, and the aforementioned ‘Yooah Han’ released an original sound source in collaboration with CJ ENM in April.
Han Yu-ah is a virtual human based on the heroine of Smile Gate’s VR (virtual reality) game ‘Focus on You’, and she is working as an exclusive artist for YG K Plus. Vincent is a virtual human developed by Giant Step and introduced in 2019, and Lee Sol was jointly developed by Giant Step with Naver and debuted in May this year.
Ahn Min-hee, CFO of Giant Step, said, “Based on a real-time engine, Vincent has been developed to a level that allows real-time conversation and reaction, and Lee Sol is active as a regular member in the JTBC music program ‘New Festa’. We plan to continue our activities in various fields such as
Regarding the future of virtual humans, CFO Ahn Min-hee cited the 2013 movie ‘Her’ as an example. ‘She’ is a movie about the story of the writer Theodore, who writes a letter, who communicates with ‘Samantha’, an artificial intelligence that can communicate with humans, and eventually falls in love.
Ahn Min-hee, CFO, said, “The virtual human project has the potential to be combined with AI such as ‘GPT-3’. emphasized. GPT-3 is a deep learning language regression model developed by OpenAI in the United States.
Giant Step started out as a visual special effect (VFX) specialized in advertisements in 2008, and has transitioned to a real-time content development company based on Unreal Engine through video VFX technology. In March of last year, it was listed on the KOSDAQ market after receiving a special technology growth exception.
Regarding the listing on the KOSDAQ, CFO Ahn Min-hee said, “It is rare for a ‘creative tech’ company where creators, artists and developers to work together, so we decided to go public in order to have a naming brand. Thank you for making it happen,â? he said.
In addition to virtual humans, he mentioned virtual concerts and virtual productions as ongoing projects. CFO Ahn explained, “Concerts held in virtual space are contents that have been activated due to COVID-19, and are positioned as a completely new culture. did.
Virtual production refers to the business of producing immersive content for video media. He said, “What makes virtual production different from existing video VFX is that you can shoot anything you want in a virtual studio without time and location restrictions,” he predicted.
As a strength of Giant Step, he emphasized the ‘use case’, that is, the actual use case. Ahn Min-hee, CFO, said, “Giant Step is a company that talks about ‘use cases’ in the past and now.
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