In a move to enhance the experience for international visitors to China, Utour Group Co.,Ltd. has entered into a cooperation agreement with Liangliang Vision. The partnership, formalized through a Letter of Intent for Inbound Services, aims to explore applications for AR translation glasses and AI translation systems within inbound tourism. The collaboration will focus on scenarios such as receiving overseas tourists, city tours, and cross-language services, with the goal of significantly improving communication for visitors during their stay in China.
Liangliang Vision, a company founded in 2014 that specializes in AR display technology and product development, served as the provider of AR glasses and translation systems for a recent major tourism summit. During the event, the company's AR+AI conference translation system and Hey2 AR translation glasses provided cross-language communication support for various forums and exhibition area interactions. Its contributions were recognized with inclusion in a list of top ten technological application scenarios in Beijing's cultural and tourism sector, paving the way for the new partnership with Utour Group to further integrate technology with cultural tourism and international exchange.
Traditionally, large-scale international events have heavily relied on human interpreters and headset systems. While established, this model faces limitations in deployment efficiency, service coverage, and flexibility, struggling to meet the growing demands of international communication. It is particularly challenged in covering high-frequency interactive scenarios like exhibition networking, business negotiations, and city promotions. The combined solution from Liangliang Vision, featuring the AR+AI conference translation system and AR translation glasses, seeks to extend language services beyond fixed seating to encompass entire interaction spaces, making cross-language communication more natural and continuous.
The AR+AI conference translation system, co-developed by Liangliang Vision and Zhipu AI, is reported to support real-time translation for 54 languages with a latency of under one second. Engineered for conference-grade stability, it is designed to meet the demands of complex event formats like main forums and breakout sessions. The system is now deployable nationwide and is expanding into international applications. Concurrently, the Hey2 AR translation glasses support real-time translation for over 100 languages and dialects with a latency under 0.5 seconds, extending the capability for seamless cross-language communication from conference settings to face-to-face interactions. This product has already entered several international markets.
At a forum focused on the future of tourism, the founder and CEO of Liangliang Vision, Wu Fei, shared his perspective. "The true value of technology is not to replace human-to-human communication, but to lower the barriers to it," he stated. "Technology should not become a new screen between people and the world; it should serve as a bridge helping individuals from different languages and cultural backgrounds understand each other."
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