Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, December 27 (Reporter Xu Qingqing) The 11th Guangzhou International Lighting Festival in 2022 will be officially lit on the evening of the 27th.

It is worth mentioning that this year's Lighting Festival is not only the first time to turn on the lights online, but also innovatively applied the virtual and real metaverse scene, allowing the audience to complete a virtual and real cloud tour through the application of super digital scene technology, across time and space. Appreciate the beauty of Yangcheng.

Canton Tower and the banks of the Pearl River are illuminated.

Photo by Sui Jian

  On the evening of the same day, in the venue of "Cloud Watching Lighting Festival", with the sound of "3, 2, 1, turn on the lights!", the mascot "Liangzi" served as a special host, and "Photonic Chicken" from the digital branch venue Together, many citizens and tourists participated in an online lighting event with a sense of fantasy and technology in the cloud, and witnessed the official "cloud launch" of this lighting festival.

At the same time, the Canton Tower AR lighting display was also officially launched simultaneously in the digital branch venue.

  Offline, in addition to the Beijing Road business district and the lighting works on both sides of the river, the venue in Nansha District also appeared simultaneously.

At the same time, multiple groups of multimedia performances and joint exhibitions were set up, including using the media facades of 24 buildings along Yanjiang Road, the screens of Liede Bridge, the media facades of buildings in Pazhou West District, and the large screens of Beijing Road Business District to play multimedia works, and Haixin Bridge , Pearl River cruise ship, Canton Tower and other existing landscape lighting resources for linkage landscape display.

  The reporter saw at the scene that the combination of radiant lights and modern city images is like a vibrant and colorful picture scroll, spreading and flowing on the banks of the Pearl River, showing a new future and new imagination. The beautiful blessings of the city and the love of life shared by the United States and the United States.

  This year, the Guangzhou International Lighting Festival also tried an online form for the first time, seeking breakthroughs in the sense of technology and participation, and paying more attention to the integration of technological creation and artistic creativity.

In this year’s Lighting Festival’s mini-program "Cloud Watching Lighting Festival", through the integration of virtual and real meta-universe scene applications, combined with strong interactive user experience, a total of 8 core sections have been set up, including Liangzi’s Universe Paradise and Yunyou sub-venue .

The metaverse scene of the 2022 Guangzhou International Lighting Festival.

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  Among them, Liangzi's Cosmos Paradise has the theme of "traveling in the universe and realizing the dream of Guangzhou". Through the use of UE5 engine technology, the virtual scenes of urban landmarks such as Huacheng Square and Haixinsha Asian Games Park are reproduced online in a panorama.

A total of 10 groups of works were exhibited, from works No. 1 to No. 7, namely "Moonful Flower City", "Entering Liangzi's Cosmic Paradise", "Green Space Transfer Station", "Palace of Time", "Future Workshop", "Tree of Life" " and "Stage of Dreams".

From the 8th to the 10th, there will be performances of three chapters, "Dancing on the Clouds and the Moon, Love in the City of Flowers", "Walking for the Light - Tribute to City Practitioners", and "Singing the Bay Area - Future Home".

The metaverse scene of the 2022 Guangzhou International Lighting Festival.

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  It is reported that this festival of lights will last for 13 days.

In addition to offline viewing of lanterns, starting from December 27, citizens and tourists can enter the "Liangzi's Cosmic Paradise" through the "Cloud Watching Lighting Festival" applet from 18:00 to 23:00 every night to unlock the "Cosmic Tour" " section, to participate in a super-realistic visual effect and immersive experience of the Metaverse Interactive Festival.

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