Rokid joins forces with LiveData to build a brand-new AR world for industries far and wide

AR, like a romantic poet, adds infinite colors and emotions to our world through its unique language. Recently, Rokid entered into a partnership with LiveData, a global leader in real-time interaction and AI services. As an important milestone in this collaboration, the real-time translation app ViiTor is now officially available on the Rokid AR Lite App Store. With this app, users can enjoy smooth voice translation services during international travel, business meetings, or multilingual learning, facilitating seamless communication and interaction with people from different linguistic backgrounds.

This partnership represents a global empowerment initiative. On one hand, it provides developers worldwide with an opportunity to showcase their creativity and expertise in the expansive AR ecosystem. On the other hand, it drives the internationalization of AR technology, offering robust support to global partners. This collaboration is not merely a technological leap; it is also a profound cultural integration. AR is steadily reshaping the world around us, step by step.

Breaking Language Barriers AR as a Bridge to Connect the World

Traditional translation tools and services often fall short when it comes to real-time conversations.For instance, Mr. Li, a Chinese engineer, was sent by his company to attend an international technical conference in Germany last month. He relied on translation tools to understand the presentations and communicate with foreign colleagues. When he used a translation app on his phone, he hoped to grasp the speaker’s content in real-time. However, he quickly realized that the app required manual input or had sluggish voice recognition, causing translations to lag behind the speaker's words. When interacting with other engineers, each sentence he spoke was followed by an awkward silence as he waited for the app to process and translate. Furthermore, when his American colleagues used technical jargon, the app produced inaccurate translations, leading to misunderstandings.

Now imagine if Mr. Li had used the ViiTor real-time translation app paired with Rokid AR Lite glasses at that conference. How different his experience would have been!

Upon entering the conference room, ViiTor, powered by Rokid AR Lite’s advanced AR technology, would instantly translate the speaker’s words into Chinese and display subtitles directly in his line of sight. He would no longer need to glance down at his phone, enabling him to follow the presentation seamlessly while also capturing every non-verbal cue, including the speaker’s facial expressions, gestures, and every detail on the presentation slides.

When engaging with engineers from around the world, Mr. Li could simply speak his thoughts naturally. ViiTor would instantly capture his words, translate them into the listener’s language, and translate their responses back into Chinese—again, directly displayed in his field of vision. This seamless interaction eliminated awkward pauses and allowed for smooth, natural conversations, as if there were no language barrier at all. By combining ViiTor and Rokid AR Lite, Mr. Li not only improved his engagement in the conference but also broadened his international perspective and strengthened his connections with global peers. This innovative translation experience transformed real-time conversations into smooth, effortless communication, making language a bridge rather than a barrier.

A Powerful Alliance Empowering the Global AR Ecosystem

The partnership between LiveData and Rokid is a perfect blend of technology and innovation. Together, they aim to empower global developers by integrating core features like real-time translation, real-time communication, and content protection into developer tools and workflows, building a strong AR ecosystem. LiveData, leveraging deep learning technology, offers real-time translation services in over 200 languages. Their solutions are optimized for conversational speech, abbreviations, and internet slang, making them particularly effective in industries such as gaming, social media, live streaming, and the metaverse.

Rokid’s products, including AR Lite, AR Studio, and Rokid Glasses, now integrate LiveData IM development tools and multilingual support. This allows developers to easily embed real-time interaction and translation features, providing users with a seamless cross-lingual communication experience.

Additionally, LiveData offers leading multilingual content moderation capabilities, supporting 24 languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean. These tools can detect and flag inappropriate content in real-time, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and safeguarding users. Through Rokid, this functionality is now available to developers, helping them create safe and compliant applications.

By taking care of the underlying real-time interaction and translation technologies, this partnership allows global developers to focus on designing and refining their applications. The collaboration offers zero-cost development, free customization services, and 24/7 technical support, significantly reducing entry barriers and operating costs.

LiveData real-time data transmission service supports over 100 billion transactions per day, with peak throughput reaching tens of millions per second. It ensures an average global latency of less than 100 milliseconds, providing reliable backend support for Rokid’s AR products.

Together, LiveData and Rokid provide developers with a robust platform to integrate features like real-time translation, communication, and content moderation into their applications, driving technological innovation and cultural exchange on a global scale.

Building an AR World Across Industries

The partnership between Rokid and LiveData not only breaks language barriers but also lays the foundation for a richly immersive AR world for global users.

In virtual museums, historical sites, or art exhibitions, language barriers often limit access to information. By combining Rokid’s immersive AR environments with ViiTor’s real-time translation, narration can be translated into the user’s native language and displayed as personalized subtitles or audio. This significantly enhances the user experience, allowing them to deeply appreciate the knowledge and art from different cultural contexts.

In international training programs, language differences often hinder participants from fully understanding the material. In AR-based classrooms, ViiTor can translate instructors’ speeches into 19 languages, presenting content as either text or audio. This ensures that every participant can keep up with the course. Its personalized voice simulation feature even replicates the instructor’s tone, making the learning experience more immersive and engaging.

In cross-border remote collaboration, language differences often create communication challenges. With ViiTor’s instant translation capabilities, provided by Rokid and LiveData, team members can quickly understand each other’s discussions. The multi-voice support feature also allows different roles to have distinct voice styles, enhancing the collaborative experience and making international teamwork smoother and more natural.

By collaborating with LiveData, Rokid is building a new AR world for industries of all kinds, offering a borderless communication platform for global users. Developers worldwide can continue creating multimodal, international AR applications, bringing a more open, interconnected, and intelligent AR future to life.

2024.12.19