The "Meta-Universe + Foreign Trade" reflects reality
"For the online Canton Fair this year, we prepared two livestreams to promote our 'star products' such as the ice cream machine and baby feeding machine. Our regular customers were very interested in the products and placed intended orders of USD20000." On October 19, the staff of Ningbo China Peace Port Co., Ltd. shared the "good news" with us.
On October 15, the 132nd The China Import and Export Fair (hereinafter referred to as the Canton Fair) was opened online. A total of 1388 enterprises participated in the Ningbo Trading Group, uploading more than 200000 samples into 1796 online booths, and making every attempt to expand the market.
The reporter learned that many Ningbo enterprises participating in the Fair are "old friends of Canton Fair" with rich experience. Since the Canton Fair was moved to the "cloud" in 2020, many Ningbo enterprises have constantly improved their abilities in moving off the back-burner and to the forefront, promoting their "skills in various types of combat" such as live commerce, new media marketing and information technology, attracting traffic through online channels, and showing their "real strength" to foreign businesses.
"Meta-universe+foreign trade" come true
Meta-universe Virtual Exhibition Hall built by China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Company. Photographed by reporter Yan Jin
You are in an exhibition hall full of science and technology, and stop in front of the whale statue and the fountain at the door. When you run forward for a few steps, a blond foreign businessman will wave to you. She sits down to talk with you and invite you to wear VR glasses for a camp together in the "cloud" after seeing your samples "placed" in the 3D exhibition hall in a 720 degree angle, very lifelike. Such kind of immersive picture is not from the popular online games, but from the "MetaBigBuyer" universe virtual exhibition hall created by China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Company, a well-known comprehensive service platform in Ningbo, for tens of thousands of SME enterprises.
The "MetaBigBuyer" universe virtual exhibition hall, independently built by China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Company based on the mainstream 3D engine technology, enables foreign traders to set up their own exhibitions in the hall by themselves, creating an environment similar to that of an offline Canton Fair exhibition hall.
"We put the link of the Meta-universe exhibition hall on the home page of the online Canton Fair and has received more than 60 inquiries. Just now, a foreigner asked how to register the account, and all the platform customers thought it very novel." Shen Luming, the vision director of China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Company is "busy while happy" these days. He has been busy providing technical support, and answering questions for background messages at the same time.
Meta-universe Virtual Exhibition Hall built by China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Company. Photographed by reporter Yan Jin
Shen Luming told the reporter that since the outbreak of the epidemic, many Chinese foreign trade enterprises are still constrained by the pain points of product complanation and difficulties of real-time interaction in online communication with foreign investors. China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Company hopes to break through the time and space constraints and create a virtual digital exhibition hall that will exist for ever. In the future, more fun elements such as "face pinching" system and VR game zone will be added as well.
Post time: Oct-20-2022