Huawei's Wu Hao: Cohesion of game partners to build the HarmonyOS ecosystem".
From December 13th to December 15th, the 2023 China Game Industry Annual Conference was held in Guangzhou, supervised by the National Press and Publication Administration, supported by the Guangdong Provincial Press and Publication Bureau and the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and hosted by the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association, the Guangzhou Development District Management Committee, and the people of Huangpu District, Guangzhou.
Among them, Wu Hao, CEO of Huawei Interactive Group and President of Huawei Device Cloud Service Interactive BU, delivered a keynote speech at the meeting entitled "Cohesion of Game Partners to Build a Harmony Ecosystem". The in-depth cooperation in the HarmonyOS ecosystem will continue to expand the boundaries of game technology, bring diversified interactive experiences to players, bring sustainable growth opportunities to partners, provide a better choice for the game industry, and help realize independent innovation, high-quality content production, and sustainable and healthy development of the industry.
The following is the original text of the speech:
Hello everyone!It is a great pleasure to be able to gather here with you to share the development and future of the game industry.
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is emerging in the world, how to grasp the opportunity of change, step up the reshaping of the innovation map and economic structure, and build an independent innovation of the information technology industry chain ecology, it is imperative!
Next, I would like to report to you Huawei's exploration and practice in the HarmonyOS ecosystem
From 2019, when HarmonyOS was officially released and the core was open-sourced, by 2020, HarmonyOS Zhilian was fully open to hardware ecosystem partnersIn 2021, mobile phones and a variety of smart devices will be fully equipped with HarmonyOS 2In 2022, it was developed to HarmonyOS 30 and HarmonyOS 31. The user experience of the five major scenarios of "smart travel", "smart home", "audio-visual entertainment", "sports and health" and "smart office" is constantly upgrading. This year, we released HarmonyOS 4 with a personalized, super fun and new experience, and at the same time, HarmonyOS Next is ready to launch, and HarmonyOS is committed to building an independent and innovative mobile app ecosystem where "everything is a service and everything can be shared".
Huawei will work with partners to carry out all-round and in-depth cooperation in the HarmonyOS ecosystem in terms of technological innovation, industrial applications, and business win-win results, continue to expand the boundaries of game technology, bring diversified interactive experiences to players, bring sustainable growth opportunities to partners, and provide a better choice for the game industry.
In the following, I will explain how HarmonyOS can help realize independent innovation, high-quality content production, and sustainable and healthy development of the game industry from three aspects: operating system, game experience, and industry empowerment.
HarmonyOS provides a self-developed, safe and reliable digital foundation for the game industryHarmonyOS is an intelligent terminal operating system for the all-scenario era of the Internet of Everything, based on the unique HarmonyOS kernel, all-scenario distributed experience, native intelligence, pure security and other capabilities, providing a self-developed, safe and reliable digital foundation for the game industry, helping to achieve self-developed game technology breakthroughs and high-quality development of game content. With a smooth, intelligent, and secure user experience, it is loved by more and more users and developers.
Based on distributed technology, HarmonyOS has a single operating system to meet the needs of different types of devices, enabling diversified device connections and efficient collaboration between devices in all scenarios, from 1 to 1+8+NBased on card-based information explicitness, native multi-terminal deployment, and system-level intelligent recommendation, the meta-service realizes scenario-based and continuous distribution in the dimension of serviceThe AI large model capability enables users to obtain services more efficiently and bring a smarter experience, subverts the traditional interaction method, and realizes the application to find people through intent perception on the premise of ensuring user security and privacy, making user interaction more intelligent.
Up to now, the number of devices in the HarmonyOS ecosystem has exceeded 700 million, covering a variety of terminal devices such as mobile phones, smart screens, and car machines, and more than 2.2 million developers have invested in the development of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, becoming the fastest-growing new generation of intelligent terminal operating system.
This year, the HarmonyOS native application was fully launched, entering a historic leap stage in the mobile application ecosystem, and we have launched comprehensive cooperation with developers and partners in 18 fields, including games, social communication, travel navigation, business office, travel and accommodation, etc.
HarmonyOS continues to explore the innovation of full-scene software and hardware collaborative experience, and realizes the integration of technology and content to create a high-quality game operating system, which is the "soul" of the information industry, and is the general supporting technical foundation of game technology, which can not only support the update of game engines, the optimization of game algorithms, and the expansion of game architecture design, but also provide more possibilities for game scenes, interactive experiences, and gameplay. HarmonyOS gives full play to the gene of "Internet of Everything" to achieve efficient collaboration between multiple devices in all scenarios, innovate the game experience in all scenarios, and enrich gameplay.
Users have more and more demand for more scenarios, terminal game experience and gameplay such as mobile phones, smart screens, and car machines. On the one hand, under the new Ark engine, HarmonyOS optimizes game performance by improving graphics rendering capabilities and reducing power consumption, improving game quality and bringing a smoother gaming experienceOn the other hand, by breaking down the barriers between games and terminals, and between terminals, HarmonyOS innovates distributed gameplay such as meta-services, virtualized super terminals, and cross-terminal linkage, bringing more possibilities to gaming scenarios. In the case of Happy Match, for example, through the meta-service app, players can receive key information such as energy recovery, new level openings, and event information reminders without opening the gameWith HarmonyOS's unique distributed soft bus technology, gamers can perform game PK through the linkage between multiple devices on mobile phones and smart screens, greatly improving the interactivity and fun of games. Under the new HarmonyOS ecosystem, the integration of software and hardware synergy technology and high-quality content provides more possibilities for game innovation, and also meets the increasing demand of players for high-quality game content and experience innovation.
Under the new round of industrial transformation, HarmonyOS actively embraces changes and joins hands with the upstream and downstream of the information industry chain to deepen cooperation in game production and operation, as well as talent training, so as to jointly build an open, mutually helpful, safe and reliable ecological environment, empower industry partners, and promote the high-quality and sustainable development of the game industry.
With the development and growth of the HarmonyOS ecosystem and the participation of game companies, mainstream game engines such as Cocos and third-party plug-ins such as Digital Technology have released HarmonyOS versions and announced their full support for the construction of the HarmonyOS ecosystem. It is more efficient, and has launched a Hongfei plan with an investment of 10 billion yuan, providing all-round incentives and support such as technical support, ecological marketing and financial support. HarmonyOS Games already has a certain degree of industrialization capabilities, and has laid a solid foundation for game innovation and industrial development through the technical advantages of software and hardware synergy.
In addition, with the development of the HarmonyOS ecosystem and the explosion of demand for professional talents, Huawei has carried out systematic training of HarmonyOS talents, and has cooperated with more than 300 universities across the country, including Tsinghua University, and more than 150 industry-university cooperation projects in HarmonyOS to improve the talent pool, further promote the progress and breakthroughs of key technologies, and give full play to the greater value of HarmonyOS in the upgrading of the game industry.
Since the announcement of the HarmonyOS Ecological Game Pioneer Plan at this year's Huawei Developer Conference, there have been a total of NetEase, Happy Elements, and Three.
7. More than 60 game partners such as Alibaba, Perfect World, and Youka Network have joined the cooperation of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, and more than 50 games such as "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Happy Match" and "Three Kingdoms" have completed the development of HarmonyOS native applications. With the maturity and development of the HarmonyOS system, Huawei will continue to leverage its leading technological advantages and the all-scenario value of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, expand its technological boundaries, and promote more breakthroughs in key technologies such as self-developed game technologies and mobile application technologies, improve the game industry ecosystem, and inject new vitality into the development of the game industry.
Hongmeng has a thousand sails, and the game is at the right time!We look forward to working with more developers and partners to continue to build a better HarmonyOS world." Thank you!
Wu Hao, CEO of Huawei Interactive Corps and President of Huawei Device Cloud Service Interactive BU.