Chief Scientist, Cyber Recreation District (Beijing)

Robert Lai is the Chief Scientist for the Beijing China Recreation District (CRD), the China government’s largest digital media initiative, and the world’s most ambitious Virtual Worlds project.

China is preparing for the future today by reengineering its infrastructure for business operations to include virtual world technologies such as those that we are learning about at this conference.  We envision being able to use virtual world technologies to simulate business operations, environments, communities, as well as social interactions and collaborative education.

The CRD project is looking for partners from all over the world, for infrastructure development, network connection, IDC, billing, settlement, CRM, banking services, and game platforms, as well as offering outsourcing services, e.g. graphic, localization, CRM, etc. CRD also use this infrastructure to offer virtual world products and services from China to the rest of world through the ‘Dotman’ virtual worlds platform.