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World's first AR Cafe unveiled at Yunqi Conference

Published: 2026-05-18 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/05/18, Ant Financial Services Group released a video introducing an AR life service platform called Mashang. In addition to catching elves, AR technology can also provide users with more intimate service and a better life, and there were media comments at the time that the platform had taken our imagination of AR out of the road. The world's first AR cafe was officially unveiled at Ant Financial Services Group's booth of the Yunqi Conference. Reporter

Ant Financial Services Group released a video introducing an AR life service platform called "Maishang". In addition to catching elves, AR technology can also provide users with more intimate service and a better life, with media comments at the time that the platform "took our imagination of AR out of the road."

The world's first AR cafe was officially unveiled at Ant Financial Services Group's booth of the Yunqi Conference. The reporter felt this imaginative technology at the scene: you only need to scan your mobile phone to see virtual labels such as coffee sugar content, calories, coupons and other virtual labels on the screen, and then pay by scanning your face to complete the payment.

The face-sweeping payment, which is full of the sense of the future, is supported by the artificial intelligence biometric robot "Manke" developed by Ant Financial Services Group. "Anke" has the world's first face + eye pattern two-factor authentication technology, the accuracy is far higher than the naked eye. The reporter saw at the scene that there were a pair of twin sisters, which were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, but the face-sweeping machine at the cashier easily identified them.

In addition to AR Cafe and face scan payment, the cool techs displayed by Ant Financial Services Group this time also has VR payment, which allows users to pay directly through touch, gaze, nod, voice and other interactive ways in the VR environment. This is also the world's first VR pay product, which will be connected with various VR scenes through Alipay in the future.

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