Unith Ltd. announced a binding Heads of Agreement (HOA) with NVISO Japan KK. ("NVISO") to integrate behavioural analytics into digital humans in conversational settings for deployment into digital kiosks in Japan. NVISO provides artificial intelligence solutions that can sense, comprehend and act upon human behaviour using emotion analytics.

The HOA will provide NVISO with access to UNITH's Talking Head platform for the purpose of building integrations into NVISO's holistic platform that features predictive analytics tied to emotional and transactional outcomes. The integrations will be designed to deliver interactive digital avatars that are able to understand various behavioural and emotional facets of its interactors through eye tracking and facial detection. This integration will combine NVISO's expertise in human behavioural analytics and UNITH's technology to scale implementation of enhanced human-like interactions in various target products.

The collaboration will be assisted by the BonsAPPs program which will accelerate development work by providing a EUR 74,000 (approx. AUD 117,000) grant to the project. BonsAPPs allows users to develop AI solutions to solve real-world industry challenges at the deep edge that requires a number of AI artefacts and services produced by different stakeholders.

The HOA will cover three phases that will lead towards deployment of interactive digital avatars to kiosks in Japan and then globally. Phase 1: Technical Integrations - NVISO will integrate its holistic platform to detect complex emotions with Unith's Digital Human platform to build a Proof-of-Concept that can generate a digital human capable of detecting complex emotions and gain insights into its interactions with humans. Phase 2: Market Entry - NVISO will develop and market a packaged solution to certain target markets in Japan including kiosks, robots, interactive store assistants as well as mobile solutions for healthcare and consumer markets and gaming.

Phase 3: Scaled Commercialisation - NVISO will develop and market solutions for a broader range of global markets. Technical integrations under Phase 1 are expected to be completed by April 2023. During Phase 1 UNITH will assign an employee to support the technical integration and will create marketing content and material for Japan using the BonsApps funding.

During Phase 2 & 3 UNITH shall develop any required software features to support integration of the solution. Upon commercialisation of the interactive digital humans in Japan, UNITH and NVISO will proceed under a profit share agreement whereby both parties will be allocated 50% of profits generated (deducting technology, creation and marketing costs). Details on pricing and Licensing arrangements are yet to be finalised.