Cultivate a black technology god

Chapter 162 Metaverse Concept

Before Zhuo Wenhui shot, he glanced sideways at Sun Shiliang, and incidentally explained:
"The pistol here is set to fire only at robot targets."

Sun Shiliang let out an oh, and when he was thinking about how to realize this function, his ears exploded.

boom!
Across the table, Robert's chest was opened.

Blood splattered, staining half of the wall red.

Sun Shiliang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Zhuo Wenhui, and complained that Zhuo Wenhui scared him:
"Just as long as you're sure he's a robot, it's tens of thousands of dollars per shot."

Zhuo Wenhui laughed and said:
"Come here to play, you have to experience it, it's really cool."

As he spoke, imitating the appearance of a cowboy, he blew on the smoking muzzle.

Sun Shiliang distanced himself from Zhuo Wenhui and reminded:
"Be careful not to go off and blow your head off."

Zhuo Wenhui put the gun back on the table.

After a while, a man with the same appearance as Robert who was beaten to death came down the stairs. He smiled and looked at Sun Shiliang Zhuo Wenhui:

"How's your experience here?"

When Sun Shiliang saw Robert the Lord, he hurriedly stood up to meet him:
"It's amazing, I didn't know robots had developed to this extent."

Robert spread his hands and made an action to show himself:

"Look at me, is it possible that I'm still a robot?"

Sun Shiliang was stunned and took another look at Robert.

The Robert in front of him is no different from a real person in terms of behavior and facial expressions.

He knows that Incite is very good at making robots, but it is definitely not so amazing.

Since Robert made a joke, he had to catch it, and he looked back at Zhuo Wenhui:
"Pass me that gun and I'll try it."

Robert stopped Sun Shiliang, laughed and said:
"Well, I'll admit it, I'm Robert himself. Don't move the gun."

Seeing Roteborg's cautious appearance, Sun Shiliang asked about the gun:

"How is your gun set to only shoot at robots? Is there a camera for identification? Or something like an authentication code?"

Robert shook his head and glanced at Zhuo Wenhui:

"The girl was just joking. Our guns don't have such a function."

Sun Shiliang opened his mouth slightly, reacted for a long time, then turned to look at Zhuo Wenhui.

Zhuo Wenhui smiled and said:
"I guessed."

Sun Shiliang's mouth twitched.

I don't know what to say about Zhuo Wenhui.

He can shoot at people based on his own guesses. Just now he heard that he was going to test the real Robert in front of him with a gun, so he really had to pass the gun over.

Zhuo Wenhui seemed to guess what Sun Shiliang was thinking, she explained:
"When I pointed a gun at Robert before, his reaction was half a beat slower than yours. This is impossible for normal people. It must be a robot whose program is not so perfect."

Sun Shiliang nodded.

Robert invited Sun Shiliang and Zhuo Wenhui to chat in another place.

The three of them walked out of the tavern and onto the road outside.

It happened that a game player recognized Robert, pointed to Robert and said to the companion next to him:
"This NPC is the Incite CEO template. He cheated me before. I have to take revenge."

As he spoke, he raised his gun and pointed it at Robert.

Sun Shiliang walked in front, saw someone pointing a gun at Robert, and shouted:

"Don't shoot! He's real."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a gunshot.

boom!
Gunshots still echoed in my ears, and I could still smell a faint smell of gunpowder in my nose.

Sun Shiliang froze on the spot, he didn't dare to look back.

All you can see in front of you is the surprised look on the face of the player who fired the gun.

"He must be in shock that he killed someone."

"Are you okay?" Zhuo Wenhui's greeting came from behind.

Sun Shiliang thought he was talking to himself. He opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond. Suddenly he heard Robert's bitter laughter again:

"It's okay, it just hurts."

"Ok?"

Sun Shiliang turned his head and saw Robert rubbing his head.

Seeing the astonishment on Sun Shiliang's face, Robert jokingly asked:
"Mr. Sun, you don't think I'm really going to be beaten to death by the toy gun here, do you?"

Sun Shiliang's embarrassment flashed, he laughed loudly and said:

"Let me just say, you must have safety measures here, otherwise, how can you prevent real players from being injured if there is a hail of bullets."

The three continued to walk out.

Robert muttered:
"There are not many players who shoot as soon as they meet like this."

On the way back, Sun Shiliang stopped joking with Zhuo Wenhui and kept silent all the way.

When they arrived in Jinling, Sun Shiliang reported to Xia Zhi with the information.

Xia Zhi nodded and asked Sun Shiliang to contact Liu Rongyan from the game department to organize a meeting with the top management.

At nine o'clock the next morning, the meeting was called on time.

Xia Zhi got straight to the point and told his plan:
"The next work of the game department will focus on the Metaverse."

"Metaverse?"

Everyone looked at each other.

Didn't it mean that this is the concept of frying to harvest leeks?
To be precise, the meta-universe is not a new concept. It is more like the rebirth of a classic concept, which embodies the concept under new technologies such as extended reality (XR), blockchain, cloud computing, and digital twins.

In 1992, the famous American science fiction master Neil Stephenson described the metaverse in his novel "Avalanche" as follows:
"Put on headphones and eyepieces, find the connection terminal, and then you can enter the virtual space simulated by the computer and parallel to the real world in the form of a virtual clone."

Of course, the lack of accepted definitions of core concepts is a common phenomenon in cutting-edge technology.

Although the metaverse has received much attention and expectations from all parties, there is also no generally accepted definition.

It can be considered that the Metaverse is a virtual world that is both mirrored and independent of the real world, built on the basis of traditional cyberspace and accompanied by the improvement of the maturity of various digital technologies.

At the same time, the metaverse is not a simple virtual space, but includes the network, hardware terminals, and users into a sustainable, wide-coverage virtual reality system. The system includes both digital replicas of the real world and virtual worlds. creation.

At present, everything about the metaverse is still under debate, and analysis from different perspectives will lead to very different conclusions, but the basic characteristics of the metaverse have been generally recognized by the industry.

Its basic features include:
Immersive experience, low latency and immersive feeling give users an immersive sensory experience;
Virtualized avatars, users in the real world will have one or more ID identities in the digital world;

Open creation, users enter the digital world through the terminal, and can use massive resources to carry out creative activities;
Strong social attributes, the real social relationship chain will be transferred and reorganized in the digital world;

The stabilization system has a safe, stable and orderly economic operation system.

In summary, it is similar to the oasis in the movie Ready Player One, or the game world in Runaway Player.

It is a virtual world created based on computer technology.

Some time ago, Facebook changed its name to meta and once again detonated the concept of metaverse.

Today, the metaverse concept stock Zhongqingbao (300052) once again closed its daily limit and recorded a two-day consecutive board. It rose by more than 40% in two days to 25.75 yuan per share. The stock price hit a new high in the past four years.Tianxiaxiu (4) also won three consecutive boards, with an increase of more than 600556% in three days.

In addition, Kunlun Wanwei, Digital Video, Tom Cat, etc. followed suit.

On October 10, Luo Yonghao, the founder of Smartisan Technology, replied to netizens on Weibo, saying, "I don't believe that the metaverse will become the future (games are just games)", and believes that the current technology is still far behind. To realize the "brain in a vat" Such a metaverse must develop to such an extent that the real and the virtual cannot be distinguished.

In this regard, Shen Meng, the founder of Chanson Capital, believed in an interview with China Business News that with the rapid development of technology, the Metaverse is not out of reach.

The orthodox metaverse concept refers to the virtual space, not limited to games. In the context of the emergence of new economic concepts such as the house economy, the single economy, the dimensional economy, the slash economy, and the part-time economy, the metaverse virtual space has entered the mainstream. It deserves serious attention.

However, since domestic companies do not have the foundation to provide metaverse scenarios in terms of technology research and development and product or service innovation, Shen Meng believes that the recent popularity of the capital market is based on the hype of the concept by companies and communities.

"Especially some companies in industries such as online games that are limited by the pressure of the general environment need the blessing of the metaverse concept to regain the enthusiasm of retail investors to participate in speculation."

The game industry on the market is sluggish, and the metaverse concept is needed to create momentum, but Zhixia Technology doesn't use it at all.

Zhixia Technology has the most advanced technology for making games today.

Xia Zhi interrupted everyone's discussion with a smile:
"It is precisely because we have the technology that we want to turn this virtual concept into a real industry."

The game department was discussing the Metaverse game, and Xia Zhi asked Sun Shiliang to distribute the information he brought from Incite.

When everyone saw the information in their hands, their expressions were a little confused:

"artificial intelligence?"

"Using this metaverse to cultivate artificial intelligence? It's a good idea, but it's too difficult."

"Incite is a very strong company. I have learned before that their Leihebo system can be regarded as a program-led metaverse. The players in it are all artificial intelligence, and the artificial intelligence baseline is improved through game data."

"I heard that their third-generation product, the Robert artificial intelligence built around the president Robert himself, has reached 80.00% similarity with Robert himself in terms of ideological decision-making."

Everyone discussed the Incite company for a while, and Xia Zhi said:

"I asked Sun Shiliang to visit Incite company before, and let Director Sun introduce the operation of Incite company to everyone."

Sun Shiliang began to explain:
"Incite company has established a West World park in the wilderness of the suburbs. In this park, there are many NPCs played by robots, as well as some real actors. Many of the services are on the sidelines. I won't talk about the details, but I will talk about their operations. methods and ideas”

Xia Zhi finally concluded:

"This Incite is very domineering. In order to obtain player data, they directly built such a western world manor. In fact, it can be seen that they are helpless with virtual technology.

If you can create such a virtual metaverse that is almost as real as the real world, why bother to create such a Westworld park.

I read their company's financial report, the operating cost is extremely high, and it burns tens of billions of money every year, which is not very reliable. "

Everyone nodded and agreed with Xia Zhi.

Xia Zhi changed the subject and praised Incite:

"This company's robots are doing well. There is a project team at Zhixia University of Science and Technology that cooperates with Incite to develop robots.

Our game department is engaged in the virtual metaverse, but the main battlefield of Zhixia Technology is still the real world.

In the final analysis, we build this virtual metaverse to build artificial intelligence, why do we build artificial intelligence?
Nature is brought to the real world to serve us humans.

Therefore, Zhixia Technology and Incite will still have many cooperation opportunities in the future. "

The system task in Xia Zhi's mind: artificial intelligence, through this period of technology research and development, the progress is slow.

So he came up with this idea: use metaverse games to attract gamers from all over the world.

A huge number of gamers will be the data for developing the artificial intelligence baseline, and they can also be counted as external assistance points for Xia Zhi to clear the system tasks.

Two-pronged!

Xia Zhi paused and continued:

"Excuse me, let's talk about the metaverse. We will build such a metaverse according to the idea of ​​Incite's Westworld project, but we will use our computer technology. It may not be a good experience in the early stage, but we will I am challenging myself and keep moving forward, and one day I will be able to reach the threshold requirements of the Metaverse.”

"Next, the theme of the meeting will be discussed around 'how to realize such a metaverse concept', and everyone can raise any ideas."

"Using the oasis in the movie Ready Player One as a template, what technical reserves do we need for Zhixia Technology to realize such a metaverse game?"

The senior management of the game department began to discuss:
"1. Powerful computer performance and peripherals that allow people to move freely.

A virtual world like "Oasis" has never appeared in the game industry so far. The reason is that her volume is too large: more than a dozen different universes, corresponding to different worldviews and different laws, and at the same time To achieve a real picture, people immersive.

This not only requires performance that far exceeds that of the four-way Titan, but also requires cramming these performances into a VR device the size of glasses, and these glasses are an order of magnitude better than the most high-end Oculus Rift in the civilian market today.

(It seems that there is no need for a controller and you can interact directly in the game?).

Not to mention the cool "X1 Body Sensing Suit", the equipment currently under development is less than one-tenth of it.

(Omnidirectional treadmills do exist, but they are obviously toys for the rich)
Moore's Law is getting weaker today, and there are fewer technological breakthroughs in display panels and batteries, but the performance on mobile devices is gradually getting stronger, which can give us a glimpse of the future.

2. High-speed, global network.

"Oasis" is an MMORPG (in our terms), and the network is extremely important, if the connection goes wrong, the delay can kill you more than 8000 times.

It can be seen from the movie that "Oasis" can be said to be a global game. All men, women, and children are involved in it. Regardless of gender or nationality, all people can meet and know each other in the game.

This is very different from what we do today:
Take PUBG as an example, it is divided into Asian servers, Japanese and Korean servers, European servers, North American servers, etc. You don’t need any special means, you can only play with players around you.

I guess that "Oasis" has built large servers in all major regions of the world, and connected these servers together in some way, so that there will be a scene where players from all over the world enjoy playing IOI together.

3. Freedom of copyright.

In "Oasis", you can see different game and movie elements: Tracer, Chun Li, Lara Croft; DeLorean, King Kong, The Shining...

If anyone dares to stuff all these elements into his game, if his game is made, then instead of making a lot of money, he will be sued by major manufacturers without leaving his underwear. "

(End of this chapter)