The metauniverse is just a cloak for future technological evolution

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Sit around in the virtual space K Songs are no longer fantasy . Recently, the world's first music meta universe application Party On Official release , User access XR The device enters the virtual space , Enjoy with anyone with a unique identity and image K song 、 A concert 、 Hold a party .

Past online K song , People can sing to each other through video connection , But I can't fully experience offline K Atmosphere of song , But now , In the virtual world created by the meta universe , put on XR Devices can experience more realistic K Song scene , Onlookers with expressions and body movements , There are also songs that ring around me , Extremely real .

This is the change brought about by the metauniverse , More specifically , Is to expand reality 、 Digital simulation 、 The common contribution of artificial intelligence and other technologies .

Not long ago, Tencent technology innovation week for the good , Si Xiao, President of Tencent Research Institute, proposed to realize... When talking about the meta universe “ A sense of presence ” It is one of the important evolution directions of the meta universe , Metauniverse itself is a trend of progressive development of technology , It is the technology collection of the next generation Internet . The telepresence here is essentially a new thing created by the basket technology of the meta universe for the Internet world .

In fact, technology has been transforming our Internet world , The bandwidth and positioning technologies that emerged in the previous two decades , The rise of artificial intelligence in the previous decade 、 Big data and cloud computing , And now the rise of extended reality 、 Holographic image and other technologies , Are making the real world more efficient and flexible .

Traditional Internet is born for efficiency

The original intention of the Internet is just like its name , In order to realize interconnection , Break the time and space constraints of information exchange . Up to now , Global interconnection has been realized ,0 To 100 The process has been completed , In the process , There are three types of technologies that drive the fullness of the traditional Internet world , Stimulate continuous qualitative changes in production and living efficiency .

The first is network bandwidth technology , For example, home 100m broadband , They have created the basic conditions for the information explosion in the Internet world . The second is wireless transmission technology , such as 4G、5G, They have laid a solid foundation for the wide application of mobile Internet . The third category is positioning technology , such as GPS location 、 Electronic navigation , They provide a very stable dynamic interaction capability for the Internet world .

The efficiency contribution of these three types of technologies can be seen from three aspects .

One is to subvert the interactive mode , Bring people to the era of free point-to-point infinite information flow , Improved interaction motivation . Take the social scene as an example , Online interaction has two advantages over offline interaction , First, more volume information can be exchanged in the same time period , Because information is accessible , Second, it can realize one to many interaction at the same time regardless of location and status .

The second is to increase the tolerance of information media , Emotions and emotional expressions are more abundant , The interaction is more three-dimensional . Early information media were dominated by words , Then there were pictures , Then there is video and live broadcast , Nowadays, live broadcast and short video have become the mainstream information media , The reason is that these media can convey fuller and more real emotions , Enhance communication efficiency .

Moreover, it gives people and tools more accurate navigation ability , Make a great contribution to the prosperity of dynamic interaction scenarios . Take the online car Hailing industry as an example , High accuracy of car navigation and mobile navigation , It greatly reduces the service difficulty of the industry , And the ability to plan multiple routes , The risk of route errors is greatly reduced , Shorten service time .

so , The technological evolution of the traditional Internet world has a unified direction , That is, the overall improvement of efficiency , As Sixiao thinks, this is a beginning “ offline ” To “ On-line ” The process of , It is the liberation and breakthrough of Internet technology to efficiency .

The next generation Internet is born for experience

Expanding reality 、 Digital bionics 、 The rise of artificial intelligence , Whether to prove that traditional Internet technology is no longer important ？ Is not the case, , It's just a phase change of roles , Today's Internet is fast enough , And it's getting faster , But our interaction and information transmission have become less obvious , So the next step in technology , Is to strengthen the perception of the Internet world , Bring a more realistic experience to various scenes .

This basket of technologies involved in the metauniverse , From the perspective of direction, there are two main categories , One is to construct a realistic virtual world , Or the unbounded fusion of the virtual world and the real world , Like virtual reality 、 Holographic technology 、 Perceptual interaction, etc , The other is to provide data and computing support , Like artificial intelligence 、 Cloud computing, etc . At present, these two kinds of technologies mainly enhance the experience of the Internet world through three dimensions .

First of all , Upgrade the interactive sensory dimension , Improve the reality level of virtual space .

Here we use VR For example, equipment , The early virtual space only has the interactive senses of vision and hearing , It gives people a sense of immersion in the form of visual wrapping , Later, the technology realized the sense of touch 、 Smell and other interactive senses , Enhance the interactive realism in the virtual space , People hug each other 、 The contact between people and objects has more real sensory feedback .

second , Reproduce physical senses and abilities , Realize remote visit .

Robot dog is a typical precision product of bionics and artificial intelligence , Early robotic dogs were limited by mechanical capacity 、 Not competent for difficult movements , But after continuous in-depth learning , Robot dog has been able to perform tasks in many complex scenes , Humans can explore remote scenes through the robot dog's visual ability .

Third , Digital restore scenario , Enhance visualization .

At present, some enterprises have created digital factories , With the help of digital twinning ability , The factory can realize visualized real-time dynamic management in the whole process , In the future, as the digital scene and the real scene become more Mirrored , The digital scene can even preview the future production situation for the real scene in advance .

It's not hard to see. , The future direction of Internet technology is to pursue reality , Because reality brings the most believable experience . Just as Si Xiao was right “ Be present ” An explanation of the concept , He believes that presence is a space and time 、 Subject and object 、 The status of real-time synchronization between ID and him .

The multidimensional value of presence

With XR、AI The next generation technology represented by , Why did it rise , Become the protagonist of the current technological evolution ？ The answer is simple , Because these technologies seek truth , Pursue the characteristics of experience , The value of production and life in the real world is far beyond imagination , They may take human society to the next step , Turn on another 0 To 1 The process of .

As Si Xiao said ,“ They can eventually be transformed into real productive forces , Further change our way of production and life .” These technologies seek to reproduce and simulate the real world , The telepresence has multi-layer practical value .

One 、 Optimize production mode

In an industry where people and machines are highly coordinated , The most advanced working mode is the large-scale control of the machine by a single person , So as to greatly improve production efficiency , When the next generation technology is added , The relationship between the two has further evolved .

With 5G Take remote mining as an example , Based on driverless 、 Car road coordination 、5G Technology , The machine operator only needs to set up a synchronous console in the room , You can control any machine thousands of miles away . This is a subversion of the traditional production mode of people and vehicles in one , This mode of production is not limited by time and space , Can significantly improve production efficiency , At the same time, greatly improve the safety of the working environment of workers .

Two 、 Improve the way of life

At present, human beings and all kinds of life terminals , Like mobile phone. 、 The way cars interact has been fixed , But the application of next-generation technology , By extending the capacity of the equipment , Lead each other to a new interactive logic .

Take autopilot as an example. , Rely on high-precision maps 、 Spatial positioning 、 Deep learning and other technologies , A few cars have been able to park at 、 overtaking 、 Drivers are highly liberated in daily scenes such as high-speed driving , Plus the intelligent automobile 、 The degree of networking has been improved , In the future, people and cars will no longer be the whole process control relationship , The car will become a mobile entertainment cockpit , It will also become an important productivity scenario .

3、 ... and 、 Explore new living space

Facing the earth environment which is not optimistic , Man has already begun to explore outer space , Look for possible habitable planets . Previously, countries have simulated the Martian environment to establish a living space to verify the possibility of human habitation , Some enterprises also try to restore the landforms of other planets by digital simulation .

With the help of the probe that human beings have gone farther and farther , The future depends on holographic images 、 Number twin 、 Satellite communication and other technologies , We may be able to simulate the environment of other planets in real time on earth , And based on artificial intelligence factor deduction , So as to find out the best plan for human survival .

Consistent technical direction

Back to the concept of the metauniverse , Today we are ostensibly talking about the metauniverse , Actually talking about a basket of future technologies , And the meta universe is just the latest coat of technological evolution .

Unfortunately , We cannot predict how far these technologies will develop in the future , As Si Xiao said ：“ Technology has its own pace of development and application rules .”

Fortunately, the application of technology is honest , Although judging from the technological evolution history of the Internet world , There is a big gap between the application logic of old technology and new technology , But their original intention is to serve people and society , They are all pursuing the infinite improvement of efficiency and experience .

Through various new technologies of production and life scenes , And the changes it brings us , We find that the direction of technological evolution is unified , From focusing on efficiency in the past to focusing on experience now , Re reality , Heavy telepresence .

therefore , Even if the meta universe is not in front of us today , Other concepts ,AI、XR、 These technologies of digital simulation remain unchanged , The evolution direction of these technologies will not change .

Take longer , These bring a sense of presence to the Internet world , The next generation of technologies that enable the presence of interactions , It will be under the continuous evolution and application , Create a surreal interactive future with boundless reality for all mankind .

Liu Kuang