Chapter 646: The First Year of VR

A little thing in a corner of the world doesn't affect the world pattern, and not many people will remember a disappearing troll.

Time flies, the time of the year has passed like this, as if there is an invisible hand manipulating, and the world is changing step by step.

Time has entered the year when the Mayans predicted that the world catastrophe was approaching, except for the limited areas where wars are still frequent, the countries that have the right to speak around the world are full of laughter.

Xiangjiang Yinghuang Center, not long ago here was rebuilt, at this time there are still many areas have not been built, even if Gan Jing is hiding in the security room, front and back left and right at the same time with four large and small fans, but still feel as if he is a big crab that is steamed in a steamer, and now the shell should be red.

He can only insist on it, and at the same time keep cursing the management of this company in his heart, and he is too cutting corners, and the guard box in the parking lot is actually directly made of ordinary prefabricated houses without thermal insulation materials.

You must know that this is Xiangjiang, although it is winter, but the temperature is almost 30 degrees when it is hot, the key is that there is no air conditioning, no wonder I heard that the security guards here are not long, the long is two or three months, the short is less than a month or even just an hour before someone quits his job.

"It's not a place for people!" Despite the fact that there were four fans around him at the same time, Wen Ganjing still grabbed a plastic fan in his hand and shook it non-stop, and at the same time short-circuited his head, feeling extremely regretful that he had convulsions and chose to be a security guard, and made up his mind to leave immediately when his salary was paid this month.

After graduating from university, Gan Jing quit his job soon because he was not satisfied with his job, and then stayed at home all day playing games and surfing the Internet, until he was fooled into running to work as a building security guard.

He thought that he could be like what his friends said, this is the central area of Xiangjiang, and many beauties are taking pictures on the street here, which is dizzying.

This is indeed the center of Xiangjiang, but now it is the renovation period, and during the renovation period, of course, some shops are open, there are also many tourists, and there are many beautiful women, but Gan Jing can't see it, because he is looking at the parking lot, or the kind that stays in the sentry box.

The weather here is hot and sultry, and there is no air conditioning indoors to live, Gan Jing was fooled, this is a friend sold a head, and now many people give people free job introductions, blowing the sky.

These people are also headhunters, but unlike those big companies that target high-level talents, they target low-level people, such people simply can't find a satisfactory and suitable job on their own, they make these people's money, and then the recruiting company will give them a share.

In particular, security, factories; Basically, they are all asked by each person, and they can always arrange the work, and naturally give these people some shares, more or less, generally according to the working hours of the people who are introduced, and the long working hours are naturally given more, and the short ones will not even be.

After losing the benefits, the poor working environment and salary of the security guard became unbearable, so Gan Jing had already made up his mind to flash when he was done this month, and he finally understood why he was relieved to boldly make a promise of "doubling the salary after the internship period is over", because no one can do it at all.

This is to deceive an individual and force people to leave with a lower salary, after all, it is just a job to guard the parking lot, and there is no shortage of people.

Just what to do after quitting? Gan Jing thought to himself, his eyes focused on a van parked in the parking lot.

The side of the truck is painted with a striking starry sky pattern, accompanied by the text: The starry sky takes you to see the world.

The most striking part of the car is on the roof, where there is a shelf with a bunch of cameras mounted on it, and when the car is moving, it will take pictures of people and things around it.

Gan Jing had asked them before, and found out that the car was actually a Street View collection vehicle, and since last summer, Star Map has launched a Street View service, through which users can view real photos of each city street.

This car is one of the work vehicles, which is used locally in Xiangjiang, but it needs to be charged, and it is being charged in the parking lot at this time.

The name and slogan of this project echo a big move by Star Film and Television Company some time ago.

The famous science fiction writer Da Liu once had a science fiction short story called "Bring Her Eyes".

This one describes a poignant story that takes place in the future, in order to cure the homesickness of millions of astronauts, NASA has developed a special artificial eye, which is a pair of sensing glasses, when you wear it, everything you see is emitted by ultra-high frequency information waves, which can be received by another person in the distance who wears the same sensing glasses, so that he can see everything you see, just like you have his eyes.

Even artificial eyes can capture the wearer's brain waves to emit tactile and taste information at the same time.

Taking an extra pair of eyes on vacation has gradually become a public welfare activity for the ground staff of the space system, and the protagonist "I", who was allowed to take a vacation, was also given such a task.

These "eyes" belonged to a poor little girl in a fat spacesuit.

With "her eyes", "I" went to Taklamakan which had been transformed into a steppe after a hundred years of governance.

She was pleasantly surprised to smell each nameless flower on the grassland through her "eyes", and then named each flower she saw: dreams, light rain, moonlight, light snow, crystals, flames...... People who give hundreds of names in one breath feel tired until the protagonist "I" gets bored.

She was moved by the breeze on the prairie, saddened by the light rain in the early morning blocking the sunrise, and rejoiced in the birdsong heard in the rain, so that the protagonist "I" gave her a sentimental, emotionally rich and morbid comment that she was suitable to be a poet and not to be an astronaut.

It wasn't until later, when the plot twisted, that the protagonist "I" finally understood a bunch of questions that he had thought of for a long time but was subconsciously forgotten by himself: Why would she be happy for every little flower? Why are you happy about the cool prairie river? Why is it that the clouds in the sky that she has long been tired of seeing can be associated with music and poetry by her?

Everything is only cherished because it is lost.

She was the navigator of the wrecked Earth-centered expedition Sunset VI, the last survivor of the shipwreck.

Due to technical reasons, the spaceship she was in lost power and crashed into the liquid iron-nickel core of the geocentric state, and in the decades when the life support system could still work, there was no possibility for humans to realize the rescue plan of the geocentric voyage, so the geological engineer on board went crazy and almost destroyed the spacecraft, and in the end, only the little girl who was the navigator survived alone.

Communication between the base and her was cut off after the main character "I" made this trip, and this trip to the grassland became the last time she saw the ground.

Although there is no alien invasion, Resident Evil, war and peace in this story, there is only a strong little girl working alone in the center of the earth at a depth of 6,800 kilometers, hoping to leave a useful record of geocentric observations in the future, and at the same time pretending to be strong to say to herself and to others: "I am used to this place now, I no longer feel cramped and closed, the whole world is around me, I can see the savannah above when I close my eyes, and I can clearly see every little flower I have named." ”

I sighed at the sight in front of me, but from her eyes, I heard a soft sob.

Not long ago, Star Film and Television Company, outside of the Marvel series, began to set foot in the domestic science fiction market, and bought a number of famous works in one go, the first to start filming was this film, and together with Star Terminal Company and Star Media Company, a free video short film called "Bring Her Eyes" was launched, which is also the world's first virtual reality film.

The starry sky VR glasses released with this film directly made the world call "virtual reality" at the beginning of the year.

However, the starry sky VR glasses do not have the legendary virtual reality technology, but only the most rudimentary VR application, and now it can only use the visual system, and the operation also needs to rely on the controller control.

However, this product is not useless, now wearing starry sky VR glasses can get a truly immersive 3D experience, through the operation of the coprocessor, the audience can freely choose any character perspective, camera perspective, and 3D game-like free perspective, when choosing the character perspective, as if they are incarnated as a movie character, what they see and hear is extremely real.

In virtual reality mode, all the scenes in the film: the space station where the protagonist works, parts of the Taklamakan steppe, the Sunset 6 ground-based spacecraft, and the island South Beach that is taken away at the end, the ice and snow of Alaska, the Russian birch forest, the hot Sahara desert, and the transparent earth with a radius of more than 6,000 kilometers, are all presented in detail.

According to the online reader, through the virtual reality version, it seems that you can really see and hear the parallel world where this story appears.

Even if it is incomplete and incoherent, and it cannot be reached and watched carefully except for the plot scenes, it still feels like a world that can be seen and heard, and the characters in it, whether they are the protagonists, the dragon or even the background, are living in this world with flesh and blood until the end of the plot.

"Bring Her Eyes" as the world's first virtual reality film is still very in line with the theme, because there is no conceptual difference between the main prop in the film, the pair of glasses and the starry sky VR glasses.

Although the former can achieve long-distance high-speed video transmission on the earth scale with the help of neutrino communication, while the latter can only rely on special baseband chips to achieve short-distance wireless video transmission or apply for a special communication card for the starry sky and open satellite communication, but this is okay for residents in Sulawesi, and other areas can only be handled through local communication service providers, which is expensive.

Although Star Communications has completed negotiations and cooperation with telecommunications service providers in various countries, telecommunications service providers in various countries still set many thresholds for Star Communications, and in this case, Star Communication SIM cards have become bestsellers on the black market.

30 yuan unlimited data, according to the region limit to 3.1M and 7.2M respectively, there are also other packages, unified 7.2M 50 yuan package, 11M 90 yuan package, 20M 109 yuan package, 50M 199 yuan package.

All of them are prepaid packages, and the computer rooms deployed in Sulawesi and Shanghai manage hundreds of millions of number segments, but the disadvantage is that they cannot make cross-network calls, and can only be contacted through the network.

The "Zhoutian" baseband has now been applied on a large scale, and it is included in the starry sky VR glasses, which can be connected to the Internet through wifi or plugged in to the starry sky sim card.

At present, there is not much VR game content, and the generation of products launched now is mainly for film and television, which is a challenge for many film and television groups in the world.

From today on, cinemas are no longer the only channel for film distribution.

After the release of this film, ordinary people were shocked after watching it, and put it in the back of their minds after admiring it, but many technical experts were attracted to study and analyze the filming and production technology of this film, and finally could only come to one conclusion, which should be the Star Film and Television and various departments of the Star Group spent a lot of money to use supercomputers to create a 3D virtual world.

To put it simply, experts believe that the so-called virtual reality film that can switch perspectives freely, as if the story is its own world, is actually an auto-running 3D game, all characters are NPCs performing the preset plot according to the preset plot, and the player can only choose to switch different perspectives but cannot make any plot changes other than fast forward and rewind.

As for why it is believed that a supercomputer was used, it is because experts have found that the accuracy of the 3D modeling of the characters, scenes, animals and plants in this film is at the level of a CG movie, far exceeding that of ordinary 3D games.

And Hollywood movies, such as the famous director James Cameron's new work "Avatar", which filmed "Titanic", were made using CG technology, for which Cameron burned hundreds of millions of dollars on supercomputers.

Although the trailer of "Bring Her Eyes" is short, the finished film is no less than the length of a big movie, so the cost may be higher, and technically, only Star Group has the strength and courage now.

In fact, if the cost is really calculated, the cost of this film will exceed 10 billion yuan, because this film is actually a combination of some clips taken from a project of the Star Group today.

That is, the original "Jianghu" project of the Star Group, now renamed "Myth", has repeatedly jumped tickets, and now it is even partially shelved, because with the progress of the project, after the completion of this game, the current equipment can not be carried at all, and can only be partially shelved.

Then you can only start to realize the resources of the project, this VR film is an attempt, in the accounts of Star Film and Television, the total procurement cost of this film is 22 million yuan.

The production cost of Star Fantasy, which has become independent, is unknown, in fact, it is less than 2 million overall, and most of it is the cost of human resources.