Unlimited light and shadow: the virtual reality from the stage to the Chamber of Secrets

There are companies that believe that technology is changing the world, focusing on technological innovation. They live in different situations in China. Most of them are oriented to industrial customers. Some of them are overseas, and some of them rely on additional business to maintain their operations.

The industries in which these companies are located: imaging, voice, interaction, big data, open source hardware ... are few of those fronts that are perceived by the average consumer.

There is no BAT here, this is the feelings of dwellers. Recently, the tenants will focus on talking about the story of the bottom of the technology innovation company, but also welcome the recommendation and recommendation.

Guo Lin's company is located in the Daxing Industrial Development Zone outside Beijing's Fifth Ring Road, next to Peking University's School of Software and Microelectronics. He used to be a full-time teacher in the hospital. Although he is a startup company now, Department of graduate electives, one is virtual reality and augmented reality, one is open source hardware and software, have 3 credits.

Preparatory VR version of the room to escape

Elective classes in the same building with the company, to be exact, is actually two idle hotel rooms. When Guo Ling took Letshome to see, the two rooms each had a big round table (table) and a computer. The table was covered with development boards, batteries, cables and other components that looked like a Place for manual lessons. Guo Lin said he divided his classmates into two groups to do the same thing, using the advanced virtual reality technology to escape from the chamber.

This building is a technology business incubator, called "Aoyu technology Yingying." Guo Lin's company, "Light and Shadow," is the benchmark for tech companies in this building because "other companies are not very tech-savvy and will definitely visit our company when they come in." Because of this advantage, Guo Lin will get some care, he said recently that is considering the renovation of a secret room, you can choose elective courses, you can choose another place in the building.

Secret room is Guo Lin is preparing a new project, he needs to finance the project. However, because before doing the company, met bad investors, he lingering fear of financing.

Convention and Exhibition VR technology is famous

Now this company is self-financing done, if not for new projects, can be self-financing, completely without the need for financing. Shade Realm is famous in public relations and convention and exhibition circles. Many cool conference presentation technologies are what they do. Simply put, they can move scenes from science fiction films to the stage and make products Show more cattle. The company now has about 20 people, many of whom have been attending classes Guo Lin's school brother, mainly to master and doctoral, the average intelligence level quite amazing.

Light and shadow is not the kind of display technology provider that takes a set of solutions, "a recipe for fresh food," which will be customized according to the needs of each company to develop different solutions, as can be seen from the case it provides. Guo Lin said that there are some specialized companies in Europe engaged in similar businesses, but their offer is too high, and business owners also have high learning costs, so they are not competitive in the domestic market.

Because it has been hit in the circle of fame, infinite light and shadow every month can receive several list. In the interviews with the dictator, "2014 smart amusement park • City Roadshow" is being held across the country. One of the interactive games for "Virtual Inkjet Smart Car" is powered by Light and Shadow.

Touch the wall solution

Guo Lin projects his computer screen to the glass wall of his office. The glass wall is also a large touch screen. He skillfully "double clicks" the glass wall to open a demo video of "Virtual Inkjet Smart" interactive game. But the "screen" effect is not too clear, Guo Lin pull the curtains, the cattle X coaxing the sun blocking the window, the effect is much better.

This wall is also Guo Lin ready to market products - in a glass wall paste a layer of special imaging film can become a screen, the top of the center is an infrared controller used to do the touch screen controller to identify the hand Location, the glass roof on the back of the roof need to hang a projector, so a wall becomes a large multi-finger touch screen. PPT stood in front of the glass wall feel very free and easy, just like the Monkey King iPad magnified 1000 times in front of, really not the flip flip can match.

The program includes imaging film, infrared controller, projector and driver software, Guo Lin ready to sell for more than 10 million price. His company is not limited by the development of light hardware, they will mature products and technologies on the market packaged into a program, the core technology in the software debugging part, such as the touch-screen project.

Somatosensory interaction of the key technologies

Then, Guo Lin began demonstrating on the glass wall a sense of interaction for the stage show somatosensory interaction project. Recognize people's movements through Kinect, on the screen in front of themselves appeared in the computer menu, waving in the air can be operated. This is a typical "augmented reality" project. vivo has been used at their press conference (see video below). Guo Lin said that you do not have to stand in a single place, moving around without problems, the virtual menu will follow. "Microsoft Asian Academy friends see our demo feel good and want to talk to us about cooperation." Kinect was originally a Microsoft Xbox game console, but also out of the Windows version.

Many people use Kinect somatosensory interaction, but can not do naturally not stiff, not muddling, limited few really small. Unlimited light and shadow how to do? Guo Lin said they used the software to write their own real-time rendering game engine. Amateur point explanation is that the "touchless" somatosensory technology is not difficult to achieve, but allows users to feel the screen content "to follow" very difficult, while the game engine on the computer performance requirements, but the effect on a higher level. It is noteworthy that the unlimited light and shadow, not universal human-computer interaction technology, not used to replace the mouse to ordinary people, but with a special demonstration software interface to do stage display.

Return to the VR game

But talk to the game, Guo Lin more enthusiastic. Before he started his business, he had been doing game research and development in other companies, and he kept hiding a dream - making a domestically produced world-class large-scale game. Now he can do it with virtual reality. Knowing that the reporter had not experienced the Oculus VR virtual reality helmet acquired by Facebook, Guo Lin opened the game notebook on the table and presented their earlier version of Oculus VR for demonstration. Zhaoke Jun experience is a public roller coaster De mo, quite shocking, hands naturally want to grab the sofa, afraid to fall.

Let reporters have a basic virtual reality experience, Guo Lin began demonstrating first person shooter game they are developing, the use of equipment is Razer Hydra somatosensory controller Oculus VR and Razer, somatosensory controller a total of two, a tied Used to identify body movements in the body, one used in the hand to shoot. After the guest Jun, tried to feel really imaginative space. Guo Lin said Google made a CardBorad conference to be ridiculous Facebook, in fact, the significance of Oculus VR is mainly to make high-end virtual reality equipment from the laboratory to the public, who can DIY virtual reality glasses, but the eyes are demanding, Very low latency is required. If the user turns his head and the picture does not change in time, the brain will not feel comfortable until the information is processed. Oculus is solving this most critical issue.

Guo Lin is doing the virtual reality game does not seem the company's official project, mainly he is doing, in exploration. He said the project of escaping cells through virtual reality technology has a higher priority. After the renovation is completed next month, reporters can come and experience. After obtaining financing, he is ready to escape the secret cells into the form of franchise stores. do. Just like watching movies, young people can spend an hour or so playing the money of a movie ticket. Traditional room escape only play a fresh, because of the physical space constraints, the same scenario, almost no one will play a second time. The use of virtual reality technology will be different, wearing a helmet, both people can return to the Tang Dynasty, but also back to the Qin Dynasty ... ... the story can change.

Because I did not see this virtual reality room escaped project demonstration, guest house guests do not know how the progress of the project, the real experience of how, but to listen to Guo Lin's description is quite looking forward to. (Not surprisingly, next month to tell you the experience experience) Guo Lin sent reporters downstairs at the end of the interview, confessed to the front desk, said: "Afternoon Express will go to a sword, remember to close, do the secret room project."