In the future, we will all have a virtual world "passport photo"

business models and future trends

Just into the June, micro-letter was face Meng Brush burst, one by one Meng Meng, just into the July, they half again changed back, the reason is probably: tired of playing, and still feel more identity before the head.

Today, there has been a lot of analysis of the business model and future trends, but as a sci-fi enthusiast, sometime in the June, when I found out that the circle of friends was occupied by a unified virtual image, I was still caught in some kind of amazement when I realized that the collective "face" of the virtual world was quite sci-fi.

I vaguely feel, face Meng's rapid popularity and the decline behind, hidden a may not exist problem, that is: In the future, we should be in how to place in the virtual world, complete the face of Digital survival project.

Network "Passport photo"

Before thinking about the face, it is necessary to review a piece of art history--when ancient Greek artists just know how to carve large body statue, they can not wait to create a masterpiece of human art History of the monument-style works: Crete boys. It was the most perfect art in people's conception at the time: it was completely realistic and lifelike, as a copy of the human body as a 3D print.

However, in less than a generation, they gave up the infinite pursuit of true aesthetic orientation, only one reason: The human body is too boring. Later, a sculptor and the mathematicians discovered the so-called "body movement law", for example, in the sculpture will the human leg lengthened, the back curve and the concave degree exaggerated, joins the chest and the waist the muscle to enlarge, the body side relaxes the side tension.

This is, in general, the kind of sculpture you see in the European museums-but note that the proportions of these sculptures are surreal and impossible in the real human body.

Why are the boys in Crete not likeable? The answer to the BBC documentary Art Genesis is that humans are never satisfied with their true appearance, exaggerating the human image as a common human instinct, and choosing to exaggerate what is influenced by culture.

After the boy of Crete, the ancient Greeks pay attention to the posture perfect, and finally created the non realistic image of the human body, impressionism exaggerated the light and color. As the modern society tends to diversify and exaggerate things more, the appearance of cartoons will exaggerate the body image to the ultimate state.

What does this have to do with facial eruption? In fact, the Internet itself is the extension of human nature, the various procedures are the branch of human nature. As people live in both the physical and virtual worlds, as you care about ID card photos, creating a personalized and identity virtual image may soon be put on the agenda, and at this stage, most of the virtual image through the avatar to complete.

Don't you think? In a sense, today's Weibo account (the micro-credit account for tomorrow?) More like a generic virtual world Network ID number. In the future, with the improvement and unification of the basic platform, is it possible for users to acquire one or more "ID card photos" in the virtual world? If possible, the face may be the most original version.

The image of "living"

Undeniably, people in the virtual world has a new personality and image, it is more free, but also more beautiful color (friends circle Many things can not be said to be false, but was artificially plated a layer of gold). Compared with personality, people seem to be more willing to beautify the external image.

How to beautify? A direct way is to beauty the camera, but, you really don't feel very low ... As Luo said: "_ Armed with a beauty known for the mobile phone, is tantamount to announcing to the world, I love ugly people do more strange _." "I think it is not a trend for future virtual documents to be painted on the real picture," he said.

In fact, I am quite optimistic in the future, people with a more exaggerated, personalized, in the real and beautification between the appropriate tailor-made virtual image of the appearance. It should be "live" and satisfy your identity on the Internet. But at this stage, the virtual and the real world is far from fragmented, face Meng this kind of comic form of pure virtual image can not get a stronger sense of identity.

In the internet culture of Meng Zi's head, face-sprouting only satisfies people's entertainment demand with its simple operation-do you really think this comic is you? You know, in biology, everyone has about 5000 personalities, and every moment is paired with a new combination.

But what if it is in a more distant future?

Since it is "a sci-fi lover in the eyes of the face Meng", then may wish to imagine: the flat "ID card photo" may be just a virtual image of the 1.0 version. To be sure, in the future, people will be more in the virtual and physical two worlds, when the currency gradually complete from the entity to the bit change, people have their own real "digital body" is not unreachable.

Just imagine, whether you're a student party or a business meeting, and you're going to be our avatar--would you be willing to pay for a cool virtual outfit if your personalized image is free? This may be the extension of the "Avatar" model.

Just as "the emergence of comics will exaggerate the image of the human body led to the ultimate state", who can deny that in the future we will not customize a suitable comic image to participate in every Monday company meeting?