The most important news and events of this year's Science and technology

Absrtact: Near the end of the year, someone will always ask me the most important news and events in the field of science and technology. If I can only choose one, I think I will choose Facebook 2 billion dollars to buy Oculus, not the amount of the acquisition, not the whole world is helping Xiao-Zha to talk about a world

Near the end of the year, someone will always ask me the most important news and events in the field of science and technology. If I can only choose one, I think I will choose Facebook 2 billion dollars to buy Oculus, not the amount of acquisition, not the whole world is helping Xiao Zha talk about a world's fifth-largest technology company ready to layout the future and reverse Google's story, just because it is important enough to be able to buy hearts, Let this long quiet industry renewed vitality.

Missing out on the early dividend of the layout Mobile society, 2 billion dollars, Facebook is buying more than just a future of technology and media carriers, and they want a social future.

Virtual reality version of QQ

Whether it's PC-side or mobile-side, all social networking is flat, two-dimensional, threaded, chat windows, information flow, multimedia display, and even online social games. This can provide enough information, but compared to offline socializing (whether it's an acquaintance or a stranger socializing), it always feels "tasteless and tasteless". In the final analysis, it is the online social less scene and the sense of generation, even through video chat, I know you are there, but I can not feel "you there cool".

So when virtual reality is social, everything changes. As we are virtual on the PC and mobile phone QQ, micro-letter, micro-bo such a two-dimensional world, virtual reality fictitious three-dimensional world, these three-dimensional world can be small to only one room, can also be as infinite as the universe. In this world you can easily become everything you want to be, Bai Fumi, Gaofu, Dignitaries, Superman, et ... These "impressions" don't need a lot of information to create, all you need is a little mouse or a finger.

You can choose the scene, as you choose the skin, you can construct the character as you choose the character, you can choose the equipment, but you get the three-dimensional, you can choose friends, but you are not in the Chat window, but in a scene "face-to-face". You can send a circle of friends, but the flow of information may be on the "Your head", perhaps left somewhere, in that scene there may be a virtual you, like "Star Trek" in the father of time to see all the time of the study. You can also play with your friends on the farm, but perhaps you "really" in the virtual world to apply fertilization, water, you can also with friends to contain the nerve cat, but should really let your virtual incarnation move up, every day rook, tank war, Interstellar crossing, there must be, but you have to substitute it.

Hey, wait, I read less, you don't lie to me, this is obviously "sims"! I guess if in the virtual reality of the world, my eyes must have floated such a barrage. Fictional a world, whether it is a game or social, educational applications, is actually to have an experience that is not usually available, at this stage of philosophy seems to be essentially "game." It's hard to say how people will know and define in the future. The characteristic of man is to reject limitation, to make up a real world, which is essentially to break through the boundaries that confine it in space, time and spirit, to ensure the control of "consciousness" to "existence" and "circumstance". Offline social, you often need to be true to the face, real personality, online social, even if you want to create images, often need to support the real ego, while in the virtual reality of the world, the cost of second personality will be greatly reduced, can give people the opportunity to break through limited, facing the infinite.

Dream Space

Mark Farid, a British artist, recently launched a campaign to experience another person's life with virtual reality glasses, uninterrupted for 28 days. Mark was a stranger to another, only to know that he was a gay male in love. For 28 days, Mark wears a virtual reality helmet, a real life scene in his helmet, including sound.

This scene, all of a sudden I think of the inception of the space. Male Cobb (Leonardo) is an experienced burglar who can sneak into dreams and steal the secrets of consciousness. His last task was to implant ideas, and in order to succeed, layers of deep dreams.

At the time of watching Nolan's film, Oculus had not yet sprung up, and was always thinking of science fiction. And now, I believe in this scene. It is not the belief that Cobb has four dimensions, but that virtual reality can change people's hearts.

What virtual reality brings to humans is an experience that is likely or impossible to experience realistically at very low cost, and the experience is almost as real as both visual and auditory. It happens that vision and hearing are the main sensory means of human beings. The experience in this virtual world will have a direct inner influence on the protagonist as we experience in the real world.

Screen world, I am Gaofu, she is white rich United States, BMW fragrant car, beach villas, is the CEO strategist, is the General Jiangshan, ran through Bolt, played Tyson, Superman to me worship, leadership of my respect, Li Bing Bingbing to be my girlfriend. Do you want to go back to the reality of cruelty?

This is the ambition of Xiao tie!

It seems that in addition to eating, listening, speaking and writing can be done in the virtual world. Re-virtual a world, what is impossible? Perhaps in the future of the virtual Kingdom, Facebook has one of the largest population, at this time, the small is "king", every day in front of the screen looking at the "Kingdom" data: today, virtual banks deposited in 5 trillion U.S. dollars have been fully accounted for the entity bank, Today, a total of 300,000 otaku loan to Cang teacher bought the villa offline entity can receive 3 million U.S. dollars of interest; just Samsung called, want to launch a new galaxy;google in the world to send a business email said want to push a new browser in this kingdom ...

The future seems to be, then we have to hurry up, in 2014, when the virtual reality of the wind is not up, to do a VR version of the QQ, VR version of the micro-letter, VR version of Facebook, can you get a ticket in advance?

OK. First, you have to be rich, you have to be headstrong. As a technical optimist, I think that using virtual reality, people and people virtual communication and even social networking will certainly be achieved. However, the speed of general sound transmission is 350 meters per second, mobile phone usually has 0.5 seconds delay, VR equipment, you know ... This is only one aspect.

He gave 2 billion dollars and traded technology for Samsung's expensive screens. Domestic storms also seem ready to hit the money badly.

Is there really no possibility of a reverse attack? Social for a long time is the QQ and micro-letter world, but the internet 9158 listed, mobile internet era, MO is going to die knock double 12. Yes, there must be a chance for VR. Oculus may be able to draw a VR world of the United States of America, but Daying Empire, Hibiscus Japan also still have a chance, and then there is a vast universe.

This needs both far-sighted vision, resolutely courageous, years of accumulated technology, meticulous analysis of human nature, but also need some luck. After all, VR is a game in essence. The issue of "Plants vs Zombies" still needs to be in the same geographical and human.

So, here's the problem.

If you know it's a possibility, at least it's worth trying. Foreign Vrchat has released a demo, the domestic Vrpark is also preparing to do such products.

I also went to Vrpark in Fengtai's office to experience their products. The actual experience, the UI, the scene, the interactive aspect is also relatively elementary, has not demonstrated the very strong social attribute. Founder Trihaiqing told 36 Krypton, the project they started last year, has been through the bottom of the framework, is now in the front-end development and research, want to be in the UI, level settings, interaction and so on to do further optimization. It is not perfect, and the first test version is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2015.

Vrpark behind is a 14-year experience of the game company happy Interaction, experienced a page tour, end of the tour, hand tour changes, see now Hand tour of the Red Sea, but also hope to seize the new technology opportunities. Now the entire company has five or six people in charge of Vrpark development. In Oculus just public, they ordered DK1, now the whole company has 7 Oculus Rift. In addition to Oculus, they are also actively developing suitable mobile versions of Vrpark. The above insights on virtual reality social interaction are their deeper understanding over the last year or so.

In addition to the development of applications, he also made an information platform 87870. Already familiar with the game Operation business model and know the platform business logic and development vein of Trihaiqing, hope 87870 can develop the future development space ready. However, he also knew that this matter is not too easy, after all, the distribution platform finally spelled the capital and resources, the giant's advantage will be more obvious.

So the question comes, do virtual reality version of QQ, micro-letter, the Giants are not more advantages?

Trihaiqing: "Then 91 of the results are not bad ah ... It's too early to say anything ...

PS:

We say that a 10-year virtual reality device, represented by Oculus VR, is likely to become the next generation computing platform. By the virtual reality of the wind, display equipment, interactive products, content production platform, transmission technology, cloud services, it is possible to get another opportunity. For foreign progress, many people are familiar with, but for domestic progress, more people know very little.

Perhaps, in the first batch of Chinese VR entrepreneurs, the future will not necessarily become Oculus VR, not necessarily become ustwo, nor necessarily be Facebook or Google. But as the first batch of entrepreneurs should be recorded.

The next period of time, we will also from the interaction, content, media, distribution and other angles, for everyone to fully present 2014 years of Chinese virtual reality entrepreneurial ecology, please pay attention to.

Of course, if you are interested in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, these near future science and technology, want to join us, hurry to send the resume to the small stone (syq@36kr.com).