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Chapter 374 Upgraded Version

The origin of virtual reality technology is very old. Some people were conducting research on this area as early as the 1960s, but it was in the infancy of technology at that time, so the virtual reality that can be achieved is very rough, and it can even be said to be quite childish and ridiculous.

Strictly speaking, electronic games are also a type of virtual reality technology. For example, the first interactive electronic game Pong developed by Nolan Bushnell can be regarded as the application of virtual reality technology.

It was not until the 1970s and 1980s that someone really proposed the concept of virtual reality, and then applied it to data gloves, Mars exploration displays, binocular all-round monitors, etc.

Then VR technology, which combines three-dimensional graphics generation technology, multi-sensor interaction technology and high-resolution display technology, was born. After entering the 21st century, VR technology developed rapidly and software development systems continued to be improved. It was not until the Snake Eye VR equipment of Miaoxing Group was launched that VR technology became truly mature.

However, most virtual reality technologies can only achieve partial perception functions in terms of vision, hearing, and touch. It is very difficult to achieve the level of all five senses, and only Miaoxing Laboratory and a few international scientific research centers are capable of research and development.

"In order to fully immerse users in the virtual reality space we built, we must enter a special cabin to isolate all external interference!" said the project manager.

Li Maoye nodded and said, "I mean this is a completely immersive VR technology?"

Virtual reality technology is divided into full immersion and semi-immersion in terms of experience. Generally speaking, if you want to get a better experience, it is definitely better to have a full immersion effect. However, semi-immersion also has a large user market. After all, humans cannot completely escape from reality and enter the virtual space without being disturbed. It is very likely that an emergency call will be called in during the experience process and have to leave.

The movie "The No. 1 Player" is semi-immersive. While receiving information from the virtual reality space, they are also processing information from the real world. They just need to take off their glasses and return to reality. Moreover, their virtual reality technology only realizes the three senses of audio-visual touch at most, which is still very far from the level of all five senses.

According to the project manager's introduction, in addition to developing fully immersive virtual reality, they also have semi-immersive technology, and the experience of that kind of virtual reality is much worse.

In addition to entering the cabin, a fully immersive experience can also achieve that effect through in-body chips. However, this technology is under development and has not yet been tested.

The semi-immersive experience is much easier. Just wear a pair of snake-eyed VR equipment and you can connect to the server host through the network, then enter the virtual reality space that has been built long ago, and interact with the NPCs and other players.

This technology is not much different from the VR technology on the market today. At most, it is further optimized in terms of color, sound, movement and touch of virtual space to make it closer to the real world.

Li Maoye came here to check the R&D technical level of the project team. Of course, he had to focus on the effect of the fully immersive experience. So with the help of the staff, he injected a special carbon nano machine, then put on a special tights and sticked on the sensor, and then lay in the cabin according to the instructions and waited for the test to begin.

After a while, he felt that the air around him seemed to be frozen for a while, and then a light appeared inside the cabin, which was originally extremely dark. Then he found that he, who was originally lying flat, had become a standing position and appeared in a colorful nightclub hall.

"Oh? It's interesting!" Li Maoye carefully understood the difference between virtual space and the real world. If he only relied on the five senses to judge, he would indeed mistakenly think that he had left the cabin and came outside. However, as a man with the system, he could clearly "see" that he was lying motionless in the cabin.

Being able to deceive the five senses of the human body to this extent does represent the highest technological level of Blue Star, and it also uses many black technologies from Meow Star Laboratory, such as carbon nanomachines, human organ signal simulation technology and VR cabins.

However, as Li Maoye walked around and observed, he quickly found many different places from reality. For example, the rendering of objects is a little heavier than the real world, making people feel like they are in a movie scene, the bright light is much brighter and the contrast is much stronger, giving people a strong visual impact.

From the perspective of game entertainment, this appropriate difference from reality is necessary. It not only allows people to immediately distinguish the difference between virtual and reality, but also reminds users that they are in the virtual space so that they will not confuse virtual and reality, and then cause mental abnormalities regardless of whether they are true or false.

The tactile signals in the five senses have been weakened by about one-third. It is estimated that on the one hand, it is a technical problem. After all, it is difficult to achieve 100% tactile sensation, and there will definitely be weakening and deviations to varying degrees.

In addition, it is necessary to avoid pain in the touch exceeding the user threshold. Since it is difficult for everyone to accurately set the pain differently, it is better to limit it to a relatively low level so that accidents will not occur.

"A more tricky method is OK!" Li Maoye commented.

Then there is a common problem with virtual reality technology. The more realistic and smooth the scene, the greater the demand for computing power. Even if the supercomputer of Miaoxing Laboratory is used as a server, it cannot be 100% real and virtual at all. It is necessary to take into account both reality and smooth coexistence, and you have to find the balance point among them.

When Li Maoye continued to enlarge a certain area in the scene in front of him until he could not enlarge it, he found that the nail size map could be enlarged to 1024 times the size, much larger than a city wall.

"The power of 10th multiples of 2 are also very realistic!"

Based on this data, the virtual space developed by Miaoxing Laboratory is more than 30 times the VR value on the market, which is indeed worthy of the project R&D personnel's pride, but it still does not meet Li Maoye's minimum requirements.

As for the NPC and plot process in the virtual space, he did not have any contact and experience it. From the data at hand, it can be judged that the intelligence level of NPC is extremely low, even less than that of a computer angel. It is probably a way to save computing power.

Judging from the plot process, the size of the virtual space is no more than the size of a small town, which is probably much smaller than the city in "The Soul-Moving City". Moreover, it is a city in a spacecraft, so it can be seen that its maximum capacity will not exceed more than 10,000 people.

Even though they boast about the seventh level of fantasy technology, in Li Maoye's opinion, it was just a map that was put on seven maps repeatedly, making people mistakenly think that they woke up in the cabin every time they entered a new map. In fact, they were still in the same place, but they were deceived by others using the technology of dolls.

"The design is clever, but it doesn't work for those who are prepared. After all, fakes are always fake. As long as you push them to the limit in some aspects, you can find problems!"

After Li Maoye figured out the basic situation, he immediately separated from the virtual space and then explained its advantages and disadvantages, so that the project manager could sweat on his forehead.

"Yes, yes, you're right!" The project manager thought that the research and development results he had in hand would definitely have their success, but after listening to this analysis, he found that this thing was far from meeting Li Maoye's requirements.

"But your basic work is indeed done well, and you can even use it directly without any changes. Now I provide a design plan and you can find a way to implement it." Li Maoye said while signaling the other party to accept the data files. He could use his smart device in the laboratory area to facilitate and quickly transfer data files.

The project manager of virtual space technology immediately received a document. He used his personal terminal to receive it and opened it and immediately recognized the prototype of the design.

"Tianxin Lotus Ring and Mind Local Area Network?" The project manager whispered in surprise.

As a research and development worker at Miaoxing Laboratory, I am very familiar with these two things. Since I entered the laboratory for research and development, I immediately knew that if I want to become stronger, I had to become a bald person. Then I put on the ugly Tianxinlian ring headband and use a spiritual LAN to increase my thinking speed and inspire inspiration.

Every R&D worker loves and hates this. Anyone with shaved heads finds ways to develop a new Tianxin Lotus ring to restore hair volume. At the same time, they would rather bald than give up the blessing of the spiritual LAN.

Unfortunately, so many years have passed, they have not realized this small wish. Even though there are rumors that Qin Hua and others have successfully developed it, everyone still keeps a cautious attitude before seeing the finished product. After all, there have been too many rumors that the wolf has come, so that everyone is immune to it.

It was not until today that the project manager saw the information about the new Tianxin Lotus Ring and the Mind Local Area Network that he realized that Qin Hua and others might have really succeeded, otherwise they would not have seen the boss here.

That's right, Li Maoye modified and optimized it based on the new Tianxin Lotus ring. Even though it still looks like the original bone conduction headphone shape, its actual functions have changed a lot.

In addition, his technology requires the implantation of carbon nanochips in the human brain so that the new Tianxin Lotus ring can play its greatest role. Otherwise, its effect will be the same as the functions developed by Qin Hua and others, and it will not be able to enter the virtual spiritual space designed by Li Maoye for this.

"This is an upgraded version of the Mind LAN, and it is the design I just completed!" Li Maoye introduced.

The project manager was still attracted by the design drawings, and he did not understand the meaning of this sentence. Li Maoye did design the plan just now, and it started when he came out of the cabin.

"This is no longer a LAN!"
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