Chapter 675 [The embryonic form of the metaverse]

On Saturday, Jingxinju Villa.

During afternoon tea time, Fang Hong came to the living room and sat down with a material report submitted by Chen Yu. This report was about the work progress of AI anthropomorphic visualization.

Chen Yu is leading the research and development team to start the development, including the research and development of technologies such as voice chat interaction.

In addition, he directly established an IP operation team to be responsible for the creation and operation management of this virtual character. Currently, the first version of the character image and related settings have been released.

At this moment, Fang Hong opened the material report to read. The first page of the document was the original image of a virtual character, nicknamed "Classmate Xiao Ling". , wearing a blue-and-white cheongsam dress with gradient blue, her long hair is combed into a high ponytail, and the sideburns of her side face naturally hang down to a long dish, and there is a tear mole at the corner of her right eye.

In terms of setting, Xiaoling is a 16-year-old young girl.

The image of Xiaoling in the first version has several kinds of clothes to wear. When she wears the traditional cheongsam skirt, she is a super beautiful and charming beauty image, but she is still very good-looking in modern clothes. The clothes designed make her image both elegant and beautiful. gorgeous.

Fang Hong couldn't help but nodded to himself: "Well, it's not bad."

I am quite satisfied with the image design, but if I want to set up a virtual character IP and make her "real", I have to do more than that, and I need to further enrich Xiaoling's personality, and I need a rich And the complete background of the story.

According to Chen Yu's material report, Quantitative Capital invited a professional animation production team and screenwriters to Xiaoling's IP operation team to cooperate. In the future, Xiaoling will produce a series of excellent CG animation story short films. Each short story is about In about 15 minutes, there will even be animated movies to shape her growth process, so as to continuously enrich her IP character image.

It is not easy to create an IP from scratch, and it takes time and effort to promote it.

On the technical side, Chen Yu's R\u0026D team is currently building a character model for Xiaoling's avatar, and the budget is sufficient. Xiaoling's character model is kept improving, such as the number of hair strands of the character model and the real human basics. Same, including details like fine hair on the skin.

"Debut as a virtual game anchor?" Fang Hong, who was reading the material report, was quite surprised. It was not the scene of Xiao Ling's debut identity, but Chen Yu wanted to set up a special live broadcast website for Xiao Ling for this reason. He is not satisfied with the current YY live broadcast.

It was only then that Fang Hong realized that in the field of online live broadcast platforms in China, Yu Yu and Ya Ya hadn't appeared yet, but Chen Yu entered the live broadcast platform track ahead of time because of the misleading IP image of operating Xiao Ling.

After a while, Fang Hong picked up a pen and made a note beside him, and left a suggestion here, which is to suggest that Chen Yu should further enrich and supplement this live broadcast website.

It's up to him to decide whether to do it or not.

In the field of webcasting, the market size is actually the same. In the eyes of others, it is a major opportunity, but in Fang Hong's eyes, it is really not a big cake, but it still needs to be done.

This track does not lie in the market size, but in the application scenarios. It is a crucial puzzle in the Internet sector. If Chen Yu doesn't do it, Qunxing Capital can invest in other start-up companies at that time.

After a while, Fang Hong continued to read the following material.

In addition to creating a virtual character image for Xiaoling, Chen Yu's team will also start with the setting characteristics of her broadcast as a game anchor. Generally, there will be an anchor's camera in the live broadcast room.

You can't just paste Xiaoling's character model on the live broadcast screen monotonously. Chen Yu wants to create a virtual private room for her, and this room can't be a background map. Ling's virtual character can walk and interact in this virtual room.

Various items in the virtual room, such as earphones, clothes, keyboards and other props can be moved, and can also be picked up by Xiaoling.

"Huh? Isn't this the prototype of the metaverse..." Fang Hong was also quite surprised when he browsed the follow-up content of the material report. He suggested to Chen Yu to find a way to anthropomorphize and visualize artificial intelligence.

But I didn't expect that this kid not only touched the track of webcasting, but also had the prototype of the Metaverse, or the prototype of virtual reality.

Fang Hong reckoned that this might have something to do with him improving Chen Yu's research and development capabilities through the fame system.

Pursuing the scenes and details in the virtual room to the mechanism, the biggest technical difficulty is the interaction of Xiao Ling in the virtual room. The real-time calculation is generally previewed in advance, and then it seems to let go of the long animation.

But according to Chen Yu's material report, he is obviously not satisfied with this.

He wanted Xiaoling to have real "real-time interaction" in it. To put it bluntly, when interacting with the audience in the live broadcast room, for example, some audience asked Xiaoling to change a piece of clothing, where to go Some items placed in the room, drinking water and so on.

This series of behaviors are generated in real time, rather than the results of real-time calculations in advance.

Only in this way can the best effect of "real-time interaction" be achieved, giving people the impression that Xiao Ling is an intelligent life that really lives in the virtual world, and she can also communicate with real-time people living in front of the screen through the Internet in real time.

Undoubtedly, this requires the development of an intelligent algorithm model that is much higher than real-time calculations. The technical difficulty is extremely high, and currently no technology company in the world can achieve this level.

But Fang Hong is also quite looking forward to it, if he can really achieve this level, that would be incredible.

Since Chen Yu wrote the material report like this, I believe he is not making a big deal with the big boss, but that he is confident that he can do it.

To achieve this perfect "real-time interaction" effect, it means that powerful data and computing power support is needed behind it.

And Chen Yu has already started to invest in the construction of the first large-scale data center. In addition, a large-scale computing power center also needs to be laid out. No wonder Quantitative Capital spent huge sums of money to build a large-scale data center for its own use.

Xiaoling can achieve a smooth and silky "real-time interaction" effect, behind it must be the support of large-scale computing power centers and data centers, especially in the future when the APP assistant is launched, the more users who download, the more computing power centers and data centers are needed. Data center support is greater.

Fang Hong continued to browse through the pages, and couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw the content behind: "Is this kid playing such a big game..."

Chen Yu doesn't want to limit Xiao Ling's activities in the virtual world to a private room. He still has a development schedule for the next stage, that is, to create a larger interactive scene.

The scale of this scene is impressively including the new city in equal proportions. Chen Yu is not from the new city, but Quantitative Capital has already moved its headquarters to the new city.

As for Xiao Ling's character background setting, she is an aborigine living in the city of Xincheng.

For the interactive scene to achieve this scale, it needs to be detailed enough to be enlarged to the scale of a large city, and a large and detailed virtual scene must be created. In a sense, it can be directly regarded as an open virtual game world.

It's just that there are no human players, and everyone can only interact with this virtual new city through the interaction with Xiaoling.

If Chen Yu does it, it will surely cause shock in the industry.

To achieve this advanced level is not easy to play with a small amount of money. According to the budget list, the budget for the construction of Xiaoling’s character model alone has reached more than 50 million, but compared with the budget required for the entire plan, This can only be regarded as a fraction.

The overall budget scale of tens of billions or even tens of billions of funds may not be enough.

I have to say that Chen Yu's game was a bit big, but Fang Hong didn't think he did anything wrong, and he was looking forward to it.

The big boss just likes that he can make a big one.

According to the description in the material report, Xiaoling can share her daily life in the virtual world with real fans and audiences through live broadcast,

Viewers and fans in real life can watch Xiao Ling's daily life in the virtual new city from the perspective of God in front of the screen, and at the same time interact with Xiao Ling in the live broadcast room.

To simulate the whole city in detail, and then want to run it smoothly and smoothly, it is not only a matter of developing more advanced technology, but also requires a larger computing power center and a larger data center, which is very difficult. A money-burning thing.

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