Dean Bai laughed in silence: "I'm afraid this is difficult, right?
"Beijinghai is so far away, and we have to invite so many people to hold a martial arts competition? Then what are the lottery tickets you are going to make and how much bonuses are you going to prepare?
"And, many things are not money. In reality, experts with famous names care about face. They make friends through martial arts and carry each other's sedan chairs. There should be many people coming.
"But your purpose is to collect data, so there must be actual combat, and actual combat means both losses and losses. It's okay if you win, but what should you do if you lose?
"Many masters rely on fame to recruit disciples. If they lose face, they can't bear it. The disciples also ran away. Isn't this a waste of people's jobs?
"So, if you are willing to pay a bonus, such as a few million, you may be able to invite some people, but it may be difficult to invite real experts and be very popular.
"There are many problems here."
In fact, to put it bluntly, the most critical issue is that what Lu Zhixing needs is a large amount of data collected in actual combat, so that such data is real.
If everyone keeps their hands or just makes a trick, then there will definitely be a big deviation in the collection of data, which will not achieve the purpose of training AI.
But if everyone is not allowed to hold back and not let everyone get tricks, many people will definitely not be willing to participate. After all, there is no special benefit to win, and if you lose, you will lose.
Lu Zhixing thought for a while: "It must be a bit troublesome to let all these enthusiasts come to Jinghai. But can we set up a virtual competition venue or something? If everyone can use VR helmets to go in the virtual world
The threshold for participating in the competition is much lower, and more people should participate."
President Bai was silent for a moment: "This is also a solution.
"It just so happens that Xiaolu, have you heard of the 'virtual city' project?"
Lu Zhixing shook his head: "I haven't heard of it."
President Bai was not surprised: "Well, it's normal that I haven't heard of it. This is an official confidential project, but the institutes have been preparing for a long time, our Jinghai Research Institute's 'Virtual Jinghai'
The project has been in development for more than a year so far.
"At present, the institute is still discussing how to launch this project and how to promote it after it is launched, and there have just been rough results.
"If this project can be launched smoothly, it may be able to achieve your goal."
Lu Zhixing became interested: "Director Bai, what specific project is this 'virtual city'? Can you tell me in detail?"
Dean Bai smiled and said, "It's actually very simple. As the name suggests, the research groups in various cities are trying hard to create another city in the deep virtual world of "Taiqing".
"The city created by Jinghai Research Institute is of course the Jinghai City in the virtual space.
"Of course, there will be some choices in the creation process. For example, some landmark buildings and important places in Jinghai are retained, while for some unnecessary buildings and unreasonable municipal planning content, some deletion and modification are required.
"In short, on the basis of retaining the cultural characteristics of the city, a more perfect virtual city is built and an open experience is built. The biggest feature of this virtual city is that, as a super-large virtual space, it can accommodate many people to visit and participate together.
"The virtual spaces you came into contact with in the past should be relatively small, with a maximum capacity of dozens of people, hundreds of people, and the maximum capacity is only a few thousand people.
"But the super-large virtual spaces like virtual cities can increase the capacity to 100,000 or even 200,000 or 300,000 people. Of course, larger virtual spaces may also appear in the future, but there are still a lot of preparations."
Lu Zhixing was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that the official was still planning such a big project.
A huge virtual city that can accommodate 100,000 people? This is indeed a bit beyond imagination.
If this step can be achieved, then it will not be difficult to completely build a huge virtual world so that everyone can access it.
This is called black technology.
But it is reasonable to think about it again. After all, there are already small virtual spaces that can accommodate hundreds of people and thousands of people. Even this qualification has begun to be widely distributed, so there will definitely be some big guys in the official office.
Jinghai Research Institute occupies such a large area, with so many staff and so many research groups, it is impossible to just study the basic motion capture of these things, and there must be more important tasks.
Now it seems that this "virtual city" should be one of the important tasks undertaken by the research institute.
Lu Zhixing hurriedly asked, "Director Bai, how is the progress of this project development?"
President Bai said: "If the development is actually completed last month. However, it has not been launched yet because the official unified launch time has not yet reached, and there has not been a sufficiently discernible discussion within the institute.
A competitive city card.
"Oh, you may not know much about this, it's like this.
"In fact, it's not just the Jinghai Research Institute, but also the research institutes across the country are conducting similar projects. Places like the Imperial Capital, Magic City, Yangcheng, Jingzhou, etc., have developed the game industry and the research institutes are also full of talents. They create the
The virtual cities they leave are also very competitive.
"After all, virtual cities are different from cities in reality. The carrying capacity of cities in reality is limited, and there are many people traveling on holidays. Although they will also compete for traffic, they are relatively less intense.
"But virtual cities are different. Currently, the carrying capacity of virtual cities is much greater than the number of users with VR helmets, so the competition among various virtual cities will be particularly fierce.
"If the virtual city is online and no one comes, it will be embarrassing. Research institutes in various cities will also have some open and secret struggles in terms of traffic and popularity."
Lu Zhixing knew it in his heart. Isn’t this equivalent to various tourist cities competing for tourists!
During festivals, these tourist cities will rack their brains to think about various publicity. On the one hand, they will increase their popularity and boost the urban economy, and on the other hand, they can also promote the development of the tertiary industry, which is a real political achievement.
Now, this competition continues to the virtual world.
I think if Jinghai’s virtual city can become popular and surpass cities such as the Imperial Capital and the Magic City, it will be a remarkable achievement for the Jinghai Research Institute.
Lu Zhixing thought for a moment: "Director Bai, if it's about publicity, I have some ideas, maybe I can help."
Dean Bai was very happy: "Oh? So, that's good! I know that you guys who make games do have some good ideas in terms of publicity. I wonder what you plan specifically?"
Lu Zhixing did not answer directly, but asked: "Director Bai, when will the virtual city of Jinghai be officially launched?"
Dean Bai said: "In fact, it has entered the internal testing stage, but the formal publicity has not yet begun. The formal large-scale publicity and promotion should be on the 21st, this Thursday night.
“It’s still a hurry in time.
"At that time, not only Jinghai, but also virtual cities in other cities will start to promote them simultaneously. These are the time scheduled by the official in advance.
"Is the time not enough? The main reason is that I didn't expect to find you at the first time. If I had found you earlier, maybe this plan would have been decided long ago."
Dean Bai's voice was filled with regret. Obviously, after watching the performance of the two games, "Ordinary Life" and "Walking with Darkness", Dean Bai discovered that Lu Zhixing was indeed a bit of a trick in publicity.
Perhaps more reliable than the people in the research institute.
No, maybe, it's definitely more reliable than these people in the research institute.
Lu Zhixing thought for a while: "It doesn't matter, it's time to go. However... my publicity methods may have some unconventionality, and there will be a certain popularity, but it may not be a particularly positive and positive popularity."
Dean Bai smiled and said, "Ah? That's probably not good, we are the official ones after all."
Lu Zhixing said: "But there is a way, that is, I will do this event, not represent the official on the surface, but just need Dean Bai, you secretly give me some support.
"For example, if you provide me with a fixed venue, give me a virtual identity that no one knows, and when it becomes really popular, you can promote it appropriately and on the premise of clearing the relationship."
Dean Bai was a little curious: "A virtual identity that no one knows? What exactly are you going to do?"
Lu Zhixing smiled: "Director Bai, have you ever considered building Jinghai into a... martial arts holy land?"