After listening to Professor He Cheng's explanation, Lu Zhixing roughly understood what was going on.
To put it simply, the "Taiqing" virtual world that Lu Zhixing experienced before is only a shallow application of consciousness connection technology. After entering, you will at most get an experience consistent with reality.
That kind of technology is relatively conservative and stable. In fact, the input of various materials still relies on hand-drawing or collecting resources on the Internet, and it is interoperable with the current Internet.
However, this time the internal testing qualification of "Taiqing Editor" is an in-depth application of consciousness connection technology. After entering, you can not only obtain an experience consistent with reality, but also have some experiences that transcend reality: such as purely through consciousness generation
Specific resources, or using consciousness to transform the virtual world.
However, this new technology cannot exist without human consciousness, so it cannot interoperate with the current Internet, nor can it use existing resources on the Internet. Everything must start from scratch.
It can also be said that this is another higher-dimensional Internet.
Although this new technology still has many problems, everyone can see that it has great development potential and is an unstoppable trend.
For Lu Zhixing, this technology also has a huge benefit for him that no one else can imagine:
The materials he exchanged from the life-playing game are all in his mind, exactly. If other people's consciousness collection can only collect some vague materials, what about him?
Thinking of this, Lu Zhixing thanked Professor He Cheng again and left the office.
He can't wait to experience this new technology.
If it was really possible, then why would he have to painstakingly hand-paint the model and adjust the movements bit by bit? Although he could do it very quickly with the help of plug-ins, it was still very tiring!
If this new technology can really be used, then he doesn't mind showing everyone what a ruthless handling machine is.
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After Lu Zhi walked, Professor He Cheng picked up his cell phone and made a call.
"Hello? Lao Feng.
"Tomorrow I have a student who will come to your place to use the latest equipment. If he has good talent, you can give him some resources.
"What? Oh, he's not a graduate student, he's an undergraduate, but he's very capable and can't be any worse than a graduate student.
"No more quota? Don't talk nonsense, how can you not have any quota! Your team has the highest quota of internal testing resources in Beijing!
"Too many projects? Too many people?... You are fooling me like a three-year-old child, right?
"Okay, okay, then I'll find someone else."
Professor He Cheng hung up the phone angrily.
"I actually dislike it. What's wrong with undergraduates? There are geniuses among undergraduates.
"Okay, just wait. When the game is finished, you'd better not regret it!"
This new technology is still in the development stage, so not only are the qualifications for internal testing limited, each internal testing qualification also has different permissions and resource limits.
Only a small part of these resource quotas are issued to the account, and a large part is allocated to some research groups in various places.
The production of Lu Zhixing's "Ordinary Life" requires a lot of resources. The amount on the account alone is not enough. You have to find a way to find a research team to get more.
Of course, after using the resource quota, the game you make will definitely have to be distributed to others, but these are small things. Being able to make a game is the first step.
Professor He Cheng originally wanted to contact the largest research group here in Jinghai, but he didn't expect that when the other party heard that he was an undergraduate, he didn't even want to meet, let alone share resources.
A new number was dialed.
"Hello? Xiao Zhou, does your group have any internal testing resources for 'Tai Qing'? Oh, that's right, I have a student...
"Okay, then I'll let him go there tomorrow."
This time, the person opposite agreed more simply, but he didn't give in completely. He wanted to see how Lu Zhixing's talent was first.
If the talent is good and he is indeed a talent that can be made, then everything is easy to say; if the talent is not good and nothing can be squeezed out of his mind, then even the reputation of being a professor is useless.
After all, the current internal testing resources are so precious that there are not enough resources within the group, so it is impossible to squeeze them out for unrelated outsiders.
"I'll help you this far. It's up to you how far you can go."
Professor He Cheng read the design draft of "Ordinary Life" from beginning to end again, then closed the document and sent the address to Lu Zhixing.
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The next morning, Lu Zhixing arrived at the address given by Professor He Cheng on time.
What surprised him a little was that although this address was in a prosperous area of Jinghai City, close to the buildings of several technology companies, it was inconspicuous from the outside and had no grand appearance.
But when you go inside, you will find that various security measures are quite strict, and there is a hidden secret inside.
"Hello, Xiaolu, right? I'm a researcher here, my name is Wang Yang.
"We have no job titles here except team leader. We are all researchers. You can just call me by my name or Brother Wang."
This Wang Yang is the person who came to pick up Lu Zhixing. He looks to be in his thirties, with his iconic black-rimmed glasses and plaid shirt, which makes people subconsciously think of him as a programmer or a man in science and engineering.
However, this image is more friendly to Lu Zhixing. Programmers tend to have direct ideas and are down-to-earth people, making it easier to get along with them.
Lu Zhixing nodded: "Brother Wang, please give me more advice in the future."
Wang Yang waved his hand: "Hey, advice is out of the question. You are Teacher He's favorite disciple. To be valued so much by him, there must be something special about you."
The two people walked inside while chatting.
Lu Zhixing originally thought this place would be a certain game company, but when he came in, he found that there was a big difference.
In addition to workstations with computers, there are also a variety of VR equipment that Lu Zhixing has never seen before. There are not only fifth-generation VR game helmets, but also larger ones, such as lying down directly in it.
game cabin.
Moreover, there are also large motion capture studios, recording studios, painting studios, and even a simple rock climbing and parkour training room.
Compared with these areas, the actual office area with work stations only occupies a very small part.
This is obviously completely different from ordinary game companies: in most game companies, more than 80% of the areas are workstations, and only a few very large companies will prepare their own motion capture studios and recording studios.
Lu Zhixing was a little curious: "Brother Wang, what exactly does our place do? Isn't it a game company?"
Wang Yang was stunned for a moment: "Of course not, didn't Professor He tell you? We are an official research group here, dedicated to conducting cutting-edge VR game application research.
"Of course, we also have some game designers in our group. They may work in various game companies or studios, but here, their main job is to cooperate with other researchers to verify and develop the 'Tai Qing' virtual world."
New features of the world.
"And in our group, game designers only account for a small part. Other researchers have various identities. For example, I am a programmer. In addition, there are also professional athletes, painters, music producers, etc.
“Our main task is to closely cooperate with the above research and development tasks and test various new functions and new uses of the latest VR technology. Of course, those painters, music producers, and game designers will also find ways to apply these new technologies to their own applications.
Among the latest works.
"The more successful our research is, the higher authority and more internal testing resources we will get."
As they talked, the two took the elevator to the office on the top floor.
"Team leader, this is the student that Professor He was talking about."
The person Wang Yang called the "team leader" was a middle-aged man in his forties. Lu Zhixing guessed that as the leader of this research group, he should not only have a certain official position, but also other positions.
own job.
The team leader didn't even raise his head: "I know, you can take him directly to the test."
Wang Yang took Lu Zhixing to a special research room downstairs. There were no computers here, but instead they were all large VR game cabins.
At the entrance of the research room, there is a petite young girl wearing a shirt and trousers, who seems to be the person in charge here.
She was wearing a VR helmet that Lu Zhixing had never seen before. This kind of helmet was not fully wrapped. It was less like virtual reality and more like "augmented reality" or "mixed reality". It could be used to a certain extent.
See the real picture on the screen.
Wang Yang introduced: "Her name is Chi Yue, she is the best painter in our research group, and she is also responsible for the registration management here. Xiaochi, I told you before that I need to use some equipment for testing."
Chi Yue's eyes were not looking at the computer screen on the side, but instead seemed to be looking at the blank space in front of her, while her hands were skillfully operating the high-precision hand-drawn tablet in front of her, as if she was drawing something.
Lu Zhixing had a guess in his heart: "This is what Professor He mentioned before, manual handling?"
The one worn on Chi Yue's head is obviously another VR device, but she is not completely immersed in the virtual world, but is in a state of dissociation between virtuality and reality.
This should be an attempt to move out those resources in the virtual world that cannot be directly exported, right?
After hearing Wang Yang's words, Chi Yue paused what she was doing, confirmed the test qualification key held by Lu Zhixing, and asked Lu Zhixing to fill out the form before letting the two of them in.
His attitude cannot be described as enthusiastic, nor can he be described as cold.
Wang Yang led Lu Zhixing to one of the VR game cabins.
This thing is larger than the VR gaming helmet Lu Zhixing used before. Obviously this new technology requires higher configuration and stronger computing power.
"What you have to do after entering is very simple, just imagine.
“My suggestion is to try to imagine things that are familiar to you and have a relatively simple structure, such as your commonly used water cup, mouse and keyboard, or a watch with a simple structure, etc.
"Don't try things that you are not familiar with and have a complicated structure for now. For example, people, even if they are very familiar to you, are too complicated, so the chance of success is very low.
"After entering, you can see the amount of resources you currently have. Regardless of success or failure, some quota will be consumed, so use it sparingly.
“This machine will put a certain burden on the human spirit, and it is best not to use it intensively for more than one hour a day.
"Don't be discouraged if you don't succeed once. After running here a few more times, there may be improvements. Of course, the premise is that you still have enough resources."
Lu Zhixing asked: "Is there a commercial version of this machine now? Or if you want to buy it, what are the requirements?"
Wang Yang smiled: "Buy? This machine is a development version, and the cost price alone is two to three hundred thousand. Moreover, the quantity of this thing is limited, and each research institute cannot distribute it enough, so it cannot be sold to outsiders.
"Of course there are exceptions. For example, if you use this device very well and the team feels that you should maximize your ability, in that case there is a chance that we will specially apply for one to be delivered to your residence so that you can use it at any time.
.
"It's just that currently, no one in our entire research group, except the team leader, has this privilege.
"Okay, let's go in."
Wang Yang said, opening the door of the VR game cabin and signaling Lu Zhixing to enter.