As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 258 Trying
It is very difficult to write economic type comments in Huaguo. First of all, you can't write too bluntly.

Because there is obviously a big invisible hand behind Huaguo's economic policy, and this invisible big hand does not want everyone to know what he is going to do and where the future outlets are.

And if you write too professionally, it will lead to melodrama, and no one will read it.

For example, in the macroeconomic framework research conducted by a certain securities company, various indexes and certain analysis content of the global macroeconomy are done every week, but there are very few followers.

To put it bluntly, there is no market for serious economic type comments, and the information sources of many domestic financial media are just copying and copying.The research report data of many domestic brokerages is quoted from the source or even the marketing account.

The above economic commentators can only have a place in the self-media era by developing into the field of popular literature.

The discussion caused by life-prolonging drugs has spread to all levels of society.

The desire of human beings to live is beyond the imagination of young people.

In recent years, it has been popular not to have offspring, and to solve it on its own after a certain age. Similar remarks are all one-sided remarks made without experiencing real life and death.

No matter how difficult the situation is for the elderly, there are only a few who really have the courage to die safely.

Not to mention the young people who have caught up with the rapid economic development of China for 40 years and have a rich material life and a relatively rich spiritual life.

The so-called self-solution at a certain age is just a subjective argument for one's own argument on social media.

Most of the discussions in the economic-related media focus on the revenue scale and profits of life-prolonging pharmaceuticals.It is rare to combine this matter with the restructuring of the global supply chain.

Everyone's perception of Bluestar Technology's development re-entering a fast lane is not obvious to the level of brain consciousness. After all, few people can see this.

Subconsciously, the investment confidence brought to the Blue Star people exists.

The development of science and technology can truly bring about the progress of productivity and liberate production relations.Potentially good expectations for technological progress make people have optimistic expectations for the future, which further leads everyone to dare to consume, invest and start a business.

If the future is pessimistic, the economy will fall into stagflation and then depression.But now the virtuous circle created by the changes brought about by magic has delayed the stagflation that should have occurred in Blue Star.

The arrival of Zheng Li or Merlin, an at least lawful mage image, made people accept the arrival of magic very quickly.

Of course, this has something to do with Hollywood culture sweeping the world in recent years. People yearn for superpowers and are tired of the same daily life.Even if magic is far away from them.

Just like Luo Shu who was trapped in the apple, even though it was almost impossible for him to become a magician, he still felt that the magical Blue Star was much better than before the magic appeared.

At least there is hope.

Academia is more concerned about life-prolonging drugs.

The next issue of The Lancet to be published has been hailed as the most anticipated issue of The Lancet by the academic community.

A major concern of scientists is how clinical trials are designed.

Extending lifespan is a very difficult concept to prove.

Most of the methods of prolonging life developed by humans before are only based on a certain indicator, and they think they prolong life.

Or simply improve your physical health.

Take telomeres, for example. Scientists have discovered that telomeres shorten during cell division.But does slowing down, or even stopping, the phenomenon of telomere shortening mean extending lifespan?

Not really, because telomeres are not the only indicator of longevity, and even shortened telomeres don't necessarily mean your lifespan will be shortened.

In the Internet age, researchers went back hundreds of years and established a database with a history of hundreds of years. They found that the advancement of medical methods, changes in behavior and improvements in the environment can effectively prolong life.

The finding dates back to a 1996 study funded by the American National Institute on Aging.

Almost 30 years have passed since now.

Progress in this field has been much slower than expected.

Moreover, the life extension in the study of that year was in a sense just fulfilling life expectancy.

Therefore, countless researchers related to biology are looking forward to a new definition of the basic concept behind life-prolonging drugs.

When the scientific community all over the world was looking forward to it, Li Wanqing contacted Zheng Li through a remote VR video conference.

When Zheng Li was in Lion City before, he could see Zheng Li almost every day, and he directly asked Zheng Li about some scientific research issues.

Every time, Zheng Li can give just the right answer or ideas.

From Li Wanqing's point of view, the days when he worked with Zheng Li in the same place were the days when he made the fastest progress in scientific research.

After Zheng Li left, although he could also ask for advice through email, compared with offline communication, the efficiency and understanding of email were almost meaningless after all.

As for remote video communication or VR communication via brain-computer connection, Zheng Li hardly has the time to answer his questions alone.

Therefore, ever since Zheng Li left Lion City and returned to Huaguo, Li Wanqing's mood has been rather waning.

He has always been the R&D director of Kechuang Bio in Lion City. After Zheng Li returned to China, Li Miaomiao asked Li Wanqing if he wanted to be the president of Kechuang Future Lion City Branch.

It is equivalent to changing from a research line to a management line.

It was just rejected by Li Wanqing.

Because the Lion City not only has the R&D center of Kechuangbio, but also the branch of Kechuangfuture.

Kechuangfuture's branch in Lion City is mainly responsible for the sales and promotion of the entire Southeast Asia and even the kangaroo country farther away.

Li Wanqing still prefers to stay in the laboratory, he does not want to and is not ready for the identity change.

"Director Zheng, I have an idea about the future research direction of brain-computer connection VR."

Now the Lion City R&D Center is still mainly engaged in research in the field of brain-computer connection.

Many of Zheng Li's research ideas on brain-computer connection are finally implemented in the Lion City.

So much so that the researchers in Lion City were stared at by the entire industry.

Any company that still has ambitions in the field of brain-computer connection is willing to spend two to three times the premium to recruit researchers from the Gusu R&D Center of Kechuangbio.

Among them, besides neuralink, Samsung and Sony are the most enthusiastic about poaching people.

The FutureVerse's popularity is actually crowding out space for other entertainment devices.

A game magazine joked that Sony's PS series desktop entertainment equipment is facing a dimensionality reduction blow from Huaguo enterprises.

Zheng Li nodded and said, "You said."

Zheng Li was still a little interested in Li Wanqing's thinking.

In his opinion, Li Wanqing would not have applied to meet in VR alone if it was not a particularly important matter.

In the brain-computer connection VR system, Goose Factory has developed a brand new social app called Troom.

It is a living room. Others can visit your living room, and you can also visit other people's living room.

Everyone can have the most basic 50-square-meter living room for free.

As for the furniture you need to buy, you can expand the area of ​​the living room, or even build it into your real home.

The only thing that needs to be done is krypton gold.

Krypton Gold, Goose Factory can meet all your needs.

There is no limit to the size of Zheng Li's Troom, but it is also empty and empty.

In the invisible boundary space, the avatars of Zheng Li and Li Wanqing are the only color in this white.

Li Wanqing explained in detail: "We all know that VR is the forerunner of virtual reality.

The metaverse is just a concept defined artificially by people who cannot realize virtual reality in a short period of time, and at the same time want to distinguish it from the concept of VR many years ago.

But the metaverse has indeed achieved technological progress compared with traditional VR.

There is no doubt that our brain-computer connection VR has met or even greatly exceeded the requirements of the industry in the first year of the metaverse.

But this is still not enough. In essence, we still only solve two of the five senses, vision and hearing.

The other three feelings have not yet found a solution with Blue Star's technological level.

At present, only one-way transmission of neural signals has been achieved.

I have been thinking about how neural signals are transferred from VR devices to human senses.

I think of a direction to start, and that is vertigo.

In the simulation training, the pilot can simulate a relatively high degree of realism by only relying on video and slight jitter.

We can start here.

There are various causes of vertigo, such as benign positional vertigo, vertigo caused by peripheral vestibular lesions, central vestibular lesions, and so on.

It sounds like a lot, but compared to other sensations, vertigo still involves too few neural signals compared to other sensations.

And a very important point is that the feeling of vertigo can cause the human brain to generate nerve signals similar to vertigo through the cooperation of vision.

So what we need to do is improve the realism of the simulated vertigo.

We can start with a simulated flight to simulate the real vertigo effect as much as possible. "

The second generation of brain-computer connection VR has only been on the market for a while, but follow-up research on brain-computer connection has already begun.

Products that can be seen by consumers are at least one generation behind products in corporate laboratories.

The goal of Kechuangbio is undoubtedly virtual reality. On the way to virtual reality, there are too many technologies to overcome.

The Mage Alliance that Zheng Li was in before has indeed mastered virtual reality technology, and it is a virtual reality technology with a high degree of reality.

But the virtual reality technology of the Mage Alliance is based on biological computers, and the computer technology of the entire Blue Star is silicon-based.

How to implement virtual reality technology through silicon-based chips is also a topic that needs to be studied for Zheng Li.

Of course, Zheng Li's vision and insight can save Kechuang Bio from detours.

After listening to Zheng Li, he felt that Li Wanqing chose the right direction, and the dizziness was a good starting point.

Bluestar used to simulate sensations, all through changes in the outside world to create a sensory deception for users, not directly through the reverse transmission of nerve signals.

The simulated race schedule that existed many years ago simulates the bumps of the racing car through professional equipment, and then matches it with a huge high-definition screen to simulate the field of vision of driving.

Professional equipment deceives your body, and screen effects deceive your vision. The combination of the two achieves a feeling close to a real racing car.

Li Wanqing's idea is to combine visual deception and reverse transmission of neural signals, so that humans can feel dizzy by connecting their brains to VR.

"The technological breakthrough in vertigo will provide flight software with unprecedented realism." Li Wanqing continued.

From the very beginning of the large-scale launch of VR devices on the market, the main application has been simulated flight driving.

Some pilot training will also use VR equipment, but the effect of pure visual deception is limited.

After all, there is a big difference between vertigo based on visual effects alone and vertigo caused by the combined effects of vision, sensation and vestibular function.

After listening, Zheng Li nodded and said: "I think there is no problem with your idea, we can start with this direction.

But it's just a sense of dizziness, this point of technological innovation, it will not be able to support the third generation of brain-computer connected VR devices next year.

But there is no rush, the brain-computer connection to VR can be upgraded to a new generation in two or even three years. "

Li Wanqing added: "After all, there is no chaser behind us, and the technology of my former club is still at the point where the brain-computer is connected to the mobile phone.

Our sense of urgency with time is not as strong.

Of course, Chairman Zheng, don't worry, I will definitely not relax the progress.

As for the point you mentioned, I think it can be solved in this way. The dizziness is provided to users as a hardware plug-in.

For example, users who need to use flight simulation software will purchase this second-generation brain-computer link VR supplementary hardware.

This is based on the premise that our technology has not achieved major innovations this year. "

Zheng Li nodded and said, "Yes."

Li Wanqing continued: "In addition, I would like to ask, is it possible for us to take the technical route of biochips?
I recently read a lot of literature on biochips, including the Beiming No. [-] biological storage server in the Lion City R&D Center, and I also studied it.

I think biochips can better identify and even judge the user's true intentions. "

Zheng Li knew in his heart that he actually had more technical reserves and a greater say in the field of biochips.

Now the technology displayed by Kechuang Biology is amazing enough, but it is still within the framework of Blue Star Technology, and the degree of deviation is not that high.

If they come up with a biochip later, will it lead to a more thorough investigation.

But after thinking about it, my body is not in Gusu anyway, and I have left the research on biochips to the R&D center in Lion City, and I only provide guidance on the technical path.

It is not impossible to do so.

Seeing that Zheng Li was thinking, Li Wanqing kept quiet.

Zheng Li replied: "We can prepare a team to make bio-memory chips.

Because the AI ​​chip team in Cambridge has been working on the brain-computer connection chip, so you will get the same budget support in the early stage.

In the end, it will be decided whether to continue to invest money in this technical route depending on the results.

If you show value, then you can merge the R&D team from Cambridge. "

Zheng Li belonged to drawing a big cake for Li Wanqing.

But the goal is also daunting.

The AI ​​chip team in Cambridge includes AI chips and algorithms.Among them, the AI ​​chip has been applied in the latest generation of brain-computer connection VR.

(End of this chapter)