On Saturday, stay in the villa quietly.
During 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 progress of AI anthropomorphic visualization.
Chen Yu is leading the R&D team to develop, including voice chat interaction and other technologies.
In addition, he directly set up 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 and read it. The first page of the document was the original painting of a virtual character. The character was nicknamed "Classmate Xiao Ling". The character image of Xiao Ling has a pair of blue eyes, gray hair, and a jasper hair ornament. , wearing a blue and white cheongsam dress with gradient blue, her long hair was combed into a high ponytail, her temples were naturally hanging down from the side of her face and ended in a bun, and there was a tear mole on the corner of her right eye.
In terms of setting, Xiao Aya is a 16-year-old girl in her prime.
The first version of Xiao Ling's image has several outfits. When she wears a traditional cheongsam dress, she is a super beautiful and charming image of a beauty. And she still looks very good in modern clothes. The designed clothes make her image both elegant and elegant. gorgeous.
Fang Hong couldn't help but nodded to himself: "Well, not bad."
The image design is quite satisfactory, but if you want to establish a virtual character IP and make her "real", you need to do more than that. You also need to further enrich Xiao Aya's character. You must have a rich And the complete story background.
According to Chen Yu’s material report, Quantitative Capital has invited a professional animation production team and screenwriters to cooperate with Xiao Ling’s IP operation team. In the future, it will produce a series of excellent CG animated story short films for Xiao Ling. The story of each short film is approximately In about 15 minutes, there will even be an animated movie to shape her growth process, thereby continuously enriching her IP character image.
It is not easy to create an IP from scratch. It requires hard work and money to promote, and it also requires time.
On the technical side, Chen Yu's R&D team is currently building a character model for Xiao Ling's virtual image, and the budget is sufficient. Xiao Ling's character model is constantly improving, such as the number of hair strands in the character model and the basics of real human beings. Same, including details like the hairs on the skin.
"Debut as a virtual game anchor?" Fang Hong, who read the material report, was quite surprised. It was not the scene of Xiao Ling's debut identity, but the reason why Chen Yu wanted to build a special live broadcast website for Xiao Ling. He is not satisfied with the current YY live broadcast.
Only then did Fang Hong realize that in the field of online live broadcast platforms in China, a certain fish and a certain tooth had not yet appeared. On the contrary, Chen Yu had entered the online live broadcast platform track in advance because of the IP image of running Xiaoling.
After a while, Fang Hong picked up a pen and made a note next to it. He left a suggestion here, which was 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 online live broadcasting, the market size is actually just that. It is a major opportunity in the eyes of others, but it is really not a big cake in Fang Hong's eyes, but it still needs to be done.
This track does not lie in the market size, but in the application scenarios. It is a very critical puzzle piece in the Internet sector. If Chen Yu does not 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 an avatar for Xiao Ling, Chen Yu's team will also base it on her setting up a broadcast as a game anchor. The live broadcast room usually has the anchor's camera.
It can't just be a simple matter of pasting Xiao Ling's character model on the live broadcast screen. Chen Yu wants to create a virtual private room for her, and this room can't be a background texture, but can use technology similar to real-time calculation to let Xiao Ling Aya’s avatar can move around and interact in this virtual room.
Various items in the virtual room, such as headphones, clothes, keyboards and other props, can be moved and can also be picked up by Xiao Aya.
"Huh? Isn't this the prototype of the Metaverse..." Fang Hong was quite surprised when he browsed the follow-up content of the material report. He had previously suggested to Chen Yu to find ways to personify and visualize artificial intelligence.
But I didn't expect that this kid not only accidentally touched the field of online live broadcasting, but also the prototype of the metaverse, or the prototype of virtual reality.
Fang Hong guessed that this might be related to the fact that he had improved Chen Yu's research and development capabilities through the reputation system.
The biggest technical difficulty in pursuing the scenes and details in the virtual room is the interaction of Xiao Aya in the virtual room. The real-time calculations are usually rehearsed in advance, and then it is like playing a long animation.
But according to Chen Yu's material report, he is obviously not satisfied with this.
He wanted Xiao Ling to achieve real "real-time interaction". To put it bluntly, when interacting with the audience in the live broadcast room, for example, an audience member asked Xiao Ling to change clothes or where to go. Some operations such as placing items in the room, drinking water, etc.
This series of behaviors are generated in real time, rather than the result of instant calculation in advance.
Only in this way can the best effect of "real-time interaction" be achieved, giving people the impression that Xiao Aya is an intelligent life truly living in the virtual world. She can also interact in real time with people living in reality in front of the screen through the Internet.
There is no doubt that this requires the development of an intelligent algorithm model that is far superior to real-time calculations. The technical difficulty is extremely high. Currently, no technology company in the world can achieve this level.
However, Fang Hong is also looking forward to it. It would be incredible if he could really achieve this level.
Since Chen Yu wrote the material report like this, I believe he is not trying to compete with the big boss, but he is confident that he can do it.
To achieve this perfect "real-time interaction" effect means that powerful data and computing power support are needed behind it.
Chen Yu has already begun to invest in the construction of the first large-scale data center. In addition, large-scale computing power centers must also be laid out. No wonder Quantitative Capital has spent huge sums of money to build large-scale data centers for its own use.
Xiaoling's ability to achieve a smooth and silky "real-time interaction" effect must be supported by a large computing power center and data center. Especially when the APP assistant is launched in the future, the more users download it, the more computing power centers and data centers will be needed. The greater the data center support.
Fang Hong continued to flip through the pages, and when he saw the content at the back, he couldn't help but said, "Is this kid playing such a big game..."
Chen Yu does not want to limit Xiao Ling's activities in the virtual world to a private room. He also has a development schedule for the next stage, which is to create a larger interactive scene.
The scale of this scene clearly includes Xincheng in equal proportions. Chen Yu is not a Xincheng person, but Quantitative Capital has already moved its headquarters to Xincheng.
As for the background setting of Xiao Ling’s classmate, she is an aborigine living in the city of Xincheng.
For an interactive scene to reach this scale, it must be sophisticated enough to be enlarged to the size of a big city, and a large and sophisticated 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, so everyone can only interact with this virtual new city in detail through interactions with Xiao Aya.
If Chen Yu makes it, it will definitely shock the industry.
Achieving this level of advancement is not something that can be done with just a small amount of money. According to the budget list, the budget for just building the character model of Xiao Aya-san has reached more than 50 million. However, compared with the budget required for the entire plan, This can only be regarded as a fraction.
The overall budget scale is in the billions or even tens of billions, and the amount of funds may not be enough to stop it.
I have to say that Chen Yu's play was a bit big, but Fang Hong didn't think he did it wrong and was looking forward to it very much.
The big boss just likes him to be able to do something big.
According to the description in the material report, Xiao Ling can share her daily life in the virtual world with real fans and viewers through live broadcast.
Audiences and fans in real life can watch Xiao Ling's daily life in the virtual new city from a God's perspective in front of the screen, and they can also interact with Xiao Ling in the live broadcast room.
To simulate the entire city in detail and then run it smoothly and smoothly, it is not only a matter of developing more advanced technologies, but also requires a larger computing power center and a larger data center, which are all very difficult. Money-burning stuff.
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(End of chapter)
