Dialogue With Shiji Huatong Chief Strategic Official Hui: How To Bring "Number One Player" Into Reality?

How far away are we from the world in player number one? This is a question that we can't help thinking about since the concept of meta universe was broken. On September 16, Hui, chief strategic official of century Huatong, was invited to attend the online interview program of 21st century economic report to discuss his views on the meta universe.

In Fang Hui's opinion, the meta universe is a scene that combines the real world and the virtual world. Although it is in the early stage of exploration, in the future, with the progress of the underlying basic technologies such as digital twins, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and so on, the integration of the two sides will become more and more close, even into a state of complete connection.

Linking the real world with the virtual world

In fact, "meta universe" is not a new concept. It comes from the science fiction "avalanche" published in the 1990s. The virtual space parallel to the real world is regarded as the blueprint of the meta universe. Moreover, the movies "number one player" released in 2018 and the Games "oasis" and "free city" in the recently hit "out of control player" further open up the public's imagination space for the future digital world.

CITIC Securities pointed out in the latest research report that the ultimate meta universe connecting the physical world and the digital world will become the way of life of human beings in 20 years and reshape the digital economic system.

So, is the meta universe game as wonderful as the movie shows? Fang Hui said that meta universe game is no longer a game in essence, and its system and mechanism are incomparable with any other product at present.

For example, if the meta universe wants to achieve digital twins, it can project the real world into the virtual world, and at the same time, it can reverse link the virtual world with the real world. This requires more in-depth social interaction, independent economic system, division of labor relations and so on, and even includes various behaviors of individuals in the real world, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Because of this complexity, he judged that the development and design of the ideal form of the meta universe is much more difficult than the current games on the market. Because there must be a lot of combination of cutting-edge technologies, and even each single system may be a projection of the real world, the complexity of development alone is much higher.

Moreover, the product form, R & D mode and organizational structure under the meta universe will change, which also puts forward higher requirements for the ability of R & D personnel and team. At the same time, the meta universe should be on-line at any time and place, with higher standards for computing power and server stability.

Relying on basic technology evolution and ecological construction

Although some science fiction, movies, research reports, etc. have described the meta universe in detail and believe that it will be a trend of the future digital world, it is still in an early stage of exploration from the industrial level.

Fang Hui believes that the realization of meta universe should first solve several core problems, such as modularization, that is, how to let users create content and value by themselves, which requires the support of underlying engines and tools; There should be some evolution of basic technical capabilities, such as digital twins, signal capture, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, etc; How to construct the social system and ecology of the meta universe; In addition, the economic system, productive forces and relations of production, as well as currency exchange in the meta universe world need to be explored by industry.

"Metauniverse is not a company can achieve, but a result of the joint participation and progress of partners from all walks of life, including artificial intelligence, digital twins, cloud computing and so on. It not only needs a lot of technology accumulation and evolution, but also needs the whole industry to jointly create ecology. Maybe the head company has more resources to invest, but different R & D teams are opening in metauniverse Different thinking and creativity will be conducive to the evolution and development of the whole metacosmic ecology, "he further explained.

However, although we can't see the ecology of meta universe in a short time, at least some products with primary form will be put online to let users experience some experience of meta universe world in advance. In the next 3-5 years, more products with meta universe form will be displayed in front of users.

At present, domestic and foreign giants have launched the power yuan cosmic track. Zuckerberg said publicly that Facebook would transform from a social media company into a meta universe company; NVIDIA also announced Omniverse, the world's first simulation and collaboration platform for the establishment of the metauniverse, will be open to millions of new users; Byte jump with 100 million yuan investment yuan universe concept company code heaven and earth; Tencent also invested in roblox, the meta universe community, in February last year.

Self research and external cooperation

Yuancosmos is also regarded as a direction worthy of attention on the science and technology track by century Huatong. In April this year, century Huatong launched a simulation game named live Topia in roblox, the world's largest meta universe community. This is the first meta universe concept product launched by the company. At present, its monthly active users exceed 40 million, the highest daily activity exceeds 5 million, and the cumulative number of visits exceeds 620 million.

Fang Hui said that "shining town" is a layout of century Huatong in the content end of the meta universe, and will continue to strengthen the research and development accumulation of the self research team in the future. In terms of external cooperation, century Huatong and Jiangxi Province have established a virtual reality industry fund, which will link the upstream and downstream partners of the industry through fund means.

Among them, in the upstream of the industrial chain, century Huatong will pay more attention to terminal hardware equipment, such as optical module enterprises, 3D visual identification enterprises, VR enterprises, etc. At the basic technology level, century Huatong is also reserving some technical capabilities needed for the future development of the meta universe industry by means of investment and cooperation.

Fang Hui also mentioned some risk problems that the meta universe will face, such as the leakage of personal information. Compared with the game, the user's behavior data in the meta universe will be more abundant in the future, and the amount of personal information data generated will be much larger.

In this environment, the whole industry needs to formulate corresponding rules in the framework of relevant national laws and regulations such as the personal information protection law of the people's Republic of China, and make unified planning and deployment. In addition, century Huatong is also seeking cooperation with companies in the field of professional digital encryption to make full preparation for personal information data protection.

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