On May 27, a high-end dialogue themed on "Blockchain - the cornerstone of digital civilization" was held at the Guiyang International Ecological Conference Center. Speech on the theme of "Digital Twin Mirror World".
He said that the augmented reality world is the future direction of development, "We hope that this will be a continuous process without any interruption. I hope this is a distributed form, uploaded to the cloud, and the technology is decentralized. The technology is blockchain".
The following is the transcript of the speech edited by Odaily:
The following is the transcript of the speech edited by Odaily:
Every time I come to China, I am happy because I can learn a lot every time I come here. I am not representing a blockchain expert here this morning, but I want to introduce to you what other new technologies will coming in the future.
Everyone has heard that we have entered the civilization of big data, and the platform of civilization has always been our smartphone, which is a must-have device for everyone. I would like to share with you what our next platform will be? I think blockchain can play a big role on this platform. We call such a platform augmented reality or mixed reality, which is very similar to the familiar VR or virtual reality. In different scenarios, mixed reality is different. It is to wear transparent glasses and superimpose virtual content in the real world through transparent glasses, so the world in front of you is real plus virtual world.
This is the core of augmented reality or mixed reality technology. In mixed reality, you can have a lot of talents. For example, if you are a designer, you can move your designed home in a real scene, or Make changes; or if you are a teacher, you can use mixed reality or augmented reality technology to help those who have difficulties in reading to learn through their own body language.
Microsoft believes that this is the future of office work, because in the reality of such a virtual world, you can call up many windows in the real classroom or office, just wear the device and work in any place.
Currently, 50% of the workers in the world do not have workbenches. They work on site or in factories, or are drivers driving various vehicles. If you can call up such pages to work in any place, it is also affirmation of their work. You see that there are too many advertisements in this world, and you need to avoid such a situation. At least everyone has an idea, such as you are in In the kitchen, you can see what ingredients are included in the dishes you are cooking, and you can also adjust Google Maps to see the information. After wearing this glasses, you will find that it is helping you draw a map of the world digitally. You can look at some navigation or Other relevant information and even advertisements, but it does not mean that this is an ideal augmented reality world, but that everyone can imagine that the world in front of them is a world of virtual + reality.
Of course, we also hope that in the end we can map the entire world, digitally map all existing spaces and buildings in the world, and any physical object in this world will have a digital egg, whether it is a generator or a power plant, everything All have 1:1 digital eggs, which can be superimposed on real objects, and conduct certain simulations through digital eggs to detect faults or inspect parts, etc. By managing such a digital virtual, you can also better realize The management of physical objects means that in the future, a 1:1 digital map will be drawn for the entire world. Whether it is an office building or any other place, you will see a 1:1 digital version of the same size.
Everyone can imagine that if you walk in the digital world, from point A to point B, it is the same in reality. This is also a simulation. If it is built, it can become a more important platform than a smartphone. We You can see the virtual world through some devices such as cameras or glasses. You can walk around the room and look at the virtual objects. The occupied area and volume of all these virtual objects are exactly the same as the original objects. If you walk on the street and a friend has a tag on a certain building, you will see the tag a month later, and even use such glasses or cameras on other devices to observe the world.
And the most important thing is that in this world, robots can also see the world. We can see the surrounding road conditions when we are driving a car. That is to say, the robot on the car has such a vision that it can perceive the world. When your electronic assistant or the assistant on the car communicates, you can know the behavior of your car, and in the world of its digital or smart assistant, you yourself have produced a digital egg. We can see it in the digital egg world. When it comes to smart assistants, smart assistants can also see you in the virtual world. We will cooperate. In the future, we will call cooperation a seamless cooperation mode between humans and machines. In this world, real people and machines will cooperate seamlessly like this, and all in real time, it can be operated locally, even in your home, as long as you wear AR glasses or use such a Equipment, you can see what you want to buy, such as a sofa, and how it will look in the room. If you don't like the color of the sofa, you can change the color of the sofa, and even walk around the room to observe the chair from this angle, what is the effect at various angles, and this chair is very realistic, if you don't want this chair, Slice it to delete and add other objects. If we want to achieve this kind of operation, it means that your room also needs to be mapped. The moment you put on your glasses, your room will be mapped for digitalization. Version.
And as more and more people use this technology, more parts of the world are mapped, and after more and more people use technology, the digital version of the world will be more full of details. And our virtual world is actually a construction by users. We hope that this will be a continuous activity, it will not be interrupted in any way, and I hope this is a distributed form, everyone can choose to use the digital version of the street view or room he sees Upload to the cloud, and this upload mode is decentralized, the underlying technology is the blockchain, if we want to build a virtual world, there are street views and rooms in the virtual world, and the scanning of the rooms is done by individual users, Moreover, it is uploaded by individual users. In order to ensure the credibility and immutability of these processes, we need to use underlying technologies such as blockchain.
And we know that the blockchain can be calculated in real time. In such a world, all numbers and objects are also a kind of financial assets, and each object can even have a price tag. When you move a chair, you are also moving financial assets. , so in this digital world, its business opportunities are everywhere.
In such a virtual world, there can be many business operations, and it will involve a lot of asset ownership, and there are many commercial interests. These can be protected through the blockchain, and we can even build a human digital egg in the virtual world. Some of our scientists are still developing some glasses that allow you to see a virtual person moving and talking in front of you. Although the fidelity of this virtual person is not particularly high at present, it is very good because its technology can connect To some cortex of your brain, let you feel the current object, not only through visual seeing, but also through the cognitive system, so the characters or other objects in front of you will become more real. If there is a virtual person in front of me, although it looks a bit like a cartoon character on the surface, it feels like a real person, and it can simulate speech, behavior and various styles. Then this technology is also very important in this event in the future. Microsoft is also doing a lot of work in this area. It believes that this is a way of working in the future. I think Jingxiang World is a very important platform. The most important information in this world is not just some objects or systems, but our living people.
This is why we feel that our world is the strongest in social media. In the end, I think the most important feature of this world is that machines can read various objects. Our first digital civilization is based on the Internet of Things, which can digitize all information, no matter what scenario we create. Digitize and interconnect the numbers. The strong players in this era are companies such as Google and Baidu. The second digital platform is a network of human relationships, which allows human relationships to be read by machines, and we can search for relevant information between people on the Internet, because now we have relevant algorithms to achieve this . Then in the second digital civilization platform, you can not only search for human relationships, but also search for human behavior, so that some things can also be read by machines and digitized. In the second civilization, the strong It is Facebook and WeChat, these two platforms can digitally read people's relationships and behaviors.
The third digital platform in the future is our mirror world, which can digitize all physical objects of other things in the world. Machines can read physical objects in the future, and algorithms can search in the real world, just like searching in text. , you can search for the geographic location and some information about the object. In this world, you can do a very simple search, such as finding a scene facing the river and facing the sunrise. It is also very convenient to find such a park. This is the convenience brought by machines reading physical objects. In the future, self-driving cars will be Read the physical world in real time. In short, our world can be read by machines. Who will be the final winner in this era?
First of all, AI is like the electricity in this network. Without the support of AI, such a world cannot be built. So in other words, AI is an engine behind this world, just like an engine. Therefore, in the future, the technical cost of AI must be greatly reduced. Therefore, we are also looking forward to AI research and development at a faster speed in the future, and the cost can be greatly reduced.
The second point is that big data will win in the end. In the end, the world we live in is the world of big data. The scale of this big data is completely unimaginable to us now. It may be transmitted on a scale of GB every second. In every second, data needs to be collected, uploaded, shared and processed, which requires the laying of optical fibers and computer scientists need to develop newer computing methods to achieve faster processing speeds, and in this world, Data is interconnected. Currently in our world, the largest companies also have the most data. For example, the scale of data owned by those data companies is massive, so I will imagine that in the future, if a certain company has the most There is no doubt that a large amount of data is the largest company in the world.
The third is openness. In this world, everyone can participate. Just like the Internet, everyone can scan some objects and upload them to the cloud without any approval, so the world is very open. High, at the same time we will have a natural monopoly. As I said before, the more people contribute information and data to the world, the more people will participate in the world. This is the effect of snowballing. So we may see two or three giants appear first in this area, and they will not be the current giants. Baidu, Tencent, Amazon, Google, and Alibaba conduct research on these, and they all think that they will become giant companies. , but it is likely to see that it is a new company that will stand out after mastering the elements.
The fourth point is that the consumer-led revolution will not start at the very beginning. It will start from the perspective of the company, which is top-down, just like Google Glass, which is from an industrial environment and is now being reapplied. Google Glass When it came out, some people thought that it appeared in the office and was used by many consumers, but they found that it was not so successful. In commercial and industrial environments, especially when these workers are performing repairs and maintenance, they only need to wear Google glasses on site. You can see the virtual digital version of the parts in front of you at the same time, so maintenance is very convenient.
Fifth point, this system will have a new way of user experience. In the past, the communication with users controlled by touch or mouse that was seen on computers and mobile phones, after that, the user experience is completely different. For example, a large number of voice interactions have appeared, which is very important. Only the thumb is mobilized, but the whole body is used for human-computer interaction. For new technologies, it is necessary to create a new way of interaction so that machines and humans can understand each other. Hundreds of companies are now paying attention to new technologies and new platforms. I don’t know who will become a giant. It will take a long time. It will not be next year, nor five years later, but at least ten years later. This is a huge opportunity. All Everyone knows this kind of opportunity, and it is not too late to enter the game. I look forward to everyone bringing new technological innovations. Thank you very much for listening, thank you.
