Source | 01 Blockchain
Author | Chen Lishan
The metaverse is being explored, and due to current technology and achievements, our perception and imagination of the metaverse is also limited. By transforming abstract concepts into figurative knowledge, science fiction films are often able to break down our cognitive bottlenecks in the metaverse, expand our imagination and encourage higher-level exploration.
With a variety of augmented reality technologies, artificial intelligence forms, and virtual game worlds depicted with visually stunning effects, science fiction movies can stimulate our imagination of the future metaverse. In addition, reflections on the spiritual dimensions of human-machine relations and scientific and technological ethics often arouse the viewer's thinking after the end of the film. Zero One Finance and 01 Blockchain will recommend the top ten science fiction movies and provide a visual feast of an exclusive meta-universe.
I. Ready Player One (2018)
Brief introduction
In 2045, the real world on the brink of chaos and collapse is disappointing, and people are pinning their hopes of redemption on "Oasis", a virtual game universe. As long as you wear a VR device, humans can enter this virtual world that is in sharp contrast with reality. On his deathbed, the creators of Oasis announced that they would leave their huge fortune and ownership of Oasis to the first person to navigate through three puzzles and find out who was hiding easter eggs in the game, sparking a worldwide competition.
Reasons for recommendation
The number one player is currently considered to be the closest film to the concept of the metaverse, through VR immersive equipment, players can feel the infinite prosperity and strangeness of the virtual space of the "oasis", which stimulates the public's expectations for the entrance and appearance of the metaverse. The concerns raised by the metaverse such as the annexation of real life by virtual life and the control of virtual worlds by giants are also presented in the film.
II. Creation and War Chronicles (2010)
Renowned computer game developer Kevin Flynn mysteriously disappeared while pioneering his latest game, and years later his son Sam Flynn entered his father's office, which had been closed for years, to find the truth about his father's disappearance. By chance, Sam finds himself digitized and enters the world of video games created by his father. The ruler of this world, Crewe, has the same appearance as his father, but is extremely evil, and Sam is forced to get involved in a war of electronic hegemony full of intrigue.
Immersive games are an important form of existence that makes up the metaverse, and the film gives virtual games a lot of exciting shots. Set in the world of video online games, the film's graphics about virtual spaces and immersive battles are refreshing and create a different world. In addition, the film also contains topics such as human-computer contradictions and conflicts.
The Matrix (1999)
The film tells the story of a young cyber hacker Neo who discovers that the seemingly normal real world is actually controlled by a computer artificial intelligence system called "Matrix", Neo meets Morpheus, the leader of the hacking organization, under the guidance of a mysterious girl Trinity, and the three embark on a journey to fight against the Matrix.
Since its release in 1999, the series has remained a popular classic science fiction film. The film is full of grand metaphors, building a science fiction empire mixed with myths, philosophies, robots, and Zen Buddhism. The metaverse depicted in the film is extreme, but whether it is the vr technology in the film, the technological vision such as virtual space, or the philosophy of human-machine relationship and evolutionary system, the film can profoundly subvert the audience's cognition of the virtual world.
4. Hacker in a different dimension (1999)
Scientists Douglas Hall and Hannon Fuller used a computer to simulate a realistic 1937 Los Angeles, and they can enter this virtual world through the computer and truly experience life in 1937. One night, however, Fuller was killed, and clues suggested that Hall had done it. In order to find out the truth about the murderer, Hall follows the clues left by Fuller to the virtual world, but discovers even more shocking facts.
The film links the question of "Am I a dream of others?" to virtual computers, which human philosophers have struggled to ponder for thousands of years. By switching the real world back and forth with the virtual world, the viewer is also lost. And this seamless switch between reality and virtual is exactly the experience that the future metaverse may bring to us.
V. Runaway Players (2021)
The film tells the story of a game world called Liberty City, in which a bank teller NPC (non-player character) begins to break away from the code settings, evolves himself from the moment he meets the player character Millie, and retains his memories, emotions, and thoughts after each reset, and helps Millie eventually protect the virtual world.
As a comedy science fiction film, the film shows the prototypes and elements of the metaverse from the perspective of immersive games. As an indispensable link in the virtual world, can NPCs achieve breakthroughs in the metaverse and even evolve themselves functionally or emotionally? In addition, the plot of the main company controlling and even deleting the game in the film also emphasizes the significance of decentralization for the metaverse.
VI. Avatar (2009)
The film mainly tells the story of humans putting on the shell of avatar and flying to the distant planet Pandora to exploit resources. Jack, a former Navy man who was in a wheelchair after being injured, volunteered to undergo experiments and came to Pandora with his Avatar. After meeting the local Na'ay princess Netini, Jack is caught in a dilemma in a war between humans and Pandora's soldiers.
Avatar in the film also means avatar, and this simulation technique of preserving one's own consciousness in order to place humans in a similar reality was extremely creative at the time. With the help of technologies such as AR and VR, the technology that the metaverse created Avatar is being explored. In addition, the film also includes the reverie of technology breaking through the limitations of time and space, and how technology and morality are caught in a dilemma.
VII. Superbody (2014)
The film tells the story of Lucy, a young woman who mistakenly joins the drug trafficking team and accidentally allows the drug to enter the bloodstream during the human transport of a mysterious drug code-named CPH4, and stimulates the potential of the brain. With the rapid evolution of her body, Lucy began to be able to telepathically absorb knowledge instantaneously, and will usher in a historic moment of 100% awakening of the brain.
The film uses the most superficial method to explain the future, space, matter and other scientific theories beyond the scope of human understanding. When Lucy finished developing in her brain, she transformed into a giant computer and finally became one with everything, and all the mysteries of humanity eventually existed in the form of a USB disk. Scenes in the film such as the transmission and control of electronic devices, as well as the instantaneous absorption of massive amounts of knowledge, provide imagination space for creating a super computer.
VIII. Summer Wars (2009)
The film tells the story of a timid high school mathematical genius Kenji Koiso who is falsely accused of hacking into the virtual world "OZ" by chance and causing serious chaos between the virtual and real worlds, but this is actually a large-scale plan planned by a virtual artificial intelligence system. Kenji and the others begin to repair the virtual world and prevent the ARTIFICIAL system from destroying real life.
In the worldview built by the film, OZ is not only a simulated world game, but also a super platform that associates the virtual world with the real world, and the communication, transportation, water conservancy, medical care and people's social networking in the real world are all connected with the OZ system. In the construction of the metaverse, finance, business, life and other fields will also be gradually incorporated, at that time, the plot in the film or will occur in real life.
9. Invincible Destruction King (2012)
The film tells that the Destruction King is tired of being a villain in the game world, so he is determined to leave his game to break into other video game worlds, and during the journey, he mistakenly breaks into a number of completely different game worlds, encounters the harsh soldier captain, the stubborn little girl Winellope with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and launches a wonderful villain counterattack.
The play incorporates various elements of the real world, such as classic video games, Internet companies, real people, and social life, into the virtual world, and the characters in the game can traverse the entire Internet, from one game to another. In the construction of the metaverse, the future appearance of connecting the real world and the interconnection of the meta-nodes can be glimpsed in the film.
10. She (2013)
Her's story begins with the protagonist Theodore, who writes private letters for a living, and after his marriage he is depressed and fascinated by a new operating system, Samantha. Samantha gradually has the seven passions of human beings, and in the process of upgrading the plan, Samantha begins to have more interactive human objects, and eventually leaves the human companion to explore and pursue the meaning of their existence.
The film changes the thrill of the usual science fiction films, from ordinary life as an entry point. The relationship between human-machine relations on the emotional level is discussed. This gives a lot of thoughts for the new human-machine relationship in the metaverse, artificial intelligence as an inevitable existence of the virtual world, can it act as a participant with a sense of truth?
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