As Zuckerberg changed Facebook's name to Meta and announced its official entry into the metaverse, the metaverse was once again in the spotlight. Compared with the earlier concept of the metaverse, by experiencing virtual reality with the help of VR and other devices, this time began to consider how to truly realize the so-called metacosm, and the ultimate way to achieve the metacosm is the brain-computer interface technology that Musk began to study earlier.
Musk interfaces with the metacosm and brain-computer
For the brain-computer interface, everyone should be more familiar with it, which can analyze the signals sent by the human brain, let the external device understand the human thoughts, so as to realize the human control of the external device through the mind, and then make the human consciousness "enter" the virtual world of the metaverse, and feel everything in the virtual world. The role of the brain-computer interface is to achieve real interaction, to realize the operation of the device through consciousness.
At present, Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface research company is conducting brain-computer interface research and has made some progress. This year, the company transplanted the "Link", a brain-computer interface device developed that can be implanted in the human brain, to a primate "macaque", and successfully realized the operation of some simple games by allowing macaques to control the computer through the brain-computer interface. Simple "human" interaction is already possible via link devices.
Although Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface technology has made great progress, there are still many technical problems it has to face. The human brain is very complex, and everyone's brain will react differently in the face of different events, that is, the signals emitted are different, and how to accurately analyze these signals when developing equipment is a great problem. While ensuring the accuracy of the analysis, how to achieve the improvement of the analysis rate is also a problem that relevant researchers have to face. It is impossible to achieve high-speed accurate analysis, and it is difficult for human consciousness to carry out complex and flexible operations in it after "entering" the metaverse, just like many people in the "Ready Player One" movie will have an uncontrolled operation in the virtual game world, that is, the delay is too high and stuck.
In addition to the technical difficulties faced by the metacosm through brain-computer interfaces, it also faces practical problems. Brain-computer interfaces can turn humans into human-flesh batteries by implanting devices into the human brain and connecting them, as Zhou Hongyi, president of 360, said when talking about the metaversics. That is, the relationship between people and devices becomes abnormal, devices are serving humans, humans are the subject, and brain-computer interfaces may break the relationship between the two.
Signal transmission is two-way, after the human brain and the device are connected together, one side to the device for signal transmission, the other side of the device and the signal transmission to the brain, two-way transmission under the person is controlling the device or the device is controlling the person? Whether receiving signals from the device will cause damage to the human brain or is it unknown, and how to ensure the relevant safety issues? After humans enter these virtual worlds through brain-computer interfaces, the information received is that the virtual world is fed back through the device, and the virtual world is ultimately developed by the program, not the real existence, if there is a problem with itself, or malicious damage from the outside world, the damage caused to the user is difficult to estimate.
Of course, under the premise of ensuring safety, continue to develop, and eventually the brain-computer interface will be commercial, and the brain-computer interface can make a great contribution to human life. As Musk said, he hopes that brain-computer interfaces can be applied to paralyzed humans with severe spinal cord injuries, providing them with normal life solutions. The so-called "immortality" can even be achieved to a certain extent through brain-computer interfaces, because as long as the perception of the surrounding world can be realized by connecting with the brain, and at the same time, it can also live in the virtual world, and the body will no longer be important, as long as there is a brain. It is not known whether Musk is so active in this research to realize his dream of landing on Mars.
For now, the role of brain-computer interfaces is not only to help people with disabilities, but also to achieve the real metaverse. After all, from the perspective of profitability, the benefits brought by the realization of the metacosm are huge, and now the metacosm has become an entrepreneurial outlet. Some technology companies have begun to make money by establishing a meta-universe virtual world, recently there has been a meta-universe speculation group on the Internet, selling "land" in the meta-universe virtual world, there have been many people who have purchased it, and the price is still very expensive, some time ago a company called Decentraland, through the development of a meta-universe virtual world, will not know the size of the "land" sold at a price of 2.43 million US dollars (about 15.52 million yuan). Can only say that the world is too crazy, there is this money to buy a house in the real world it is not fragrant, run to the virtual world to buy a house, the key is that it is still a long way from the realization of the meta-universe, is it ready to buy first and wait for the subsequent appreciation?
summary
Although the metaverse is very hot now, it is more hype. In the future, the metaverse can be truly realized through the brain-computer interface, but after the realization, there are many problems and real problems to be faced, such as who sets the rules of virtual space, whether it will break the boundary between virtual and reality. How the metaverse will eventually take takes time to verify.
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