Born in 1992, the science fiction novel "Avalanche" depicts a huge virtual reality world, the concept of "metacosmity" was proposed for the first time, the American classic Hollywood science fiction movie "The Matrix" and the movie "Ready Player One" released in 2018 will put the world of "metacosm" on the screen, in 2021, Facebook renamed the company meta (meta-world), and presented us with their metacosm, the first time to bring the "metacosm" to the real world, and subsequently, the domestic Baidu, Tencent, Ali and other technology companies also announced that they began to lay out the meta-universe, celebrities, enterprises in the meta-universe to build houses, sell land and other news has also been reported again and again with the concept of meta-universe, the first year of the meta-universe opened, then what is the meta-universe? Is the metacosm realistic? What impact will the emergence of the metacosm have on our lives? What impact will the metacosm have on the development of autonomous driving?
First of all, let's talk about what is the metaverse, the metaverse is also known as the post-set universe, the metaverse, the metaverse, the supersensory space, the virtual space, is a persistent and decentralized online three-dimensional virtual environment, which can enter the metaverse through hardware devices such as virtual reality glasses, augmented reality glasses, mobile phones, personal computers and electronic game consoles. The metacosm consists of both the physical and virtual worlds, and has an independently operating economic system in which the metaverse incarnations and digital assets are decentralized and transferable in the metacosm, which means that everything in the metacosm is permanently influential after everything that happens.
The application of the metaverse has many possibilities, the ideal metaverse is to allow users to carry out any experiential activities or can solve all the needs, such as office, meeting, school and other real-life things in the metacosm, or in the metacosm to build museums, art galleries, children's palaces and other facilities, so that people can experience in the metacosm, or in the metacosm real estate transactions, take customers to visit the house in the metacosm, and then buy in real life (now appear in the metacosm to buy land, room and other events).
In short, the metaverse is more like a game like The Sims, but on this basis, virtual reality technology has been added, financial attributes have been added, and greater interactivity and decentralization have been added. The forefront of intelligent driving believes that the metaverse at this stage is more like a game, but also more reflected in the game, for the future development of the metaverse, in addition to the exploration of various technology companies, the more important point is the improvement of hardware equipment and the improvement of algorithms.
If the metacosm becomes a reality, what impact will it have on the development of the automotive industry and autonomous driving? The emergence of automatic driving will bring great impact to our travel life, but the development of automatic driving can not be achieved overnight, the high cost of hardware equipment, imperfect software systems, scarcity of road test conditions and other reasons still exist, if the metacosm becomes a reality, the problems faced by the development of automatic driving will be solved.
First of all, the cost of hardware equipment, hardware equipment is very high, in real life autonomous vehicles, lidar, millimeter wave radar, vehicle cameras and other hardware equipment design, testing is a complex process, and after the hardware equipment is manufactured, want to upgrade and update, that and it needs to consume a lot of manpower, material resources to produce, will also consume the earth's existing rare storage resources, which causes the update cycle of hardware equipment to become very slow and slow. In the metaverse, all the hardware design will be a line of code, hardware upgrades and updates, can also be carried out directly in the metaverse, will not cause any actual waste of rare storage resources.
The second is the learning of software systems, automatic driving requires a large amount of road data to feed, in order to ensure the safety of autonomous driving travel, a set of automatic driving systems need to have at least 18 billion kilometers of road testing, only to obtain enough road data to learn and test, the safety of automatic driving software systems can be sufficiently guaranteed. Due to the real life, people's life needs, and in order to ensure the safety of road pedestrians, automatic driving road testing can not meet the demand, although many cities have opened an automatic driving test area, but the scene is single, the road environment can not be fully covered and other real situations still exist, which makes it impossible to obtain various road conditions in real life for automatic driving road testing is impossible to obtain test data of various road conditions. The emergence of the metaverse can make up for this problem, many gamers often appear in the mouth of the high-frequency graphics card company - NVIDIA proposed a solution to this, because everything in the metacosm can be virtual, you can virtualize a "high imitation" earth for autonomous driving road testing, the self-driving car in the metaverse designed and assembled after completion, put it in the "high imitation" earth test, various scenarios can be achieved, a large number of road data can be quickly obtained, This makes it easy to get commercially available autonomous driving systems.
Finally, let's talk about the crash test of self-driving cars, after the road data is obtained, is the self-driving car safe enough? In addition to being able to drive safely on the road, self-driving cars also need to be able to deal with various unexpected situations, such as ghost probes and other phenomena, which often exist in the real road environment, as human drivers, when encountering such situations, it is difficult to react in time, autonomous vehicles in the absence of human driver control, in the encounter with such situations, what will happen? In reality, the crash test is to use a dummy similar to a human to carry out the relevant test of the self-driving car, but there are still many problems with the use of the dummy test, such as the dummy behavior and action is very different from the real person, and the temporary reaction of the dummy in the face of the collision is not as flexible as the real person, which will cause a large error to the crash test of the autonomous vehicle. In the metaverse, it is possible to carry out relevant tests very well, such as using the simulated image of real people in the metaverse to directly take the test target, so that the actual effect of the autonomous vehicle in the crash test can be better captured and fed back, such as whether it can react in time, if there is a collision, the degree of damage to pedestrians and the degree of vehicle damage and other information can be obtained feedback.
In the metaverse, the design and testing related to autonomous vehicles can be realized, which can effectively save resources in real life, and the relevant design test data can also be actually produced and remanufactured in real life, which can promote the rapid improvement of autonomous driving technology.
In the metaverse, due to the existence of financial attributes, each of which products, is valuable, and due to decentralization, the metaverse will also have fixed resources, that is, the hardware and equipment of the self-driving car designed in the metacosm, although it is composed of a line of code, but in the metaverse, it is also an irreplaceable resource, that is to say, in the metaverse world, the hardware device is not obtained by simple copy and paste. Even if the same hardware device has the same effect, but it is unique, for autonomous driving manufacturers, testing and designing in the metaverse, and testing and designing in real life, in fact, are the same, the metacosm can only solve such as road environment restrictions, policy demand restrictions and other scenarios that cannot be touched in real life.
And the metaverse is now only a very shallow concept, before the realization of automatic driving technology commercialization, whether the metaverse can be presented is also uncertain, therefore, in the metaverse for the design and testing of automatic driving, may only appear in the discussion, but the development of technology updates, sometimes it will exceed our estimates, or let us look forward to the emergence of the real metaverse, or at that time, people enter the metaverse, real life will not produce travel needs. What do you think about meta-universes and autonomous driving? Welcome to leave a message, the forefront of intelligent driving will continue to deepen the field of automatic driving technology, will also chat with you often about the technology and trend of automatic driving development, welcome everyone to pay attention to support!
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