Baidu 'Xi'an' metaverse open internal test: The development of the metacosm is also facing three technological mountains

Beijing News Shell Financial News (reporter promise) On December 21, Baidu released the first domestic meta-universe product "Xilang" officially opened for directional internal testing, and users can enter the Xilang space for advanced experience with the invitation code. At the "Baidu Create 2021 Xilang Advanced Exploration Day" event held on December 21, Ma Jie, vice president of Baidu, said that the official upgrade of Xilang to the -6.0 version was the first in China to achieve 100,000 people interacting with the same screen and the real sound effect restoration of "10,000 concerts". However, he also admitted that the current visual, auditory, and interactive problems are still the three major technical problems that hinder the development of the metaverse.

"After more than a year of development testing, The Version Number of Theramus is still a negative number, there are still many imperfections, and it still has a lot of room to grow from the goals we envisioned." Ma Jie said, "At present, the metacosm is still in a very early stage of industrial exploration, and its development is gradual, and it will take a long time for the entire community to build and mature together. Ma Jie said. In the experience activity, the Beijing News shell financial reporter entered the "Xi'an" meta-universe through the VR headset. This artificially built world is uniquely designed, and there are "attractions" such as the Shaolin Temple and Sanxingdui that can be explored, but the image rendering is still slightly rough, and many interactive functions have to wait for the follow-up online.

However, relying on Baidu's brain's capabilities in areas such as vision, speech, and natural language understanding, the availability of the Greek world has taken shape. Baidu said that on December 27, "Xilang" will be open to all users, when Baidu Create 2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference) will be held in "Xilang", which is the first large-scale conference held in the metaverse in China.

According to Ma Jie, based on the spatial sound field reconstruction technology and through the modeling of the acoustic characteristics of the 100,000-person stadium, the main venue of the Baidu Create Conference took the lead in the industry to realize the reconstruction of the stage center speaker's sound field of the super large open air complex open venue, integrating the real-time background sound restoration of the voice of the 100,000-person real-life audience, and relying on 3D sound effect technology to provide users with immersive acry space sound effects covering the immersive effects of the surrounding users. At the same time, users can also listen to the chat conversations of participants within 5 meters in all corners of the "City of Creators" in Greece, and as the user's location changes, new chat content will be heard.

"Under the current network technology conditions, vision, hearing and interaction are the three mountains that hinder the development of the metaverse, and the challenges brought by technical difficulties are very large." When talking about the technical challenges facing the metaverse, Ma Jie said that the path to solving the metaverse problem needs to break through a series of technical bottlenecks and require the support of strong basic technical capabilities. These key technologies include: secure, autonomous and intelligent cloud computing technologies; continuous innovation in artificial intelligence, ARM cloud, edge computing, intelligent video, VR and AR; and the construction of content ecology and a huge market foundation.

During the upcoming Baidu Create Conference, the "Greece Open Platform" will also be officially open to developers. "Since its debut at the DEF CON CHINA Party earlier this year, Greeng has undergone continuous technological iterations, and we hope to create a metaverse prototype that can be reached, experienced and improved." Ma Jie said that Greem is officially open to developers, and will invite the majority of partners and developers to promote the maturity of Greem and build a prosperous ecosystem for the domestic meta-universe.

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