Whiplash December 29 news, a few days ago, Baidu officially opened its meta-universe products to the outside world, and held the 2021 Baidu AI Developer Conference in it, which caused a lot of attention.
Interestingly, Baidu listed the Xilang APP on the Apple and Android app stores as early as November, but announced on December 21 that the meta-universe product Xilang officially opened the directional internal test, and opened it to all users on December 27.
Behind the makeover, it is nothing more than wanting to refresh the dismal user reviews since its launch. Whiplash had experienced this product that focused on virtual social networking a month ago, and at that time, Greem was not exaggerated to say that it was an incomparably rough demo world.
The background setting is a vast virtual world, but the test version can only shuttle through three scenes through the elevator, namely the Feng Tang Art Exhibition on the 99th floor, the Baidu World Congress on the 188th floor, and the observation deck on the 300th floor.
It wasn't until the latest update that Baidu expanded the map and added many new scenes, including Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Shaolin Temple, Trisolaran, Sanxingdui, Communication University of China, and more.
The shape of the whole world is a Mobius ring, which has a sense of futuristic technology, and the elements of the virtual world such as blue sky and white clouds, mountains and rivers, trees and grasslands, and building facilities are also readily available.
However, other issues with beta flooding have not been effectively improved in the latest version.
The overall picture quality is still as good as ever, in the words of netizens, the rendering level may not be as good as the game products of ten years ago. The frame rate and loading speed of the scene are not to mention, which can be seen from the character image of "looking naked from a distance and looking at the well-dressed" character.
The scope of the new map is very wide, but the teleportation points are only sporadic, most of the routes require the user to operate the joystick to move, tired is the second, if you are not tired, you will accidentally hit the air wall, or stuck in the stairs, buildings and various boundaries, becoming a "half-cut body into the ground" person.
The interactive experience is also extremely poor, multiplayer interaction is only to add friends, send emoticons and hear each other's voices when they are close to each other, the most basic typing communication is not, at this point, casually grabbing an MMORPG game is better than Hiram designed.
The interaction with NPCs is extremely single, or most of them have no interaction, but "can be viewed from a distance and cannot be blasphemed", so many users do not know what to do next after running through the diagram.
The experience of participating in the Baidu AI Developer Conference in Xi'an is even more unsatisfactory, and after entering the main venue, it can only be fixed in a certain seat's perspective, and it is completely unclear about the situation on the stage; clicking the button next to it can switch to a similar live screen, but this clarity is almost the same as the smooth picture quality of the commonly used video APP.
In addition, the new version of Xi'an still has the problem of flashing back from time to time, and sometimes it will be stuck in a certain interface, which has nothing to do with hardware equipment, because the mobile phone used for the evaluation can even run stably with "Original God".
(Stuck in this interface for a day, until uninstalling and reinstalling did not solve the problem)
According to Baidu vice president Ma Jie, Xi'an is a negative 6.0 version of the meta-universe product, but the distance between the current Xi'an and the mature meta-universe products imagined by users is too far away, and to allocate this gap to six iterations, the volume of each update and the time it takes is really difficult to estimate.
From the ads that are currently visible at any time, it can be seen that Baidu's purpose of building Xi'an may not be from the user's point of view. Greem is essentially an open source virtual social platform that mainly serves the B-side.
According to the official website, the application scenarios of Xilang mainly include VR education, VR marketing, VR cloud exhibition, VR training, VR industrial park, etc.
In this way, the ToB business is the profit engine of Baidu Greece, and the problem of building and improving the platform is handed over to the developers by Baidu.
(Wen 丨 Whip BullShi Feng Guan Yue)