When Shichao brushed Weibo today, I saw that many big V were discussing such a topic:
#原来游戏还能干这个 #
I thought it was another big discussion of truth, but when I clicked on the comment area, I found that in addition to some daily complaints, many people were talking about the positive impact of the game on themselves.
At first, Shi Chao did not believe it, after all, in the eyes of many people, the game is to play.
But after carefully reading the comments, I found that the world has really changed. In the past few years, the game has really "secretly" done something good.
Some people say that using games to exercise coordination skills is just right, some people say that games make ordinary people do things that they usually dare not do, and some people say that games let them experience the world of minorities.
There is also a blogger who has sent a video to introduce the results of a public welfare activity launched before "Peace Elite".
Shi Chao then remembered that there was a special boat in the game, and after going up, it was popularized by a wave of "China's marine scientific expeditions and red tide management knowledge".
Although I was a bit "tricked" into boarding the ship, I actually searched later, only to find that the 50-year-old international problem of red tide has been solved by the Institute of Oceanography of our Academy of Sciences.
Watching everyone enthusiastically discuss the benefits of the game, Shi Chao couldn't help but fall into thinking:
Are there really many games that make the world a better place?
Speaking of this, Shi Chao reminds me of an ancient game: "Police Catch the Thief" in the once Jinshan Typing Pass.
In elementary school, whoever types fast in information technology class will be mighty. At that time, I was chased by half of the girls in the class, except for the handsome, but there was no less credit for this game.
This was probably the first game I realized could actually improve one of my life skills.
Of course, in addition to the "preschool" level game of that year, there are really radiations in the whole society now, such as the well-known "academic crowdsourcing".
More than a decade ago, the University of Washington developed a game called Foldit, in which players should refer to tutorials to adjust the correct structure of proteins.
You may not believe it, a protease crystal structure that has not been solved in science for 15 years, was cracked by players in 10 days.
There are many similar things, such as The Night Before Star Wars in 2016 launched a mini-game called "Exploration Project", in order to get the reward, players need to classify protein images.
Two years later, players sorted a total of 33 million images, which were uploaded to the Human Protein Atlas Database, facilitating scientists around the world.
Using the interactive nature of the game, the boring problems are distributed to the players, and everyone is guided to contribute to the scientific community.
If nothing else, please come to this kind of game more.
Not only is the game advancing scientific research, but its technology is also shining in all walks of life.
Developers often use "game engine" when making games.
Simply put, the game engine is a collection of game tools, weather, plants, characters and other materials are readily available.
With it, developers don't have to write code repeatedly when writing games.
Even Shi Chao, who does not understand the code, can make a simple game by following the tutorial. (After all, dragging the material up is the end of the matter)
Because of this feature, game engines have gradually extended to many industries.
Take car manufacturers doing automatic driving, there must be some scene tests, such as how the front car suddenly rotates 180 ° and rushes towards you, how to react.
These situations can not always be simulated in reality, otherwise a failure will destroy a car, Musk's money is not enough for you to burn.
Besides, without a certain safety factor, automatic driving cannot be on the road.
That reality is not good to simulate the scene, is there a possibility, in the virtual world simulation?
Eh, then people think of game engines, drag in the material, knock on the code and it's over!
Don't say that the car hits, it's to simulate a plane crashing over, and it can also be made for you.
In addition, doctors simulate surgery, architects design houses, and game engines are also used. Not only does it save costs, but it also improves efficiency and ensures safety.
To see which world super, what training class will be reported after this, all the techniques are practiced in the game engine, and the teacher is directly in situ.
Not only did it play the role of "training ground", because of its powerful real-time rendering capabilities, which can generate images directly in the shot, game engines also shined in the film and television industry.
You may not know that many scenes in Disney's Mandalorian, HBO's Westworld, and Escape are powered by game engines.
In addition to the game engine that has shown great magic in all walks of life, the human machines that have been beaten by you have begun to shine.
There should be many bad friends who remember this news: in 2019, in a game of "Glory of Kings", "King of The Amazing AI" defeated the professional players and killed crazy.
You may say that no matter how strong the AI is, it can only be used as a living target in the game, what is the use?
The former planted trees, and the later generations cooled off.
The technical problems encountered in game AI, if solved, can naturally provide great reference value for other industries.
For example, AlphaGo can only play Go, but its descendant, Alpha Fold, has solved the protein folding problem that has plagued humans for 50 years.
Without AlphaGo, there really isn't necessarily an Alpha Fold.
Similarly, Tencent and Glory of Kings have opened the AI research platform and related data to the public, which will certainly provide them with considerable convenience for algorithm research.
Maybe one day in the future, the traffic lights can be intelligently adjusted, and the car's automatic driving is good enough, and there will be almost no traffic jams in the city.
And all these beautiful scenes may be indispensable to the help of the game AI, the "guinea pig".
In addition to the above, the game invisibly forced the development of hardware manufacturers: graphics cards, chips, heat dissipation, and so on.
Don't believe it, I asked everyone, buy those high-configuration computers, can you still run to study?
Over the years, with the rapid rise of the picture quality of games, the demand for computer hardware has become increasing.
At first glance, they make a lot of money for hardware manufacturers.
But in fact, this also allows manufacturers to have funds and motivation to constantly seek breakthroughs in technology, and they have to find ways to reduce costs so that consumers can afford it.
The game business accounts for 47% of NVIDIA's revenue, image source @ Zhidongxi ▼
After reading these examples, we may as well go back and look at autonomous driving.
As early as the 1920s, humans have begun to do experiments with autonomous driving systems, and semi-autonomous driving has been tested on the road in the 50s.
But 3D game engines were only born in the 1990s.
I don't know if you have a question: why is it not autonomous driving to support game engines, but as a game engine for the younger generation to support them.
Because our future development trend is clear: digitalization.
With its own characteristics, video games have long had a certain technical reserve in digitalization and have been innovating themselves.
To put it bluntly, digitalization is the old line of the game, and it is a natural thing to use its accumulated experience and technology in digitalization to feed back other industries.
So, if you still think the game is just fun, then I can only say that you are small.
Modern video games have promoted the development of technology, and technology has long become the wheel of human society's forward development.
This is true now, and even more so in the future.
Author: Hedgehog Editor: Mangshan Soldering Iron Head & Xiao Xin Xin Cover: Xuan Xuan
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