The State Forestry and Grassland Administration has partnered with Tencent to launch the first 1.25 billion pixel VR panoramic photo of the National Park

On January 25, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration (National Park Administration) and Tencent jointly launched the first 1.25 billion pixel VR panoramic photo of China's national parks. Users can zoom in on the photo 120 times on the mobile phone terminal and enjoy a panoramic "cloud" tour of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park.

In 2021, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration (National Park Service) and Tencent reached a partnership to explore the "fully connected" experience of national parks. This year, coinciding with the Year of the Tiger, the first pilot project of the cooperation between the two sides landed in the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park.

Huang Caiyi, director of the Publicity Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, said: "The national park system is an important part of the construction of the mainland's ecological civilization system, and it is of great significance for promoting the construction of a beautiful China. Relying on these natural ecological resources for nature education, science popularization and concept dissemination is a must-answer question for us to build an ecological civilization. In the future, we hope to work with Tencent to land more cooperation projects, explore the use of digital technology to create a fully connected experience of national parks, enhance the public's sense of ecological acquisition, and let China's national parks enter life and go to the world. ”

Li Hang, General Manager of The Marketing and Public Relations Department of Tencent Group, said: "On the occasion of the Year of the Tiger, we use VR panorama and other technologies to break the time and space restrictions, let netizens travel to the mysterious realm of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, and send the 'true' blessing of the national treasure Siberian Tiger." We will cooperate with the State Forestry and Grassland Administration to use Tencent's digital technology and content capabilities to build a 'true national park' that can be deeply explored by the Chinese people, create a super green IP of the national park, and help the construction of national ecological civilization." ”

The project was produced by Tencent Multimedia Laboratory, the technical team went deep into the no-man's land of The Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, used aerial photography equipment at an altitude of 200 meters from the ground, took a total of 8.3GB, 92 8K hd photos, through image processing technology, the mosaic into a resolution of up to 1.25 billion pixels of panorama, and on this basis using self-developed multi-level shard rendering technology. The technology can quickly render the user's visual picture according to the user's screen resolution and user network bandwidth adaptive high-quality, overcome the problems such as the ultra-high resolution photo mobile phone can not be loaded normally or the loading speed is extremely slow, so that it can be smoothly displayed on the mobile end of the mobile phone with the clearest appearance, for everyone to enter this mountain forest secret in the "cloud".

Dr. Liu Shan, Tencent's outstanding scientist and head of the multimedia laboratory, said, "In this cooperation, we have saved the 4K ultra-high-definition VR video bit rate through the self-developed immersive media compression transmission engine, improved the smooth playback of mobile phones, and provided technical support and guarantee for friends to travel to the Northeast Tiger National Park on the occasion of the Year of the Tiger." VR panoramic technology also brings users a more immersive experience and a more real sense of their contribution to the protection of animals. ”

Tencent has long been concerned about ecological protection and invested in the field of sustainable development. On January 12, 2021, Tencent announced the launch of the Carbon Neutrality Plan, actively responding to China's carbon neutrality goals and becoming one of the first Internet companies to launch the Carbon Neutrality Plan. In December, Tencent announced that it would achieve carbon neutrality across the supply chain by 2030. In the field of biodiversity conservation, Tencent Charity Foundation, together with Qilian mountain national park, WWF and a shenzhen earth nature foundation, formed a joint investigation team to jointly launch the snow leopard intelligent identification and monitoring data management cloud platform, creating the first digital toolbox with AI identification, data clouding, model construction and other functions for snow leopard conservation. Snow Leopard Intelligent Identification and Monitoring Data Management Cloud Platform was also selected as the COP15 NGO Forum "100+ Cases of Global Biodiversity" and participated in the "2020 UNITED Nations Biodiversity Conference China Pavilion Online Exhibition".