The Beijing Winter Olympics are being held as scheduled, and Chinese athletes are competing with outstanding athletes from all over the world to challenge the new limits of human sports in winter sports.
At the same moment when athletes challenge themselves to climb the peak and compete for honor for individual collectives and countries, the Olympic arena is also a training ground for the latest scientific and technological achievements. With the improvement of people's requirements for opening and closing ceremony performances, competition records and penalties, work guarantees for the Games, real-time broadcasting of event content, etc., the gold content of Olympic games science and technology is gradually becoming a wonderful picture that complements the competition.
What remarkable Olympic technologies have emerged at the Beijing Winter Olympics, what changes have they brought to athletes, referees, spectators and other participants, and what role has Chinese technology played in them? Let's take a look.
The Winter Olympics custom mobile phone is passed on daily to commemorate
The first Beijing Winter Olympics technology product that many people pay attention to may not be a "black technology" thing, but a mobile phone that everyone will have. Before the opening of the Winter Olympics, Samsung presented a Galaxy Z Flip3 5G Olympic commemorative edition mobile phone to the athletes from all over the world, and stamped the emblem of the year on the gold border and white jade texture that resembled the 08 Olympic gold medal "gold inlaid jade".
The Galaxy Z Flip3, which is a prototype, is a vertical folding screen phone that uses a 6.7-inch flexible screen to reproduce the clamshell form on a modern smartphone, and it is a normal high-end mobile phone to open, and the closed lid becomes a personal accessory that is easy to carry and can be quickly previewed through the small screen. The use of a flattering design language has made the Flip series a popular branch of folding screen mobile phones.
Samsung has always been a partner of the International Olympic Committee, so every summer and winter Olympic Games will launch the Olympic commemorative version of the mobile phone, which is a lifelong commemoration for athletes to participate in the conference, but also a surprise for ordinary consumers. The integration of the folding screen with the Olympic elements just reflects the side of the science and technology Olympics, but unfortunately, this phone is limited to sale and has been sold out in various channels, and can only become a niche collection.
"Cheetah" and domestic monitors show wonderful events
Winning a race with clean and beautiful technical rules is something that almost all participating athletes expect to achieve. However, the event cannot be smooth sailing, in order to record the game process fairly and openly to help the referee make decisions, technology products play an important role. Recently, a terrier has been widely circulated, calling on people to thank the fast-moving "cheetah" camera, and there is nowhere to hide the technical violations.
In fact, the "cheetah", which is called "ultra-high-speed 4K orbital camera system", is not a referee auxiliary equipment, but a special broadcasting equipment independently developed by CCTV for five years, which can move quickly with the track and follow the athletes, with a maximum speed of nearly 90km/h. Cheetah debuted at the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating event, allowing us to see a clearer figure of the ice trapeze in front of the screen.
Referee assist is a camera system composed of multiple high-speed cameras set up side by side, focusing on capturing the more subtle movements of athletes from multiple angles in a specific time frame, so that there is no possibility of disagreement in the judgment. This system has been widely used in the film and television industry, the most classic application case is the "Matrix" bullet time screen, and the arena application makes it play more valuable.
In the past, the broadcast of Olympic games will be recorded with the world's top camera equipment, and this year's Beijing Winter Olympics broadcast has appeared more Chinese manufacturing. The CCTV broadcast truck is equipped with a professional monitor of Hisense video, and the monitor is used for accurate control of the picture content in the production of radio and television programs, and the domestic product catches up with the international brand in terms of performance, function and cost, and can appear at the scene of the Winter Olympics.
The torch passes on environmental protection and safety of science and technology
The small Winter Olympic torch is actually a highly technological product with a high new technology content. The "flying" torch of this Winter Olympics is both technology and green under the elegant and exquisite appearance, China Aerospace Science and Technology Group has brought hydrogen fuel that meets environmental protection, safety and reliability, and Sinopec has provided lightweight and stable carbon fiber composite shell materials, so that the flame conveys more than just the humanistic care of sportsmanship.
Similar to the torch design of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games from Chinese technology companies, behind the "Flying" torch is Alibaba, which represents China's Internet, led by Alibaba's chief industrial designer Li Jianye. Images are extracted from auspicious clouds and snowflakes, and elements of Taiyuan City, the unique "City of The Two Olympics" in Beijing.
Accompanied by the unimaginable opening ceremony ideas, the last torch was combined with the snowflake torch platform representing all participating countries to form the main torch unprecedented in the history of the Olympic Games. Some people quipped that there was another product that Li Jianye participated in designing, was publicly available at the "Bird's Nest" and was a combination of size: Hammer Technology's Nut R1 mobile phone, which can be connected to TNT or other monitors to provide a desktop experience.
3DAT and BOE screen co-create a special opening ceremony
At the Tokyo Olympics, there was such a technology to help track and field athletes improve their performance more deeply and optimize the visualization of event details; later this technology came to the curling field to give the human eye guidance and advice through detailed calculations of curling and athletes' sports. This is 3DAT (3D Athlete Tracking Technology Platform), Intel's computer vision motion capture technology.
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, 3DAT surprised audiences around the world beyond watching the game, and when dozens of actors crossed the "ice surface" to display Olympic slogans, it was the technology that brought real-time tracking of characters and rendering pictures. Whereas visual capture in the past was lacking in both precision and number of tasks, it now achieves a huge increase in scale and precision, making the performance perfect and easy.
Behind the wonderful opening ceremony that is simple but not simple, a series of advanced display technologies provided by BOE also played an important role. The opening ceremony director team used the 8K ultra-high-definition ground display system to turn the ground into an "ice surface" that can change wonderful pictures and performances, Zhang Yimou expressed concern that one of the LED screens would suddenly fail the image effect, but all the screens successfully displayed colors.
For the use of display technology, it is deeply rooted in all aspects of the visual performance of the opening ceremony, whether it is the main torch platform like a giant snowflake, the "big ice cube" that cooperates with the performance to present the picture, or the Olympic rings that slowly rise from the ice cube, all of which are indispensable to the figure of BOE display technology. The Olympic Rings were originally powered by wires, but the battery was lit up after constant attempts and the overall weight was reduced.
The unmanned smart restaurant amazes the media of various countries
The full-service process of ordering, cooking and passing dishes provided by the robot has also become a "punching point" for media from various countries that are willing to share social media. People have fantasized in science fiction about a life without using real chefs and relying entirely on automated equipment to make delicious food, and this has already come true at the scene of the Winter Olympics.
The 2,500-square-meter smart restaurant is quite luxurious in terms of specifications: all equipment can run 24 hours a day, equipped with a total of 120 food-making robots, which can cook more than 200 kinds of Chinese and Western cuisines. Above the dining slots are scattered food delivery tracks delivered by robots, meeting the needs of diversified, multi-time, multi-category dining, and can serve thousands of people at the same time.
Behind the smart restaurant is the Qianxi Robot that Lei Technology has introduced, which is a robot company under Country Garden, which shouted out the bold words that will invest 80 billion yuan in the future budget in 2018. At that time, fist products such as cooking robots and "cloud rail" food delivery systems first saw results, and in just two years, they empowered smart restaurants and became a landscape that amazed the world at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Science and technology China stands tall in the world
From the opening ceremony performance, we can feel the special characteristics of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
As director Zhang Yimou said, China no longer needs to prove what it has, but can use a variety of modern scientific and technological achievements to show the world what China can create. The display and rendering systems at the opening ceremony, the refereeing and broadcasting equipment of the event, and the restaurants that support the service are all examples.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China, which actively communicates with the world, has accelerated the pace of development, and the appearance and quality of life of the entire society have made rapid progress. It is believed that with the appearance of various Chinese science and technology at this Winter Olympics, the power of Chinese wisdom will be known to more people, and the image of a scientific and technological power with undoubted strength and potential will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.