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虚拟宠物,虚拟人和虚拟永生

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几周前在圣地亚哥举行的高通无线活动有趣且有点被低估的一个方面是,5G 将使逼真的现实影像成为可能。之所以有可能实现这种进步,因为带宽高,延迟非常低,处理可能会从设备转移到云。再加上分布式数据中心的推出,为了降低延迟,这意味着您可以拥有逼真的虚拟宠物和朋友,甚至几乎可以访问远程位置。使用虚拟现实,你不仅能感觉到你在那里,而且也显示在那里的人作为你的头像,而不是作为无人机或机器人为您提供的经验。

这也创造了一个有趣的路径,通过提高创建宠物和人的数字克隆的能力。巧合的是,第一个数字克隆人是上周诞生的,我认为它为许多有趣的未来可能性打开了大门。

将本地处理迁移到云

创建逼真的 AR 体验有三个限制:

1. 光学。开发人员需要使图像看起来逼真,并且他们必须呈现新图像,同时实现遮挡冲突的现实。

现在,AR眼镜提供了一种体验,让现实渲染的图像往往看起来像一个卡通幽灵,那些眼镜戴的时候一定好看。3D 电视的失败表明我们不想戴笨拙的假肢,(这可能是要克服的最大问题。

2. 计算能力。所需的功率将挑战工作站,更不用说你头上或身体任何地方的东西了。

带着一个带双皮套电池的惠普背包工作站四处走动会很快变老,我怀疑它会提供所需的性能。

3. 内容。现在,对于家具等无生命的物体,使用 3D 扫描仪和现有技术可以非常轻松地创建内容。但是,如果您想要一个像宠物一样的行为的虚拟宠物,或者一个像人类一样行事的虚拟人类,你必须对个性进行编码。直到现在,这已经超出了我们的能力范围。

将处理迁移到云可能允许无限的空间,而无需在我们的身上携带工作站。此外,额外的处理能力可以创造一种人工智能,其行为与动物甚至人类一样真实。光学仍然是一个问题,但除非我们做大量的工作可以取代眼球,使我们接受任何形式的光学假肢。同时。我们甚至不用把精心设计的眼镜看好(除了墨镜,这可能指向一个解决方案)。

虚拟宠物,虚拟人

对于刚刚进入工作场所或有一份需要大量旅行的工作的人来说,其中一个问题就是,时间表使得有宠物陪伴变得不切实际。虽然有些人带着宠物旅行,但这样做仍然是有问题的。少数公司允许宠物进入工作场所,但大多数公司不允许,因此拥有真正的宠物可能会限制你换工作和进步的能力。

如果你能有一只只有你能看见的虚拟宠物呢?它可能永远与你在一起。如果与 AI 绑定,它实际上可以作为 GPS 解决方案,引导您到位置,像一个更智能的数字助理一样与您交谈,甚至提供只有您才能听到的滚动评论。如果做对了,它可以满足你的陪伴需求,而无需活宠物的开销。

就像你可以创造一个活的宠物,我想宠物龙或超人的狗Krypto),你也可以创造一个人类伴侣。人类伴侣可以制作后,并修改,以消除任何你可能觉得恼人的地方。您甚至可以重新创建自己,让虚拟克隆成为您自己最好的版本。这可能是你完美的顾问,因为你可能会相信这是你自己的一个版本。更何况,这个虚拟版本的你可以超越你的生活,只要技术存在。

我可以使用这样的资源, 还有一大堆从政的人可以使用值得信赖的顾问来让他们远离麻烦。

上周, 我从一家叫“1 秒 inc”的公司拿到了一个球场。它把纽曼弘变成了一个虚拟的名人影响者,完全渲染和基于一个真实的人,这是一个努力创造基于真实的人不朽的化身之一。

这些努力正在创造我们需要的内容,用逼真的虚拟人填充地球。更何况,他们可以在游戏中的充当Npc (非玩家字符) 做很多事。我预计这项技术会对电脑游戏产生重大影响,因为团队是使用真实玩家和虚拟玩家的混合创建的。您甚至可以数字化顶级球员,并为他们提供,收费,作为同伴,以帮助训练或与球员竞争他们最喜欢的游戏。当然, 色情行业将对此有完全不同的选择。

总结

从本地化到集中式云计算的转变将对我们感知现实的方式产生巨大影响——从能够重新呈现我们周围的世界,到能够获得人类和非人类虚拟伴侣来帮助我们度过我们的生活,甚至到数字永生。当然,这将创造一些相当有趣和不幸的副作用,像人们更喜欢数字宠物和伴侣,而不是真正的。然而,它也可以帮助我们成为更好的人,因为我们创建顾问,以帮助我们成为最好的版本自己。它可能为孩子们提供一个更好的模型来学习适当的行为,而不是观看典型的成年人在行动。这些改进只是提醒我们,在未来几十年里,我们的世界将发生巨大变化,魔法似乎将成为现实,而我们不断的后代可能是代表我们更好的自我的虚拟克隆——这是一件值得一看的事情。

One of the interesting and somewhat underappreciated aspects of the Qualcomm wireless event in San Diego a few weeks back is that 5G will make realistic augmented reality avatars possible. This advance will be possible because with high bandwidth and very low latency, processing could shift from the device to the cloud.

Coupled with the rollout of distributed data centers, to keep latency down, this means you could have realistic virtual pets and friends, or even visit remote locations virtually. Using virtual reality you could not only feel you were there, but also appear to people there as your avatar, rather than as the drone or robot providing you with the experience.

This also creates an interesting path to immortality by advancing the capability of creating digital clones of pets and people. Coincidentally, the first digital human clone was born last week, and I think it opens the door to many interesting future possibilities.

I'll close with my product of the week: a new portable second screen from Lenovo, the ThinkVision M14.

Moving Local Processing to the Cloud

There are three limitations to creating a realistic AR experience:

1. Optics. Developers need to make the image look realistic, and they must render the new image while realistically occluding conflicting reality.

Right now, AR glasses provide an experience where reality bleeds through, and the rendered image tends to look like a cartoon ghost.

Oh, and those glasses have to look good when you wear them. The failure of 3D TVs showcased that we don't want to wear dorky prosthetics. (This may turn out to be the biggest problem to overcome.)

2. Computing power. The power required would challenge a workstation, let alone something you might put on your head or anyplace on your body.

Walking around with one of those HP backpack workstations with double holstered batteries would get old quickly, and I doubt it would provide the needed performance.

3. Content. Now for inanimate objects like furniture, creating content is pretty easy with a 3D scanner and existing technology.

However, if you want a virtual pet that behaves like a pet, or a virtual human that behaves like a human, you have to code the personalities. Until now, that has been beyond our capability.

Moving the processing to the cloud potentially allows unlimited headroom without the need to carry a workstation on our bodies -- a solution for limitation No. 2. Besides, that extra processing power can create an artificial intelligence that behaves realistically like an animal or even a human.

Optics are still a problem, but until we can replace eyeballs, there will need to be a lot of work done to make us accept optical prosthetics in any form. As a society, we don't view even well-designed glasses well (with the exception of dark glasses, which may point to a solution).

Virtual Pets, Virtual People

One of the issues for people who are just entering the workplace or who have a job that requires a lot of travel is that schedules make it impractical to have the companionship of a pet. While there are people who travel with their pets, doing so while having to go into work remains problematic. A few companies allow pets in the workplace, but most don't, so having a real pet could limit your ability to change jobs and advance.

What if you could have a virtual pet that only you could see? It could always be with you. If tied to an AI, it actually could guide you to locations as a GPS solution, converse with you like a far smarter digital assistant, and even provide a rolling commentary that only you could hear. If done right, it could address your need for companionship without the overhead of a living pet.

Just like you could create a living pet that would have superpowers (I'm thinking of a pet dragon or Superman's dog Krypto), you also could create a human companion. That human companion could be crafted after a real person but modified to remove anything you might find annoying.

You could even recreate yourself and have that virtual clone be the best version of yourself. That could be your perfect advisor because you likely would trust a version of yourself that you perfected more than any other person, real or virtualized. Not to mention that this virtual version of you could transcend your life, going on for as long as the technology existed to provide advice to your heirs.

I could use a resource like that, and there are a whole bunch of folks in politics who could use a trusted advisor to keep them out of trouble.

I got a pitch along those lines last week from a company called ‘‘1sec inc.” It had turned Hiro Newman into a virtual celebrity influencer. Fully rendered and based on a real person, this is one of a number of efforts to create immortal avatars based on real people.

These efforts are creating the content that we'll need to populate the planet with realistic virtual people. Not to mention, they could do a lot for in-game NPCs (Non-Player-Characters).

I expect the technology to have a big impact on computer gaming as teams are created using a blend of real and virtual players. You could even digitize top players and provide them, for a fee, as companions to help train or compete with players on their favorite games.

Granted, the porn industry would have an entirely different spin on this.

Wrapping Up

The shift from localized to centralized cloud computing will have a massive impact on how we perceive reality -- from being able to re-render the world around us, to being able to acquire both human and non-human virtual companions to help us through our lives, and even to digital immortality.

Granted, that will create some rather interesting and unfortunate side effects, like folks preferring digital pets and mates to real ones. However, it also could help us become better people, as we create advisors to help us become the best versions of ourselves.

It potentially could provide a better model for kids to learn appropriate behavior than watching typical adults in action.

These improvements are just a reminder that our world is going to change massively over the next few decades, so much that magic will seem to become real, and our sustaining offspring could be virtual clones representing our better selves -- something to noodle on this week.

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