From the beginning of its birth to today, film has undergone many technological revolutions, the most important ones are sound films, color films and digital films.

At the beginning of the birth of sound films, there was a lot of opposition.

The fiercest opposition came from within the entertainment industry, such as Chaplin, the master of silent films, who slammed it as a garbage invention that seriously undermined artistic creation.

He believes that action is enough to express everything profoundly, and simple language is redundant, which will distract the audience and affect the experience of his performance.

It was when sound films became popular, Chaplin still stuck to silent films, and made classics such as "City Lights" and "Modern Times".

However, the historical trend of the technological revolution cannot be stopped by one or two people. Sound films eventually replaced silent films and became the mainstream of the industry.

The color replaces black and white, which greatly improves the audience's audio-visual enjoyment. However, unlike the rapid replacement of silent by sound, black and white films were not immediately eliminated after the birth of color films.

This is mainly a problem of funding, the color film at the beginning of its birth was too expensive, and not all film companies can afford it.

Just like the special effects technology in the digital age, in the global film market, special effects blockbusters with an investment of more than hundreds of millions of dollars are born every year, not to mention a handful.

As for the direction of the next technological revolution, Lu Lin thinks it is "immersive viewing", that is, VR that is becoming more and more popular.

But in fact, it's not just Lu Lin, many people are trying to explore in this direction. Doug Liman, the director of "Spy Shadow" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", his VR work "Visible" has been launched on Samsung's AR VR platform.

The six-episode series is set in modern-day Manhattan and features a wealthy New York family with superpowers that can become invisible.

20th Century Fox, the production company of the film "The Martian", has teamed up with Fox Innovation Labs and virtual reality to produce the film's VR experience short film "The Artian VR". The film takes the audience on Mars to experience what the film's star Mark Watney experienced when he was stranded on Mars.

There are also about a dozen directors such as Spielberg, Michael Bay, Peter Jackson, etc., who are trying to shoot VR short films.

In China, there are relatively few directors who want to enter the VR field, and Zhang Yimu told the media before the filming of "The Great Wall" that he planned to develop VR.

Gao Skirt, the director of "The Wind" and "West Wind Spirit", will announce the shooting of VR feature films in 18.

There is also a famous "Chief Jia", who said that he wants to make a VR feature film.

In terms of film and television companies, Guangxian Media has invested in a number of VR companies, involving VR broadcast platforms, shooting equipment, and terminals, and has also established its own VR film and television studio EVR. There are also companies such as CTI and Huawen, which are also investment-oriented.

Shibi Animation made the first VR CG animated short film "Goodbye, Expression" in China, and made a VR version of the trailer for his big movie "Little Door God".

Many film and television companies at home and abroad, filmmakers shoot VR short films, try VR movies, naturally want to take the lead in the next technological reform, because this kind of technological change is revolutionary.

From silent to sound, black and white to color, the digital words of various special effects applications, although it is a major change in the field of film, the way of watching movies is the same, and it is always a rectangular screen.

The development direction of VR is immersive. Once successful, the audience will be more shocked than when 3D was first born.

However, there are many difficulties, not to mention the technical equipment, just the language of the film, so that many filmmakers are not sure about the direction.

Because the traditional film language is different from the VR film language. Traditional movies can be quickly edited, montage switched. If you do this in VR, it is estimated that the audience will be dizzy.

And many filmmakers continue to explore, but also in search of a practical VR film language, once successful, the fame and fortune brought is incomparably huge.

Although Lu Lin's exploration in the field of VR is slower than that of other filmmakers, he has the "super microcomputer", an anti-heaven artifact, but he can catch up.

For example, many experimental VR short films can only sense the audience's head turning, and cannot detect and use the audience's head movement in space. In layman's terms, it is the "me" in the virtual scene, and I can only turn my head in place.

But for VR movies, roaming viewing should be a better way to watch movies. Just like in some movies, the protagonist travels back in time to the past scenes, can move freely, and witness everything that happened in the past in the historical scenes, but the protagonist himself is like a ghost, ignored by others in the whole scene.

If Longlin's version of "Dayu Controls the Water" is made into a VR movie, the audience will be guided to adopt a roaming viewing, see Yao Shun Chanrang, and see Emperor Shun kill Dayu's father Kun. Seeing Dayu fighting against the monstrous flood.

If you wear tactile gloves and masks similar to those in "Ready Player One", or a X1 full-body suit with better touch effect, you can adjust the hot and cold temperature felt by your body according to the content of the movie, so as to increase the sense of substitution when watching the movie.

For example, when watching "Dayu Controls the Water", a wave hit and splashed on the body. The tactile set regulates the temperature and makes the audience feel cold.

Of course, this tactile set must be matched with a movie viewing place such as a movie theater, and the ticket price is also expensive. In Lu Lin's mind, it is enough to make the tactile gloves and mask universal.

Moving freely in the virtual world to watch the movie is actually a further expansion on the basis of VR movies, and the feeling is closer to the game, just like the "Oasis" game in Spielberg's "Ready Player One".

For the existence of "super microcomputers", which are similar to the "Zhizi" in "The Three-Body Problem", technology has never been a problem.

The "super microcomputer" can make many, many advanced technologies, and what makes Lu Lin difficult is how to get the technology out without making the outside world suspicious, and he was caught and sliced.

But fortunately, VR technology has developed rapidly, and Lu Lin only needs to be one step faster than others.

For example, in terms of technical implementation, most of the VR headsets of mobile computers have a head position tracking function, which can detect the movement of the head in all directions in space.

However, the traditional video shooting technology only obtains the scene information at the lens angle of view, and lacks the information of other positions in the scene, so it cannot support the viewing of the scene under free movement.

More advanced imaging technologies are needed, such as light field technology represented by Lytro, panoramic camera LiDAR technology represented by HypeVR, or pre-rendering technology represented by Nozon's Prezenz.

These technologies have emerged, but they are not mature enough or too expensive to be commercialized on a large scale.

Lu Lin only needs to think of a reasonable excuse to upgrade those technologies and become mature. It can realize "roaming" viewing, so that the audience can experience wandering in a virtual story like a ghost.

As for the future, you can create an "Oasis" like in "Ready Player One". If there is a day, it will be a lot of dreams to become the richest man in the world!