In August, the sun is blazing.

A convoy of three commercial vehicles, after passing through the security check at the gate, drove into a small courtyard with a small area of not too large.

The car stopped in front of the building, and everyone got out of the car.

Du Yihua also followed everyone out of the car, and looked back and forth in this small courtyard under the big sun.

The courtyard is not big, just a five-story building.

But even the most uninitiated, as long as you look around, you can feel that the security measures here are simply ridiculously high - not to mention the security check at the door, there are cameras everywhere!

Similar to this level of security, Du Yihua is the second time he has seen it.

Everyone got out of the car, Li Qian led the team inside, and everyone followed.

Du Yihua took two steps and whispered to Qi Jie, the only one in the team who was more familiar: "What the hell is going on here?

Qi Jie smiled, looked around, and also whispered: "The annual cost of security alone reaches five or six million, as long as there is a new technology related to security, it will be installed immediately." The entire yard, including the inside of the building, is full of cameras to ensure 360-degree 24-hour monitoring without dead ends.

Rao is Du Yihua is used to seeing big scenes, and when he hears about this security expense, he can't help but be speechless.

Compared with this, the one Qi Jie said on the way here, Li Qian spent tens of millions of dollars to buy this piece of land a few years ago, and then built such a yard and built such a small building, which is really nothing.

The problem is that whether it is a land or a building, even if it is simply a commercial real estate investment, now it is out of the way, and the benefits are already huge, but these security investments are smashed out and gone.

And it's such a big expense every year!

From this, it can be seen that in this small courtyard, there must be something that Li Qian values very much.

Everyone entered the building, at this time, a middle-aged man who looked like he was in his thirties greeted him, Du Yihua looked at Li Qian in front of him curiously and chatted with him, and then led everyone straight to the third floor.

The mystery has finally been revealed.

When the gate was opened, a group of high-level Minghu cultural executives who were accustomed to seeing the market couldn't help but marvel together.

On the outside, it looks like a five-story building, but when you enter the third floor, you find that there should be no fourth floor here - the third and fourth floors have been completely opened up and made into an extremely open and large floor.

And at this very moment, right here, a large group of people are busy.

On one side of the gate, there are all kinds of computer equipment that I don't know how many, arranged densely, and it is estimated that it will be uncomfortable to look at it with dense phobia, and on the other side of the gate, which occupies about one-third of the entire floor, is arranged into a large green screen.

At this moment, there is a person with a lot of threads on his face, and he is walking around in front of the green screen.

The green screen is no stranger.

It is said that Hollywood in the United States has been using it for a long time, and in recent years, with the rise of special effects in China, especially with several companies led by Minghu Culture, they have begun to make computer special effects that are not inferior to Hollywood, and green screen shooting has begun to increase.

It's just that the man's face was stained with a lot of metal sheets, each of which was still connected to the wire, and finally all rolled up to the huge computer over here—it looked a little crazy.

At this time, seeing Li Qian coming with someone, someone in the audience shouted a timeout, and the person who was standing in front of the green screen immediately stopped and stood in place to rest, while a man in the middle of the venue who looked to be in his early fifties walked towards Li Qian and the others.

Li Qian shook hands with him, and then introduced, "These are all the top executives of our company. Bring them over for a tour today! ”

The man smiled and nodded, then stretched out his hand and invited everyone to come in.

A group of people all went in with curiosity on their faces.

Du Yihua had a smart head, seeing such a big mess, especially seeing such a huge one in the middle of the venue, which seemed to be a specially built camera, she couldn't help but associate everything she saw in front of her with some things that have been hotly discussed in China recently.

Well, 3D!

IMAX-3D！

Don't talk about those people in the outside world, even Du Yihua, in fact, they have always felt particularly puzzled and incomprehensible about Li Qian's decision - 3D, it is said to be a kind of playback technology, which can allow moviegoers to get a better viewing experience in a three-dimensional way. But is it really good? What's so good? How much better is it than a normal big screen? Is it worth investing so much money in?

Even if you want to invest in this, is it possible to try such a technology that has not been proven by the market on a small scale and spend money on a large scale after discovering it?

Is it really appropriate to throw so much money into it when you have never heard of 3D at all, and there is no precedent in the whole world?

Of course, Qi Jie has 10,000% trust in Li Qian, even if she doesn't understand anything, as long as Li Qian says okay, she will not hesitate to agree to throw money, then here, of course, she can't interject - although she is already one of the shareholders of Minghu Culture, she is only a small shareholder!

At this time, the person who shook hands with Li Qian just now had already walked to the center of the venue, slapped his face, and said: "Hello everyone, my name is Xia Yige, a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and currently serves as the chief engineer of Minghu Science and Technology Culture Company and the chief scientist of Minghu Research Institute.

"Our two brands, including this yard and this building, were only available at the end of 1999, when Li Qian and Mr. Li came to me, hoping that I could take the lead in doing a laboratory to do a kind of digital 3D photography and digital 3D production research, I was very interested in listening, so there were our two brands!"

"In less than four years now, our institute has a total of 11 professor-level researchers and associate researchers, including me, with four postdoctoral fellows, 17 doctors, six doctoral students, and 36 master's students in related majors. I can say that all of our institutions are professionals with master's degree or above in related professional fields such as electronics, semiconductors, and physics. ”

"Of course, in the past four years, Mr. Li has also given strong support to our research, and has invested more than 700 million in our research and development funds, and many times can also give us important guidance in the direction, so we can have these current research results, which is what you are seeing now!"

At this point, he pointed to the huge, clumsy camera in the center of the venue and said, "The 3D camera, the world's first 3D camera, and our unique patented 3D photography technology. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the man in the center of the field who was covered with metal sheets and threads, and said, "And the world's highest level of 32-sensor image capture system." ”

After a pause, he said: "Through the sensors pasted on the human body, we can capture every muscle movement and every subtle facial expression on the actor's body. And once captured, we can use our unique technology to make this part of the actor's performance into a variety of characters that our director needs, and keep the movements and expressions completely consistent!"

Hearing this, the laymen didn't feel anything, and a few people who were more expert in film, especially photography, showed a sudden realization at that time.

Jin Han couldn't help but interject at that time and asked, "It is said that Hollywood's "Lord of the Rings" was filmed with this technique, right?

"Orc?"

"yes, that's it!"

Xia Yige smiled, nodded, and said confidently: "Yes, that's right, it's this technology, the technology captured by this sensor used in the filming of "The Lord of the Rings" is the highest level known in Hollywood and the world, but they only have 26 sensors. ”

"And we've overtaken in corners, and we're now able to capture with 32 sensors – and then we're aiming for 48 beforehand, with higher precision capture and rendering. ”

The two big insiders in the crowd, Han Shunzhang and Jin Han, glanced at each other, and they both looked bright.

They can obviously imagine the wonderful prospects of mastering such a top-notch camera technique – to put it mildly, it is also a super technology that can support the imagination of directors and screenwriters!

But at this time, Xia Yige didn't wait for others to interject again, and continued: "Of course, the technology of this sensor capture is not the main direction and difficulty of our technical breakthrough, for us, the most difficult thing is the capture, shooting and production of 3D images, at present, after the past few years of research, we have achieved certain phased results, next, we will continue to tackle technical problems, and strive to provide the greatest technical support for the film and television shooting of the parent company Minghu Culture as soon as possible!"

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The topic is a bit too professional, Du Yihua is not too interested, look left and right, among the high-level leaders of Minghu culture who came with him, only Cao Zhan, Jin Han and Han Shunzhang are more interested, listening to the introduction of Dean Xia Yige, listening to it with great interest.

Anyway, for Du Yihua, she knows one thing: the scientific research here was developed after Li Qian spent a lot of money four years ago, well, it should be a relatively good technology.

How exactly is this technology implemented?

I don't understand, and I don't care.

On the contrary, she is more concerned about how this technology should be used in filmmaking, especially when she can see the finished product, and even more importantly, how to see the return of this technology.

Li Qian should come often, so he is very familiar with the people and things here, and when Dean Xia Yige explained to everyone, he had already walked over alone, chatted with the scientific researchers gathered behind the camera at this time, and even didn't say a few words, and beckoned the person in front of the green screen to come over, and everyone chatted together.

What they talked about, Du Yihua was not interested even if he heard a few words.

Turning her head and glancing at Xia Yige, who was talking to Xingtou and was asking and answering questions with Jin Han, and the other people who frowned but still seemed to be a little struggling, Du Yihua thought about it, quietly took two steps back to the side, and then, while Xia Yige was not paying attention, she turned her head and walked over to the camera.

It happened that Li Qian's communication with a group of researchers came to an end and he was about to turn around and walk back, so Du Yihua happened to catch up, looking at the huge and clumsy camera, she asked: "Is this thing going to be used soon? This "Matrix" is going to be done in 3D?"

Li Qian shook his head, "It's not mature enough! I have to wait for the next one." ”

While speaking, he stopped and said: "At present, we are mainly doing several things for this movie, the first is to start shooting with a large scale of green screen, the second is to use sensors to capture the action, and the third is that our newly developed high-speed camera will also be used!"

Du Yihua was a little confused when he heard this, "The high-speed camera was also developed here?"

Li Qian shook his head with a smile when he heard this, and said: "I have invested in many research institutes, and this is just one of them, but it is just the largest and most expensive one! At present, technology is the only one, and the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all doing similar research, but they have not yet come up with results. ”

Du Yihua probably understood, but in fact, he didn't seem to understand in his heart.

The main thing is that now that you talk about these things, it seems that you have completely left the movie and started to enter the level of burning technology - before you see the specific masterpieces and influences, you can make a layman who knows little about this aspect understand these things, which is really embarrassing.

At this time, after Li Qian finished speaking, he had already thrown away Du Yihua and walked towards Xia Yige over there, and when he saw that Xia Yige was almost done, he said, "Let Dean Xia accompany everyone around later, take a look, and make contact." It's just that there are no samples or anything yet, so you can only take a look at the general meaning of Qi first!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and whispered to Xia Yige: "Don't worry, don't worry, I'm already applying to the relevant research institutions to buy it." If you don't sell it in the United States, you can try it domestically, and if you can't sell it in China, ask Japan, and before the end of this year, you will definitely buy it for you, so as not to delay your research. ”

Xia Yige nodded when he heard this, and said, "That's good, that's good! Now these chips, supporting this level of data reading and production, are already the maximum energy, no matter how strong they are, they can't move at all!"

Li Qian nodded and couldn't help but sigh.

The progress of science and technology, even if it is just a progress in photographic technology, is the result of the whole scientific and technological tree - similar to the barrel theory, there is a shortcoming, you can't walk.

Li Qian glanced back at the bulky camera, and was about to say something more, but the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang, and he took it out and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.

After thinking about it, I still connected.

A girl's voice on the other end of the phone said in English: "Qian, I'm in China, I'm at the airport, can you come and pick me up?"

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