As the cost of scientific research continues to rise, individuals and small businesses with limited resources are gradually falling behind from the forefront of research, and the era of "invention kings" is completely gone. Even if there are occasional results, the results made are either shelved like "reservoir capping", or become a half-hung three-dimensional express bus, and only a few of the few can succeed.

The state and large corporations are interested in and have the strength to promote these research, and they are actually doing so, but they also have various problems as they seem to be big businesses.

The national team has a budget jam, and the corporate team is responsible for profits, and they can't really "pat their heads and grit their teeth", and they are no longer full of pride.

Without the fateful enemy of the Soviet Space Agency, NASA's budget was immediately cut in half, the moon was gone, the space shuttle was gone, and the manned rocket was gone, so it could only use limited funds to maintain the current situation. The reason why it has discovered "Second Earth" many times is also to make a big news story to arouse public attention, so that it can get more money from the Congressional Appropriations Committee.

Representatives of the business community think that this technology company, which is famous for its acquisition and elimination of businesses, has never paid attention to R&D investment, and less than 2% of R&D investment is evenly distributed among many product lines.

By contrast, companies that are firmly in the hands of their founders are much more bold, typified by Google, which has changed its name to Alphabet, and whose X-Lab is known for its dream-filled and insanely bold "moon landing project". Although they didn't really study manned moon landing, their smart glasses, projects such as kite power generation, and balloon Internet access still attracted countless eyeballs.

It's a pity that GooglegGlass was born at the wrong time, and after causing countless sensations, it received a bunch of bad reviews, so it could only be discontinued by GG. On the contrary, the imitator of BeeGlass is still alive and well, and he has survived the former, and now he is fighting against Microsoft Hololens, and the fight is also impressive.

And the driving force behind all this is Atletico Madrid, who has always controlled the bee research system.

The founder, technical expert and major shareholder allow him to firmly control the direction of R&D investment, and the body transformed by the alien chip is a unique research platform, which naturally makes R&D more purposeful, more efficient and more effective.

The tactile simulation technology of the feet shown today is also inseparable from Dean Ma.

Although we can collect a large number of signals through various external and built-in sensors, we cannot accurately and quantitatively extract useful information from them, and can only obtain plausible or even contradictory results. If a stable and reliable input-output correspondence cannot be established, the "black box method" will naturally not be implemented.

And such a problem is not difficult for Atletico Madrid, his brain interface has long been cracked by E7U, otherwise he would not have seen and heard the information transmitted by the latter. What he has to do is to lead the research team to transplant this part of the technology and use it in products that can be widely used.

However, the ideal plump reality is skinny, and the first-generation prototype product is only effective for Atletico himself, and the effect is very bad and has no practical value. The reason for this is, of course, due to individual differences in the nature of brain self-assembly. Even identical twins who are genetically identical are just the same as their faces and bones, and their brains are not different from those of passers-by.

Atletico Madrid did not give up because of this, but also dismissed the idea of quickly producing results to the market, and could only hand it over to a special person to study slowly.

This dragged on for several years, until the concept of VR became popular again, and Mirage and Bee Game formed a joint team to cooperate in the development of next-generation VR equipment, that the related research was accelerated and the initial results were obtained.

One is EM, an emotion-sensing technology, and the other is TouchSim, a tactile simulation technology. As for the more complex and advanced finger simulation, taste, smell, sight, and hearing simulation, it was abandoned by the team at the first time because it was too difficult to implement.

And even these two techniques are incomplete in form.

The former can only parse outgoing emotions such as anger, joy, and sadness, and the dHoop headband and the latest version of the N3/N7 headset are equipped with this technology, and the popular masterpiece "The Monkey King" is a call, and the headband alone sold 100,000 copies, which is a good start.

TouchSim is also in its infancy, and although it solves individual differences so that most people can perceive tactile signals, the simulated tactile resolution is miserable, and the experiencers generally feel that their fingers are numb and numb, and there is still a long way to go from the planned "providing a tactile experience to make up for the last shortcoming".

Fortunately, the east is not bright and the west is bright, and the digital creatures have mixed in and used it for their latest products.

This is also the benefit of a unified R&D system, where each team can achieve resource sharing and joint development to a large extent, thus greatly improving resource utilization.

That's why the first show of the technology was given to a child with a disability. For a normal person with sound hands and feet, the experience of a tactile simulation that is still terrible is completely meaningless, but for a person who is disabled after life, the feeling is much worse than a dead object like a prosthetic.

What's more, the bee has also prepared a gorgeous coat of VR for it.

Seeing that everything was normal inside, Atletico thought to himself, "Don't drop the chain for me", and glued the phone that switched to the rear camera mode to the glass with a double-ended suction cup to point it at the open space in the middle of the laboratory. Then he turned around and walked to the middle-aged couple sitting on the side, they were the parents of the children Wang Xiaofei inside, Wang Qian and Niu Tong.

After her son was injured and paralyzed, Niu Tong resigned and went home to take care of the child. However, Wang Qian rarely came over because of his work, and this technical demonstration was actually prepared for him.

After a few simple pleasantries, Atletico sat on the chair next to him and looked at the big glass opposite with the two of them.

Through the window, the researcher in a white lab coat can be seen walking towards the child, and after a brief communication, he is secured to the remaining chair, and a hat full of electrodes is placed on his head, and the other end of the electrodes is connected to the device behind him with a cable. Next to him was a bunch of scientific-looking devices, one of which had an electroencephalogram bouncing up and down on its screen.

In the final step, the boy is put on somatosensory gloves and a special headset, revealing only the half of his immature face underneath. It didn't take long for the onlookers on both sides of the network to see the boy suddenly stand up and be led to the open space in the middle of the laboratory.

If Atletico hadn't lied, the kid's legs would have been unconscious and unable to move on their own, so his ability to stand up and walk must have been due to the chair, whose legs were moved by the chair.

To be exact, it was actually a children's version of a medical half-body exoskeleton, not an ordinary chair.

For bees, who have long been able to build walking robots in human and animal shapes, there is nothing difficult about exoskeleton technology, the problem is only the power supply. Limited by battery technology and weight, the exoskeleton could not choose a powerful motor, so a child weighing only one-third of an adult was found.

As for the other troubles caused by the use of children to participate in the trial, there is naturally a relevant team to deal with it, and the R&D team only needs to modify a few children's headsets.

Due to the underdevelopment of children's eyes, prolonged use of head-mounted displays can cause visual impairment and are generally not recommended for children. Influenced by this, Bee has set a limit of 13 years old for dreamwalkers in accordance with international practice, and the VR course at Bee School also starts in Grade 7. However, for specific children, as long as the product is specially modified, and the content and use time are well controlled, it is not impossible to use.

From this point of view, Wang Xiaofei can definitely be regarded as a 10-year-old VR veteran driver. Such experiments have been carried out many times, and the tension caused by the headset and passive walking has long since been smoothed out by time, and all that remains is excitement and anticipation, which can be seen from the eager look on his little face.

Personal parameters are automatically loaded, and a wonderful virtual world soon appears in front of his eyes. With white clouds floating in the blue sky and green grass underfoot, mixed with wildflowers, birds and insects, it is a peaceful and peaceful grassland scenery.

"Xiaofei, let's play a game together! How about an eagle catching a chicken?" A somewhat familiar smiling face appeared in front of Wang Xiaofei, and he also nodded in agreement with the game.

If you shake your head and refuse, it doesn't matter, the system has built-in hopscotch, wooden man, rolling hoops, marbles, spinning tops and so on a large number of children's games, you can change it casually if you don't feel good, if you are not interested in all, there are also standing jumps, broadcast gymnastics, cheerleading and other sports can be selected.

He's played all these sports and games, and he doesn't particularly like them, and catching chicks is not bad.

A group of children quickly lined up to guess the eagle and hen, while others rushed up to the back of the hen. Wang Xiaofei is naturally indispensable here.

In reality, seeing Wang Xiaofei wearing "machine pants" running left and right in small steps, his movements looked quite smooth, and his parents suddenly had red eyes. Although Niu Tong had seen this scene a long time ago, he still couldn't hold back his tears of excitement.

Noticing the expressions of the two of them, Atletico got up again and walked to the phone.

Seeing a paralyzed child running happily and playing games with the help of VR, BMI and exoskeleton technology, onlookers all over the world suddenly became calm, and barrage comments in various languages such as "amazing", "black technology", "stop because of blowing wires", and "goose girl" poured out.

However, Atletico Madrid's next move dissipated most of the goodwill that everyone had just gotten up, he turned on the front camera and dropped the sentence "It's noon, it's time to eat, let's go eat", and then turned off the live broadcast without hesitation.

Although the current situation does not conform to "pants have been taken off, show this", the kind of shock and annoyance are the same, and the comment area was suddenly filled with endless fog of resentment.

The overwhelming resentment complained that Atletico naturally saw it, but his reaction was to nod secretly, because this was exactly what he wanted. Implicit but not revealing, still holding the pipa and half-covering the face is a reliable and effective promotion trick that has been proven by countless successes, and there is also the additional attribute of "turning grief and anger into complaint" at the moment, which is just with the help of social media to spread a wave of viruses.

Moreover, Atletico Madrid also has the intention of hiding the ugliness in this.

For the sake of safety and energy saving, under normal circumstances, the medical exoskeleton will not be fully powered, and the user can only walk slowly to avoid secondary injuries caused by accidents such as falls and collisions. Only in a highly believable environment can you unlock the movement limit and get people running. Therefore, the walking in VR mode is just an advertising picture on the packaging of instant noodles, and the pattern is for reference only, and the details are subject to the actual product.

Happiness is always short-lived, the savannah of happiness fades away, and as the real world reappears, the legs become stiff again.

Seeing the disappointed expression crawl back onto Wang Xiaofei's face, a female researcher hurriedly stepped forward and comforted him: "Xiaofei, don't be sad, let's do realistic walking training next." Don't be afraid, just move forward. That's right, that's it, that's good!"

Seeing their son's swaying movements, the two couples put worried expressions on their faces again.

Noticing this, Atletico Madrid, who re-seated, explained: "This is normal, Xiao Fei has been injured for more than a year, and he has become accustomed to the disobedience of his legs. The virtual world is like a dream for him, naturally he can run whenever he wants, but after returning to reality, he will soon return to his original state, subconsciously ignoring the existence of his legs. ”

Fortunately, these can be overcome, and in the future he will be able to walk freely like a normal child, and at the same time, the muscle groups of his legs will be exercised and will not continue to atrophy and deform. There is only one problem that you need to pay attention to......"

"What's the problem?" the two couples asked in unison, their bodies involuntarily sitting up.

"The problem is, your electricity bill may increase a lot, after all, charging every day is not a small amount!" Atletico raised an eyebrow and made a small joke.

"That's no problem!" Wang Qian breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked hesitantly, "Then this exoskeleton is really completely free?"

"Of course it's free," Atletico waved his hand haughtily, "Of course our commitment counts, we will contract the medical exoskeleton for Xiaofei's personal use for life, and we don't want you to pay a penny." ”

Then he changed his voice and comforted him softly: "Actually, I want to thank you for being willing to participate in the trial, so that we have first-hand data and can help more children in the future." ”

"Yes, yes," Lao Wang is not a fool, he naturally understands that this is just a polite statement, bees do not lack this business, but Xiaofei needs these legs, of course, his words are full of gratitude, and he compliments each other for a while.