Chapter 63: Will You Die If You Are Happy?

[Two changes a day this week!] The second more is in the afternoon, ask for recommended tickets! 】

Eyebrows and bangs, short black hair, and a small face like the moon in the night. With big eyes, a cocked nose, and red lips, she looks like the heroine of a cartoon has come to the world. The only regret is that my eyes are a little out of focus, as if I am wandering.

The girl is dancing to the cheerful music, bouncing and energetic, with long legs swaying and rippling curves, if the eyes are more flexible, no one can live on the scene.

"Mr. Zhang, when will you shoot the real scene, squeak out of it, this little girl is really hooked."

A man's eyes lit up, and he swallowed his saliva and said this to Zhang Zhicheng next to him.

This is not a studio, and the girl is not wearing a red and white uniform of Cicada Xiaofan, but a general sportswear, with sensors hanging on each joint, which turns out to be doing motion capture.

The man then asked, "Mr. Zhang knows...... What is the price of that? ”

Zhang Zhicheng looked at the man who was obsessed with color, frowned, and said, "Price code? This is the proprietress of the future of the cicada! Mr. Liu, this joke can't be made. ”

That Mr. Liu's face turned white all of a sudden, and he smiled reluctantly: "Don't get me wrong, Mr. Zhang, I'm asking for the price code of the advertisement, since it's the proprietress of the house, it must be priceless, understand." ”

He still couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "Xiao Xia's vision is really unusual." ”

Zhang Zhicheng didn't speak, but he was quite proud in his heart, he was the real person with vision.

The title "Xiao Xia" is now an honorific title in the industry, not a nickname.

From Prometheus to Galika, to the Alfalfa engine, in just three or four months, Xia Ming has taken cicada movements and illusions to heights that other companies can't reach in a lifetime. But at home, such an achievement will only be admired by everyone, not awe.

A few days ago, the news that Xing Gongzi was going to start, and before the good deeds began to press Xia Ming's ending, the person who came forward went to prison, and also brought out a transnational espionage case in Yanda, forcing Xing Gongzi to cut a large piece of meat to pay Xia Ming.

It was this incident that made insiders look at Xia Ming differently, and the honorific title of "Xiao Xia" also spread, and many people were talking about whether Xia Ming was the son of an elder.

Whenever others talked about it, Zhang Zhicheng couldn't stop despising these people. Xiao Xia does not rely on personal connections, but on the technical strength of the hard state. He knew this from the beginning.

As a result, he strengthened his determination to go down with Xia Ming, Xia Ming casually mentioned one day, saying that the technology of motion capture is still too expensive, and the technology of dream and illusion should have a future. Without saying a word, he patted his chest and took over the matter, teamed up with Wu Sihao, and made a new company called "Phantom Reality", with only 40% of the shares, and he also served as the CEO of the company himself. Running up and down to pull out such a stall, it is estimated that Xia Ming still doesn't know the specific situation.

Today is a test of the illusion of a commercial-grade motion capture system, this kind of motion capture system for general enterprises and enthusiasts combines the technology of the Dream Magic Mirror and the Alfalfa engine, coupled with the server with the Alfalfa engine hardware as the core, so that the original high-flying motion capture technology suddenly became a cabbage. What was originally three and a half hundred thousand is now less than one hundred thousand.

It just so happened that Illusion wanted to do the CG of the virtual idol Cicada Xiaofan, so he used this system, Zhang Zhicheng brought a group of agents to help on the spot, but he didn't expect Xia Ming's girlfriend to be a model, which was a feast for the eyes.

This girl named Xiao Huan has always been by Xia Ming's side, he is very familiar with it, although Xia Ming didn't admit it, but the two get along like a couple, so he dares to say to outsiders that this is the future boss lady of Cicada.

However, Zhang Zhicheng still thinks that in terms of temperament, Xia Ming's "uncle" is actually a better match for Xia Ming. Although I have only met once, the impression of that genius beautiful girl still lingers in my heart.

"His uncle is the main room, and this little girl is quite suitable as the outer room."

Zhang Zhicheng thought so, and then secretly smiled, this kind of thing can be done by himself, Xia Ming...... Not like.

At the end of the dance, Zhang Zhicheng and the staff at the scene applauded warmly, which made Xiao Huan's already pink face dyed with another layer of red, she bowed and thanked her, and then put on her glasses to hide her beautiful face.

"It's over! Exhausted! Do you want to see it? ”

Xiao Huan asked in the chat, and Xia Ming only dealt with two sentences after a while, and this perfunctory attitude made her unhappy suddenly. was about to be harassed by the pop-up window, but suddenly thought of something, pouted and sent a smile, and a sentence that didn't fit her style at all: "I'm busy, don't forget to eat, if you don't eat on time, your stomach will be damaged." ”

After that, the girl was stunned, and the staff beckoned to say that she wanted to try on the clothes of the cicada Xiaofan, she answered, clenched her small fist, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Huan, work hard, you can't be a vase!" ”

In the research institute, Xia Ming's eyes flashed the message sent by Xiao Huan, and he felt that Xiao Huan was quite easy to be well-behaved, and after a trace of relief floated in his heart, he didn't care anymore. He had a heated discussion with Yi Liqing and Lin Cheng.

The improvement of the CNX has several directions, the frame and the electromechanical aspects, mainly to strengthen the skeleton, as well as to strengthen the motor set of the lower limb joints, and the upper limb joints are also switched to motors.

Yi Liqing insists that the upper and lower limbs are designed to be movable to adapt to the size of the human body, which makes the reinforcement work more laborious, and even high-strength alloy steel must be used to meet the indicators. It also puts forward higher requirements for the power and torque of the motor, and then the power consumption also increases, to meet the movement time of at least 3 hours, and the battery must be added, and the overall weight is estimated to be more than 60 kg.

Xia Ming and Lin Cheng quarreled with him for a while, and finally Yi Liqing agreed to change to a modular design, that is, like ready-to-wear, each limb is divided into three sizes, large, medium and small, to adapt to the different figures of the occupants, so that the overall weight can be kept within 40 kg.

In terms of computers, the original CNX computer was customized in Japan and was the size of an iPAD, but it was as thick as three or four iPADs and weighed nearly three kilograms. Lin Cheng felt that making adjustments to his original ARM server architecture could reduce the size and weight of the computer by half.

Xia Ming believes that the new PC architecture based on Clover can be prepared with the illusion, although it is inferior to Lin Cheng's solution in terms of volume and power consumption, it can save design cost and time. For the sake of time, Xia Ming's proposal became a formal plan.

Now we are talking about the procedural aspect, which is also the most important. CNX's original program is a simple sensor transmission integration and walking posture preset, so each set of programs costs Yi Liyan 100,000 yuan, plus the computer, one-third of the CNX price is on this.

Lin Cheng proposed an ambitious plan to equip CNX, no, it should be called XGPA (Experimental Standard Power Armor) with two sets of artificial intelligence, which was also Xia Ming's idea.

One set is the basic sensor transmission integration and attitude coordination to match human actions. One is intelligent motion control, which is equivalent to making XGPA a robot that can act autonomously.

After all, when it comes down to the truth, Yi Liqing feels unreliable: "Is it necessary to take such a big step?" ”

"If you install an environmental sensing system, XGPA can do it on its own."

In this regard, Lin Cheng has a virtue with Yi Liqing's dedication to moving limbs just now: "It is difficult to avoid casualties in close combat, if the power armor can act on its own, people will still have combat effectiveness if they are injured, and they can retreat by themselves, how convenient is this?" ”

Xia Ming also agrees that from a practical point of view, once a soldier wearing power armor is injured, the support needed for a battlefield retreat is far greater than that of an ordinary soldier. If you can retreat on your own, or if you can continue fighting after emergency medical care, it will be much more attractive to the military.

However, he pointed out a problem: "We have limited time, and the environmental sensing system is too complex, and we will definitely not be able to solve it for a while and a half, unless we buy the software of Boston Dynamics Atlas." ”

Lin Cheng had to abandon this idea and set a more realistic goal: to preset a few simple action modes first, and then realize the seamless switching between man and machine, so that people can cooperate with the machine in a sober situation.

Since the computer uses a clover architecture, Lin Cheng decided to write the program directly in quadruple. The amount of code is not high, and the workload is to test the data of various actions and postures, which is linked to the adjustment of joint angles and motor speed and other body control links. On this basis, an action model is established through data comparison and analysis.

The biggest advantage of the quaternary system is that it is very compatible with neuro-like computing, and the multi-branch multi-choice decision is very fast. Lin Cheng is confident that the time delay of CNX in computing will be compressed to less than milliseconds, even if artificial intelligence is not added, the response delay of CNX will be reduced by half, realizing Xia Ming's guarantee to Yi Liyan.

The rest of the work is to adjust the skeleton, write code and boring tests, and it is expected that it will be half a month before the prototype of XGPA is made. Seeing that Lin Cheng was so positive, Xia Ming was relieved to hand over this matter to him.

According to the results of the discussion between the three of them, it is appropriate for the performance of the prototype to reach the set indicators, and with Lin Cheng's hands-on procedures and Yi Liqing's attitude of voluntarily selling himself, I believe that Yi Liyan will no longer doubt the strength of the research institute's thigh. After the prototype came out, I communicated with Shang Weidong, went through some procedures to get the bidding qualification, and waited for the plan to be discussed at the end of February.

Next, except for routinely going to the sanatorium the next day to find Hou Yunting to practice consciousness control, pondering about Xiao Huan's regaining his sight, it seems that there is no work he needs to do personally.

Now that he has time to spare, Xia Ming is ready to pay attention to the promotion of Cicada Movement and the progress of "Phantom Galaxy", according to the schedule, the first large-scale test of "Phantom Galaxy" is a week later.

Seeing Xia Ming start tinkering with "Phantom Galaxy", Lin Cheng asked, "You haven't forgotten anything, have you?" Remember what day it is? ”

What day?

Xia Ming looked at the time, December 31st, tomorrow is New Year's Day.

"Xiaotang asked me to watch you today, she has something to look for you."

Lin Cheng patted Xia Ming's shoulder: "Whether it succeeds or not, it depends on today." ”

Xia Ming was stunned for a moment, Xiaotang's sentence "I will let you see Tang Xiaotang's generosity", when he held a decision-making meeting before, he mentioned it as a joke, and Xiaotang's reaction didn't seem to take it to heart.

Originally, he didn't pay much attention to this, and he didn't understand it in a certain direction. After all, the relationship between him and Xiaotang has also reached a new stage, although they are not a couple, they have a common concept, a common secret, and mutual trust has surpassed that of ordinary couples.

Compared with what generosity, Xiaotang's previous sentence: "Who else can I rely on?" "More weight.

However, if "generosity" refers to the emotional aspect, then ...... Ha ha......

Looking at Xia Ming, whose eyes were floating and falling into reverie, Lin Cheng coughed and said, "Xiaotang doesn't treat feelings as gifts, don't think too much." ”

Xia Ming looked at Lin Cheng expressionlessly, will he die if he is happy?