No. 364 Mind Reading

The CR-8300 resembles a virtual reality headset and is not worth a detailed description.

The CR-29000 is a new system that is different from the CR-8300, and the appearance looks very different. The most prominent hardware equipment is not the high-end graphics card with a market price of 8999 yuan highlighted by the gold medal commentator, but a vertical hanger-like stereo camera. The stereo camera has a balance car base, which can automatically roll left to right, forward and backward; In the center are slender and shiny steel tubes, supporting six small cameras in a three-dimensional ring structure.

Start the CR-29000 and experience even more insightful.

The CR-8300 is a closed structure, with earbuds blocking out outside noise, and glasses blocking the real world, creating a virtual world atmosphere wholeheartedly. The CR-29000 is more like an augmented reality device, with earbuds allowing to receive natural sounds from the outside world by default, and a retinal transilluminator that projects the real world into the user's eyes. In simple terms, a stereo camera acts as an additional second pair of glasses, providing the user with a second image of the stereoscopic world.

In vitro eyes, the gold medal commentator commented on the characteristics of the CR-29000 that are different from the CR-8300.

This idea is not new. Set up a camera in one place, connect to the screen instantly, and everyone can also see themselves from a second perspective. The so-called stereo camera is just a camera that replaces an ordinary camera with a three-dimensional field of view.

However, the effect of the CR-29000 is quite amazing.

The images from the stereo camera are very clear......

No, can't say clearly.

It should be very real, so real that it is almost indistinguishable from what you see with the naked eye.

As we all know, it is always difficult to perfectly reproduce the images taken by the camera as seen by the human eye. The core question, for example, how many pixels is the human eye equivalent to a camera? The few say only 5 million pixels, and the more say 10 billion pixels. With such a huge disparity in data, we can't objectively conclude who is right and wrong, because different pixel claims come from different algorithms, and these algorithms have a certain amount of truth to speak of. Ultimately, the concept of pixels derived from cameras has significant limitations when it comes to describing the performance parameters of the human eye.

The camera's pixels are evenly distributed, while what the human eye sees is dynamically adjusted. For the same still picture, the camera can only faithfully record every pixel, and the human eye will automatically focus on those areas that need attention, even if the human eye ignores the faint movements such as drift, tremor, and saccade, and other details that are not necessary to pay attention to can even be completed by the brain. Just like the bridge of the nose, if the human eye is a camera, the bridge of the nose must always go out to interfere with the field of vision, but the human naked eye or the brain can automatically eliminate the existence of the bridge of the nose, until the brain wants to pay attention to the bridge of the nose, the bridge of the nose will instantly appear in the field of vision.

The naked eye is actively observing all the time, but the camera can only follow the shooting stiffly. As long as the camera can't read the brain's dynamic thinking in real time, know when you want to see the bridge of your nose and when you don't, the camera will never be able to create an absolutely realistic image reality for humans.

The CR-29000 is a shocking solution to the puzzle of the century.

CR-29000 seems to have the automatic processing function of the naked eye or the brain, when Yu Leilong wants to observe a certain area, a certain area is automatically processed in high definition; The area that is not deliberately observed is gradually blurred, which greatly saves computing power.

You must know that the autofocus function previously launched by smartphones generally uses image analysis and processing functions to automatically identify important information that smartphones think. For example, when taking a selfie, the autofocus is routinely aimed at the face, but when using a smartphone, the user does not necessarily want to look at his own face, and may also want to look at the hair, neck, collarbone, etc.

The CR-29000's projection image goes beyond the common concept of autofocus.

Yu Leilong tried several times in a row, and finally verified the facts in disbelief. Yu Leilong didn't guess wrong, CR-29000 really has a magical function like mind reading. There is no need for text and voice commands, and there is no need for manual focusing, and the projection screen can focus on the area that Lei Long wants to observe the most. is also a selfie, when Yu Leilong's attention is on the right arm, the stereo camera automatically focuses on the right arm; When Yu Leilong's attention is on the left foot, the stereo camera automatically focuses on the left foot, and all the high-definition images projected onto the retina are the targets that Yu Leilong wants to observe.

CR-29000 can read minds.

CR-29000 is not a video reality device, but a device that can read people's hearts.

At the same time that Yu Leilong was shocked, more and more experiencers gradually came back to their senses, and their voices became crazy one after another:

"It's amazing, it understands my thoughts."

"It's amazing, it reads the brain."

"It's so scary,......"

"It's horrible,......"

Faced with CR-29000, which is suspected to be able to read the brain, some people are crazy and surprised, and some are so frightened that their limbs stiffen.

For those who are pessimistic about the future, they regard the CR-29000, which is suspected of being able to read the brain, as a flood beast: "The development of such a forbidden product must be stopped immediately." ”

Ethicist criticizes CR-29000 from the perspective of social ethics: "The free-thinking brain is the only free place for human beings, and if products like CR-29000 are allowed to wantonly infringe on human freedom, human society will inevitably collapse." ”

In other words, bearer experience tickets are issued to industry chain partners, who belong to Zhu as a member of the production chain, but do not necessarily have the same values, outlook on life and worldview as the employees of the Spring and Autumn Department. This group of people is only gathered because of work connections, and their three-view color spectrum is very mixed, there are pious people who believe in the subtleties of feng shui, and there are also people who open their mouths and close their mouths to democracy and freedom. Seeing such an unimaginable product as the CR-29000, they either praised or criticized it with their own values, and the praisers and critics immediately began a heated debate.

The group of young people who bought tickets in the scalper market are relatively a group of fans or vested interests who tend to support Spring and Autumn, and they verify the mind-reading function of CR-29000 as if they had discovered a magical toy, and sigh to each other that Spring and Autumn is worthy of Spring and Autumn: "Fantasy products that are only available in science fiction and science fiction movies can be developed in Spring and Autumn, which is really amazing." ”

While everyone was talking, the gold medal commentator who had left for a while hurriedly returned.

The gold medal commentator first appeased the critics: "Everyone be quiet, -29000 is not the legendary mind reading, the principle of -29000 is also very simple, it is not as mysterious as mind reading, but through brain electromagnetic signal reading and brain electromagnetic signal analysis equipment, extract the simple signal of brain and naked eye communication." To be honest, the research results of the brain-computer fusion project are still very primitive, and the manufacturing process of the brain electromagnetic signal reading and analysis equipment is also very shabby, and the real effect is actually very limited. ”

"You've just experienced the CR-29000, and you're probably so shocked by the realistic image world that you have overlooked a lot of sparse details. If the mood calms down, if the communication signal between the brain and the naked eye is weakened, everyone will regret to find that the testing machine is a testing machine after all, and the CR-29000 still has many shortcomings. ”

"The brain-computer fusion project is the top priority of Spring and Autumn Search, but the purpose of Spring and Autumn research on brain-computer fusion is not to create dark products that read and manipulate people's hearts, but to prepare to connect human organs like the Internet of Things. We try to imagine a future where if the brain-computer fusion project is further developed, people with limb defects can be fitted with more sophisticated prostheses and return to normal life without barriers. Blind people can also cut stereo cameras and return to the world of light without barriers. Isn't this kind of life even better? ”

The gold medal commentator deliberately downplayed the mind-reading label.

This is also a deliberate search in the spring and autumn period.

There are brain-computer fusion projects all over the world, and the worry of mind reading has long been common in related academic circles. When the equipment for reading and analyzing brain electromagnetic signals becomes more and more perfect, and when more and more effective information is extracted, mind reading or reading brain memory must be a natural development.

However, science belongs to science, and society belongs to society.

Some science and technology involving morality and ethics will always cause social panic and resistance. Taking cloning as an example, the distance between cloned sheep and human clones is not far away, and the biggest factor restricting the research of human cloning is actually social pressure. After the cloned sheep Dolly shocked the world, the first reaction of the governments of various countries was not to light up the cloning technology as quickly as possible in scientific research competition, but to successively promulgate strict policies and regulations, prohibiting the use of federal funds to fund human cloning research, prohibiting human cloning in the name of scientific research, and clearly expressing their disapproval, support, disapproval, and acceptance of any human cloning experiments.

Words such as mind-reading devices and reading brain memory are also very likely to attract social resistance.

If CR-29000 attracts joint pressure from all levels of society, and the governments of various countries order Spring and Autumn not to conduct research on reading brain memory in the name of scientific research, the blow to the brain-computer fusion project will definitely be fatal. Even if Wei Dongsheng can go underground, it is destined that the Spring and Autumn Festival will not be able to hire the best researchers in the world, and the core researchers will not be able to communicate freely with researchers from all walks of life, and then extend the research and development time tenfold and hundredfold.

In order to ensure the smooth development of the brain-computer fusion project, Spring and Autumn tacitly obeyed the unspoken rules of its peers and did its best to dilute the panic and organized protests of the society about words such as mind reading and brain memory. However, when it comes to the development and utilization of brain-computer fusion projects, Spring and Autumn deliberately shows the advantages of mechanical power exoskeleton armor to the military, deliberately publicizes the good news of brain-computer fusion to the disabled and blind to the society, and gradually promotes the integration of CR-29000 and other image reality equipment, so that the public can slowly adapt to the existence of brain-computer fusion products.

If the facts are not as terrible as imagined, public opinion will not have to resist brain-computer fusion research to the death.

All of the above are Wei Dongsheng's major strategies to promote the research of brain-computer fusion projects.

Wei Dongsheng insisted on the silent promotion of brain-computer fusion products in the spring rain, and did his best to make human beings around the world unconsciously accustomed to the existence of brain-computer fusion products, and tried his best to avoid the "most significant and controversial scientific and technological breakthrough" like the cloned sheep Dolly.