On Saturday, Tranquility Villa.

At tea time, Fang Hong came to the living room and sat down with a material report submitted by Chen Yu, which was about the progress of AI anthropomorphic visualization.

Chen Yu is leading the R&D team to start development, including the research and development of voice chat interaction and other technologies.

In addition, he directly set up an IP operation team to be responsible for the creation and operation management of this virtual character, and the first version of the character image and related settings have been released.

At this moment, Fang Hong opened the material report to read, the first page of the document is an original painting of the image of a virtual character, the character is nicknamed "Xiao Aya", Xiao Aya's character image, with a pair of blue eyes, gray hair, hair ornament jasper, wearing a gradient blue blue cheongsam skirt, long hair combed into a high ponytail, the side face and temples naturally hang down with the length of the plate, and there is a tear mole in the corner of the right eye.

In terms of setting, Xiao Aya's classmate is a 16-year-old girl in the flower season.

Xiao Aya's first version of the image has several kinds of clothes to wear, when wearing a traditional cheongsam skirt, she is a super beautiful and moving beauty image, and she still looks very good in modern clothes, and the designed clothes make her image both elegant and gorgeous.

Fang Hong couldn't help but nod to himself: "Well, it's not bad." ”

The image design is quite satisfying, but if you want to set up a virtual character IP and make her "real", you need to do more than that, you need to further enrich Xiao Aya's character design, and you have to have a rich and complete story background.

According to Chen Yu's material report, Quantitative Capital has invited a professional animation production team and screenwriter to cooperate with Xiao Aya's IP operation team, and will produce a series of excellent CG animated story short films for Xiao Aya in the future, each short story is about 15 minutes, and there will even be animated movies to shape her growth process, so as to continuously enrich her IP character image.

It is not easy to create an IP from scratch, and it takes effort and willingness to spend money on publicity, and it also requires the accumulation of time.

On the technical side, Chen Yu's R&D team is currently building a character model for Xiao Aya's virtual image, and the budget is also sufficient, Xiao Aya's character image model is improving, such as the number of hair strands on the character model is basically the same as that of a real human, including details such as hair on the skin.

"Debuting as a virtual game streamer?" Fang Hong, who read the material report, was quite surprised, not the scene of Xiao Aya's debut identity, but Chen Yu wanted to set up a special live broadcast website for Xiao Aya, the reason was that he was not very satisfied with the current YY live broadcast.

Fang Hong realized that at present, in the field of online live broadcast platforms in China, a certain fish and a certain tooth have not yet appeared, but Chen Yu entered the track of the online live broadcast platform in advance because of the IP image of operating Xiao Aya's classmate.

After a while, Fang Hong picked up a pen and made a note next to him, leaving a suggestion here, that is, suggesting that Chen Yu further enrich and supplement this live broadcast website.

Whether to do it or not depends on his decision.

In the field of online live broadcasting, the market size is actually like that, which is a major opportunity in the eyes of others, but it is really not a big cake in Fang Hong's eyes, but it still has to be done.

This track is not about the market scale, but about the application scenario, which is a key puzzle piece in the Internet sector.

After a while, Fang Hong continued to read the content of the material that followed.

In addition to creating a virtual character image for Xiao Aya, Chen Yu's team will also start from the setting characteristics of her debut as a game anchor, and the live broadcast room will generally have the anchor's camera.

Chen Yu wants to create a virtual private room for her, and this room can't be a background map, but with the help of technology similar to real-time calculations, Xiao Aya's virtual character image can walk around and interact in this virtual room.

All kinds of items in the virtual room, such as headphones, clothes, keyboards, and other props, can be moved, and can also be picked up by Aya-chan.

"Huh? Isn't this the prototype of the metaverse......" Fang Hong was also quite surprised as he browsed the follow-up content of the material report, he had suggested to Chen Yu to find a way to anthropomorphize and visualize artificial intelligence.

But I didn't expect this kid not only to touch the track of online live broadcasting, but also to have the prototype of the metaverse, or the prototype of virtual reality.

Fang Hong estimated that this may be related to the fact that he improved Chen Yu's R&D capabilities through the fame system.

The pursuit of the scenes and details in the virtual room to the mechanism, one of the biggest technical difficulties is the interaction of Xiao Aya's classmates in the virtual room, real-time calculations are generally rehearsed in advance, and then it is like letting go of long animations.

But according to Chen Yu's material report, he is obviously not satisfied with this.

He wants Xiao Aya to be able to do real "real-time interaction" in it, to put it bluntly, when interacting with the audience in the live broadcast room, for example, some viewers ask Xiao Aya to change a piece of clothing, where to go to some items in the room, drink water, etc.

This set of behaviors is generated in real time, not as a result of an on-the-fly calculation in advance.

Only in this way can the best effect of "real-time interaction" be achieved, giving people the impression that Xiao Aya is an intelligent life that really lives in the virtual world, and she can also interact with people living in reality in front of the screen in real time through the Internet.

Undoubtedly, this requires the development of an intelligent algorithm model that is far superior to real-time calculus, which is extremely technically difficult and cannot be achieved by any technology company in the world at the moment.

However, Fang Hong is also quite looking forward to it, it is amazing to be able to do it to this extent.

Since Chen Yu wrote the material report like this, I believe that he is not drawing a pie with the big boss, but he is confident that he can do it.

To achieve this perfect "real-time interaction" effect, it means that strong data and computing power are needed behind it.

Chen Yu has already begun to invest in the construction of the first large-scale data center, in addition to the large-scale computing center also has to be laid out, no wonder quantitative capital spent a huge amount of money to build a large-scale data center for its own use.

Xiao Aya's ability to achieve a smooth and silky "real-time interaction" effect must be supported by a large computing center and data center, especially with the launch of the APP assistant in the future, the more users who download it, the greater the support of the computing center and data center.

Fang Hong continued to turn the page backwards, and when he saw the content behind him, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "Is this kid playing such a big game......

Chen Yu doesn't want to limit Xiao Aya's activities in the virtual world to a private room, and he has the next stage of development schedule, that is, to create a larger interactive scene.

The scale of this scene is impressive to include the same proportion of Xincheng, Chen Yu is not from Xincheng, but quantitative capital has already moved its headquarters to Xincheng.

In terms of the background setting of Xiao Aya's character, she is an aboriginal living in the new city.

To achieve this scale, the interactive scene must be detailed enough, zoomed in to the scale of a big city, and the creation of a large and detailed virtual scene can be directly regarded as an open virtual game world in a sense.

It's just that there are no human players, and everyone can only interact with this virtual new city through the interaction with Xiao Aya's classmates.

If Chen Yu makes it, it will definitely shock the industry.

To achieve this level of advancement, it is not something that small money can play, according to its budget list, the budget for the construction of Xiao Aya's character model alone has reached more than 50 million, but compared with the budget required for the entire plan, this can only be regarded as a fraction.

The overall budget scale, billions or even tens of billions of funds, may not be able to stop.

I have to say that Chen Yu's trick is a bit big, but Fang Hong doesn't think he did it wrong, and he is looking forward to it very much.

The big boss just likes that he can make a big one.

According to the description on the material report, Xiao Aya can share her daily life in the virtual world with real fans and viewers through live broadcasts.

Real-life viewers and fans can watch Xiao Aya's daily life in the virtual new city from the perspective of God in front of the screen, and at the same time, they can also interact with Xiao Aya in the live broadcast room.

Simulating the entire city in detail, and then wanting to run smoothly and smoothly, is not only a matter of developing more advanced technologies, but also requires a larger computing center and a larger data center, which is a very money-burning thing.

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