" meta-universe ", I believe most people have heard of it, it represents the future world and the top of the technology industry.
Since 2021, Microsoft , ByteDance, Haier , Baidu , Nvidia, Facebook , Qualcomm and other technology giants have been entering the market one after another, the popularity of the "meta universe" has remained high.
Recently, in order to recruit Web3.0 talents, Stephen Chow personally opened a social account to promote it, which added fire to the "Meta Universe".
Some friends may not understand, what can Web3.0 and the meta-universe have something to do with it?
doesn’t matter, it’s hard to understand the deep level. We can easily say that
Web3.0 is like a basic building, and the meta-universe is like a superstructure, and the two are closely combined.
So Stephen Chow asked his employees to help him create the future, and Stephen Chow entered the Web3.0, which also means that his eyes have shifted from the film and television industry to the meta-universe.
In fact, in the entertainment industry, Stephen Chow is not the only one who plays the Yuan Universe. If you go forward, you may not be able to get rid of Jay Chou , JJ Lin , Shawn Yue, Wang Zhonglei and others.
In January this year, Jay Chou entered the Meta Universe and launched 0,000 fantasy bears with a trendy brand. The product in this virtual world is actually priced at RMB 6,200. What’s scary is that it sold out in just 40 minutes. Therefore, Jay Chou easily earned 62 million yuan.
Going forward, JJ Lin spent 3.16 million yuan to buy a pixel avatar,
Yue Wenle's slightly cheaper 2.74 million yuan,
Xu Jinglei's 540,000 yuan,
Edison Chen's , Lu Han's are all listed.
However, buying avatars is rare for JJ Lin.
He once spent about 4.7 million yuan to buy a piece of land in the Yuan Universe.
So, what is the "meta universe"?
professor at Tsinghua University believes that the meta universe is a virtual world that uses technological means to link and create, maps and interacts with the real world, and has a new social system of digital life space.
To put it simply, the metaverse is the complete immersive experience that " builds virtual, augmented reality , and combines ".
We can now see many derivative exploration products about the metaverse.
For example, virtual idols and virtual anchors have begun to appear.
Douyin virtual blogger: Liu Yexi, attracted millions of fans just by just one video, and this is just the most inconspicuous point in the metaverse application.
In terms of cultural and tourism, the meta universe will allow people to use VR devices to "travel around" the world without leaving their homes.
In terms of game , the " holographic " that is highly anticipated by players, that is, the full sensory experience game can be realized.
Education, real estate, automobile industry...all fields will usher in completely new changes.
So, what will our lives look like when humans fully master the various technologies of the metaverse?
Countless fantasies were born from this.
, and the one that can answer this question first, is undoubtedly the movie .
As early as 2009, the United States had already filmed a world that was truly ruled by the meta-universe. This movie is " Agent " also known as " Future Mental ".
In the future world, everyone will not leave their homes, and there will be robots for them to go out, work, and socialize.
This type of robot is called " stand-alone " or " agent ". They have an appearance that is no different from humans and can do everything on behalf of humans.
People just need to lie at home and connect with the system to see the world through the "eyes" of the substitute, feel the substitute's feelings, and receive any information.
Having a stand-in means you don’t have to go out, stay away from accidents, and you don’t have to have a beautiful appearance through plastic surgery and fitness.
can even greatly reduce infectious diseases, racial discrimination and violent crimes,
But at the same time, the beautiful beauty standing in front of you is likely to be an old man with a stubble face, and maybe some little girl is playing behind the handsome handsome guy.
There is no doubt that this is the future " utopia ".
In this world, the use of stand-in is like the smartphone , which everyone has now, and may be more common than mobile phones.
Because in the future world, if you don’t use a substitute, you will be treated with a strange look by "people".
But there is nothing absolute in the world, and some people think that using a stand-in life is a complete lie .
They refused to use subtitles and established human autonomous region in various places, prohibiting subtitles from entering.
Their leader is called " Prophet ".
In the movie, the scientist K Ph.D. , who left the company after he and his partner had a conflict over the operation method of "stand-in".
story unfolds from this.
Xiaoshuai and Amei are police officers of FBI. On this day, an accident occurred in the city where deliberately damaged the "stand-in-one" , and the two of them came to investigate.
However, strangely, they could not find the identity chip of the damaged substitute and could not determine which controller this "soldier" belongs to.
The two continued to investigate in confusion, and soon a new clue was found. The user of this stand-in is actually Dr. K's only son , and he has died in this accident .
The substitute belongs to Dr. K, but he lends the substitute " to " his son. This behavior of
is not legal, but as the founder of the stand-alone, Dr. K has more permissions for , so he can do this.
and Dr. K also learned in the investigation that the mastermind behind it was him who wanted to kill him, but by accident, the death of his son, and he was deeply saddened.
Since then, Dr. K has planted a seed of revenge in his heart, which is directly related to what he did to to destroy the world later.
But at this time, Xiaoshuai and Amei still knew nothing about it, let alone stopped it.
two people are still worried about this accident .
Because in the future world, no matter what damage is caused by the stand-in, the controller himself will not have any problems .
K How did Dr. Dr. K die? Has it become a problem that the two of them have to overcome first?
In the continued investigation, Xiaoshuai and Amei found that the murderer used an unknown weapon of .
. There is a virus in this weapon that can try to directly kill the controller. This is how Dr. K's son died. During the
investigation, Xiaoshuai and Amei also tracked down the murderer who used weapons with the help of programmer fat man .
Fatty is a very magical person. Today, when Xiaoshuai and Amei both use substitutes, he still refuses to use substitutes in .
Because he believes that human wisdom stand-in can never have it.
As a programmer in the FBI police station, the fat man controls the entire substitute system , and all substitute uses in this country are supervised by him.
He can even force the manipulator to go offline, and no longer controls the substitute .
But if it is not very necessary, fat people generally won’t do this.
And the subsequent plot proves that the introduction of the fat man and the stand-in system is not " targetless ".
At this time, the murderer was entering the Human Autonomous Region.
Because the substitute was not allowed there, in order to avoid provoking conflicts between the two camps, Amei advised Xiaoshuai to give up the arrest for the time being.
But Xiaoshuai was very stubborn. He ignored Amei's obstruction of to chase the murderer , and also entered the "Human Autonomous Region".
Just one second before he was about to successfully catch the murderer, the humans beat his substitute into a sieve.
Human residents looked at the oil flowing out of the stand-in and called him " Monster " in disgust.
In fact, they not only hate substitutes, but also have malicious intentions towards those who use substitutes.
This shows the depth of the conflict between the two camps of .
stand-alone was scrapped, and Xiaoshuai was forced to go offline.
It is precisely because he did not listen to the dissuasion that he was temporarily deprived of the right to use a substitute by the police station.
At the same time, the boss also informed him not to interfere in the case anymore. , but Xiaoshuai disagreed with . He could only without using a substitute and continue searching alone.
Xiaoshuai wanted to enter the Human Autonomous Region to find clues. Amei used a substitute to help, so Xiaoshuai went to the Human Autonomous Region alone.
He found that the human leader Prophet burned the murderer he was pursuing, and took away the weapons, inciting hostility in the two camps, which means that the war is about to begin .
So why did the prophet kill the murderer and take away the weapon?
It turns out that Dr. K created a stand-in and just wanted to use it to help people with disabilities, but the doctor's collaborators wanted to use stand-in instead of humans.
Dr. cannot understand the world where all stand-ins are. After parting ways with his partners, he began to secretly establish a force against the use of stand-ins.
He uses a stand-in to disguise himself as a human, becomes a prophet , and organizes human power against the use of stand-in.
And the former colleague of the doctor has always wanted to kill the doctor, so he bought the doctor of murder.
Unexpectedly, by chance, the murderer killed the doctor's son.
The death of the son disrupted the doctor's original plan.
He couldn't help but kill the murderer with the prophet's shell. avenged his son and snatched the weapon. He made up his mind to use to destroy this hypocritical world .
is to sneak into the stand-in system and kill everyone with the virus. Dr. killed Ami , manipulated Ami's stand-in and pretended to be Ami.
has another intercom with his own substitute - the Prophet, and takes away the virus weapon .
Next, the doctor pretended to be Ami to help Xiaoshuai, tried to find the password for the use of the weapon, and then betrayed Xiaoshuai. Only then did Xiaoshuai realize that " this Ami is not that Ami ".
It’s a pity that the doctor had long left Xiao Shuai and successfully sneaked into the FBI stand-alone system, controlled the programmer’s fat man, and began to upload the virus to the stand-alone system .
At the critical moment, Xiaoshuai found the doctor's nest. Seeing this, the doctor had to suspend manipulating the substitute.
During Xiaoshuai's persuasion to the doctor, the virus uploaded just now has been transmitted.
Dr.
felt that his plan was foolproof, so simply committed suicide and took the lead .
Xiaoshuai quickly took over the doctor to control the substitute Amei. With the help of the fat man, he made a fuss and saved everyone .
However, when facing whether to retain all the existing stand-ins, Xiaoshuai hesitated, and finally he chose: to destroy all the stand-ins .
So a funny scene appeared,
"stand-in" in subways, shopping malls, roads and other places stopped running and fell to the ground in depressed manner.
After the stand-in completely lost its effectiveness, all the people stepped out of the door that they had not left for many years.
And this change also led to the stagnation of the "stand-in-one" use …
In fact, the doctor plays an extremely important role in the whole story.
He was originally a positive person who opposed the abuse of the substitute. However, after going around in circles, he turned around and wanted to use the virus to kill all those who use the substitute and destroy the entire world.
changed from a positive character to a villain . It was this clue that allowed the whole story to unfold.
In fact, the characters created by the movie become more and more realistic because of such contradictions and entanglements.
Because people are multifaceted, the character creation of doctoral characters is , which is the plump and three-dimensional . The story of
movie has a strong attraction, pulling us into the world where virtual and reality is connected, and through the reversal and presentation of the story, it throws us countless thoughts.
There are many thriller shots worth pondering in the movie.
For example, the stand-alone advertisements everywhere, the stand-alone placed in stores, corners of streets, etc., all show that the stand-alone has become a very terrible place for .
Stand-in has become a necessity for life. There are also many clues and foreshadowings in the plot.
For example, at the beginning, the doctor met Xiaoshuai, and used different stand-in , which shows that the doctor played a lot of roles in this change, and he did everything himself.
And for example, it is precisely because it has permissions that others do not have, so it can manipulate Ami's stand-in.
and other details are numerous, which shows that the plot is very reasonable and is not too abrupt. .
In addition, there are some extremely ironic scenes in the movie .
Xiaoshuai himself pressed his substitute under him and beat him up.
But how can a human body compete with metal? Xiaoshuai suffered a serious injury and only started the imitation leather of the substitute.
During the period, the substitute was still grimacing . The substitute watching the two fighting each other laughed loudly.
No one can experience Xiaoshuai's pain, he is like a trapped beast in an cage .
This makes us in front of the screen fall into deep thought. In the collision between reality and virtuality, when only you stick to your own opinions and people around you are disdainful and mocking you, what should you do with ?
I think this is also a question we need to think about.
The term "metauniverse" was first derived from the 1992 science fiction novel " Avalanche ".
In this novel, there is a huge virtual reality world. People use digital incarnation of to compete with each other to improve their status.
There are many movies related to the metaverse, but they are not as profound as the metaphor of "Future Men".
In the 2018 movie " Number One Player ", virtual reality technology has penetrated into every corner of human life.
In order to avoid the reality of serious environmental pollution, people have avoided a virtual reality world called " Oasis " to relax their minds. The follow-up story of
also happens entirely in the "oasis" world.
2021's " Out of Control Player " tells the story of an NPC discovering that he is actually the background character in an open-world video game, and
decided to become a hero and save his own story.
However, the infinite extension of science and technology must have one premise, that is, adheres to the bottom line of ethics .
no longer uses his own body. Even if you can observe and feel everything in the metaverse, can it really be considered as "true self" ?
Today's technical level can actually reach an amazing level.
One day the metaverse will be developed and complete, and many people will settle in and enjoy the world of the metaverse.
However, the metaverse is operated by institutions and is controlled by capital.
When our relatives, friends, careers, families, and social interactions are all completed through the metaverse, we will eventually become a "puppet", doing what capital wants us to do, thinking about what capital makes us think, and seeing the world that capital wants us to see.
If this is the case, it would be too terrible.
