Dream Guide

Mei Yiqiu saw Qingmu coming in and greeted him: "Oh, Qingmu, you're here!"

The woman also turned around, bowed slightly and smiled at Aoki. She looked to be about the same age as Mei Ziqing, with curved eyebrows and elegant appearance. Even if she was standing there doing nothing, she still showed extraordinary magnanimity.

When Aoki looked at her, he felt more and more like he had seen her before, especially that look in his eyes. He searched for women he had seen in his memory, and first thought of Xia Xiaoxiao.

This woman is somewhat similar to Xia Xiaoxiao in temperament, but there are obvious differences. Xia Xiaoxiao's temperament comes from the nobility of her family background and the confidence in her academic achievements, while the woman in front of her is obviously more elegant and elegant.

Aoki thought again of Du Wa, that ageless woman who had been immersed in the Buddhist world for decades, but after all, she had a bit of a worldly attitude and an untimely old-fashioned air.

"Here, let me introduce you." The professor had a pipe in his mouth but did not light it. I don't know whether it was because the lady was present or because smoking was not allowed in the laboratory.

"This is Aoki, I told you before." He took Aoki's hand to introduce the woman, and then introduced the woman to Aoki, "This is Professor Su from Columbia University."

The woman smiled and stretched out her hand: "Hello, Su Huilan, please give me some advice."

"Hello." Aoki held her hand. At that moment, another familiar feeling came over him, but it quickly disappeared because the woman took her hand back.

Mei Yiqiu said: "Professor Su will be our first dream mentor."

"Dream mentor?" Aoki seemed to have heard this term somewhere.

"He is the training instructor of the "Dream Guide" game. He has nothing to do with the people in the Dream Club." Mei Yiqiu explained, "Originally, it is most appropriate for you to do this, but considering the particularity of your identity, And since you have more important things to do, I invited Professor Su over."

Aoki congratulated: "It seems that Professor's game development was successful!"

The professor pointed at Bian Ziyuan and laughed: "Thanks to this little genius from Wu University, his understanding of mechanical intelligence and computers is very unique. The intelligent program he developed helped me a lot."

Aoki couldn't help but be in awe of Bian Ziyuan. We must know that great scientists always start from a genius.

Bian Ziyuan smiled a little shyly, but didn't say anything self-effacing.

Aoki asked: "Then the professor called me here today to celebrate my achievements?"

The professor shook his head and said: "It's too early to celebrate. I'm mainly looking for you today to get to know Professor Su. You will inevitably cooperate in the future. Professor Su is also a member of our Third Space Foundation. He is a research expert in the field of human spirit and subconsciousness. He is an expert in life. He also made considerable achievements in science and religious philosophy."

Qingmu didn't think there would be any academic cooperation opportunities between him and Su Huilan, and he didn't take Mei Yiqiu's words seriously. He was too lazy to socialize and socialize, so he didn't show much enthusiasm for the beautiful professor.

On the contrary, Su Huilan seemed to be very interested in him and had been observing him.

"Mr. Aoki, are you interested in trying our newly developed space box?" she said.

Aoki heard Professor Mei talk about the concept of space boxes and couldn't help but be curious: "Can it really stimulate and receive brain information directly without using sensors to capture and release neural electrical signals?"

Su Huilan looked at him in surprise: "It seems that Mr. Aoki knows something about this box."

Mei Yiqiu said: "Don't forget, there are three names in the game "Genesis", and he is one of them."

Su Huilan suddenly smiled and said: "Oh, how could I forget this!"

Aoki didn't know what the professor wrote in "Genesis", but this aroused his curiosity and wanted to see what kind of world this game called "Dream Guide" was like. And how does that space box connect to his consciousness?

Mei Yiqiu pointed to two rectangular boxes that were placed at an angle of 45 degrees and were large enough to accommodate one person and said, "You can lie down in them and try."

"Lie in it?" The more Aoki looked at the shape of the box, the more it looked like a coffin.

"The space box uses quantum droplets under high-frequency laser pulses to stimulate the nerve center of the human brain. It can directly simulate human sensory information, thereby guiding human consciousness to create a virtual environment."

“Is this the future VR technology you often say?”

"That's right. Current VR still relies on audio-visual perception. To put it bluntly, it just plays 3D scenes to people, and then uses sensors to capture the neurofeedback of the human body. But people not only have vision and hearing, but also taste and smell. , touch and other senses. With current technology, it is not impossible for people to eat and have sex in a VR environment, but it is just too troublesome to achieve. The human body's nerve cells are spread all over the body, unless your whole body is filled with sensors. Including on the tongue, otherwise it will not be able to convey a comprehensive feeling close to reality. Therefore, the current VR can only be regarded as virtual audio-visual, but not virtual reality."

Just as Mei Yiqiu finished speaking, Su Huilan added:

"A scientific team in the United States has tried to develop a neural clothing, which is a bit like Spider-Man's suit and can wrap around your whole body. The suit is made of special materials. When you put it on, it feels like it is on your body. It is covered with a layer of film that can capture and transmit nerve electrical signals. When you put on this suit, it will give you a virtual scene. You can feel everything in the scene, including touch. Moreover, the clothes can also release thousands of different Air molecules enter your nasal cavity and lungs to simulate a real sense of smell. But as Professor Mei said, you cannot wrap a membrane on your tongue, and clothes can only cover the body surface, not the internal organs. , so there is still a big gap from the real human body perception.”

"There are also scientists who are trying to use neural fluid to complete virtual reality. Have you seen The Matrix? Completely immersing people in a special liquid and letting the liquid act as a sensor is indeed simpler and more effective than clothes. But there is no discovery yet. This liquid allows people to be immersed for a long time without causing harm to human cells, and humans are probably not willing to make themselves look like corpses soaked in formalin just to play a game."

Aoki felt a little creepy.

It’s hard to imagine that people in the future world will soak themselves in liquid to play games, or dress like Spider-Man with hundreds of thin tubes connected to their bodies to participate in e-sports competitions.

"This thing of ours that looks like a coffin... doesn't seem to be much better, right?" Aoki said.

"Don't worry, this is just the first generation product." Mei Yiqiu puffed hard on the unlit pipe, as if the air would become sweeter after passing through the pipe.

"The current cost of each box is more than 20 million U.S. dollars. This is just the pure manufacturing cost, without considering the sharing of R\u0026D costs. Otherwise, its cost will be an astronomical figure. Such a product will not be put on the market, and no one will use it. rise."

Aoki was speechless.

Mei Yiqiu continued: "The design of our second-generation product has been completed. It is about the same as the common VR helmets now. I believe it will be available soon. As for the third-generation product, it is still in the conception stage. It may be a hat or a A pair of glasses. But I think one day our product will be smaller, like a chip."

"chip?"

"That's right, the chip. It's the same chip as the one you found for me."