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The latest website: The first batch of fans of Hatsune Miku have been swayed by the official publicity, and their expectations have skyrocketed, but they did not know some of the troubles they encountered when setting up the stage.

70 hours after the glass screen was reported damaged, a brand new screen was finally airlifted from North America to Tokyo as scheduled after expedited manufacturing.

"All worry, if you screw up again, it's really over."

At this moment, the person in charge, He Chao, was at the scene, and he was instructed a thousand times.

It took about three hours or so to complete the completion of the transparent screen on the stage. At this point, the stage hardware layout of the Hatsune Miku virtual concert has basically been completed.

The follow-up work that is being arranged now is to install other sensors. Once this link is completed, it is possible to operate characters with motion input, which means that the scope of future applications can be expanded.

In fact, the theory of realizing naked-eye 3D stereoscopic imaging is very simple, but it can only be realized after it is composed of various technologies of hardware and software.

At the current concert scene, we must first place a circle of ultra-thin reflective LCD projectors on the venue. The thickness of this ultra-thin projector is only 5mm and requires 288 projectors. Dollar.

The projection system can divide the arc into groups every 30 degrees, and one group consists of 24 projectors.

The resolution of each projector is 800 x 800 pixels in full color.

If the projected image is projected directly on a direct-viewing screen, nothing can be seen, because the image projected by a group of projectors is not a certain angle of Hatsune Miku, but an image connected from the front to the side.

As abstract as a Picasso painting.

Such an image is formed because of the unique optical design of the technical development team of "Virtual Idol". The image released by the projectors arranged in a circular configuration is not directly projected on the top of the projection area, but below, and then passes through the conical shape below. Optical parts project the screen.

This conical part does not diffuse incoming light, but passes directly inside the cone.

In this way, when the light is about to spread, although it will spread at intervals of 60 degrees in the vertical direction, it will basically not spread in the horizontal direction.

The optical picture produced by this principle and the one projected on the flat screen are two completely different structures.

Therefore, its visual design is also different from general rendering.

Although it is 800×800 pixels, but now we need to render this from the perspective of 288 cameras, so the calculation load is relatively heavy, but this problem can be solved, and the solution is to use cloud computing-related services to solve it. Draw on the cloud platform.

A graphics card can process 8 images of 2400×1600 pixels, which are then divided into 800×800 pixels and sent to each projector, and the effect is that interaction can be achieved to a certain extent.

There is no doubt that the goal of He Chao's team is that Hatsune Miku can not only perform on stage, but also achieve more real-time interaction with future technology upgrades and iterations.

Fortunately, with the completion of the data center in Osaka, Bluestar Technology Group has opened up the market for big data and cloud computing services in Xiaobenzi.

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He Chao, who was supervising on-site at the concert venue, suddenly received a message.

"Mr. Luo is here?"

After He Chao heard the secretary came to report, he immediately ordered the work here, and did not forget to remind all the staff at the venue again, whether it was his compatriots or Japanese employees, don't mess up.

Then he was ready to receive Luo Sheng. He didn't expect the big boss to come to Tokyo silently.

At this moment, Luo Sheng had landed smoothly at Tokyo International Airport and had already left the airport.

The main purpose of his visit to Japan this time is not for the "virtual idol" plan, it is just a drop in. The main purpose is to talk to Sony about the acquisition. Luo Sheng, the related industry of the company's hot potato Cell chip, is very interested.

Sony, Toshiba and IBM have been working together for several years with the Cell chip in an attempt to oust Intel, and it turned out to be the biggest international joke in the history of chips. IBM couldn't stand it and "joined the enemy". Anyway, he didn't pay much money. Funding is basically from Sony.

But for Sony, it is miserable. After several times the company was disabled by the Cell chip project, it still sells a PS3 and loses about 300 US dollars. It has to be sold with tears.

The ambitious Cell chip project has caused Sony to lose billions of dollars in R\u0026D investment to the point where the mother doesn't even know it. For Sony, it is now full of ideas on how to make money and how to make up for this hole.

However, when Luo Sheng came to Japan, he did not rush to see the people from Sony, but sent his subordinates to contact them first to see if Sony intends to sell the "legacy" of the Cell chip project. If he intends to sell, he will personally Meet and talk to each other.

After getting off the private plane, Luo Sheng didn't go to the hotel to rest. He didn't need to travel halfway around the world to get jet lag when he came to Xiaobenzi, so he took the special car directly to the virtual concert venue.

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At the same time that Luo Sheng arrived, He Chao, the project leader in this area, had been waiting for a long time at the designated reception point. In about 20 minutes, the Luo Sheng motorcade finally arrived.

This trip to Japan is also quite low-key, so far there has been no news report on his coming to Japan in the media.

Several bodyguards got out of the car first. After a while, He Chao saw Luo Sheng getting out of the car, and could not help but greet him: "Mr. Luo, why didn't you notify me in advance when you came here, I can make arrangements."

"What? I'm afraid I'll see something wrong?" Luo Sheng laughed.

"Uh... If that was three days ago, I would have been a little scared." He Chao said.

"Oh? Something went wrong?" Luo Sheng couldn't help staring at him.

"That's right. There was a big problem with a screen three days ago, but I have already arranged it. The new glass screen that was expeditedly manufactured in North America has been delivered and installed today." He Chao naturally did not dare to hide these things. , while saying that, he made a gesture of please, and then led Luo Sheng to the scene to inspect.

"Some mistakes are inevitable, just make sure that the results meet expectations." Luo Sheng said casually, this matter was quickly skipped, and while walking around the scene, He Chao also briefly reported to him for the first time. Some work arrangements for the virtual concert.

Don't look at this as an entertainment-oriented concert, but everything Bluestar Technology does is related to high technology. The "Virtual Idol" project team has now reached a scale of more than 2,600 people, of which the technical research and development team accounts for 60%. There are more than 1,600 technical R\u0026D personnel including hardware and software.

Cote d'Azur also provided technical cooperation and provided many technical solutions.

To hold a virtual concert, technological elements are indispensable. How to present the virtual in a three-dimensional manner and interact with the reality is technical work.

The reason why there are so many R\u0026D personnel is that "virtual idol" itself is a pioneering business, and no one has done it before, so how to make virtual singer Hatsune Miku interact with fans in reality through technical means, You have to solve the technical obstacles yourself, because there is no third party to provide the corresponding technical solutions.

You can only move forward on your own.

At present, there is a R\u0026D center in Yokohama, Japan, a R\u0026D center in North America, and a R\u0026D center in China, and is currently actively building corresponding factories.

The R\u0026D investment of hardware equipment such as projectors and screens on the stage is basically a loss, because the market is too small and too small, and it is basically built for virtual idols, and the current global virtual idol singers are blue. Star Technology is doing it, basically digesting it by itself, so it must not be able to return to its original value.

It can't be missing, it must be there.

"Generally speaking, yes, I saw a lot of elements of Hatsune Miku on the way here, and the promotion is in place." Luo Sheng commented after watching the scene for a few minutes.

He Chao and the others are encouraged by the affirmation that they can get the ultimate boss, and it is very necessary, because this project can't see real profit now, and it has been losing money, so Luo Sheng's dissatisfaction is very important. A work metric.

After staying here for about ten minutes, Luo Sheng stopped bothering the staff after getting a general understanding of the basic situation here, because the hardware debugging and the two-day rehearsal were to be carried out next, and the schedule was very tight.

After taking a photo with the work team, Luo Sheng left here and went to the arranged hotel to rest.

He no longer has to worry about things here, there should be no problem. The biggest goal of this trip to Japan is to be able to buy the hot potato in Sony's hands. Very valuable.

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