Abstract:The entire technology industry’s enthusiasm for virtual reality is spreading like flamesSome sociologists worry that with the popularization of the Internet and smart phones, humans will increasingly escape reality and live in a “shell” constructed by a virtual world. Is this worry justified? What are the prospects for the development of virtual reality in the future? The author of this article gives his own interesting point: virtual reality can also be very pragmatic, and its role should not only be played in the game and porn industry, but also has its own value in education and policy making.
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In the future, will there be a generation who is addicted to virtual reality and completely divorced from the real society? When Facebook CEO Zuckerberg announced that virtual reality will be the direction of the company’s future development, and technology giants such as Microsoft and Google have invested heavily in research and development of virtual reality technology, the entire technology industry’s enthusiasm for virtual reality spread like flames. At the ongoing GermanyHannover Industry Exhibition, even Obama and Merck Er is also full of praise for virtual reality. However, some sociologists worry that with the popularization of the Internet and smart phones, humans will increasingly escape reality and live in a “shell” constructed by a virtual world.
This worry is very real. Now, the world built by virtual reality technology will be more exciting and lifelike than the Internet world, and the “shell” will naturally be thicker. In United States, as the “game generation” enters college, many problems have emerged . At the beginning of this century, my colleague Professor Bahill found that most students in the university are unwilling or even afraid to talk face-to-face with teachers. Problems are mostly solved by email or by means of questions in forums, which makes him very worried.
This concern may be unnecessary Yes, just like the old man Qi in the novel “Four Generations Under One Roof” worried that his great-grandson would have forgotten his ancestors after studying “Western Learning”. The technological generation gap and behavioral differences between the old generation and the new generation of digital “indigenous people” who grew up playing with mobile phones and tablets are realistic but natural, and the history of social development tells us: It is not a new generation to adapt to the old generation, it must be old One generation adapts to the new generation, otherwise it is a “reverse” movement.
People who worry about virtual technology are often non-technical professionals, and they don’t understand the intelligent technology behind virtual reality. The power of intelligent technology in imagination is applied in a literary way. Rendering, and then looking at it with lagging values, creates a lot of worries out of thin air. In fact, virtual reality technology is still at a fairly preliminary stage. At present, it is only a breakthrough in equipment and computational optics technology. The large number of calculations required by the previous optical sensor to synthesize visual effects are completed with dedicated chips and cloud computing. The corresponding algorithms Many optimizations have also been made, but there is still a long way to go before the requirements of maturity and wide application.
In fact, virtual reality is the most direct cause of the Internet For one, the widespread application of this technology will also be a necessary result of the Internet, especially the Internet of Things and cloud computing. It is believed that virtual reality and physical reality are separated by a “shell”, just like the assumption in Euclidean geometry that there is no intersection of two parallel lines. It is oneself who forcibly separates oneself from reality. In non-Euclidean geometric space, two parallel lines can naturally intersect, just as virtual reality and physical reality can achieve parallel intersecting and virtual-real interaction, breaking the “shell” into the world and accelerating the deep integration between the two realities.
In the past few thousand years, communication between people The method has undergone tremendous changes. In the future, face-to-face communication will still exist, but its proportion and role will change. The intersection of virtual reality and physical reality will greatly improve people’s work efficiency and make communication easier and easier to communicate within a limited time More people and things. Through parallel control, parallel management, and parallel computing, through knowledge automation, intelligent software and physical robots, it helps humans to open up various fields. The online world will truly be fully utilized. Every corner of the online world that a person cannot reach can be reached through various virtual robots. The virtual world will no longer be a shell, but an airport, station and port of information and knowledge, which can be quickly and easily reached from one point to other places.
Just like the invention of the steam engine has changed the lives of farmers, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and robots will also greatly change people’s lives and bring social efficiency to a new level. This change is even more than the replacement of agriculture by industrial society. The society is even bigger. Specifically, virtual reality will bring three major changes to the development of human society:
First, descriptive and visual. In the past, to understand a theory, we needed to read many monographs and consult a lot of information. Moreover, because of the existence of language, there are a thousand Hamlets in one thousand people’s hearts, and it is difficult to reach an agreement. In addition, when an expert sees a phenomenon and writes it into the book, the reality has changed during the period from reality to text. Now relying on virtual reality technology, if you want to describe a story, you put people in the virtual scene of the story, the presence will not directly enter the mind through language, and it saves a lot of time spent on retelling and understanding through language, which greatly improves Efficiency.
Two, The combination of artificial intelligence technology and virtual reality. The artificial intelligence will help people choose, let people focus, and enable people to enter different scenes predictively and experimentally. This is what virtual reality will strive to achieve in the future.
Third, guidance, sublimation from the Newtonian era to the Mertonian era, this step is currently mainly in the research stage. In the Newton era, humans need to follow the laws of physics; in the Merton era, through virtual reality, cloud computing, and big data, people Have the ability to self-fulfil a goal or scenario in your imagination. The guiding process is interactive. The huge goal can be divided into several small and easy-to-achieve goals, and it can be encapsulated, combined, and visualized to make each step easier to do, and continue to give people choices. This is what Popper calls ” Sporadic Engineering”.
To formulate and implement a social policy now, it often takes many years to test the reality Effect. If there is an artificial social model constructed by virtual reality, after the policy is formulated, virtual humans are used as experimental objects, and possible loopholes in the policy, possible limitations and even prejudices in reasoning are discovered in the “calculation” experiment, and then the virtual reality Logical errors and personal interests should be eliminated as much as possible and corrected. Choose the most optimal solution through the intelligent system, instead of trial and error with actual human resources, resources, and finances. In addition, policies can also be implemented in virtual and physical societies at the same time, and the results of the two can be compared. If the two are not the same, the difference between them becomes a feedback signal for correcting the policy. Was the assumption wrong at the time? If the hypothesis is correct, is it true that someone in the real world has done something wrong? Through virtual reality, a closed-loop, feedback-based interaction between virtual and reality is formed, and finally towards the integration of virtual and reality and the unity of knowledge and action.
Not only social policy, in the future, even before everyone does something It should be virtualized first to simulate the goals of each step and how to achieve it. This is the first step of knowledge automation. The time saved due to efficiency improvement will be used in pre-virtualization. It is not difficult to imagine that pre-virtualization will reduce a lot of society. Contradictions and waste of resources.
Currently,ChinaThe public opinion circles are all aiming at the entertainment and even pornographic applications of virtual reality, can we be less absurd and apply virtual reality to education as soon as possible Go, improve our teaching technology, such as first setting a course as virtual-real interactive intelligent parallel teaching? Last year, I tried this interactive parallel teaching concept with my colleagues in a course at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The effect was unexpectedly good. Can interactive virtual teaching of the whole course be realized in the future? Education is the key to cultivating talents. This is the top priority that China should and must pay close attention to implementing in the field of virtual reality.
Author Wang Feiyue
Director of the State Key Laboratory of Complex System Management and Control, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Chinese Society of Automation
Reproduced from the blogs of Global Net and the author Science Net
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Abstract：The entire technology industry’s enthusiasm for virtual reality is spreading like flames , some sociologists worry: With the popularization of the Internet and smart phones, humans will increasingly escape reality and live in virtual worlds. In the “shell” of construction. Is this worry justified? What are the prospects for the development of virtual reality in the future? The author of this article gives his own interesting point: virtual reality can also be very pragmatic, and its role should not only be played in the game and porn industry, but also has its own value in education and policy making.
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In the future, will there be a generation who is addicted to virtual reality and completely divorced from the real society? When Facebook CEO Zuckerberg announced that virtual reality will be the direction of the company’s future development, and technology giants such as Microsoft and Google have invested heavily in research and development of virtual reality technology, the entire technology industry’s enthusiasm for virtual reality spread like flames. At the ongoing GermanyHannover Industry Exhibition, even Obama and Merck Er is also full of praise for virtual reality. However, some sociologists worry that with the popularization of the Internet and smart phones, humans will increasingly escape reality and live in a “shell” constructed by a virtual world.
This worry is very real. Now, the world built by virtual reality technology will be more exciting and lifelike than the Internet world, and the “shell” will naturally be thicker. In United States, as the “game generation” enters college, many problems have emerged . At the beginning of this century, my colleague Professor Bahill found that most students in the university are unwilling or even afraid to talk face-to-face with teachers. Problems are mostly solved by email or by means of questions in forums, which makes him very worried.
This concern may be unnecessary Yes, just like the old man Qi in the novel “Four Generations Under One Roof” worried that his great-grandson would have forgotten his ancestors after studying “Western Learning”. The technological generation gap and behavioral differences between the old generation and the new generation of digital “indigenous people” who grew up playing with mobile phones and tablets are realistic but natural, and the history of social development tells us: It is not a new generation to adapt to the old generation, it must be old One generation adapts to the new generation, otherwise it is a “reverse” movement.
People who worry about virtual technology are often non-technical professionals, and they don’t understand the intelligent technology behind virtual reality. The power of intelligent technology in imagination is applied in a literary way. Rendering, and then looking at it with lagging values, creates a lot of worries out of thin air. In fact, virtual reality technology is still at a fairly preliminary stage. At present, it is only a breakthrough in equipment and computational optics technology. The large number of calculations required by the previous optical sensor to synthesize visual effects are completed with dedicated chips and cloud computing. The corresponding algorithms Many optimizations have also been made, but there is still a long way to go before the requirements of maturity and wide application.
In fact, virtual reality is the most direct cause of the Internet For one, the widespread application of this technology will also be a necessary result of the Internet, especially the Internet of Things and cloud computing. It is believed that virtual reality and physical reality are separated by a “shell”, just like the assumption in Euclidean geometry that there is no intersection of two parallel lines. It is oneself who forcibly separates oneself from reality. In non-Euclidean geometric space, two parallel lines can naturally intersect, just as virtual reality and physical reality can achieve parallel intersecting and virtual-real interaction, breaking the “shell” into the world and accelerating the deep integration between the two realities.
In the past few thousand years, communication between people The method has undergone tremendous changes. In the future, face-to-face communication will still exist, but its proportion and role will change. The intersection of virtual reality and physical reality will greatly improve people’s work efficiency and make communication easier and easier to communicate within a limited time More people and things. Through parallel control, parallel management, and parallel computing, through knowledge automation, intelligent software and physical robots, it helps humans to open up various fields. The online world will truly be fully utilized. Every corner of the online world that a person cannot reach can be reached through various virtual robots. The virtual world will no longer be a shell, but an airport, station and port of information and knowledge, which can be quickly and easily reached from one point to other places.
Just like the invention of the steam engine has changed the lives of farmers, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and robots will also greatly change people’s lives and bring social efficiency to a new level. This change is even more than the replacement of agriculture by industrial society. The society is even bigger. Specifically, virtual reality will bring three major changes to the development of human society:
First, descriptive and visual. In the past, to understand a theory, we needed to read many monographs and consult a lot of information. Moreover, because of the existence of language, there are a thousand Hamlets in one thousand people’s hearts, and it is difficult to reach an agreement. In addition, when an expert sees a phenomenon and writes it into the book, the reality has changed during the period from reality to text. Now relying on virtual reality technology, if you want to describe a story, you put people in the virtual scene of the story. The presence will not directly enter the mind through language, and it saves a lot of time spent on retelling and understanding through language, which greatly improves Efficiency.
Two, The combination of artificial intelligence technology and virtual reality. The artificial intelligence helps people choose, let people focus, and enable people to enter different scenes predictively and experimentally. This is what virtual reality will strive to achieve in the future.
Third, guidance, sublimation from the Newtonian era to the Mertonian era, this step is currently mainly in the research stage. In the Newton era, humans need to follow the laws of physics; in the Merton era, through virtual reality, cloud computing, and big data, people Have the ability to self-fulfil a goal or scenario in your imagination. The guiding process is interactive. The huge goal can be divided into several small and easy-to-achieve goals, and it can be encapsulated, combined, and visualized to make each step easier to do, and to constantly give people choices. This is what Popper calls ” Sporadic Engineering”.
To formulate and implement a social policy now, it often takes many years to test the reality Effect. 如果有虚拟现实构造的人工社会模型，政策制定后，拿虚拟人做试验品，在“计算”试验中发现政策中的可能漏洞，推理中的可能局限甚至偏见，再通过虚拟现实把逻辑上的错误和个人的私利尽可能剔除出来加以修正。通过智能系统选择最优化的方案，而不是拿实际的人力、资源、财政来试错。 此外，还可以在虚拟和物理社会中同时实施政策，比较两者的结果，如果两者不一样，之间的差别就变成了修正政策的反馈信号。是不是当时的假设错了？如果假设没错是不是现实社会中有人搞了鬼？通过虚拟现实，形成闭环的、有反馈的虚实互动，最后走向虚实一体、知行合一。
不单是社会政策，未来甚至每个人每做一件事之前都应该先虚拟化，模拟每一步有什么目标，怎样实现，这就是知识自动化的第一步，由于效率提高节省出来的时间将被用到事前虚拟中去，不难设想，事前虚拟将减少许多社会矛盾和资源浪费。
目前，中国舆论圈把目光都瞄准到虚拟现实的娱乐甚至色情应用上，我们可否少点荒唐，把虚拟现实尽快运用到教育中去，改善我们的教学技术，比如先把一门课程设置成虚实互动智能平行教学？去年我曾与同事在中科院大学的一门课中初试这种互动的平行教学理念，效果出乎意料的好，未来能不能实现全课程的互动式虚拟教学？教育是培育人才的关键，这才是中国在虚拟现实领域中应当也必须抓紧实施的头等大事。
作者王飞跃
中科院复杂系统管理与控制国家重点实验室主任，中国自动化学会副理事长兼秘书长
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