Chapter 282: [Sony's "legacy", Cell chip]

Latest website: The first batch of fans of Hatsune Miku have been suffocated by official propaganda, and the sense of expectation has skyrocketed, but they do not know some of the troubles encountered when setting up the stage.
70 hours after the glass screen was damaged, a brand new screen was finally shipped from North America to Tokyo as scheduled after the expedited manufacturing was completed.
"Don't worry about it, if you mess it up, it's really over."
At this moment, the person in charge, He Chao, was at the scene.
It took about three hours or so to complete the completion of the stage transparent screen. At this point, the stage hardware equipment layout of the Hatsune Miku virtual concert has been basically completed.
The follow-up work that is currently being arranged intensively is to install other sensors. After this step is completed, it is possible to use action input to operate characters, which means that the scope of future applications can also be expanded.
In fact, the theory of naked eye 3D stereo imaging is very simple, but it can only be realized after using various technologies of hardware and software.
At the concert, the ultra-thin reflective LCD projector must first be placed around the venue. This ultra-thin projector is only 5mm thick and requires 288 projectors. A set of projectors costs about $ 100 and about 28,000. US dollars.
The projection system can divide the arc into a group every 30 degrees, and one group consists of 24 projectors.
The resolution of each group of projectors is 800 × 800 pixels in full color.
If the projected image is directly displayed on a direct-view screen, no picture can be seen, because the picture projected by a group of projectors is not an angle of Hatsune Miku, but an image connected from the front to the side.
As abstract as Picasso's paintings.
This kind of image is formed because of the unique optical design of the "virtual idol" technology development team. The image from the projector arranged in a circular configuration is not directly projected on the top of the projection area, but the bottom, and then passes through the cone shape below. Optical parts project the picture.
This conical part does not diffuse the incident light, but passes directly to the inside of the cone.
In this way, when the light is about to diverge, although it will diffuse at an interval of 60 degrees in the vertical direction, it will basically not diffuse in the horizontal direction.
The optical picture produced by this principle and the flat screen display are two completely different structures. Therefore, the visual design is also different from the general rendering.
Although it is 800 × 800 pixels, it is necessary to render this from the perspective of 288 cameras, so the calculation load is relatively heavy. However, this problem can be solved by using cloud computing related services. The solution is to directly connect Draw on cloud platforms.
A graphics card can process eight 2400 × 1600 pixel pictures, and then divide them into 800 × 800 pixel pictures and send them to each projector. The effect is that interaction can be achieved to a certain extent.
There is no doubt that the goal of the He Chao team is that Hatsune Miku will not only be able to perform on the stage, it will also be able to achieve more real-time interaction in the future by upgrading and iterating technology.
Fortunately, with the completion of the data center in Osaka, Bluestar Technology Group has opened the market of big data and cloud computing services in a small notebook.
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He Chao, who was on-site supervision at the concert venue, suddenly received a message.
"Are Luo always here?"
When He Chao heard the secretary coming to report, he immediately ordered the work here, and he did not forget to tell all the staff members at the venue whether they were their fellow citizens or Japanese employees. Do n’t mess up.
Then he was ready to receive Luo Sheng. He did not expect that the big boss would come to Tokyo silently.
At this moment, Luo Sheng has landed smoothly at Tokyo International Airport and has left the airport.
The main purpose of his coming to Japan this time is not for the "virtual idol" plan. This is just the way to go. The main purpose is to talk to Sony about the acquisition. Luo Sheng, the company's hot potato cell chip related industry, is very interested.
Sony, Toshiba and IBM worked together for several years on the Cell chip in an attempt to oust Intel, and the biggest international joke in the history of the chip was achieved. IBM could n’t bear it and
adopted
. It did n’t pay much for itself. Funding is basically from Sony.
But for Sony, it can be miserable. After being crippled by the Cell chip project, it still loses about $ 300 by selling a PS3, and it must be sold with tears.
The ambitious Cell chip project has made Sony's billions of dollars in R & D investment so that it hasn't been recognized by her mother. For Sony, it is now full of ideas how to make money and make up for this hole.
However, Luo Sheng did not rush to meet Sony when he came to Yueben. Instead, he sent his men to contact him first to see if Sony had any intention to sell the Cell chip project. Meet and talk to each other.
After getting off the private plane, Luo Sheng didn't go to the hotel to rest. The small book here does not need to cross more than half of the earth's jet lag, so he took a special car directly to the virtual concert venue.
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While Luo Sheng rushed in, the project leader He Chao had been waiting at the designated reception for a long time, and the Luo Sheng team finally arrived in about 20 minutes.
This trip to Japan is also quite low-key. So far, there have been no news reports about his arrival in Japan.
A few bodyguards got out of the car first, and after a while, He Chao saw Luo Sheng coming out of the car and couldn't help welcoming him: "General Luo, why don't you inform me in advance if I come here, I can arrange it well."
"How? I'm afraid I can't see anything?" Luo Sheng laughed.
"Um ... if that was three days ago, I would be a little scared." He Chaoru said.
"Oh? Something went wrong?" Luo Sheng could not help looking at him.
"It's like this. A big problem occurred on a screen three days ago, but I've arranged it properly. The new glass screen urgently manufactured in North America today has been delivered and installed." He Chao Nature was afraid to hide these things. As he said, he gestured please, and then led Luo Sheng to inspect the scene.
"It's inevitable to make some mistakes, and you can ensure that the results meet the 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 a virtual concert.
Don't look at it as an entertainment concert, but the things that Bluestar Technology does are related to high technology. The "virtual idol" project team has now reached more than 2,600 people, of which the technology research and development team accounts for 60%. There are more than 1,600 technical R & D personnel including hardware and software.
The French Riviera also provided technical cooperation and provided many technical solutions.
To hold a virtual concert, technological elements are indispensable. How to present the virtual ones in three dimensions and interact with reality is technical work.
The reason why there are so many R & D personnel is because "virtual idol" is a pioneering business in itself, no one has done it before, so how to use virtual means of Hatsune Miku to interact with fans in the real world through technical means. You must resolve the technical obstacles yourself, because no third party provides the corresponding technical solution.
Can only fumble forward.
Currently, there is a research and development center in Yokohama, Japan, a research and development center in North America, and a research and development center in China, and we are actively constructing corresponding factories.
The R & D 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, basically for virtual idols, and currently the virtual idol Singer worldwide is blue Xing Technology is doing it, basically it is digesting by itself, so it will inevitably fail to return to the original.
It is indispensable, it must be there.
"Generally speaking, yes, I saw a lot of elements of Hatsune Miku ~ EbookFREE.me ~ on the way of propaganda." Luo Sheng commented after watching the scene for a few minutes.
Being able to get the ultimate BOSS is definitely encouraging He Chao, and it is very necessary, because this project can't see the real profit now, it has been losing money, so it is very important that Luo Shengman is not satisfied. An indicator of work.
After staying here for about ten minutes, after understanding the basic situation here, Luo Sheng did not bother the staff here, because the hardware debugging and the two-day rehearsal will be performed next, and the time schedule is very compact.
After taking a picture with the working team, Luo Sheng left here and went to the hotel for a rest.
He does n’t have to worry about the things here, there should be no problems. The biggest goal of this trip is to be able to buy the hot potato in Sony ’s hands, which is very good in Sony ’s hands, but in Luo Sheng ’s hands. Very valuable.
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