Chapter 1064: Dr. Z hits again!

When Comrade Li Gaoliang loaded the value of titanium alloy with neural access technology at the beginning and made him stand up again, the information technology experts of the Institute of Advanced Technology had once expressed emotions with him about this topic.
It's not just getting paraplegic patients with damaged spinal nerves to get up again.
If you can compile complex visual and auditory signals, and then simulate them like motion signals, let the device directly connect with the neural prosthesis or the brain. Maybe the kind of fantasy neural access that allows consciousness to dive into the digital world Virtual reality technology will no longer be a fantasy.
At that time, Lu Zhou said that this was indeed an interesting subject and could be studied, but there were a bunch of more important things waiting for him to do at the time, and this matter was left behind by him.
Now, coinciding with the breakthrough of carbon-based chip technology, there is no room to spend more points on the body. After being reminded by the person named Ye Nan, the matter was rethought by Lu Zhou.
Thinking of Vera who was still in the dorm, Lu Zhou felt that if she couldn't wake her up for a while, she had to at least try to do something for her.
Although he also knew that the hope that this thing could work on her was quite slim ...
After changing clothes, Lu Zhou, who was sitting in front of the computer, combed through what he had written down.
Simply put, the core components of the technology can be divided into three modules.
One is the acquisition of neural signals, the other is the processing of neural signals, and finally the simulation of neural signals, that is, the stage of feeding back information to the brain.
For these three core components, the technical difficulty increases in order.
The collection of neural signals is very simple. EEG sensors have existed as early as the 1980s, so-called EEG sensors. To this day, how advanced this technology is, even beyond the imagination of ordinary people who generally do not have access to this technology.
Whether it is a VR system created by Eyemynd in Silicon Valley that allows users to navigate the virtual world through ideas, or a sensation caused by 16 students at the University of Florida in the United States in 18 years to complete the world ’s first brainwave drone competition, this technology An embodiment of it.
As for the second item, that is, the processing of neural signals, the difficulty is more complicated than the acquisition of neural signals.
Although on the surface this gadget tests only the computer's ability to process information, it is actually a fairly complex procedural problem.
This complexity lies in the fact that humans know very little about their own brains. Except in limited circumstances, visual, auditory, and olfactory signals stimulate the brain far less strongly than action signals.
Want to distinguish these signals, and compile a set of instructions used to structure the virtual reality world, and the operating system ... This series of tasks can be classified as the second item.
As for the third item, passing the electrical signals processed by the neural signal modem to the brain, which is the most intuitive presentation link that affects the user ’s experience, is the most complicated and difficult part of the entire neural access virtual reality technology. .
the reason is simple.
Just like the difficulties that people encountered in developing the second core component of the technology, if you can't even understand the machine of the brain, how can you output signals that the machine can understand?
A more advanced approach is to implant a neuroprosthesis in the cerebral cortex.
However, at present, this technology is mainly used to repair functional impairments caused by nerve damage. There is still a long way to go to simulate a series of signals such as vision, hearing, and smell.
Currently in this field, ahead of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Based on graphene materials, researchers at the Institute are designing an electrode that interacts with the brain tissue interface. "Neural Interface", as for the specific step they have taken, only they themselves know.
In fact, for the third core component, Lu Zhou has not many technical reserves.
The "answer" he redeemed through points is mainly concentrated on the second part-the debug demodulator of neural signals.
As for the brain to understand the signal from the modem, he can only do the visual simulation step.
As for a series of sensations such as hearing and smell, and even touch and excitement, they can only be achieved by external stimuli.
For example, a headset or the like is built into the helmet.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou still had some regrets.
If all-round simulation of all perceptions can be achieved, the final form of virtual reality technology will probably be realized.
That is, the entire consciousness is connected to the virtual Internet world, and a second life is obtained in virtual reality.
At that time, whether you want to experience and experience skydiving and rock climbing, but want to do things that have not been done, or have a lifetime with paper people, you can do it.
As for other uses, you can think about it slowly.
Unfortunately, his subject level is not enough to allow the system to answer the questions in the second half of the system. If he forcibly exchanges for points, he will be punished by at least two levels of scientific research efficiency.
The only thing that made him happy was that at least the system marked the amount of points spent, which shows that the problem was still solved in his lifetime.
It's just more difficult.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou thinking in front of the computer for a while.
In the spirit of scholars who are not as good as Dolele, in the end, he chose a section that was not so advanced and did not involve patents from the collected materials.
He didn't expect this paper to ignite the revolution of virtual reality technology at once, but only hoped that this paper could play a role in inspiring others and inspire other scholars in this field to make more valuable results in this field. .
As for the author of the paper ...
Considering that the core content is mainly two fields of computer and biology, Lu Zhou once again put on Dr. Z's vest.
The last time I thought of a oolong, he was almost recognized by his own. This time he learned well, instead of touching Arxiv, he opened a preprint website dedicated to biologists.
After pondering the process of uploading the manuscript for a while, just when Lu Zhou was about to hang the paper, he suddenly reacted with agitation.
Wait, if this is thrown on, doesn't it mean you don't do it yourself?
With a secret whisper in her heart, Lu Zhou shut down the website with black lines, and hanged her paper to Arxiv.
Although there are not as many biologists concerned about Arxiv as above, from another perspective, more and more mathematics, computer, and physics researchers have joined the study of biology in recent years, and they have encountered both at the same time on Arxiv. The probability of scholars engaged in the research of machine neural networks and biological neural networks should be much higher.
Of course, biological neural networks and mechanical neural networks are one of the most difficult sections in biology and computer science, respectively. Scholars who can master both fields at the same time are not exaggerated.
In fact, although Lu Zhou expects to meet enough outstanding and like-minded researchers to perfect the technology together ... it is better to solve the troubles for him.
However, he didn't expect much from it.
The biggest purpose of his release of this paper is to preheat this technology. When he takes out the whole technology thoroughly ~ EbookFREE.me ~, it won't be too obtrusive.
After all, if this thing is directly taken out, the jump is still a little big, and most people may not see it, but people who really study this field will definitely feel a lot of violations.
This sense of contradiction is probably like the atomic bomb has been created before the relativity mass energy equation has been derived.
Although he didn't care what others thought, since it was possible to avoid this, it was worth his time.
After uploading the dissertation, Lu Zhou leaned back on the chair and stretched, and regained his spirit and sat up from the chair.
"Ai, are you ready?"
The drone floated over, and a string of text popped up on the small TV.
【Ready! Master, where do we start? (??????) ??】
Looking at the robotic arm that had begun to dance up and down restlessly by the wall, Lu Zhou meditated for a moment and said.
"Get a lounge chair first."
【……Eh? Lounge chair? (?????)】
"Well, lying down and playing ... it should be more comfortable to use, and it can't be sloppy in the experience. I went to search for pictures of personal engineering chairs on the Internet. Anyway, you are also idle, and the materials are also available here. You find something to do. Then the helmet ... This part must be well designed, the neural signal modem and EEG sensor must be integrated on it, let me think ... well, that's it ... "
Sitting at the computer desk, thinking, while operating professional 3D design software, Lu Zhou, has gradually entered the working state.
At this moment, he didn't know that the paper he had hung on Arxiv with Dr. Z's name, whether it was the author's name or the content of the paper, was completely heated in the entire biological community.