Chapter 178 Brain-Computer Terminal Project Establishment
Hand half a month later, the new year has arrived as scheduled.
The past year of 2016 has officially come to an end. This year, Luan did far more than what it did in 2015. The establishment of Star Power Aerospace laid the foundation for the future explosion of space transportation capacity. Metaverse Intelligent Control continued to maintain a high-speed trend and became the fastest company in the world's top 500 companies in history.
The company's business has grown and developed in an orderly manner. During the year, the Xiaoyuan robot sold well, and its application scenarios gradually expanded to elderly care institutions.
Solid-state lattice batteries have also begun to be commercialized on a large scale. In the second half of the year, energy storage orders for wind and photovoltaic power stations were delivered. At the same time, orders for new energy vehicles and smartphones were also won.
·Yuanjie Intelligent Control’s new headquarters has been completed and officially put into operation, and the planning of the four regional headquarters is also on the schedule.
The second and third phases of the super factory expansion were launched at the same time.
In the second half of the year, the company participated in the Zhuhai Air Show and made a splash. The foreign trade version of the armed robot won a large order of 100 billion, bringing another major new performance growth point to the company.
In terms of technology development, Lu An led the team to light up more than 150 technology trees of various sizes.
But the most critical thing is the lighting up of two major technology trees. One is to solve the "Navier-Stokes" equation, and the second is "Metal No. 5". Both of them represent the basis of the technology tree. Only with breakthroughs in the underlying technology can the upper-level applications blossom more.
The second is the launch of the Xingliu software tool and the artificial intelligence "Lingxi". Both of these have a common feature, which is that they can greatly improve efficiency.
Entering the new year of 2017, the first goal is to build a bionic human body. This is related to personal safety, and Lu An has listed it as the first priority in the new year.
In this era, the bionic man is definitely the pinnacle of the humanoid robot track, and its technical content far exceeds that of Xiaoyuan robots and armed robots.
However, due to the pursuit of ultra-high "force value", the cost of bionic artificial intelligence is too high. Lu An spared no expense in building it, using the best materials. Just one visual perception integrates multiple spectrums such as visible light and infrared light.
If you consider commercialization, such as creating a companion bionic human, there is no need to pursue "force value". First of all, there is no need to use expensive "No. 5 metal" to build the core skeleton structure.
Bionic humans are undoubtedly privately customized products at this stage, but civilian-level bionic human products that are affordable to the public will inevitably be launched.
The second generation of Xiaoyuan robots in the future will be upgraded to a companion bionic human, which can not only meet the needs of domestic service scenarios, but also provide physical interaction and emotional companionship needs.
As to whether the emergence of companion bionic humans will impact the birth rate, in an era when new advanced productivity is fully unleashed, and when the country has unprecedented material conditions to support itself, there is no need to worry about population problems at all, and there are plenty of strategies to solve them.
Another highlight of the new year will definitely be brain-computer terminal equipment. Metaverse Intelligent Control already has three years of technical reserves. Luan will continue to work hard. As long as nothing goes wrong, there will be no problem in launching products within this year.
Brain-computer terminal equipment is geared towards commercialization. The release of this product also means that the omnidirectional motion platform has entered the countdown to elimination. The use of brain-computer interfaces to control armed robot combat is a qualitative leap compared to omnidirectional motion platforms.
In addition, companies that spend money on researching VR headsets will definitely be in trouble. The technology and products will be eliminated before they mature. As long as brain-computer terminal equipment comes out, there will be no room for VR equipment to survive.
As a revolutionary smart terminal product, brain-computer terminals also require many applications to adapt.
This new interactive scene experience method can be said to break the dimensional barriers of the digital world, allowing the user's consciousness to "enter" the digital world. This kind of interactive experience is unprecedented.
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As the time comes to late January, economic data from all over the country are also released one after another.
On January 22, Jianing City released its 2016 economic report, which made headlines across the country that day and was reported by major media outlets.
Jianing City's GDP in 2016 was 407.255 billion yuan. Calculated at constant prices, compared with 215.973 billion yuan in 2015, the year-on-year growth rate was +88.56%. The growth rate continues to be ahead of the rest of the major cities in the country.
In addition, the public fiscal revenue of Jianing City in 2016 was 65.915 billion, a year-on-year increase of +106.42%, and the growth rate of fiscal revenue was also unparalleled.
When major media reports, the word "miracle" frequently appears in the articles
Such a growth rate can be said to be soaring on a rocket. The data is really shocking. Other cities' GDP growth of more than ten percentage points is quite eye-catching, but Jianing City's GDP growth has exceeded 88 percentage points, which can be said to be a quite explosive growth rate.
The even more explosive data is the growth rate of fiscal revenue, which has directly reached three-digit growth.
Doubling fiscal revenue in one year is something that no other city dares to dream about, not even Wu Hongsheng, the current leader of Jianing City, dares to dream of.
Also in the news is Yuanjie Intelligent Control. The company's tax payment in 2016 reached an astonishing 89.2 billion, becoming the largest taxpayer among private enterprises in the country, and the absolute largest taxpayer in Jianing City.
Jianing is a third-level fiscal city. 50% of Metaverse Intelligent Control’s tax revenue is paid to the national treasury, then about 20% is handed over to the province, and the last about 30% is retained in Jianing City, which is about 26.8 billion, accounting for more than 40% of the city’s fiscal revenue.
What was indirectly brought about by Metaverse Intelligent Control was also a huge amount. If Lu An had not chosen to settle in Jianing City, the city's fiscal revenue of 17 billion last year would have been enough.
This is the result of maintaining double-digit growth for three consecutive years. When Metaverse Intelligent Control settled in Jianing City in 2013, the city’s fiscal revenue at that time was only about 12.7 billion.
It is worth mentioning that the rapid economic growth has also led to a substantial net inflow of population.
According to the latest data, the current resident population of Jianing City has reached 3.92 million, which is very close to the 4 million mark.
The province where Jianing City is located was originally a siphon of surrounding cities from the provincial capital.
Nowadays, Jianing City has also begun to siphon off surrounding cities and even the provincial capital in reverse. In recent years, more and more people have flowed out of the provincial capital and gone to Jianing City for development. Many people who originally went to the provincial capital to make a living chose to go to Jianing City.
The most intuitive reflection is that in the past three years, the net increase in population in Jianing City has reached nearly one million.
About 700,000 of them all moved in in 2016, which shows that the rate of net population inflow in Jianing City has also surged significantly.
Some analysts predict that the population of Jianing City is expected to exceed the 5 million mark by the end of 2017.
The large net inflow of population has led to the city's economic development. The property market has also been rising steadily. Real estate developers are extremely enthusiastic about acquiring land. The large net inflow of population has also brought about huge demand for home ownership.
As the housing rental market is getting higher and higher, rental resources are tight, and rent price increases are inevitable.
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January 23, the new headquarters of Metaverse Intelligent Control.
In the morning, Lu An and Meng Qiuyan came to the company together and entered the special elevator. Lu An tilted his head and glanced at Meng Qiuyan, and ordered: "Convene the senior executives for a meeting in half an hour, you go and make arrangements."
Meng Qiuyan nodded and responded: "Okay."
Half an hour later, the company's main core executives all arrived in the conference room.
As Lu An arrived, the meeting progressed. This meeting discussed one thing, that is, the formal project of brain-computer terminal products and related matters.
Lu An looked around at the crowd and said: "There is no need to worry about technical issues. There will be a product launch conference in October next year."
Since Big Boss said so definitely, Yu Changle, Jing Xuan and others present were convinced.
At this time, Jing Xuan, who was present at the meeting, said: "According to the brain-computer terminal interaction scene described by the chairman before and the concept of the 'metaverse digital world' proposed, this interaction method that breaks the 'fourth wall' is equivalent to people's consciousness 'entering' the virtual digital world. We are a hardware provider when we make brain-computer terminal equipment."
Jing Xuan paused for a moment, looked around at everyone and continued: "But the digital world of the Metaverse is deserted and has no applications. The emergence of this unprecedented new interactive scenario requires the application ecology of the entire virtual digital world to be built from scratch."
Obviously, this is equivalent to the Internet ecosystem of mobile phones and computers. There are mobile phones and computers, but there are no network applications. There is not a single software in the mobile phone. No matter how good the mobile phone is, it is no different from a brick.
In other words, there must be a specific interaction scene.
Jiang Yunian, who attended the meeting, said: "The establishment of an ecosystem in the digital world is the most difficult. It requires the access of major Internet manufacturers and applications to have a complete digital ecosystem."
Lu An said calmly: "Don't worry, we have developed a brain-computer terminal device. As soon as it is released and put on the market, other Internet manufacturers and third-party developers will definitely choose to access and adapt their own applications as soon as possible."
"The impact far exceeds the explosion of the mobile Internet driven by the smartphone explosion a few years ago. The advent of brain-computer terminal equipment is no less significant than the advent of mankind's first personal computer."
This is a brand new blue ocean, and the emergence of new scenarios means that everyone is on the same starting line again.
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(End of this chapter)