Chapter 926 The Veil of Mystery

In August, the sun is like a fire.

A convoy of three commercial vehicles, after passing through the security check at the gate, drove into a small yard that wasn't too big.

The car stopped in front of the building, and everyone got out of the car.

Du Yihua also got out of the car with the others, and looked back and forth in the small yard under the sun.

The yard is not big, just a five-story building.

But even a layman can feel that the security measures here are ridiculously high as long as they look around a little bit-not to mention that there is a security check at the door, and there are cameras everywhere!

This is the second time Du Yihua has seen such a level of security.

Everyone got out of the car, Li Qian led the team to walk in, and everyone followed.

Du Yihua took two quick steps, and whispered to Qi Jie, the only one in the team who was familiar with him: "What's the purpose of this place? Why do you feel that the security measures are more important than those in banks?"

Qi Jie smiled, looked around, and whispered in the same voice: "The cost of security alone reaches five or six million a year. As soon as a new technology related to security comes out, it will be installed immediately. The entire yard, Including the inside of the building, there are cameras everywhere to ensure 24-hour surveillance at 360 degrees without dead ends, which is extremely expensive!"

Even though Du Yihua was used to big scenes, he couldn't help but be speechless when he heard about the security expenses.

Compared with this, what Qi Jie said on the way here, Li Qian spent tens of millions to buy this piece of land a few years ago, and then built such a yard and built such a small building, is really nothing up.

The problem is that whether it is land or buildings, even if it is purely for commercial real estate investment, the benefits are already huge if it is sold out now, but these security investments are lost when they are sold out.

And it is to maintain such a large expenditure every year!

It can be seen from this that there must be something that Li Qian attaches great importance to in this small courtyard.

Everyone entered the building. At this time, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties greeted him. Du Yihua looked curiously at Li Qian who was in front of him and chatted with him for a while, then led everyone straight to the third floor.

The mystery was finally revealed.

When the door was pushed open, a group of Minghu cultural executives who were used to seeing the market couldn't help being amazed.

It looks like a five-story building from the outside, but when I entered the third floor, I realized that there should be no fourth floor here—the third and fourth floors have been completely opened up to make an extremely open and large floor.

And at this moment, right here, a large group of people are busy.

On one side of the gate, there are an unknown number of various computer equipment, which are densely arranged. If you look at it, you may feel uncomfortable with intensive phobia. On the other side of the gate, it takes up about one-third of the entire floor. One of the areas is arranged into a large green screen.

At this moment, there is a man with a lot of thread inserted in his face, walking around in front of the green screen.

Green screen is no stranger to this thing.

It is said that Hollywood in the United States has been using it for a long time, and with the rise of special effects in China in recent years, especially as several companies headed by Minghu Culture have begun to produce computer special effects that are not inferior to Hollywood, Green screen shooting, also began to increase.

It's just that there are a lot of metal pieces on that person's face and body, and each piece of metal is still connected to a wire, which is finally aggregated to the huge computer here-it looks a bit creepy.

At this time, seeing Li Qian came with someone, someone in the field called a timeout, and the person walking around in front of the green screen stopped immediately and stood there to rest, while the one in the middle of the field looked to be in his early fifties The male walked towards Li Qian and the others.

Li Qian shook hands with him, and then introduced, "These are all high-level executives of our company. Take them here for a visit today! You can give me a brief introduction later."

The man nodded with a smile, then stretched out his hand, inviting everyone to come in.

A group of people entered with curiosity on their faces.

Du Yihua's mind was clear. Seeing such a big booth, especially the huge one in the middle of the venue, which seemed to be a specially built camera, she couldn't help but compare everything she saw with the recently hotly discussed video camera in China. A few things are connected.

Well, 3D!

IMAX-3D!

Not to mention those outsiders, even Du Yihua, in fact, has always been extremely puzzled and incomprehensible by Li Qian's decision-3D, it is said that it is a playback technology that allows viewers to view movies in a three-dimensional way, Get a better viewing experience. But is it any good? What's so good about it? How much better can it be than the ordinary big screen? Is it worth investing so much money in?

Even if you want to invest in this, can such a technology that has not been proven by the market be tested on a small scale first, and then spend money on a large scale when you find out?

Like now, everyone has never heard of what 3D is, and there is no precedent in the whole world. Is it really appropriate to rush so much money into it?

Of course, Qi Jie has 10,000% trust in Li Qian. Even if she doesn't understand anything, as long as Li Qian says yes, she will agree to spend money without hesitation. Then of course, she can't get in the way here. ——Although he is already one of the shareholders of Minghu Culture, he is only a small shareholder!

At this time, the person who shook hands with Li Qian just now walked to the center of the venue, slapped his hands, and said, "Hello everyone, my name is Xia Yige, I am a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and I am currently the chief engineer of Minghu Technology and Culture Company." , and the chief scientist of Minghu Research Institute, these two units are the two signs you all saw at the gate just now!"

"Our two brands, including this courtyard and this building, were only available at the end of 1999. At that time, Mr. Li Qian Li approached me, hoping that I could lead a laboratory to do a digital 3D photography and I am very interested in the research of digital 3D production, so we have these two brands!"

"In less than four years, our institute, including me, has eleven professor-level researchers and associate researchers, four postdoctoral fellows, seventeen Ph.D. students, six Ph.D candidates, and thirty There are six postgraduates in related majors. I can say that our institution is all professionals with postgraduates or above in related fields such as electronics, semiconductors, and physics.”

"Of course, in the past four years, Mr. Li has also given us great support for our research. He has successively invested more than 700 million in research and development funds, and in many cases he can also give us important guidance on the direction. Therefore, we Only then can we have the current research results, which is what you are seeing now!"

Speaking of this, he pointed to the huge and clumsy camera in the center of the venue, and said: "3D camera, the world's first 3D camera, and our unique patented 3D photography technology."

While speaking, he pointed to the man in the center of the venue covered in metal sheets and lines, and said, "And the world's highest-level image capture system with 32 sensors."

After a pause, he said: "Through the sensors attached to the body, we can capture every muscle movement and every subtle facial expression of the actor. Once captured, we can use our exclusive technology to Make this part of the actor's performance into various characters that our director needs, and keep the movements and expressions exactly the same!"

Hearing this, the laymen didn't feel much, but a few people who were more experienced in movies, especially photography, showed a look of sudden enlightenment at that time.

Jin Han couldn't help interjecting at the time, and asked, "It is said that Hollywood's "Lord of the Rings" was filmed with this technique, right? What, what is that called?"

"Orc? Gollum?"

"Yes, that guy!"

Xia Yige smiled, nodded, and said confidently: "Yes, that's right, it's this kind of technology. The sensor-captured technology currently used in the filming of "The Lord of the Rings" is the highest level known in Hollywood and the world. Yes, but theirs, only has 26 sensors."

"And we have overtaken on a curve, we can now achieve a capture level of 32 sensors - next, our phased goal is to capture and render with higher precision 48 in advance."

The two experts in the crowd, Han Shunzhang and Jin Han glanced at each other, their eyes brightened.

They can obviously think of the wonderful prospects after mastering such a top-level photography technology-to put it mildly, this is also a super technology that can support the imagination of directors, screenwriters and writers!

But at this time, Xia Yige did not wait for others to interrupt, and continued: "Of course, the technology captured by this sensor is not the main direction and difficulty of our technical breakthrough. For us, the most difficult thing is 3D. The capture, shooting and production of images. At present, after the past few years of research, we have achieved certain phased results. Next, we will continue to carry out technical research, and strive to shoot for the parent company Minghu Culture as soon as possible. Provide the greatest technical support!"

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The topic is a bit too professional, and Du Yihua is not very interested. Looking around, among the high-level executives of Minghu Culture who came together, only Cao Zhan, Jin Han and Han Shunzhang are more interested. Listen to that Dean Xia Yige's introduction, listened with great interest.

Anyway, as far as Du Yihua is concerned, she knows one thing: the scientific research here started four years ago, and Li Qian spent a lot of money to develop it. Well, it should be a relatively good technology.

How does this technology work?

I don't understand, and I don't care.

On the contrary, she is more concerned about how this technology can be used in film production, especially when she can see the finished product, and what's more, she is more concerned about seeing the return of this technology.

Li Qian should come here often, so he is very familiar with the people and things here. During the time when Dean Xia Yige was explaining to everyone, he had already walked over alone and chatted with the scientific researchers gathered behind the camera at this time. I got up, didn't even say a few words, and even called the person in front of the green screen to come over, and everyone chatted together.

Even if Du Yihua heard a few words about what they were talking about, he was not interested.

Turning his head and glanced at Xia Yige, who was talking about the excitement, who was answering questions and answers with Jin Han and the others, and the other people who were frowning but still seemed to be struggling. Du Yihua thought for a while, and quietly retreated to the side Two steps, and then, taking advantage of Xia Yige's inattention, she turned her head and walked towards the camera.

It just so happened that Li Qian's communication with a group of researchers had come to an end, and he was about to turn around and walk back, so Du Yihua went up to meet him. Looking at the huge and clumsy camera, she asked, "Is this thing going to be used soon? This "" The Matrix, do you want to do it in 3D?”

Li Qian shook his head, "Not mature enough yet! We have to wait for the next one."

While speaking, he stopped and said: "At present, we mainly do a few things for this movie. The first is to start shooting with green screens on a large scale, the second is to use sensors to capture motion, and the third is, we The newly developed high-speed camera will also be used!"

Du Yihua was a little confused when he heard that, "A high-speed camera? Was it also developed here?"

Li Qian shook his head with a smile when he heard this, and said: "I have invested in many research institutions, and this is just one of them. It is just the largest and most expensive one! We currently have a patent on high-speed cameras. , It was developed jointly with another research institute here. At present, the technology is unique, and the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all doing similar research, but they have not yet come up with results."

Du Yihua probably understood it, but in fact he seemed to understand it in his heart.

The main reason for talking about these things now seems to have completely left the movie, and started to enter the level of burning technology-before seeing the specific masterpieces and influences, you let a layman who knows little about this aspect understand these things , It's really embarrassing.

At this time, after Li Qian had finished speaking, he had already left Du Yihua behind, and walked towards Xia Yige over there. Look, contact contact. It’s just that there are no samples yet, so everyone can only take a rough idea first!”

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and said to Xia Yige in a low voice: "Don't worry about the chip, I'm already applying to the relevant research institute to buy it. If the United States doesn't sell it, try it in China. If it doesn't work in the country, ask Japan. Before the end of this year , I will definitely buy it for you, so as not to delay your research."

Xia Yige nodded when he heard the words, and said: "That's good, that's good! Now these chips support this level of data reading and production, and they already have the maximum energy. No matter how strong they are, they can't move at all. !"

Li Qian nodded and couldn't help sighing.

The progress of science and technology, even if it is just a progress of photography technology, is the result of the whole tree of science and technology - similar to the barrel theory, if there is a short board, you can't move.

Li Qian glanced back at the bulky video camera, and was about to say something more, when the cell phone in his pocket rang suddenly. He took it out and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.

After thinking about it, I still connected.

There was a girl's voice on the other end of the phone, saying in English: "Qian, I'm in China. I'm at the airport. Can you come and pick me up?"

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