You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

On fire's social homepage, two new contents were quietly updated.

"A New Optical Lens System Based on VR Box"

"A pixel double-layer stack display technology that can eliminate the screen door effect"

The whole world is paying attention to his status, so naturally they saw these two contents at the first time.

The first one is easy to understand, which is to improve the lens of the VR box. This is very simple, but really powerful people don’t bother to study this.

This second one stunned everyone in the VR industry.

Eliminate, eliminate the screen window effect...?

It's not what they think it means!

Many people... almost everyone in the VR industry, regardless of whether they understand technology or not, clicked into this content with great expectations.

The document is written very concisely, straight to the point is the design concept.

When Lou Qingyan was thinking about how to eliminate the screen window effect, he referred to several competing products on the market and found that the resolution of Sony VR was much lower than that of Vive, but the picture quality was only a little worse than that of Vive.

After careful exploration, I learned that Sony VR did not mechanically increase the resolution, but chose to reconstruct the pixel pitch.Its single pixel is hexagonal instead of the usual quadrilateral. The four slits of one pixel have become six slits. The number has increased, but each slit has become smaller, making the whole picture look more delicate.At the same time, the seams are not coherent, which naturally eliminates the striped feeling of the screen window effect.

The case of Sony reminded Lou Qingyan that the essence of eliminating the screen door effect is to reduce the pixel pitch, and increasing the resolution is just a stupid way to reduce the pitch.

Reducing the spacing means increasing the cost, and it is impossible to reduce it to a small size in a short period of time, which requires further breakthroughs in technology and technology.

So, why not think differently?Spacing cannot be reduced, but it can be filled.If a layer is added above the original display panel, and the two layers of pixel arrays overlap up and down, the spacing can be completely eliminated.

When Lou Qingyan mentioned this idea to the designer, the designer said that this can be realized in theory, and the technical breakthrough of the double-layer display structure stacking needs to be completed in the laboratory, which will not happen overnight.

Lou Qingyan asked him to theoretically list all the possible technical difficulties first, and then spent the whole afternoon talking on paper to find a theoretical solution to all the problems on the list.

The next day, while having dinner with a group of bigwigs, he asked one of them to help contact the display panel laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and let the designer go in for a few days. He came to remotely command and adjust the technical plan step by step.

A week later, Lou Qingyan published this technical document on social platforms.

Not to mention designers, even people's laboratories are ignorant, completing the research and development of an application-level new technology in a week, is this a fucking human thing? ? ?

The entire VR industry is also in a state of confusion. Is the screen window effect that has caused them headaches for many years to be solved just like that? ?

In fact, Lou Qingyan just provided a low-cost solution.In order to stack the second-layer structure, they had to increase the pixel size. Although the pixel pitch was reduced to zero, the resolution was not very high, and 2k was the limit.If it is higher, the level of craftsmanship will not be reached.

Ultimately, VR display still needs to pursue 210-degree wide-angle 12k resolution, which is its most perfect display parameter.

The solution provided by Lou Qingyan realizes the elimination of window screens at 2k resolution, and the most important thing is that the cost is very low, which is a boon for all VR hardware manufacturers today.

Head-mounted display manufacturers forwarded it to the display manufacturer of Aite, "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and give birth!"

Display manufacturers all exclaimed: "This is really a genius idea, a genius design, and it really deserves to be a fire."

Fans didn't care at first, after all, this kind of technology that can be published online seems to be very cheap.

They knelt down after seeing the professional evaluation.

"Fuck, fire, I beg you, can you give me a preview before causing a sensation?"

"+1 for the advance notice, it's really troublesome that I can't keep up with the rainbow farts every time."

"Damn, it's not our fault that the rainbow fart can't keep up. Who would have thought that the things that fire casually threw on the Internet would be so awesome?"

"Speaking of which, this technology seems to be very important, so the fire is made public? I checked and there is no patent. Does he not want to make money?"

"This is his strategy. Only when the VR market expands can his chips sell better."

"He doesn't care too much about his reputation. It would be awesome to post an article."

While everyone was still discussing, Fire posted two more content that afternoon.

"A Simple Eye-Tracking Technique"

"A general foveated rendering scheme based on a two-layer display structure"

The little fans who passed by didn't dare to ignore it anymore, and hurriedly asked: "I beg God to explain, what is this?"

"My rainbow farts are all ready, just wait for the master to teach me how to blow them!"

After a while, the gods who read the document came back to explain.

"In the morning it's the hardware, in the afternoon it's the software, I kneel down to the fire every day..."

"To put it simply, eye tracking technology, as the name suggests, is to let the computer recognize which direction the human eye is looking at. This is a very important technology in VRAR. It allows the human eye to play the role of a mouse, and, according to eye tracking, The picture can simulate the zoom function of the human eye and reduce dizziness."

"Ordinary eye tracking needs to be combined with optical means. The one proposed by fire is very simple. It only needs an infrared camera and image recognition. However, the error is quite large, and it should be specially designed for foveated rendering."

"What is foveated rendering?"

"Uh... let's put it this way, when the human eye looks at something, only the image near the focal point can be seen clearly, and the rest are blurred. This technology focuses on rendering the image in focus, and it can be forcibly rendered to the 2k level at 4k resolution. Other positions can be rougher, and you won’t notice it anyway.”

"Fove point rendering is a great tool to improve image quality, but its algorithm is very complicated, and it needs to be combined with eye tracking, so it is still in the laboratory and has no application. Fire proposed a new method this time, which is to divide the screen Layer, the first layer only displays the normal image, and the second layer only displays the fine image of the gaze point... This is really awesome. Although it is rendered once more, the algorithm complexity is reduced by at least 80%, and fire is too genius gone."

"The game screen can be rendered in layers, but how can the video be layered? Isn't the video already rendered?"

"How can I say that fire is a genius. Although the video has been rendered long ago, he introduced image enhancement technology, which is the technology that can change blurred images into high-definition. The first layer displays ordinary images, and the second layer is based on artificial Intelligently enhances the image near the gaze point to display a clearer and more detailed picture."

"Look, ordinary pictures can be rendered to super-resolution, but those that have already been rendered can still be forced to super-resolution. This is fire, and there is no problem in the world that he can't solve."

"He is really amazing. If Fire doesn't work on computers, but on basic science, I doubt he can match Einstein."

"I figured it out... Two kinds of hardware, two kinds of software, Fire wants to improve the quality of VR, but also wants to reduce the cost of VR, such a fantasy thing, he actually did it..."

"I hope the manufacturers can quickly produce finished products. I think this kind of headset, among other things, should be no problem to watch a VR movie."

"I have used various headsets, and the games are okay. Watching movies is bad without exception. The display technology is flawed. I didn't expect the fire to solve the VR display problem without making a sound."

"The little reed is more high-definition hehehe."

Lou Qingyan is also arranging the production of new headsets. Although the vast number of counterfeit manufacturers in China will definitely produce products as soon as possible, he is worried that the counterfeit manufacturers will not know how to copy them, so he plans to make a benchmark product first and let small manufacturers They copied something.

The positioning of this headset is to watch VR videos. On the basis of a good display, it should be as thin, light and cheap as possible.

The head display design work was handed over to the newly formed VR hardware team, which was their first hands-on assignment.

The design plan was handed in quickly, and there were only six major components inside: 2k display screen, optical lens, infrared camera for capturing images of human eyes, motherboard, gyroscope, and battery.It does not have any interactive functions, and removes miscellaneous sensors, so it is very thin and light, and its appearance is similar to swimming goggles.

The function of the headset is surprisingly simple: store video, play video, connect electronic devices.

It provides four connection methods: bluetooth, wifi, usb, and HDMI, and can be used as an external display to connect to any electronic product with these four interfaces.

When connected to a computer, the eye tracking can also realize the mouse function.

The price proposed by the team was 899, and Lou Qingyan directly cut it down to a cost price of 699. He does not intend to make money with this headset, but only pursues sales.

In fact, it is not impossible to sell it at a loss of 599, but he has to consider the life and death of the counterfeit manufacturer.If the price of the original factory is too low, the copycats will have no price advantage, the goods will not be sold, and the counterfeit manufacturers will not be able to support them, so it will be difficult to cultivate a market in a short period of time.

He deliberately made the screen 2k, just to leave 1080p to copycat manufacturers, so that they have room to lower prices.

This is doing business, sometimes you have to consider for him when you face a shameless person.

Deep Space Wonderland finally got busy and began to contact factories to produce products and plan sales plans. The virtual laboratory also invested in further hardware research and development.

Lou Qingyan was not too busy, and Liang Yanchu and Liang Yanchu finished working on the virtual system for restoring the crime scene, and then started working on the virtual training system for the public security department.

A few days later, Deng Jianian said to him: "I received the receipt. Both Fran and CCTV are very interested in VR variety shows, as well as those video sites. But they have no idea about VR reality shows, and want to find you. as supervisor."