Yuan Universe: A human spiritual adventure

"Yuan Universe" is an important topic discussed in the humanities and social sciences world in the past two years, so that it was called the "first year of the Yuan universe" in 2021. The popularity of the Yuan universe has always been high, and some literary works with the characteristics of the Yuan universe have therefore re -entered the public discussion field, such as "avalanche" and "Three Body", especially "Matrix", "Number of Players", "Out of Control Players" The hard science fiction film and television works represented by representatives have attracted a lot of attention again. Among them, Warner's "Dunes" with the distinctive characteristics of the Yuan universe has won 6 technical awards such as the best editing and best photography in the 94th Oscar Gold Awards that just ended. The biggest winner of the prize.

Indeed, the appearance of the Yuan universe started from science fiction literature. However, the definition of the Yuan universe is no conclusion on the academic community. It can be seen that the understanding of the Yuan universe does not happen overnight. The process of sorting out the history of the Yuan universe from the field of literature to today, which has a certain significance to enriching our awareness of the Yuan universe. As a result, this article intends to describe the development and characteristics of the concept of the Yuan universe around the five keywords such as touching imagery, entry, transfer, follow -up, and creation. The so -called touch refers to the different views of the Yuan universe, which can be described as divergent, which is also an important reason for the constant heat of the Yuan universe. The so -called entry refers to the relationship between the Yuan universe and science fiction literature. The so -called transfer refers to the shift from the field of literary and artistic content from the artistic field that focuses on imagination to the field of gaming industry and social networks. The so -called follow -up refers to the blessing and follow -up of the media is an important step for the Yuan universe: the new media of the Internet, the traditional mass media began to test, and then many media followed up in depth, which eventually became overwhelming today. The so -called creation means that the Yuan universe will become a new creative position, and creative creation is the core endowment of the Yuan universe. The following is divided into it.

Keywords one: touching elephant

For the phenomenon of the Yuan universe, it may be appropriate to describe it with "suddenly like a spring breeze". With the surprise, anxiety, cheers, and doubts of this "Yuan Cosmic Spring Breeze", there are also doubts ... It is really "thousands of trees and thousands of trees", which is dazzling. The current Yuan universe has become a super cultural phenomenon that is concerned about the whole people, and even a multi -field cross -border carnival. Facing the Yuan universe that integrates a variety of cutting -edge technology, "like clouds and fogs like the wind", many people must be a little stunned and will ask questions about what a Yuan universe is.

In fact, there is no authority definition about the Yuan universe. That is to say, the current Yuan universe is still a concept of divergent opinions. As an out -of -domain delivery product, foreign scholars are mostly east -mouth and one mouth, let alone domestic scholars who have followed the dust.

At present, the definition of the Yuan universe at home and abroad, like a blind person touching the elephant, seems that everyone thinks that they have touched the "true body" of the elephant, but in fact they are just part of the elephant.

The English word corresponding to the Yuan universe is metaverse. The prefix Mete means transcendence. In Wikipedia, the Yuan Universe is a collective virtual sharing space. It contains all virtual worlds and the Internet, which may include creatures in the real world, but it is different from enhanced reality. The Yuan universe is usually used to describe the iterative concept of the future of the Internet. It consists of a long -lasting, shared, and three -dimensional virtual space. It is a perceptible virtual universe.

This meaning of Wikipedia has resonated with some industry leaders at home and abroad. For example, Zuckerberg adheres to the concept of the Yuan universe as the successor of the mobile Internet. In Ma Huateng's eyes, the Yuan universe is actually tantamount to the whole true Internet. He even reluctant to mention the word the Yuan universe too much, and would rather choose the concept of "full truth" with a more Sinicization.

In fact, as early as the early 1990s, the famous scientist Qian Xuesen named this new type of information space based on virtual reality technology "spiritual realm". The "spiritual realm" here is actually what we are talking about today. Qian Lao believes that the "spiritual realm" technology is another technological revolution after the computer technology revolution. It will trigger a series of changes that shock the world. It must be a major event in human history, so people enter the unprecedented new world. Compared with the concept of "Yuan Universe", the "spiritual realm" is undoubtedly more Chinese culture. Qian Lao's advanced concept and the current Yuan universe proposed by many Yuan universe researchers are not only the next Internet, but also the first true future form of human digital civilization. This judgment is completely coupled.

Following Qian Lao's thinking, from the perspective of humanities, the author believes that the Yuan universe is more like a human spiritual adventure. As the science fiction writer Liu Cixin and many inspectors have pointed out, human exploration can be divided into two types. One is the physical exploration that may lead to the "physical departure", which is outward; "The spiritual exploration is inward. In order to achieve physical exploration, humans have turned their attention to the outer space universe. This is what Musk, who claims to send humans to Mars in 2024. The American space exploration technology company he opened has achieved outstanding achievements in this regard. At the same time, human beings are also a creature that pursues spiritual exploration. The development of virtual space is an inevitable of human development.

On this basis, the author agrees that the Yuan universe is essentially a new value. What the Yuan universe provides us is more than just technological progress, but also infinitely close to a new form of human civilization. This civilization form is very complicated, including both the new Internet industrial civilization pointed to the physics technology, as well as the spiritual civilization of the new cultural form pointed to the virtual spirit. In order to clarify the ins and outs of the Yuan universe, perhaps we should return to the most fundamental problem, trace back and explore how the Yuan universe enters the field.

Keyword 2: enter the field

The reason why the concepts of the universe in the universe are controversial, maybe this concept itself is not related to academic research. The "Yuan Universe" was originally a vocabulary created by Neil Stephenson in 1992 in his science fiction "avalanche". Including the "robot" that is closely related to this, it also comes from literary works. The Czech drama writer Relchapek first used in the stage play "Rusum's Universal Robot" in 1921. In the opinion of writer Li Yan, the mother and child in literature and the Yuan universe are not unexpected at all. He pointed out at the Academic Forum of the "Awareness Universe" recently held that only novelists would use imagination to describe such a picture. Because the novelist is used to describing the imagination of the doomsday, and also used to describing the future world in the imagination.

Indeed, as Li Yan said, in China, from ancient myths to the "Shan Hai Jing" in the pre -Qin Dynasty, to the later spiritual novels, and then to the legend of the Tang Dynasty, the novel provides people with a virtual space with the initial connotation of the Yuan universe. Essence This virtual space was initially completed by many people. In "Dream of Red Mansions", the novel completed the transformation from collective writing to individual writing. And this virtual space built by Grand View Garden is a individual named Cao Xueqin. It is completed with collective will.

In China, great literary and artistic works often include the construction of the universe. Throughout the global literary and artistic arbitration of the Global Yuan, the Chinese version of the Yuan universe is even more worth looking forward to. Chinese cultural soil is more rich. The peak of the vernacular novel "Dream of Red Mansions" in the vernacular novel has such characteristics. The new film and television works "Charlotte's Trouble", "Hello, Li Huanying", etc., can also see the Xue Mihong claws of the Yuan universe. The "Map of the Mountains and River Society" in "The Demon Children of Nezha" is the pinnacle representative of surrealism. Nezha was trapped in the picture and had to study art. The fantasy "pointing Jiangshan pen" is drawn as where the characters think of in the play, and all the scenes you can think of can be painted in "Mountains and River Society". As Jiao Juan and others are considered in the book "The Big Investment of the Cosmic Universe", in essence, "Mountains and River Society" is the artistic imagination of the Yuan universe world, and "pointing the rivers and mountain pens" is similar to the creation in the Yuan universe The tools used in. These works are based on expanding people's world views, revising the world view and then changing the outlook on life.

Therefore, to some extent, it can be said that the imagination of literary works leads the development of the Yuan universe and provides most of the creative content.

Unlike the virtual space built by Chinese literary works such as "Dream of Red Mansions" mentioned above, in the first novel "avalanche" of the concept of the Yuan universe, a virtual digital world that appeared in the real world appeared. What human beings have or unable to complete in the real world can be realized in this virtual digital world. In the novel "avalanche", you only need to wear headphones and eyepiece, and enter another virtual reality simulated by the computer from the terminal. Everyone can have their own avatars in this three -dimensional space parallel to the real world (imagine a movie "Avatar"). In this virtual world, everything in the real world has been digitized. People can do anything in real life in the virtual world, such as shopping, eating, and sending virtual friends. In addition, people can complete the ambitions that cannot be achieved in the real world, such as instantaneous movement.

In this sense, the avalanche is a well -deserved first literary work about the Yuan universe. As Google co -founder Sergei Brin said, the Yuan universe will definitely happen in the next few years, and this novel foresees what is about to happen.

After the science fiction literature, the Yuan universe began to spread to a wider range of literature and art, and film and television was the most prominent part of it. The reverie on the Yuan universe is very common in film and television works. For example, individuals in the movie "Matrix" live in a world called "matrix"; the term "Avatar" in the movie "Avatar" is "Internet avatars" "; In" Uploading the Freshman ", after the death of the individual, you can upload your own consciousness to achieve the eternal life of the digital level; the TV series" Western World "depicts the artificial intelligence" amusement park ". The "Oasis" shown in the movie "Number Player" has been first implemented by the type of game of "My World". Although the picture pixels are very strong, although people’s virtual images are "square", they have been cut into real. A virtual world showed the field. Everyone comes to the virtual reality "Oasis" to do various things. They immersed here to experience a different life.

Keyword three: transfer

If "avalanche" is regarded as the first Yuan universe literary work, then a concept that was generated as early as 1992, why did it become the focus of market attention in the past 30 years, and even some people called the first year of the Yuan universe in 2021? Is it just because of the global new crown pneumonia's epidemic provided the public with more opportunities to immerse in the virtual world? Of course, the epidemic is a reason, but the more important is the gradual maturity of virtual reality technology and the promotion of capital behind. From a technical perspective, the turning point of the maturity of the technical maturity of the universe has arrived. The inflection point is reflected in two aspects: on the one hand, the 5G, XR, brain interface, artificial intelligence, computer vision rendering, and cloud virtualization of the Yuan universe have developed to a certain stage. The technical foundation has been established; on the other hand, the development of related technologies such as encryption has accelerated, and the blockchain+NFT (intangible homogeneity) is expected to build the prototype of a decentralized economic system for the Yuan universe.

From the capital level behind, a well -known fact is that after two decades of development, the Internet 2.0 version, that is, the traffic dividend of the mobile Internet has gradually peaked. The mobile Internet dividend has disappeared. In order to compete for users, various capital giants need to be rolled quickly, and it is urgent to improve the user experience through content and technological innovation. The Yuan universe is just considered to be the next generation of the Internet revolution. As the Internet 3.0 version, the new content and new consumer market of the Yuan universe are expected to open a new dividend period. Faced with such an important dividend window, capital is naturally waiting for opportunities.

In the context of the new coronary pneumonia, based on the reasons of technology and capital, the Yuan universe has shifted from the field of literary and artistic fields that focuses on imaginative content to the game industry and social networks that focus on technology content.

At this stage, the game industry is particularly eye -catching. As we all know, the game is the segment of the content industry, the more advanced content form in the Internet world, and the epitome of the Yuan universe economy, culture, art, community, governance, etc. From the perspective of the content of the game's content, carrying medium, and technical composition, it is a product of multi -industry and cross -domain integration innovation. The characteristics of low latency and high interaction of the game have a natural fit with the Yuan universe. The game is created with humans. In human society, the game not only retains the characteristics of animal instinctual activities, but more importantly, as humans as high animals, and create a variety of game activities for their own development needs. The game is the initial symbol of human culture, which has infinite creativity of human beings. From the perspective of cultural creativity, the game shows the unique charm of cultural content creativity, scientific and technological creativity, and humanistic aesthetic style.

Along with the Yuan universe's social hotspots, the game company has used the Yuan universe as the new theme of the stock market, which has promoted the further development of the Yuan universe industry. According to the data disclosed in the book "Yuan Cosmic Tonglin", as of the end of 2020, the Robox Box Game Company of the Yuan Cosmic Sand Box Game Company attracted a total of 80 million creators from more than 170 countries and regions, creating 20 million games. About 1 million developers can get income, with more than 1,000 developers an annual income of more than $ 10,000, and the total revenue of developers from the first quarter to the third quarter of 2020 to US $ 209.2 million. The reason why Roble can surpass many large -scale games to become the representative of the Yuan universe is one of the very important reasons that in the world of its setting, it can continue to produce new content and creativity. The creators of these contents are Global players, decentralized "user production content".

As a comprehensive platform, the content of the Yuan universe is very large, so there must be a user's self -generating content system in the Yuan universe to ensure that the content is continuously supplying. The production capacity of professional content is limited. Only by incorporating the game user production mode can it detonate the content. This is very important for the sustainable development of the Yuan universe. The user builds content, forms a centralized form that distinguishes content provided by the traditional Internet, and forms a decentralized form that all users can participate in the creation of the Yuan universe, and can gain a sense of accomplishment from the process of building the content ecosystem.

As a result, the Yuan universe is not only a virtual space, a game, but also a platform that can accommodate various users to create content. A virtual world that is always online allows unlimited people to participate in it at the same time and has an independent economic system. It is a world that spans entities and numbers. It is Roblenes with a simple and easy -to -use creative tool that enables more young users to participate in content creation that Robles has achieved explosive growth of content and forms a variety of content ecology. The huge content and gameplay support the endless unknown of the Roble Simon universe, which has enhanced the user's experience immersion and promoted the great prosperity of the creator economy.

Historian Robert Bella said that no one can live in daily and reality fully, and people always use various ways, even if they leave reality briefly. Whether it is dreaming, games, travel, art, religion, or scientific exploration, it is to be able to get rid of and transcend the reality and achieve a world on the other side. An obvious fact is that the Yuan universe is not only a virtual game space, but also a new world of good digital numbers that everyone will participate in the future. The Yuan universe allows everyone to get rid of the various reality constraints of the physical world, release their own unlimited potential, and maximize self -worth.

In this regard, the interaction and participation of traditional games to users are not enough. The Yuan universe needs to launch a new content form of high simulation and satisfy sensory experience in order to quickly snatch users with the power of sweeping. The advancement of science and technology will lead people in the direction of pursuing such games. Since the beginning of the science fiction literature, its essence is the pursuit of content and interest. It can be seen that the proportion of the content in the world of the Yuan universe is not small. Perhaps because of this, various content and entertainment related companies are competing to put their attention to the Yuan universe. Keywords 4: Follow up

From the perspective of economist Zhu Jiaming, from literary and artistic works to gaming products, to entering the concept of the Yuan universe, it has experienced three stages. The first stage is the "Yuan Universe" with classical forms with literature, art, and religion. At this historical stage, the Bible in the Western world, Dante's "Divine Comedy", and even Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", and Bach's religious music, all belong to the "Yuan Universe". Among them, Dante's "Divine Comedy" contains the imagination of the "soul apartment" that humans go through the bumpy "soul apartment". In China, the Book of Changes, "He Luotu" and "Journey to the West" are the representatives of the "Yuan Universe" with oriental colors. In this sense, contemporary online literature is even more so, especially through types of novels such as crossing and fantasy, all have imagination in this regard. The second stage is the neo -classical "Yuan universe" with sci -fi and video game forms. For example, J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter". The most representative and shocking is the global film "Matrix" released in 1999. The third stage is the "Yuan Universe" with a highly intelligent form with the "non -mid -center" game as the carrier. It is marked by the "Second Life" launched by the US Internet in 2003.

If the game is an important node of the Yuan universe's entry, and social networking is another way to enter the field with the same significance. From the virtual social network of computer -side users in the PC era, to the real -name social socialization of the mobile client in the WeChat era, and then to the next round of identity virtualization of the Yuan universe. The first thing to bring to users is a new virtual image. This virtual image can be completely different from the real world, expanding the "world" that users can experience.

Perhaps this is exactly this. The Internet giant "Facebook", which is the main social function, will be renamed the Yuan Universe. Online game company Roble Simpa simply writes the concept of the "Yuan Universe" into the prospectus, thereby triggered the discussion of the Yuan universe. The boom quickly entered the vision of the public media with the ups and downs of the mountains. On the day Facebook was renamed the Yuan universe, the stock price rose by 1.51%; after Roble's Q3 financial report was released, the stock price increased by more than 40%. At the same time, Baidu announced that the stock price rose 5.28%on the day of the internal test on the "Xiyang" in the Yuan universe. According to the company's investigation, a total of 1,691 companies applied for 1,1374 "Yuan Universe" trademarks in 2021, of which more than 98%were registered after September of that year.

As a result, from the emergence of science fiction literature, to the continuous strengthening of film and television works, and then to the interactive fields of games, social networking and other interaction, the Yuan universe has risen and sings all the way, from the spiritual field of artistic imagination to gradually transition to emphasis on technology, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital, capital. In the field of commercial fields, it has become a big word of hot bronze. In less than two years, the Yuan universe successfully entered the public's vision with a phenomenon hurricane. Among them, the blessing of the media is an important part of it and an important step in the entrance of the Yuan universe.

The path of the Yuan universe in China is quite clear: the new media of the Internet of the Internet, the traditional mass media began to test, and then many media followed up in depth, which eventually became overwhelming today. It is noticeable that the publishing industry, which has always been slower than the mass media, has performed very well in the appearance of this universe, and it can be said to be a bit unexpected. In just a few months after the Yuan universe became hot, more than ten original or translated Yuan cosmic works were published.

Among them, the Chinese translation publishing house, which is not known for new technology publications, is extremely sensitive, and almost follows the wave of the Yuan universe simultaneously. Most of the rivers and mountains. CITIC Publishing House followed closely, and there were also many masterpieces in the universe. Peking University Press, Electronics Industry Press, China Economic Publishing House, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, Chinese Publishing House, etc. also pushed the waves at a faster speed and launched related translations. Although the currently published Books of the Macau, the quality is uneven, and some only stay at the stage of the primary knowledge. However, these works have a certain role in the popularization of the knowledge of the Yuan universe, and their sales have continued to be popular. Because the knowledge of the Yuan universe is updated too fast, and the required time is required. Many works have adopted hungry marketing of "not seeing them first". From the perspective of book pre -sale data and delivery interval, readers' ordering can be described as described as Very enthusiastic. What is behind this reflects ordinary readers' strong interest in the new thing of the Yuan universe.

Following the publisher, academic journals, which belonging to the serious media, also have a posture in the entrance of the Yuan universe. It can be known that although there are not many academic articles about the Yuan universe, it is slightly large -scale. Among them, the more in -depth research articles have downloaded more than a thousand. Many academic journals such as "Exploration and Consecration" and "Yuejiang Academic Journal" have also released the Yuan universe research albums. As a result, the Yuan universe entered the academic research field from the technology circle and business circles. At the same time, related academic institutions also actively planned academic conferences on the Yuan universe, and discussed the Yuan universe and education, the Yuan universe and art. There are many lectures about the level of the Yuan universe. "The disorderly flowers gradually want to be charming", and it is inevitable that people are mixed with fish eyes and blindly following the trend. Recently, the "Awareness Universe: Cultural and Society and Human Future" academic forum was jointly organized by the three editors of "Literature and Art Theory", "Exploration and Contention", "Journal of East China Normal University", invited experts from all walks of life to combine online and offline combination The method of the Yuan universe from the perspective of social culture and the future development of human beings has been discussed in depth, and the number of online people has reached 50,000.

The comprehensive appearance of the Yuan universe is also reflected in a wide range of applications. Some authoritative media, such as Xinhua News Agency, launched a report on the virtual experience of the Yuan universe. The just -concluded Beijing Winter Olympics has created a digital virtual person in terms of official propaganda. The distance from the audience. The more important application field of the Yuan universe is the construction of digital cities. The construction of digital virtual city models using digital twin technology will provide unprecedented experience in optimizing urban construction and management. At the same time, the Yuan universe will also play a huge role in promoting the development of the digital economy. These all accelerated the appearance of the Yuan universe.

To this day, the boundary of the concept of the Yuan universe is constantly expanding. The Yuan universe has not only become the next stop of the Internet and social application Internet, but also is widely used in other fields, including corporate Yuan universe, urban Yuan universe, and international universe. Military studies and other theories. In this context, the literature and art of the Yuan universe also came out.

Keywords 5: Creation

The Yuan universe is a new species, and it is also a mother that bred a new species. It will become a "digital new continent" that completely changes our lifestyle, and opens a new era of great creation to lead humans to a higher -level "digital civilization".

In the Yuan universe era, productive forces will be based on fictional species and virtual assets. If artificial intelligence technology will grow and grow in the future, smart species will also be generated, and human ontoes will gradually withdraw from the category of productive forces in the universe. The science fiction movie "Silver Wing Killer 2049" shows the "human" composition of the future society: bios, electronics, digital people, virtual human, information people, and their breeding of different personalities, skills, knowledge, experience and other talents. Descendants. Writer Li Yan said that when we talk about literature, we are talking about the Yuan universe. However, when we talk about the Yuan universe, we are not talking about literature, not human literature, or even people. Facts may be as worried, the main body of the Yuan universe, biologics, electronic people, virtual numerics, and information people, and finally evolved into organic bodies and inorganic bodies. "". The virtual number people created by the real person and they are forming a new social relationship and emotional connection, becoming the pioneer of the boundary of the universe, and building a "post -human society" on the virtual new continent.

Future scholars in the United States, Raymond Kutz Weier, divide the concept of evolution of human society into six eras: first era, physics and chemistry; the second era, creature and DNA; the third era, the brain; the fourth era; the fourth era; , Technology; Fifth Epoch, the combination of wisdom and technology; the sixth era, the awakening of the universe. At this stage, traditional humans become non -biological humans, that is, half robots, upgrade to version 3.0, the final fate of the universe.

In the future, researchers boldly deduced the end of the Yuan universe -the integration of biology and numbers: the needs of people as users are "expanding the world view", and the evolutionary needs of science and technology point to "digitalization everything". It is expected to become the third recursive improvement path after genetic mutation and culture -data intelligence enhances human beings, and human -machine coordinated at the forefront of technology in China and abroad is located on the merger of biomedicity and digital intelligence, biological characteristics and digital information.

Based on this, the core of the competitiveness of the Yuan universe in the future is "breaking", that is, breaking the convention. The idea of ​​breaking the rules will become the driving force for creating the Yuan universe. In fact, the Yuan universe is an extraordinary world created in a virtual space, and the rules are precisely determined by the creator. In the final analysis, those who only follow the existing rules do not belong to the Yuan universe. Of course, in the Yuan universe, some people will also make money by obeying the rules. They belong to the "workers" of the Yuan universe. But the real wealth is made by the "creator" in the universe. Those who are not bound by traditional rules and dare to create and use the new rules will be the ultimate victory of the Yuan universe.

What is needed in the Yuan universe is creativity. The difference between the Yuan universe and reality is that even if there is no funding, experience, experience, and connections, individuals can start a business. The Yuan universe can create everything that can be imagined. You are the only person who can limit your imagination. Although the creative ability of "not in this world" belongs to a minority artist, the creative ability of society and the Yuan universe is that the ability to use or integrate the world's existing things in different ways can be used in different ways. This creative ability can be strengthened after certain training. In other words, artists are often those who start creating from "0", and the Yuan universe is more created from "1". It is difficult to start with "0", but it can be trained from "1". The discipline that can bear this training has matured, and this is the case for creative writing (creative writing) that bloom in all universities. The Yuan universe will become a new creative creative position. Creative creation is the core endowment of the Yuan universe. In the Yuan universe, technology can make the communication between people no longer be limited to text, pictures, and videos, but can have more dimensions of expression, such as wearing XR (including but not limited to AR, VR) devices You can set different meetings, and even design your own unique virtual image. These are inseparable from creativity. The combination of technology and creativity can undoubtedly bring users a more realistic and immersive sensory experience.

In the Internet era, we listen to the stories created by creators and consume most of the content in life. But in the Yuan universe, we will directly participate in the story, and we will be with the story with the perspective of the protagonist. In the future, what is important is not to tell stories, but to be able to directly experience the story and "live in the story." In the world of Yuan universe, the content of the story is very wide, and the value cannot be underestimated. Even the added value it creates is higher than the value created by technology companies. The new digital earth will soon appear in front of us, and we will tell new stories in the new digital Earth's universe.

Perhaps, from creativity and creation close to the Yuan universe, it is a more positive and effective response direction.

Source: "Writing"

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