On the afternoon of December 5th, 51VR hosted a conference called "Climate Earth Project" at the Beijing Contemporary Magnum Hotel. Prior to the conference, VR network editors obtained information from various channels and foreshadowed the company. There will be a series of new moves in both AI and VR.
According to the available information, 51VR (formerly known as “Worry-free My Houseâ€) was established in January 2015, initially starting with the vertical real estate industry, and then expanding its business areas to areas such as automotive, education and gaming. His accomplishments in the real estate field do not need much to say, but are backed by contemporary home buyers. In addition to real estate, the Mecha shooting VR game “Code 51†developed by its game team has also won the 2016 VRCORE Best Game Award. The VR web editor also experienced the game earlier this year, whether it is the screen, The gameplay, sound effects, or online fluency are all excellent.
At present, 51VR's team has exceeded 240 people. The company has set up R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Silicon Valley, London and Frankfurt, and has been involved in various fields such as VR/AR/AI.
In this conference, 51VR did not show its new products in real estate and games, but announced that it entered a new and currently hottest area: autopilot.
In order to evoke the theme of autopilot, 51VR was a painstaking effort. Its CEO Li Wei first took office and announced a seemingly crazy idea: Earth's cloning plan. It aims to create a virtual world "51World" that is very close to reality.
How to achieve this plan? Li Wei interprets it as five stages: the static world → the dynamic world → the semi-simulated world → the fully simulated world → the virtual reality world.
According to Li Wei, since the establishment of 51VR, VR/AR technology has been used to create more than 5,000 physical spaces, and it has built the core data of a complete city, involving games, automobiles, design, education and other industries. Bold, more extreme, more crazy ideas: Earth cloning plan to make the entire world parallel to the virtual world.
As for the previous four phases, 51VR invited Zhang Peng, current executive director and president of Real Estate Real Estate, Dr. Chen Lu, CEO of RealDrive, 51VR subsidiary, Xu Bing, co-founder of Shangtang Technology, NVIDIA Global Vice President, and General Manager Zhang Jianzhong of China to interpret them separately. Of course, these are only the fifth stage: the virtual reality world, which covers the traditional real estate industry, driving simulation, automatic driving, artificial intelligence, GPU computing and other aspects. These are not the focus. VR editors focus on the content of autopilot during this conference.
According to Dr. Chen Lu, CEO of RealDrive Inc., a 51VR-incubator, RealDrive focused on the automotive industry and demonstrated the RealDrive six-freedom fully simulated VR virtual driving experience at the press conference. However, the company’s technology is not limited to this seemingly “out of dateâ€. The core product of the VR experience device is an autopilot product called Cybertron.
In Chen Lu's view, the second stage of cloning the earth, that is, the dynamic world, needs to satisfy three elements: dynamic scenes, interactive and sports experiences, and the best application scenario of the dynamic world must be the automotive industry. 51VR believes that virtual driving is one of the most challenging and valuable areas, and it is also an area where it focuses on development. At present, 51VR technology has reached industry-leading standards. In cooperation with BMW, it has been applied to the BMW Group's R&D process.
Chen Lu believes that there are three common problems that must be addressed in current autopilot: critical situation simulation, parallel computing acceleration, and reinforcement learning and training platform. Cybertron technology can speed up the process of autopilot development, improve safety, and reduce development costs. It contains a lot of scene data, such as weather, car sports, collisions and other data. The entire system adopts a flexible architecture and supports VR virtual driving access. These technologies make Cybertron the training ground for smart cars and will definitely change people's travel and lifestyle.
As for Cybertron's specific products, that is, the core products of 51VR at the current stage, it is formally released by 51VR CEO Li Wei. The product line includes the following three products:
1. Cybertron-Zero VR intensive training field. Cybertron-Zero provides automated traffic simulation and sensor data simulation for autonomous driving companies. It is used to train autopilot systems, which greatly reduces the cost of autopilot training, improves efficiency, and enables training. Tests are safer and more comprehensive. The product will be open for testing in December this year.
2. Cybertron-Matrix VR Experience Test Site. Consumers experience the immersive driving experience of auto-driving cars through Cybertron-Matrix. This not only helps autopilots fully understand consumer driving feedback, iterates the interactive experience of people and vehicles, but also allows consumers to Easier to touch autopilot to accelerate market penetration. In addition, Matrix can use VR and high-performance dynamic simulators and other peripherals to simulate various key elements in the real scene of self-driving cars, including passengers, training opponents, passers-by, etc., to create an ideal automated driving laboratory. For example, the tester can drive a car on the road in the VR through the simulator to perform various possible driving operations to test the reaction of the self-driving car on the road. The product will also be open for testing in December this year.
3, Cybertron-Eyes AR enhanced test field, that is, with AR augmented reality glasses (but did not say with which to cooperate), so that autopilot real-path testers can monitor the running status of the autopilot system while paying attention to road conditions. That is to say, the testers have a pair of eyes for machine vision, which can be used to view the perception and decision-making system in real-time during automatic driving, and to find and solve problems in time. The product will be open for testing at the latest in February next year.
Li Wei believes that in order to realize the virtual reality world, we may need 10 years, but it is not the technology itself that limits the dream, but find a feasible path. In the next three years, 51VR aims to iterate on existing technologies, invest more than 80% of R&D, and become the world's largest AI fortified learning center in the next three years, becoming the preferred target of the AI ​​industry worldwide.
Looking at the full field press conference from beginning to end, we can understand that the original five stages are actually a relatively smart package. However, products that appear after the packaging is opened are indeed worth paying attention and expectations. If Cybertron series products can be put into practical use, I believe it will bring a big stir to the auto-pilot industry.
According to the editor of the VR network, the company 51VR, the incubator of the current home ownership business, can be said to have been developing steadily. Based on the platform of the contemporary home buyers, the 51VR has been pleasing to the core product of the VR model and the financing is also a round. After a round of soft hands, at the end of this press conference, as Stephen Quan, the founder of Star VC, said: We have 51VR and have money! Although it is a joke, but compared with the fate of many VR industry companies, 51VR does To succeed too much, it is inseparable from its more complete business model and numerous partners.
At the press conference, 51VR formally announced the completion of B round of RMB 210 million in financing, led by contemporary and Shang Tang Science and Technology, Star VC, Guang Su An Zhen, Green Min Investment, Songjing Capital, SPD Silicon Valley Bank and other 10 investment institutions. , strategic partners and individual investors. The global strategic partners of the “Global Clone Project†at this conference included companies and institutions such as NVIDIA, Shangtang Technology, HTC, BMW, Contemporary and Zhejiang University.
With so many investment institutions and industry giant platforms, it is hoped that 51VR's performance in the field of automated driving can exceed our expectations. It is also hoped that 51VR can continue to practice the concept of “borderless and core†as its CEO said: There is no geographical boundary, there is a core talent, technology has no boundary, development has a core, business has no boundaries, and the industry has a core.
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