Beijing to build Communist training college in a metaverse
(2022/03/29)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/03/29/communist_education_metaverse/
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China's top government officials have a new space to meet and "build the [Chinese Communist] Party": a custom-built metaverse.
According to one of the bespoke metaverse's technology providers, virtual reality firm Mengke VR, the system will host virtual events like meetings, conferences, courses and history lectures. 3D avatars will be able to roam exhibits and observe cultural relics.
The available metaverse courses have titles like "A Hundred Years of Stories - Party History Micro Classroom" and "The Great New Era – Major Achievements of the Party and the Country Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China".
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The Reg appreciates that the latter sounds utterly irresistible, but in case you want more there's also "The Code of Leadership of the Communist Party of China" or "Chinese Spirit – The Spiritual Genealogy of Chinese Communists" to consider. An embarrassment of riches.
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Chinese media – all of which operates in the knowledge that the State will frown on unwelcome content – reports that the system apparently improves upon virtual reality through increased interaction of avatars, including with each other, and connection of locations. Furthermore, the VR firm [4]said the metaverse improves on the engagement level of the content – even going as far as to call traditional VR content "boring".
All this fresh content can be accessed, as the firm points out, without travel and time costs.
[5]China’s cloud spend to more than triple in four years
[6]Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks chips, GPUs, metaverse
[7]Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation
[8]Will Chinese giants defy US sanctions on Russia? We asked a ZTE whistleblower
China has achieved [9]strong VR adoption and its government has even invested in [10]VR theme parks .
Now both Beijing and China's big tech companies are [11]investing in the metaverse. Companies like Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance all have plans in progress – in a market Morgan Stanley predicts could be worth around $8 trillion.
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Beijing has, however, recently cracked down content such as [13]video games , [14]frothy fan clubs , depictions of the kind of young men you'd expect to be members of boy bands, and live-streamed infomercials.
That recent record suggests metaverses won't be exempt from Beijing's scrutiny – including this new effort to that puts the Party line front and center. ®
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According to one of the bespoke metaverse's technology providers, virtual reality firm Mengke VR, the system will host virtual events like meetings, conferences, courses and history lectures. 3D avatars will be able to roam exhibits and observe cultural relics.
The available metaverse courses have titles like "A Hundred Years of Stories - Party History Micro Classroom" and "The Great New Era – Major Achievements of the Party and the Country Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China".
[1]
The Reg appreciates that the latter sounds utterly irresistible, but in case you want more there's also "The Code of Leadership of the Communist Party of China" or "Chinese Spirit – The Spiritual Genealogy of Chinese Communists" to consider. An embarrassment of riches.
[2]
[3]
Chinese media – all of which operates in the knowledge that the State will frown on unwelcome content – reports that the system apparently improves upon virtual reality through increased interaction of avatars, including with each other, and connection of locations. Furthermore, the VR firm [4]said the metaverse improves on the engagement level of the content – even going as far as to call traditional VR content "boring".
All this fresh content can be accessed, as the firm points out, without travel and time costs.
[5]China’s cloud spend to more than triple in four years
[6]Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks chips, GPUs, metaverse
[7]Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation
[8]Will Chinese giants defy US sanctions on Russia? We asked a ZTE whistleblower
China has achieved [9]strong VR adoption and its government has even invested in [10]VR theme parks .
Now both Beijing and China's big tech companies are [11]investing in the metaverse. Companies like Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance all have plans in progress – in a market Morgan Stanley predicts could be worth around $8 trillion.
[12]
Beijing has, however, recently cracked down content such as [13]video games , [14]frothy fan clubs , depictions of the kind of young men you'd expect to be members of boy bands, and live-streamed infomercials.
That recent record suggests metaverses won't be exempt from Beijing's scrutiny – including this new effort to that puts the Party line front and center. ®
Get our [15]Tech Resources
[1] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YkLY0RE0XmBnG@JpBN2kzgAAAJc&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/china_cloud_infrastructure_market_growth/
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/ai_metaverse_language/
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[13] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/china_limits_kids_gaming_time/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/16/douban_rectification/
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12+ million users on day one
El Bard
"Of course it will officially be massively popular – regardless of how many actually use it"
L'eternelle fuite en avant.
Khaptain
What else did anyone actually imagine that "metaverses" would actually be used for other than a means of indoctrinating the users into Ideology [X].
If you can't get a grip of your current world then the idea of using an alternate one is really a very poor choice... I wonder what the parents will say about their children after having let them "peruse" the metaverses for a couple of years.....
Re: L'eternelle fuite en avant.
Inventor of the Marmite Laser
But Mummy it says so on
Faecebook, Instaflame, Twatter, it goes on.
Ha!
codejunky
For when western school is not enough, indoctrinate through the metaverse!
Cross-Fertilisation
PhilipN
Trump <> CCP
Virtual Reality Communism indoctrination theme park?
This gives "Social Credit Score" an entirely new meaning (and level of intrusive Big Brother-dom)
I imagine seeing Stepford smilers and dystopian imagery, everywhere.
Do not forget the subliminal brainwashing and use of music and flashy lights to condition "good comrade" behavior.
[this goes WAY beyond slapping lipstick on a boar, oinky end or not]
(the fine print in the VR thingy says: this session may be monitored for future reference)