LIVE FOREVER
“永生”成为现实
Most of us at one point in our lives thought about living forever – achieving immortality. Now a Metaverse company（Somnium Space）is trying to offer pseudo-immortality through a ‘Live Forever’ mode.
我们大多数人都曾想过长生不老——实现永生。如今，一家元宇宙公司（Somnium Space）正试图通过一种名为“Live Forever”的模式来提供一种“伪永生”服务。
Somnium Space is an open-source platform and a tech product built on the Ethereum Blockchain that lets you Play Games, Build Programmable Environments, Purchase virtual properties, Customize Land, Buildings, Parks, and Trade in Digital Assets. The Czech tech company’s dream stems from the traumatic experience of the group’s founder and CEO, Artur Sychov. Sychov had lost his father to an aggressive form of cancer that killed him in just a few years. Sychov then wanted to develop a way for individuals to somehow be able to connect to family members who had passed away.
Somnium Space是一个基于以太坊区块链的开源平台和技术产品，可以让你玩游戏、构建可编程环境、购买虚拟财产、定制土地、建筑、公园和交易数字资产。该捷克公司的设想源于公司创始人兼CEO阿图尔•瑟乔夫的悲痛经历。瑟乔夫的父亲因患癌症，在短短几年内就去世了。于是瑟乔夫想开发一种方法，让个人能够以某种方式与去世的家人联系。
Somnium Space is already compatible with virtual reality headsets, allowing for an immersive 3D experience. It will soon allow users to store their personal data like their body language, movements, and conversations and then have them duplicated through an avatar that will move, talk and sound just like them. The feature will allow users to ‘live on’ forever – opening doors for family members to communicate with passed away dear ones for all time.
Somnium Space可以兼容虚拟现实头盔，提供身临其境的3D体验。该公司允许用户存储个人数据，比如肢体语言、动作和对话，然后将数据复制到一个虚拟形象中，该虚拟形象就会像他们一样移动、说话，并拥有和他们一样的声音。该功能将允许用户永远“活着”——为家人打开大门，让他们可以与逝去的亲人交谈下去。
“永生”背后的VR技术
Sychov’s moment of revelation came when he realized the awesome data collection potential of virtual reality, a technology that he called “magical”. Virtual reality technology can collect the way your fingers, mouth, eyes, and entire body move and quickly identify you “more precisely than fingerprints.”
当意识到虚拟现实在数据收集方面的巨大潜力时，瑟乔夫受到了启发。虚拟现实技术可以收集你的手指、嘴巴、眼睛、甚至整个身体的运动方式，并迅速进行识别，“这比指纹还要精确”。
Available research backs up his claims there. One October 2020 study published in Nature, for example, concluded that after less than five minutes of tracking people’s body motions, virtual reality technology could identify someone with 95 percent accuracy out of a group of 500 people.
2020年10月发表在《自然》杂志上的文章也佐证了这种说法——研究表明，在不到5分钟内跟踪一个人的身体运动后，虚拟现实技术可以在500人的群体中以95%的准确率识别出这个人。
Somnium Space的技术推进
With all that data stored, Somnium Space will then work to create an immortal mirror image of users with the same visual movements and manner of speech. Somnium Space hopes to roll out the first set of AI versions of its users, in which people will be recreated as avatars with their movements and basic conversational abilities, by next year.
存储完所有数据后，Somnium Space将努力创建一个永生的用户镜像，使其具有和用户相同的视觉动作和说话方式。Somnium Space希望能在明年推出第一组AI版本，用户将被重新创建为具有行为和基本对话能力的虚拟形象。
But the beauty of the idea, according to Sychov, is that this other version of you can continue to evolve alongside artificial intelligence technology in the coming years, even if all the data was collected years ago.
根据瑟乔夫介绍，这个想法的美妙之处在于，即使所有数据都是在几年前收集的，另一个版本的你也可以在未来几年继续与人工智能技术一起发展。
隐私问题如何解决？
The prospect of a virtual-reality company having access to that much data about its users is concerning to say the least, but sychiv said：Somnium Space doesn’t make money by selling people’s data to advertisers. “We don't want to know your name. We don't care about who you are.”
当人们对一家虚拟现实公司能够获得这么多用户数据而担忧时，瑟乔夫表示：Somnium Space并不会通过向广告商出售用户数据来赚钱。“我们不想知道你的名字。我们也不在乎你是谁。”
Sychov believes he is creating a more responsible business model that he hopes will allow users to feel comfortable forking over limitless amounts of data to the company for analysis. The “Live Forever” feature will be off by default, and the company says it will not collect data on anyone unless they opt to pay for it.
瑟乔夫相信，他正在努力创造一种更负责任的商业模式，并希望这种模式能让用户放心地把无限的数据交给公司进行分析。他表示，“永生”功能将默认关闭，“除非用户选择付费使用，否则我们不会收集任何人的数据。”
Those who choose to partake will be able to turn the record function on and off as they wish and tell the company to delete all data should they ever choose.
那些选择使用“永生”功能的人，也能够按照自己的意愿打开或关闭记录功能，并有权利要求公司删除他们所选择的数据。
重难点词汇
1.immortality n. 不朽，不朽的声名
eg: The flame is a quasi-religious emblem of immortality.
火焰可以算作不朽的宗教象征。
2.immersive adj. 拟真的; 沉浸式虚拟现实的
eg: Nanobot technology will provide fully immersive, totally convincing virtual reality.
毫微自动仪技术将提供身临其境而令人信服的虚拟现实.
原文链接：
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkp47y/metaverse-company-to-offer-immortality-through-live-forever-mode
https://www.cnbctv18.com/entertainment/want-to-become-immortal-somnium-space-may-let-you-do-it-in-metaverse-13156462.htm
https://thedapplist.com/learn/what-is-somnium-space/
编译 | 肖圣育 马文静 曼尔飞娜
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