Chapter 241: The Three Major Special Effects Companies

The launch of the ICQ gaming platform has brought a large number of active users to ICQ! Previously, many ICQ users would only use ICQ when chatting, but now, they also use ICQ to play games. A week later, there are more than 2 million players on the ICQ gaming platform, and more than 100,000 players have chosen to deposit ICQ game coins!

The American people have been deeply attracted by it, especially white-collar workers, who are tired from work, and can relax by playing a chess and card game! And many students also team up to play games, open black shops and trap others, which is secretly refreshing!

By the end of March, there were more than one million online players worldwide!

The American media couldn't help but be shocked that the number of online users exceeded one million, which shows how popular the game platform is!

The cover of this issue of Time Magazine was actually changed to the ICQ game platform!

"The world's most influential casual gaming platform!"

Although Henry often appears on the cover of Time magazine, it does not mean that it is easy to get on this cover. You have to be hugely influential to have a chance to be on the cover. The fact that the ICQ game platform can be on the cover of Time Magazine shows that Time Magazine affirms it!

ICQ is also stepping up the development of more games, and at the same time developing the more popular local board games in various countries!

The popularity of the ICQ game platform has aroused the covetousness of many people, and they have also begun to develop this kind of game platform, wanting to get a piece of the pie. Therefore, ICQ cannot afford to slack off at all. The game should be continuously improved, bugs should be modified, and more fun games should be developed to enrich the platform content!

When Tian Shuai met with Henry, he told him that ICQ was also preparing to develop AI artificial intelligence software, which players could play against other people in addition to it. And this reminded Henry of the supercomputer developed by IBM, "Deep Blue", which defeated the world chess champion Kasparov in 1997, which caused a huge sensation!

Therefore, Henry is full of praise for ICQ's decision to develop artificial intelligence!

But. Henry also knows that the computing power of the current computer is not very strong, and I am afraid that the effect of AI is not very good! Even the "Deep Blue" supercomputer made by the powerful IBM, which weighs 1,270 kilograms and has 32 brains (microprocessors), will not even be as powerful as a notebook in the eyes of people in the future!

But. If cloud technology is used, then the computing power of AI will be greatly enhanced! Even at the current level of technology, Deep Blue supercomputer is not enough in the face of cloud technology!

After all, Deep Blue is just a computer, while cloud technology is a data center made up of hundreds or thousands of servers!

The comparison between "dark blue" computer and cloud technology is completely crushed!

Noah's Ark's blade server is about to be developed, and Henry will not hesitate to spend tens of billions of dollars to build multiple data centers around the world!

Henry couldn't help but think with a bad taste of waiting for the Deep Blue supercomputer to defeat the chess world champion Kasparov. Then send ICQ's artificial intelligence software to the field and abuse it a hundred times, a hundred times, a hundred times!

It's only 1992, and after five years of development, AI has been participating in more and more player battles, and the more experience and abilities it has naturally accumulated!

"Tian Shuai, when you develop artificial intelligence, you can also develop an intelligent virtual community feeding game at the same time - ICQ pet, the game runs through the whole process of pet growth, including feeding, cleaning, part-time work, study, game, marriage, laying eggs, travel, and tasks! The most critical point is to apply AI artificial intelligence to this. For example, the player outputs text or voice, and then the pet responds, or even chats with the player! I believe that through long-term learning and error correction. The ability to develop artificial intelligence !!"

Henry paused and said, "Hmm...... Pets should be designed to be a bit stupid, but they are very cute and will spread bridges, so as to meet the immature performance of our artificial intelligence in the early stage! Pet species such as penguins, pandas, ducks. Little Fat Pig and so on!"

Tian Shuai couldn't help but nod again and again when he heard this, ICQ pet? Oh, what a wonderful idea!

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On the evening of March 31st, the Chinese Theater held the premiere of "In Jurassic Park"!

The premiere was star-studded and star-studded, with almost all of Hollywood's biggest names in attendance, including the CEOs of major studios. "Jurassic Park" was not released, but the tickets for the first day were sold out, how could the CEOs of the film companies not be jealous? This kind of thing is really shocking, and what is even more shocking is that the box office on the first day actually exceeded 100 million US dollars, which is unprecedented in the history of American films, and even broke the global box office record on the first day of the movie!

There is no one who is not shocked by this statistic!

The CEO of the film company wanted to watch the film, analyze the reasons for its success, and use it to grow his own company!

At the premiere, after Bobby Robin took the stage, he said: "Welcome to the premiere of the movie "Jurassic Park", this is the fourth film invested and produced by Galaxy Films, the first three of which are "Terminator 2", "Ghost Love", "Desert Island Afterlife", and each of them has achieved very good box office results! Now it's the turn of "Jurassic Park" But obviously, the box office of this movie will be even more amazing, although the movie has not been released, but everyone knows that the first day of movie tickets are booked, and the box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars! Galaxy Pictures has produced a film known for its excellent quality, and this time will be no exception!"

"Welcome to Jurassic Park !!"

When Bobby Robin said his last words, his tone was low and deep, full of mystery!

"Mr. Bobby Robin, when will Jurassic Park be released abroad?" asked a reporter.

"It's going to be released worldwide on April 8th!" replied Bobby Robin.

Later, the main actors took the stage to give speeches, and then it was the turn of George Lucas, CEO of ILM, and Stan Winston, CEO of Galaxy Special Effects, to speak, and the CEOs of the film companies stared at them one by one. Maybe before, the film company didn't pay much attention to special effects, but now, the success of "Jurassic Park" has made them clearly realize the importance of special effects in movies!

At the same time, they couldn't help but be deeply shocked by Henry's foresight!

You must know that at the beginning of its establishment, Galaxy Film Company immediately established the Galaxy Special Effects Company, and spent a huge amount of money to increase research and development efforts, so that the technology of the Galaxy Special Effects Company has advanced by leaps and bounds, and finally it has become one of the two strongest special effects companies in the world on a par with Industrial Light and Magic!

The strength of the galaxy special effects is the particle special effects, while the strength of the industrial light and magic is CG, each with its own strengths!

The original creator of Galaxy Special Effects was actually the top special effects company "Digital Field" founded by James Cameron and Stan Winston in the previous life, but now the two have joined Galaxy Special Effects!

Stan Winston is a leading figure in Hollywood's special effects industry, he has portrayed some of the most groundbreaking roles in modern films, won 10 Oscar nominations in his lifetime, and currently won two Oscars for "Terminator 2" and "Alien", Henry bought him when he first recruited him by buying his Stan Winston studio!

In addition to these two top special effects companies, another top special effects company, Weta Studios, will be founded in New Zealand in 1993, which is the special effects team that filmed "The Lord of the Rings"!

Weta Studio's strength lies in motion capture, it is said that James Cameron decided to shoot Avatar immediately after watching The Lord of the Rings, and the first call was to Peter Jackson, hoping that his Weta Studio would use motion capture to shoot Avatar throughout the whole process!

Henry had already bought the rights to "The Lord of the Rings", so he was waiting for Peter Jackson to create Weta Studios, then buy his company, and let him shoot "The Lord of the Rings" in a few years! Peter Jackson is not only the founder of Weta Studios, but also an outstanding director, and he shot the extremely grand "Lord of the Rings Trilogy"!

Talent plus company, no matter what, Henry will definitely not "let go" of him......

(To be continued.) )