Chapter 540: Sense of Speed
Although these technologies such as VR virtual reality, image recognition, and new display are dazzling and novel, they look very futuristic, but most of them are still a long way from maturity. Therefore, those predators are not in a hurry to get involved, but let a number of start-up small companies toss in it, and they only give some limited support to the children through venture capital and other means.
If it fails, it's a big deal to lose a small amount of money, and if it succeeds, it can be directly injected into the acquisition, and if the acquisition fails, then the poaching will not be successful, and the prosecution will always be able to be harvested.
Some of them are like the villains who spread the exercises in the Xianxia text and let the young heroes try the exercises for them......
However, if a young man is unlucky, falls off a cliff and encounters a secret realm, enters the mountain to get Zhu Guo, and after eating, his skills will rise gradually, and the strength comparison will change The original harvesting plan can only be torn and redone, and it may not be able to really be implemented for the rest of his life.
There is no doubt that the bee is such a lucky young man who has won an adventure.
Since its establishment 8 years ago, bees have developed rapidly with each passing day, and have achieved a position in many fields, basically gaining a firm foothold, and in emerging fields such as visual computing, they have become the king of leading the industry, although such a status is still a bit like "there is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king". As VR technology matures, big names like FB, Facebook, and Google, which spent $1.5 billion to acquire OculVR, a well-known startup in the industry, have also begun to get involved.
In fact, in the field of VR, Bee Vision, which has released multiple versions of products, is the world's first, both in terms of the number of products and sales, crushing Ocul, which has no official products yet. However, the bees have turned down several offers to buy, saying that they are still optimistic about this perennial loss-making business, so FB has to settle for the next best thing and spend a lot of money to pocket the latter.
In contrast, Google is more treacherous, using only ten dollars or even less CardWave cardboard glasses, it has successfully swiped a wave of presence in this field, which is simply a model of doing big things with little money.
Of course, this is only the surface of the story, and the latter actually costs a lot of money. After all, a simple paper shell has little value, and it is always the content that attracts users. The addition of VR visual resources on products such as Google Street View can cost them a lot of money.
This is also true for Dreamwalker, the biggest expense of this project is in the content production, although it does not make any money for the company, but it has also accumulated a large VR fortune. There are videos of scenic spots, free-view movies and cartoons, and of course, games. Not only did it cooperate with Beegame to launch VR games, but also provided financial sponsorship and acquisition of package-raising methods, and established a bunch of small companies focusing on the production of such games in Japan, Europe and the United States, and the selling point of VR really helped PT a lot.
However, because of the function and experience, these film and television dramas and games are not long-form masterpieces, and most of them are various first-person short videos or games. After all, many Chengren content consumers have long been trained to "have no horses in their hearts", and some of them have reached the highest level of "eyes off clothes", for the VR picture of the full screen screen lattice because the resolution of the device is too low, the acceptance is naturally much higher, no matter how bad this picture is, it is much more vivid than newspaper color printing.
And the length of the video/game level of ten minutes is also more in line with most people's habits, anyway, these videos and games are sold online, and there is no need to consider the capacity of the DVD, and it doesn't matter if it's shorter.
The only trouble is that this kind of content is not easy to put on the bee platform, and many games and video applications that are too large for bee to use themselves, can only be used by cheap outsiders, but it adds a lot of greasy VR resources to the Windows and Android platforms.
In line with the idea that they cannot unilaterally suffer losses, Atletico Madrid took the opportunity to go to the United States to meet with Google's senior management in person, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation in the development of the VR market, open each other's VR resources, mutually beneficial and jointly expand the number of VR users, and cooperate in the development of VR video standards and strive to promote them as international standards.
Everyone reached a cooperation intention just by meeting for a cup of coffee, and there were not too many disputes about the terms of the follow-up agreement, and it was easily done.
There has been a lot of cooperation between BG and the two sides before,Bee is the largest application provider on the Android platform,Google's ace apps also have Beeos versions,Although these apps are basically crippled in China,But it still plays a lot of roles in the overseas sales of bee mobile phones。
So exchanging VR resources or something,In fact, it's just an admission of facts,Before that,Bee users can still use cardboard glasses to watch the VR version of Google Street View,Android users can also see the Bee movie box VR version,As well as a large number of VR games,Not to mention Atletico Madrid's secretly invested in Gsword (big sword)、Bluebeard and other companies have also contributed more wonderful content to them。
As for the joint development of VR video standards or something, it is not too difficult for Google to accept the content, although the YouTube under the name of the latter is the world's largest video website, but the accumulation of VR video is still not as much as that of bees after all, and it is still very cost-effective to directly quote the mature technical standards of bees, which can help them expand VR video resources.
This time, let everyone watch it with cardboard glasses, called "Atletico Madrid takes you to feel the speed of 350 kilometers per hour, dark horse B1 test drive", is the first video on YouTube to use the new VR standard code, in fact, it is still the original bee standard, but some details have been modified to make it more suitable for YouTube playback.
So even if you are not at the scene, you can take out your mobile phone and open the turtle app to watch this video.
In fact, this video is still the title party, although it is claimed to "take you to feel the speed of 350 kilometers per hour", but in fact, such a high speed is only run on a straight track in the test field, and the speed at other times is only 200 or even lower.
Although Atletico's physical fitness is definitely comparable to that of the top F1 drivers, the speed of shifting gears is absolutely top-notch, and he can easily withstand the load brought to the body when the car accelerates and decelerates rapidly, but he can bear it, but it does not mean that the car can carry it.
Because centrifugal force is not transferred by human will, it will run out of the runway if it does not slow down when encountering a curve. Even a low-profile, grippy and downforce-strong F1 car can only go below 300 km/h on corners, and even less than 100 km/h in those 180-degree U-turns.
Especially at the grandhotel corner of Monaco Monte Carlo, one of the four major circuits, the cornering speed dropped directly to 50 kilometers, because this track was built on the urban streets of Monte Carlo, one of the world's four largest congested cities. As a result, Monte Carlo is also the slowest Formula 1 circuit, with an average speed of only 150 kilometers per hour.
After all, the test site where Atletico Madrid shot the video is not a speed track that circles round and round, and there are also many corners arranged here to test the performance of the car, and the whole speed is also not up.
However, it is like this, but it shows the extraordinary of the dark horse, as an electric car, its biggest advantage is that it accelerates quickly in an instant, and it is the most suitable to deal with such a frequent acceleration and deceleration of the venue, coupled with Atletico Madrid's flexible and timely operation, the speed of the vehicle is very smooth, and there is no sudden increase and decrease of the sense of stuck, just like a big black fish swimming leisurely but quickly, full of speed beauty.
In the second half of the video, the audience saw a different scene.
In the second half of the video, the dark horse leaves this neat and delicate but also small test field, like a wild horse released into the grassland, galloping in the vast Nevada desert. As far as the eye can see, in addition to the blue sky overhead, there is an endless brown field around it, and as the neck rotates, the perspective of the picture in the eyes also rotates, so that everyone can see the wasteland scenery outside the car window that has been quickly thrown behind them, which looks extraordinarily sensitive.
Although most of the audience are old and beautiful, and although most of the audience has cars, not everyone has this kind of experience of indulging in the vast desert. If the car breaks down in the desert, even if you can call for rescue by satellite phone, you still have to endure the cold or heat for several hours in the desert, which is definitely not a comfortable experience.
Although the resolution of this VR video is not high, it is obviously carefully processed, and the pixels and frame rate of the original video should also be very high, so that the quality of the final picture is very good, and everyone can still feel the sense of speed in the face wearing simple cardboard box glasses. As a result, many people have the idea of driving in the desert, of course, a single bicycle is absolutely undaring, but there are not many car owners here, you can make an appointment to form a group.
Although the car can run at a top speed of more than 300 kilometers on the track, the real limit speed is outside the standard track, such as the ultimate speed of 415 kilometers per hour in the Formula 1 car, which was run by the Honda team at the Mojave desert airport in South Africa. And with the FIF revising the formula and changing the F1 engine from a 3-litre V10 to a 2.4-litre V8 to reduce manufacturing costs and increase safety, this speed is basically impossible to break.
Of course, such speed is only the limit of four-stroke racing, for those strange rocket cars equipped with aviation turbojet engines, the speed of sound above 1200 kilometers per hour is their goal, the current "car" The fastest record was set by former British pilot Andy Green, in the Nevada desert in the United States in 1997, he piloted the TRTSSC with two Spey (Spey202) engines of the British company Rolls-Royce, and ran a limit speed of 1,228 kilometers per hour, exceeding the speed of sound at that time by two percent.
It is worth mentioning that this engine has another more resounding Chinese name, turbofan-9 "Qinling", that is, the engine of the famous J-7 Flying Leopard. In 1975, China signed a contract to introduce the production patent of this engine, but due to financial and experience reasons, it was not until 2003 that the localization was completed.
The electric motor carried by the dark horse is produced by Bee's own motor factory, and before the breakthrough of superconducting materials at room temperature, there are no too strong technical barriers in the field of electric motors, and even if there is, it can be easily overcome after all. However, the engine is not good, the material formula and production process, structural design, processing technology, surface treatment process, and even fuel and additive formula and production process...... It can be said that there is a pit after a pit.
It is rumored that an important reason why Spey took 30 years to digest it is that the British only gave the final design drawings and did not deliver R&D records. Completely according to the data step by step, every parameter does not move, of course, you can create a complete and usable SPEY202, but this can only know what it is, do not know why, want to understand thoroughly, and then optimize and improve and even imitate the design of new engines is as difficult as the sky.
In the past, it didn't matter if Atletico played all-electric, but now it's different, and he has to worry about engine problems.
Pony does not have a production plant in North America, and now this batch of 10 W is Atletico Madrid spent a lot of money to rent a high-precision machining center, and then produce it by himself, the cost of man-hours is simply beyond the sky, and there is basically no next time.
In terms of materials and processing technology, this engine is completely aviation standard, at least civil-grade aviation standard, and the starting point is much higher and more expensive than the power generation standard.
In fact, with the nature of the training engine, the materials used can be one or two grades lower, there is no need to use real aviation materials, and there is no need to rent a high-precision machining center, and the general CNC machine tool can be completely done. At that time, the company's American chief engineer persuaded him so, but Atletico Madrid, who has always pursued enough, did not listen to this rationalization suggestion, saying that his purpose was to see the legendary aviation production process and fulfill his wish.
Regarding the rich and capricious young man, the retired chief engineer also immediately knelt down, and then actively helped Atletico Madrid contact the factory where he used to work and helped complete the manufacture of this batch of engines.
Unfortunately, due to the conservative structural design, this engine, which was produced in full accordance with aero engine standards, was ultimately just an ordinary micro gas turbine for power generation.
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