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Boracay Island (Poracay), located in the central Philippines, gets its name from the long 4 km long beach.

Like most other tropical islands, this slender barbell-shaped island has beautiful scenery such as coconut palms, hot winds, white sand, blue sea, and blue sky, and because of the wind direction, the white sand beach on the west side of the island is leeward and sunny, suitable for swimming, diving, sea fishing, and sunbathing, while the bula beach on the east side has a large and steady wind and waves, suitable for surfing, kitesurfing, parasailing, sailing and other water sports, and is a good place with rich tourism resources.

As a country that lists the tourism service industry as a pillar industry, the Philippines began to vigorously develop its tourism resources as early as the 70s of the last century, and has built hundreds of resorts of different levels, and common water and underwater leisure sports can basically be seen.

However, it is not easy to enjoy such a beautiful view, because the whole island is only 10 square kilometers of space, and Boracay Island does not have an airport, so if you want to get there, you have to take a plane to Manila and other cities with international airports, and then transfer to a small plane to Panay Island, where the capital of Akram Province is located, Kalibo (Kalibo), and then take a car out of the airport to the port to take a motorized crab boat to Long Beach, the whole journey takes two or three hours. Of course, you can also take a passenger boat directly from the port of Manila and take the waterway, saving a lot of trouble of transferring, and you can also enjoy the island style along the way, but this will take more time and is only suitable for tourists who have enough time.

Obviously, the cumbersome mode of transportation of the "land, sea and air mobilization", as well as the small size, have limited the development of Boracay's tourism industry.

In addition, the increasing number of kidnappings and hijackings in the Philippines, as well as the official death mixed into the great power game in the South China Sea, are also important reasons for tourists, especially mainland tourists, to stay away from the region. After all, the blue sea and silver sand or something, almost the standard configuration of tropical islands, in fact, it is not so rare, there are Sabah, Bali, Phuket, Maldives Islands and other famous islands in Asia alone.

Most tropical islands are developed from coral reefs, and their beaches are mostly white with calcium carbonate from dead coral exoskeletons and shell fragments, and if red coral is found nearby, it can form a rare pink beach. Because coral reefs are isolated in the sea and lack the mud humus brought by land rivers, they generally have the characteristics of clear and turquoise water, like liquid gems.

Correspondingly, most of the temperate islands come from the peaks of the seabed, and their beaches come from the weathered detritus of the rocks, except for the black sand beaches formed by volcanic rocks, most of the temperate beaches are brownish-yellow, and the nearby sea water is also yellow and gray because of the high content of sediment and organic matter, which is not as good as the tropical white sand beaches, which is also an important reason for countless temperate tourists to fly to tropical islands for vacation.

In this VR video of "Walking on Long Beach", the producer is trying his best to render the beautiful scenery of Boracay Island and a variety of entertainment methods, allowing the audience to follow the camera along the beach, dive and watch fish, explore the bat cave, experience surfing and flying, which can be said to be done quite carefully and kryptonite.

Because of the phenomenal success of the two Japanese-style two-dimensional games "Jian Niang" series of strategic web games and the "lovelive" idol development mobile game in Asia, they have attracted a large number of players to "build a large number of fees" and "draw cards for fees", and the Japanese "fees" that represent recharge and consumption have quickly entered the field of vision of hundreds of millions of people. And the fictional cherished material "Krypton Gold" in "World of Warcraft" was also popular for a while in the form of "blind Krypton Gold Dog Eyes", and as a result, these two homophones coincidentally became synonymous, and they were also used to refer to the behavior of being willing to spend money.

In addition to making various VR movies and television games, Bee Mirage also sells panoramic camera equipment for various purposes. The price of their equipment varies greatly, not only two wide-angle cameras, but also the simple "magic eye" that costs less than 200 yuan, as well as the waterproof and shockproof, high-definition and low-distortion "gem ball" worth hundreds of thousands, and even recently they are still building a space version of the panoramic camera that can shoot a blockbuster in the sky.

The Philippine Tourism Authority's promotional video on the scenery of Changtan Island, the content is both heaven and sea, and naturally it cannot be made with ordinary equipment, and naturally it does not contribute income to Bee Mirage and Atletico Madrid.

It is also for this reason that Atletico Madrid specially brought his wife to experience these equipment, which can not only reminisce about the trip to Boracay a few days ago, but also see some highlights and experiences, which can be taken to Bee Mirage to learn to do.

At least after watching this film, he immediately had the idea of selling a VR photography platform to the outside world.

As the name suggests, these products are platforms designed to carry VR cameras, and some are similar to the camera slides, booms, and Steadicam (a lens stabilizer that is mainly hung on the cameraman's body), but with their own characteristics.

As the seventh and eighth arts, film and television are different from other art forms in that they are flexible and diverse, and they can convey a lot of information to the audience through visual elements such as composition, perspective, and editing. Film and television directors and cinematographers flexibly use 30 kinds of lens techniques such as pan, pitch, push rail, zoom, close-up and so on to shoot different scenes according to the different creative purposes and shooting objects, and then use them with the cooperation of directors and editors, with genius minds or skilled experience to combine them into a montage (editing) unique to film and television dramas, and finally express different meanings.

This also leads to a consequence, although the concept of VR virtual reality has set off several crazes, and the recent wave is very close to maturity and far more powerful than before, but the film and television industry is indifferent to it. Compared with this, high-definition, high-frame-rate, high-dynamic range HDR, and even high-fidelity and panoramic sound are the focus of their attention.

In fact, it is easy to understand that increasing the resolution, frame rate, brightness range, high-fidelity sound effect, and panoramic sound field restoration only further enhance the original audio and video effect, while VR has a tendency to lift the table. In the field of VR panoramic images, which emphasize the autonomy of the audience, most of the classic lens techniques and montage techniques used in film and television dramas have lost their effect. When shooting a VR video, the director asks "Where do I stand?" and the cinematographer says, "Where do I put my head?"

Conventional cameras can only shoot images within a certain angle of view in front, and will not shoot the photographer next to him and the director staring at the monitor behind, and the cameras that can be used for VR photography are multi-lens products, which can shoot panoramic images from a 360-degree perspective at a time, so that the two who usually stand in the back and on the side should naturally worry about where to stand.

Of course, there are always more solutions than problems, and there are several unique ways to shoot VR films.

The party represented by the blue film industry emphasizes the user experience, and directly fixes the panoramic camera on the actor's head, so that the audience can substitute the actor's subjective perspective. The filming of "Walk on Boracay" was also filmed in this way, with an actor with a camera on his head, and the audience could only see the front of his body and arms, but not the back and face.

Tang Jiayi only watched it for a while before recognizing this shooting mode, after all, there are already hundreds of VR blue films on the Internet that have been shot in a similar way. Although she said that she didn't have the leisure to go to see them, she couldn't stand the repeated Amway of Atletico Madrid, and was pulled by him to see some fine products that met the oriental aesthetics, and more or less had some impressions.

Blue Pictures has always been known for its ultra-low production costs and aggressive and bold embrace of new technologies.

It is used to describe some industries as "not occupying an area or occupying a room, and only one bed is needed for work." No noise and no pollution, just occasionally shouting "In fact, it can also be used to describe the blue film industry, their budget on sets, costumes, props and actors' salaries can make B-grade film producers embarrassed, even if they lose money, they don't lose much, and naturally dare to try new themes and new technologies."

Similarly, because of the small investment and low threshold, the competition in the blue film industry is much more fierce than in the low-cost and fast-production B-grade film field, prompting producers to actively pay attention to new hot spots and new technologies in order to shoot as many hot works as possible that the market is interested in.

For example, 5 years ago, when the "Avatar" movie became popular all over the world, HTLER, which is known as the "blue film aircraft carrier", spent one million dollars to shoot the very "blue" Blu-ray 3D film "Thisain-Tavatarxxx (This is not Avatar)".

There are not a few other filmmakers who follow the trend to shoot 3D blue films, as well as blue light and blue films. Historically, it was the blue film industry's support for VHS tapes and Blu-ray discs that allowed these two formats to beat their competitors and become the industry standard. Therefore, in the field of VR, Bees has not underestimated the influence of these "obscene" films at all, and has been working hard to win them over, and even specially developed panoramic cameras for them that can be worn on their heads like hats, so that the blue film company can let the actor act as a photographer and bring the audience a more impactful first-person view.

In fact, this idea was originally thought up by the producer, in order to solve the problem of VR vision, the bee organization company's elite soldiers, specially developed several different structures and uses of VR photography platform, both suitable for traditional slide lifts and bicycle car adapter brackets, as well as specially designed remote control machine qì people, so that photographers can shoot remotely, it can be said that you can go to the sky and the sea. They even made a camera that is close to human in height and size, which can be fixed on the "neck", which can bring a more realistic subjective perspective, which helps to enhance the audience's sense of substitution and immersion, and is widely used in VR projects in scenic spots.

However, these latter products were not sold out, but the bee mirage was used by itself, so the tourism promotional film production team could only find the VR hat worn by the actor of the blue film for their people to wear. Fortunately, Bee has long taken into account the popularity of bathroom and pool plays, and has specially launched a waterproof version of the panoramic camera, and also launched a low-drag version of the flight model for extreme sports enthusiasts, so that the beautiful scenery of Boracay Island can be perfectly recorded.

And on the other "Riding Manila", there is even more element of bee technology. This time, instead of continuing to use VR hats, the makers fixed a high-definition "jewel ball" to the bicycle with a VR connector, and the effect was as if they were sitting in the back seat, and they even specially found two handsome guys and a woman, a man and a woman, to act as jockeys in front. Thanks to the strong performance of the "jewel ball" worthy of the price, the beautiful scenery, handsome guys, and beauties have been completely photographed, and the picture effect is much better than the previous one.

For panoramic photography, two back-to-back ultra-wide-angle lenses (fisheye lenses) can be used to shoot a 360-degree panoramic picture, but in this way, the near-large and far-small, barrel-shaped distortion of the wide-angle lens is also brought in, and it is only suitable for less rigorous occasions, such as the low-end product bee "magic eye" is this design. There is a striking lens on the front and back of the eye, which looks like a white eyeball with two pupils, hence the name "magic eye". It's the same as a mobile phone like N1VRThe box,It's more about the goal of popularizing the concept of VR,Image quality can only be reluctantly abandoned。

Anyway, for bees, they also have high-end products like "gem balls" to justify the name of VR, and they don't need to worry about leaving users with a low-quality, dazzling impression.

It is also for this reason that the designer has opened a frenzied stacking mode on this product, with tens of millions of pixels of professional C touch S and high-end glass lens groups directly coming to dozens of sets, so that this spherical camera that looks like a spherical camera inlaid with gems is also on par with real gemstone products in terms of price, and the name "gem ball" also comes from this and is widely spread.

However, even if it is sold at such an expensive price, people still buy several sets, which shows that the state unit is not bad for money.

A lot of money has been spent on the equipment, and it is even more difficult to be stingy on the "player", the headset uses N7, the host uses high-end WB, and the treadmills and bicycles used to assist are also international brands.

"Aren't there a lot of cyclists, why do they fancy your bike?"

"Haha, of course, because the bee electric bicycle is an international brand, the quality is trustworthy!"

"Cut! You just blow it! Don't force the tie-in, right?" Tang always didn't believe this statement, and she felt that the kind she guessed might be bigger.

"We really didn't tie the sale," Atletico said with a smile, "but people have taken a fancy to their unified interface, and we can't stop it, right?"

"It's not a tie-in? You're not afraid that people will give you an anti-monopoly investigation?"

"I'm looking forward to anti-monopoly," Atletico said slightly lonely, only with a dominant market position need to worry about anti-monopoly, and the bees are still waiting for the time being.