Chapter 966: A New Competition
The sunny weather for many days in a row makes it possible to visit Heron Island early in early summer.
As soon as the temperature reached 20C, some people were anxious to turn out their summer clothes and decorate the spring with short sleeves and long skirts.
Taking advantage of the weekend break, Atletico Madrid and Liu Haiyang met to watch the game and appeared in the VIP area of the Bee Stadium.
Under the care of sports departments at all levels, the Egret Island Bees team has been successfully promoted to the first division and has completed the registration, and the home stadium has been changed to the Olympic Sports Center. The original bee stadium is also not idle, in addition to the old friend "CRC Children's Robot Football Game", there is also a new event "Mirage Cup Virtual Football Invitational Tournament", which is one such game that appears in front of the two of them at this moment.
In Liu Haiyang's words, this game should actually be called "Brain Cup" to be appropriate, because this is a football game without football.
Indeed, there are only players and referees running around on the field, but only the all-important football is missing.
There is actually a football in this game, but it is a virtual football built by CG technology, which only exists in the glasses and lenses worn by players, referees and spectators on the sidelines.
Watching the game without glasses is a boring race of 21 people running blindly and two people standing stupidly. But if you wear MR/VR glasses, you will find that this is an exciting 'emotional, Mars hit the earth's wonderful game, the offensive and defensive sides dribble the ball very fast, skillful, accurate passing, most of the shots can hit the range of the goal frame, if not the goalkeeper actively saved, the score would have risen to double digits, and all this is the credit of virtual reality technology.
"This is indeed leveling the technical differences between people, the bicycle is easy to step on, the tail of the ox is thrown casually, there are heavy artillery with heavy artillery, there are fallen leaves with fallen leaves, and all kinds of sliding shovels are saved. But what about people's speed?" Pointing to the fat player who was jogging with the ball on the field, Liu Haiyang's face was full of disdain, "Look! ”
"There's no way to do it for the time being," Atletico pouted, "There are some problems with the sporty version of the exoskeleton that can increase speed, and it won't be able to catch up with this year's game; There is no way, and in the end we can only use the current compromise. ”
"And it also has the advantage of improving thinking, reaction, strategic cooperation, and exercising to increase speed, which is more like traditional competitive sports than traditional esports. ”
"It's just too expensive," Liu Haiyang shook his head, "The audience is okay, they can watch the synthesized game images through VR or even ordinary equipment, but the players need tens of thousands of bee glasses3, and the holo1 is even more expensive, how can ordinary people afford to play? ”
"Of course I know this," Atletico said, "the glasses are indeed a bit expensive now, but they will definitely become cheaper in the future, and we are developing an entry-level version of MR glasses, which should be able to be converted to less than 1,000 yuan." ”
"It's still not cheap, is it difficult to turn virtual football into an aristocratic sport?"
"Step by step, transforming various games (games and competitions) with MR technology must and can only be done as a long-term job. ”
"Also, Microsoft is not in a hurry, and you are not in a hurry," Liu Haiyang changed the topic, "What about your unmanned aircraft? ”
Atletico waved his hand calmly, "Of course it's a cold salad, and there is a high top when the sky falls." ”
To this day, the bee unmanned machine still firmly occupies the throne of the world's second civil unmanned man-machine manufacturer. If you include the fourth-ranked pony, it still ranks second. This is because the top manufacturers are developing faster, and the gap between the two sides is not narrowing, but is getting wider and wider.
It is naturally not a good thing to fall behind, but it also allows bees to indifferently look at the new situation of regulatory policies that are about to be tightened and the industry may usher in a major reshuffle, anyway, some people are more anxious than them.
"You're calm, you're really not in a hurry at all?"
"How is that possible?" Atletico looked at each other in surprise, "It's just that this kind of thing can't be rushed." We have been abiding by the law, the whole line of products is equipped with an electronic fence system as standard, and the purchase has to answer the question to obtain the pilot code, what can be done has been done, and the rest is to wait and see the changes. ”
"If I'm not mistaken," Liu Haiyang slowly threw out his purpose, "It seems that the bee's man-machine is entrusted to Xiaoma to produce on its behalf, and Xiaoma specializes in building its own aviation motor factory, if the policy is tightened and the industry shrinks, what will happen to your motors and assembly capacity?"
Atletico Madrid did not hide it, and frankly admitted: "I am also worried about this matter, once the production and sales decline, how to absorb the excess motor production capacity of self-production is indeed a big problem." ”
Hearing Atletico Madrid's distress, Liu Haiyang confidently took care of it and said: "It's simple! Just sell me all the remaining motors you have." And I can also entrust the OEM business to Pony, since I can assemble the aircraft, it is even more difficult to assemble other products. ”
When Atletico heard this, his face was full of doubts, "Can you eat it? That's nearly half a million motors." ”
Liu Haiyang leaned back, leaned on the padded seat of the court, and turned his head, "Dear, look down on people! Last year, we used this number of motors, and we can fully eat it." ”
Atletico Ma turned his head in surprise, looked at Liu Haiyang, who had obviously darkened and thinned down beside him, and nodded deeply for a long time, "It's me who underestimates the heroes of the world, I can't imagine that Tiger Company is so large-scale." ”
He naturally knows exactly where the motors bought by Tiger are used, and he also knows how fierce the competition in this industry is, and being able to use so many motors shows that their business should develop very well. However, he also knows that there are a lot of untruths in the other party's words, and the spare ones of pony power are aviation motors with better performance and higher cost, and it is impossible for the tiger to eat them, and the actual consumption should be snickered if there is one or two thousand.
Thinking so in his heart, Atletico Madrid naturally had a perfunctory, skeptical expression on his face.
Seeing him like this, Liu Haiyang shook his head and suddenly asked, "Digital Tiger's performance report last year has been sent to you, haven't you seen it yet?"
When the company was first established, Bee was the second largest shareholder after management with technical assets and cash, and had the right to appoint directors, participate in decision-making, monitor operations, and enjoy dividends. However, Atletico Madrid obviously did not exercise these rights well, and has been implementing a stocking policy for the digital tiger, leaving Lao Liu to play on his own.
Hearing the other party's question, Atletico Madrid's expression was full of embarrassment, "There are a lot of troubles during this time, I have to deal with media interviews, promote the establishment of associations, urgently update the map, and prepare proposals, I am almost crazy, so I have to postpone dealing with important and non-urgent matters." Besides, I dare to do this because I believe in your ability!"
Liu Haiyang waved his hand, his words sour, "It's important, I understand!"
Glancing at the players running back and forth on the field, Atletico said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, I'm really curious, why do you have the confidence to eat hundreds of thousands of aviation motors?"
Liu Haiyang rolled his eyes, "I don't need you to deliberately emphasize, I am clear about the price gap between ordinary motors and aviation motors, and we don't think about using aircraft engines to build motorcycles." The reason why I am so confident is actually because of the bees!"
"Because of the bees?" Atletico Madrid's mouth opened slightly, he was really a little puzzled, the other party's thinking jumped a little big, and he seemed to be unable to keep up with the rhythm.
"Two points!" Boss Liu stretched out two fingers, full of spirit, "First, the man-machine market will not collapse immediately, and the demand for motors is more likely to shrink gradually, which gives us time to gradually absorb and consume." ”
Atletico nodded slightly, and suddenly asked, "Second, are you going to say opt?"
There was no surprise on his face, Liu Haiyang nodded calmly, "Well! Of course it's it, we're very optimistic about this." ”
In April last year, Bee launched the Little Bee program at the partner conference, allowing partners to produce Bee phones in order to provide users with more choices. Because it is a "useful supplement", this opening is not thorough, and the partners only have the right to customize the hardware appearance and desktop theme, and they cannot touch the mobile phone system and app store at all, so it has been criticized a lot.
In April this year, Bee will come up with a new "OpenPT" plan, ready to allow partners to build their own PT game consoles and game stores, just like domestic Android manufacturers. However, Bee is not a good person for nothing, it is only the old platform that is open, and the latest PT2 is still firmly held in his hands.
"It's just that the system is too old," Lao Liu looked at Atletico Madrid expectantly, "It would be nice if the PTOS could also be opened, only if the performance of the console is strong enough, it will be easier for players to pay." ”
Atletico shook his head with a smile, without any intention of relenting, "Dear, your competitiveness is not here, and PTOS7 is more familiar to you, even if PT is given to you now, two months may not be able to achieve anything." ”
The reason why the pt is open is that the bees fight the idea of cultivating henchmen as a supplement, but they have never intended to love the enemy and cultivate the opponent. Blocked out of the new platform, partners can only break the game and focus on products that are not included in the Bee game store, and will not compete directly with Bee. And this is what the bees want, the great desire of men and women to eat and drink, there is a demand for supply, bees were previously hindered by regulatory policies and image positioning could not be included, and many content producers and users were sent to the loosely managed PC and Android camp, but now it is necessary to correct this mistake.
Digital Tiger has developed a number of AO games that cannot be put on the shelves, and with the shares of Bee in it, it is natural that it was selected as the first batch of partners of the OPT program, so it was able to start preparations in advance, so Liu Haiyang could know the news that would only be released in April as early as possible.
Touching Atletico Madrid's resolute attitude, Liu Haiyang said haha, "It's true that the competitiveness is not here, but the picture is better and you won't suffer after all, everyone has a love for beauty." ”
"The picture is enough, as long as you don't get entangled in the realistic painting style. In fact, in addition to the picture, you should also pay more attention to other aspects, such as voice actors. ”
As an important part of the content industry, the dubbing industry is very developed in developed countries, and developers can easily find excellent professional voice actors without worrying about character dubbing. The situation in China is much worse, film and television dubbing has not been taken seriously for a long time, there are Ji Guanlin everywhere, and game dubbing has just emerged for a long time, and it is really not easy to find voice actors who are capable and willing to dub special content.
There is no need to hammer it, Boss Liu understood the meaning of Atletico Madrid in seconds, and people were hinting that he could suppress domestic competitors by accumulating voice actors, so as to better establish an early advantage.
Nodding knowingly, he said a little greedily: "There are indeed many things that need to be paid more attention to, the voice actor is one, and the chip is also one." Can you sell us some 626 chips?brain5m sounds so powerful, it must be great to use on robots. ”
Atletico still shook their heads, "In the connected state, there is almost no difference between 5m and 1m. And the production capacity of 626 is limited, we are not enough for our own use, don't be greedy!"
"I understand! I understand!" Liu Haiyang nodded again and again, "I'm just saying hello in advance, and when the 14-nanometer chip is on the market in the future, we must be given priority!"
"That's fine, tigers are always a priority," Atletico agreed, and then instructed: "And your neural network team has to be set up." The best way to improve the AI of the characters is to establish an adversarial network and let them grind themselves, and the romance screenwriter can only be a temporary emergency, not for a long time. ”
"Of course I know that, and I've been following the progress in this area. The current NNS is still too tender, and it is no problem to use it to play chess and cards, and to play games with clear rules, but it is still a little worse to simulate human beings, and it is far inferior to human screenwriters. ”
"Not necessarily," Atletico smiled mysteriously, "the progress of the chatbot is still obvious, and it changes significantly every month." ”
"There's no hurry, anyway, you can find the bee network to buy the api when the time comes. ”
"Whatever you want," Atletico shook his head, no longer persuading.
Although the media and the people who eat melons often complain that they want to save money and trouble, it is really better to buy and buy than to rent. Atletico Madrid has e7u's alien technology as a reliance, so they have barely achieved technological independence, and the other party lacks this layer of confidence, and it is normal to want to be lazy and save trouble. Besides, it's not a bad thing to choose to rely on bees.
"Beep, beep!" the referee blew the halftime whistle, and the two teams finished the game and returned to their respective lounges.
Liu Haiyang got up at this time, and said to Atletico Madrid, who stood up with him: "Let's be here today, I still have to catch a plane, so I won't stay long." ”
Atletico knew that the opponent was about to fly to the island country to host a special match, so they didn't stay either, "Well, it went well. Pay attention to your body, don't hollow it out at a young age!"