Previously, because Da Liu won the American Nebula Award, the Nobel Prize in the science fiction industry, Chinese science fiction was very hot for a while, and film and television companies expressed great interest. In particular, the award-winning work Three-Body Problem film project is well known.

However, a year has passed, but the film has been embarrassed to start high and go low, but the producer, Youzu Pictures, has reported that the director is a rookie, the special effects team is frequently replaced, the main creator is in discord, and the executives resigned and left, which cast a shadow on the future of this much-anticipated domestic blockbuster. Even the Wandering Earth project with Bee Pictures has been questioned a lot, after all, the two projects have too many things in common: the leaders are game companies keen on film and game linkage, they don't invite international directors, and they operate science fiction blockbusters with many special effects and huge costs.

And the later development seems to confirm these rumors, after the project was launched, Bee Games launched the equivalent of the movie sequel "Earth Reconstruction Project" for the first time, which is said to have set a new sales record for domestic science fiction games. At the same time, there was no follow-up to Bee Pictures' films, neither the actors announced their entry into the group, nor the sets, and it was rumored that even the script had not been finalized, so it was unreliable no matter how you looked at it.

The declining media also gave a seemingly powerful explanation, what bees have a weak foundation in the film and television industry, and the focus is still on games and mobile phones. Then Wang Mengtang felt that what people said was reasonable and had to accept it, and even made a bet with Xu Jun on the issue of the project's existence and abolition, but it was obvious that he was going to lose this time.

In the accompaniment sound played by the mobile phone, the electronic band and symphony orchestra have quietly gone offline, only the familiar female voice humming is still floating in a graceful way, rendering the helpless and hesitant mood on the wandering road, and the tune is the propaganda song of the wandering earth announced in advance.

This somewhat strange lonely planet ran away to escape the helium flash of the sun and went to the Earth King of Proxima Centauri next door.

Because of the long-term lack of light and heat from solar radiation, the temperature of the entire earth has plummeted and fallen into ice, the atmosphere has become shorter and thinner, oceans, rivers and lakes have frozen into ice, and the earth has been covered with white nitrogen snow and light blue oxygen snow. This lasted for more than 2,000 years, until the "sun" reappeared on the horizon, and the snow and ice began to melt slowly, bubbles, reflecting the glittering streamers, but also with a unique beauty, if you ignore the huge cracks and messy potholes in the ice.

Some of these scars are souvenirs from the passage through the asteroid belt, while others are the result of a new wave of volcanic activity. Although the location of the Earth Engine has a solid geological foundation that guarantees that it will not collapse the earth's crust, the continuous operation of the super engine for hundreds of thousands of years has inevitably led to the consequences of accelerated plate movement and reactivation of volcanic activity, causing countless problems for the remaining human beings on Earth.

Although he heard the origin of the humming tune, Wang Mengtang still planned to resist stubbornly, and grinned, "Isn't this the opening CG of the Three Kingdoms of Bugs?"

"Bug Three Kingdoms" is the nickname of "Earth Reconstruction Project", the plot of this hybrid style sandbox new game takes place after humans arrive in Proxima Centauri, the devastated earth is in urgent need of rebuilding the ecosystem, and human beings are divided into two factions because of the concept of governance to establish their own regimes, coupled with the spirit forces composed of high-IQ mutant creatures, together staged a future version of the Three Kingdoms War. And because the wild monsters in the game are mainly arthropods with strong resistance to adversity, various insects, various spiders, carapaces and earthworms, they are nicknamed "Three Kingdoms of Bugs" and "Three Kingdoms of Insecticides" by players.

In fact, the loss is the loss, Lao Wang still likes this domestic sci-fi game, and there is a full-level account as proof.

"It's normal.,The plot of the reconstruction of the earth is something after the wandering era.,Its opening just corresponds to the ending of the movie.。 Besides, it's just that the plot is connected, and the content is different."

"It could also be a promo for Rebuild Earth 2. ”

Xu Jun disagreed with his speculation, "How come? The game short film can be put on next month, won't it be fresh to release it now?"

At this time, a voice suddenly interjected, "Stop arguing!

The two of them turned their heads to look at the person who came, and found that it was Shen Hao from Beihang, and immediately asked in unison, "Shenhao, what's the matter with you?"

In terms of family property alone, Shen, who was born in Beijing and has two sets of school district houses, is indeed rich, relying on renting out two extra houses to nesting couples and accompanying parents, the Shen family has taken the road of well-off ahead of most people, but there is still a lot of distance from the trench, and this nickname is more of a ridicule of the homonym of the name.

"What kind of trench am I? I'm just gnawing old waste," Shen Hao sighed, and said with his finger out: "If you can't get a result by standing like this, let's go out with me and have a look, and you will know who is right and who is wrong when you get to the place." ”

Then the two of them were taken by him to the TV wall where he was watching the live broadcast just now, pointing to one of the screens, Shen Hao said proudly: "See, there is only one truth, the bee plans to shoot a full-dome movie!"

"Are you kidding?" the two subconsciously retorted, but as their eyes followed each other's fingers to the screen, they were speechless.

Through the camera lens, they can see that the seats in the auditorium are all folded back, and the guests are half-lying looking at the ceiling, where there is a very large image of the Earth, which does look a bit similar to a dome theater.

As the name suggests, the screen of the dome theater is a curved sphere, which can be buckled above the auditorium like a dome, so that the picture covers the audience's field of vision, which can bring a strong sense of presence and a certain sense of immersion, and is most suitable for expressing various large scenes.

However, if you want to maintain a sense of presence, you can only use the first perspective and long shots as much as possible, and strive to avoid jumping and shaking the picture so as not to interrupt the immersive experience with changes in perspective. However, filmmaking is inseparable from lens techniques and montage editing, and it is difficult to integrate into the traditional film technology and artistic system, resulting in full-dome films have always been unpopular in the film industry. I can only do the same as when I was invented 70 years ago, huddle in science and education places such as science and technology museums and planetariums, playing documentaries about space, the bottom of the sea and flight on a loop, and embarrassingly earn the visit fee of small pot friends.

This is the case with full-dome movies, and VR technology, which is more adept at the sense of presence and substitution, also encounters this problem. Until now, not a single VR feature film has appeared, which has become one of the reasons for skeptics to look down on the Wandering Earth project, after all, the film claims to be released in VR.

Of course, the effect of the light gray ceiling is not as good as that of a real movie screen, but it has an advantage that it cannot reach, that is, the area is large enough. Coupled with the meticulously crafted ultra-high-resolution images and high-brightness laser projectors, the huge planet looks imposing, as if everyone is staying in a super-large space station and then looking back at the Earth together.

It's a pity that such a shocking experience can only be experienced on the spot, and what you see through the mobile phone and the monitoring screen is a layer worse after all, and it lacks so much meaning.

After thinking about it, Xu Jun said: "This is not a dome, right? It feels more like a giant screen, but the placement of the screen is a little strange." ”

"This student is right," a staff member on the side answered: "The Wandering Earth will still be produced using conventional technology, 2D, 3D, giant screen, VR has but will not be the whole process." But that doesn't stop us from trying some new technology on the 'hard new life', does it?"

Secretly noting the revelation that the Wandering Earth will not be VR all the way, Xu Jun asked: "Difficult new life? This name is really vivid, is it a trailer for The Wandering Earth?"

"Yes, it's one of the expected endings, and it's about a human offspring who have finally reached the orbit of Proxima Centauri as planned after a long journey, so it's a 'difficult rebirth'. ”

Seeing Xu Junchao's recent protesting chin picking, Wang Mengtang also asked, "One of the endings?" means that there are other endings?"

"Hehe, you can't say it, you can't say it," the employee said at this time.

Then he changed the subject and said: "By the way, this short film also has a dome and VR version, if you want to see the dome version, you can go to the service desk to sign and get tickets for the Foxtail Mountain Planetarium, from now until the end of the month, at least 5 rounds of broadcasts will be arranged every day, you can watch it with a ticket." That place was supposed to be the scheduled main venue, but after the boss inspected it, he thought the place was too old and gave it up. Fortunately, there was a conference center as an emergency backup plan, but there was no big basket. If you have time, you can go over and check it out, the real dome theater is a little better than this temporary cameo. ”

"Then why don't you hold a development conference in Deep Space Cinema? It should be much better on a real giant screen, right?" Shen Hao obviously had a grudge against the giant screen that caused him trouble, so he opened his mouth to ask.

"No way, there aren't enough seats. You have also seen that there are nearly 3,000 people at this star press conference, but the giant screen hall can only accommodate more than 400 people, and the number of seats in each deep space cinema is not more than 1,000, so you can't open a bunch of branch venues, right?"

"Who knows where you found so many people, is there so much media in China?" Shen Hao said in a sullen voice.

"There are so many websites, TV stations, newspapers, radio, of course there are so many media. However, this time it was not all media reporters, but also some loyal fans and online commentators who were specially invited. ”

As for the specific ratio, of course, it cannot be said, this is a trade secret. Seeing that the three of them didn't seem to be interested in the planetarium tickets, the staff said: "If it's too far, you can also go to the VR experience hall next door, where there are VR versions of 'Difficult New Life' and 'Crossing the Sea of Stars', and the effect is also very good and worth seeing." Everywhere should know, right?"

"Across the Stars" is the first trailer released last year, and the plot is about the encounter of the Earth as it crosses the asteroid belt. This video was later put on the Internet, and because it is native 4K and well-made, it was used as a test clip by many VR enthusiasts, just like the original "Duck Flew 4K", which has quite a good reputation.

Earn a lot of free popularity from it,Bee obviously saw the benefits,Later, it released native 8K、Native 10K trial video,But because of the size is too large, the download is inconvenient and the lack of playback equipment and other reasons,The popularity of these latecomers is obviously not as good as that of predecessors,The number of downloads adds up to only a fraction of the "sea of stars"。

This proposal obviously scratched the itch of the three of them, and they repeatedly said "I know, I know", and then said goodbye to the enthusiastic staff and walked towards the VR museum.

When he arrived at the place, Wang Mengtang suddenly stretched out his hand to grab Xu Jun, and whispered in his ear: "Old Xu, have you noticed? Today's waiter seems to be much more beautiful than last time?"

The latter glanced behind the glass door, and also nodded in approval, "I feel like I want to be younger and prettier, after all, it's a different person." ”

When the two were talking, Shen Hao happened to lean over and stretch out his ears to eavesdrop, and after hearing the content ......of the conversation, he couldn't help but hold his stomach and laugh: "Haha, you guys!"

"Isn't it funny?" the two students turned their heads in unison and glared at someone angrily.

"It's funny," Shen Hao took out his mobile phone and pointed it at the two of them, "Do you dare to repeat the conversation just now?"

"What's not to dare?" Wang Xu and the two said in unison.

But having said that, they didn't repeat what they had said, which was really stupid to record. The two glanced at each other, each took out their newly bought Bee 7, and while tapping on the screen to write a message, they said to Shen Hao in a tone of hatred: "Classmate, you don't have the spirit of sharing! Seeing such an empty VR experience hall, I didn't want to send a group message to inform my friends, be careful that everyone goes back to criticize you!"

In order to welcome this strategic conference and the large number of guests that followed, the VR pavilion began to prepare several days in advance, equipment maintenance, personnel transfer, to ensure the best appearance to welcome visitors from all over the world.

It's just that the press conference hasn't ended yet, and the three thousand guests are still in Hall 1 and haven't come out, and they happened to be grabbed by Xu Jun and them in the front row.

The last visit was obviously not fun, and I only experienced a few pieces of equipment before being pulled elsewhere, and today I had plenty of time to play.

So when Bee's old friend, Yuan Yang from the island city, stepped here, he saw more than 20 young people wearing the same T-shirts and looking like students having fun inside.

Thinking of the purpose of his coming, the editor in charge of the VR version immediately stepped forward, walked to the side of a few students who were tired of playing and resting, took out a voice recorder and asked if he could have an interview.

These happened to be the first to arrive Wang Xu Shen and the three of them, and they took advantage of their early arrival to occupy the most fun and popular simulators respectively, and they had just come down from above to rest.

After receiving the request for an interview, they simply asked which media it was, and after hearing that the other party was from the home of the machine, they readily agreed to the interview, and they did not mean to check the other party's press card in accordance with the law.

"So, what do you think are the shortcomings of the equipment here?" asked Yuan Yang.

"I'm too tired!" The three of them said in unison, seeing that the other party was a little puzzled, Xu Jun also stretched out his hand and pointed to his forehead, "I just played "Ape VR" for ten minutes, and I was tired like this." ”