Chapter 241: Lightsaber
Seeing off the UPS driver in brown uniform, Carl closed the door and walked into the living room, walking to the cardboard box on the floor.
Carl picked up a black paper tube from the open delivery box, then opened the paper tube and pulled out a thin rod more than a meter long, which was somewhat like a fluorescent tube, more than a meter long slender white light body, and below it was a foot-long (about 30 centimeters) metal handle.
Grabbing the metal handle with both hands, Carl gently pressed a hidden button, and with a buzzing sound, the lamp gradually lit up blue from the shank, lighting up the entire tube in less than a second.
Of course, in Carl's eyes, it wasn't a lamp in his hand.
Holding his hands upright in front of him, a slightly harsh blue light shone on Karl's face, and the pale blonde curly hair and the sparse beard on his lips were all illuminated and changed color.
"Haha, I feel the Force with me!"
Well, this guy is another Star Wars fan who uses "maytheforcebewith!" as a mantra. This sentence was originally a common blessing in Star Wars movies, but now it has become an identity label for Star Wars fans.
As a Star Wars fan, this "lightsaber" is naturally not Carl's first lightsaber, and he has contributed an unknown amount of income to Lucas in the past ten years.
Lightsaber is a melee weapon with a high appearance rate in the Star Wars series, and in a sense, it has become a visual symbol that distinguishes Star Wars from other space sci-fi genres: you have spaceships, space stations, and smooth exoskeleton armor, but you don't have lightsabers, so you are not Starwars.
Officially, the blade of the lightsaber is composed of plasma produced by the crystal's energy, which is confined by a magnetic field into the shape of a blade of more than one meter, and has a variety of colors depending on the crystal, but the most common colors are blue and green, as well as red inspired by the Sith Clon's unique artificial crystals.
After a few strokes of lightsaber fighting, Karl looked down at the hilt of his sword and frowned slightly, Jedi knights don't put such a thing on their hilt!
There is a small hole at the end of the hilt of his "lightsaber", and a lanyard with a hook sticks out of it that can be put around the waist to prevent the player from throwing the "lightsaber" out of his hand in an agitated way, which is just a bit annoying to slap on his wrist just now.
As soon as he reached out and pulled the lanyard, more lanyards were pulled out of the small hole in the hilt, which could be pulled apart by about two feet at most, and as soon as the hand put the lanyard down, it slowly retracted, leaving only a piece of tail exposed.
"Ohshxt! It's not enough for them to tie a rope to the remote, they also have to tie a rope to a lightsaber!"
One of the three major TV game consoles, the Wii game console, the innovative Retouch TE wireless somatosensory handle uses sensor technology to determine the movement posture of the handle, which is very good at simulating swords, golf clubs, and tennis rackets. The handle is a long strip of one-handed operation and is battery-powered without cables, making it look like a TV remote.
Because there have been several accidents where players have slipped out of the handle in excitement, causing the handle to fall and even smash the TV, Nintendo has attached a lanyard to the RE touch handle to prevent accidents. And now the makers of this "lightsaber" seem to have learned the lesson of Nintendo and directly come with a lanyard as standard.
"It's a good thing that you won't be able to see this annoying rope when you start the game!" he could only comfort himself.
Turning off the lightsaber switch, Carl pressed the other button with his right hand, then grabbed the "blade" with his left hand with a little force to make the blade rotate a small half circle, and the left and right hands separated outward pulled the blade out of the hilt.
The remaining hilt is significantly lighter, and the metal material on the surface is not at all as heavy as it seems.
Putting down the blade and hilt, Carl turned his gaze to the cardboard box, where he had to assemble the parts inside, which was not difficult for an American man who lived alone. After all, many of them can go up to the house to repair leaks (cover them with waterproof felt and then fix them), they can cut the grass in the ground, the water pipes can be blocked, the car can be repaired without running, the wages of temporary workers in the United States are too high, and these small jobs are generally done by the heads of households and men themselves.
Half an hour later, a circular black fence appeared on the floor of Carl's living room, the edge of the fence was decorated with green fluorescent lines, the bottom of the downward depression was printed with the logo font "Starwars: TheforceUnlea (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed)", and to the right of the Star Wars logo there was a black and white color β on the left.
Carl knew that β meant infinity, and that the colorful infinity icon was supposed to be the logo of the manufacturer of the quirky so-called omnidirectional treadmill in front of him, a technology company on the other side of the Pacific.
This year's Fourth of May Star Wars Day falls on Monday, and Lucas Art, the developer of The Force Unleashed, has teamed up with the producers of The Big Bang Theory (TBBT) to release a Star Wars special that is not meant to commemorate the 32-year-old Star Wars, but to promote the late release of the Force on PC.
Although he knew that there would be a lot of advertising in this episode, Carl, who was both a fan of the show and a Star Wars fan, applied for a ticket to visit the on-site filming and was lucky enough to win.
Generally, American dramas and TV dramas are broadcast in the mode of filming and broadcasting, and one episode is broadcast every week, and the producer can adjust and modify the script at any time according to the audience's ratings, enhance interaction, add drama to popular characters, ridicule current affairs, etc. At the same time, they can also adjust the actor's role when there is an unexpected situation, such as pregnancy, injury, termination of the contract, etc., and even arrange for him or her to play the role of death, disappearance, and going abroad. At the same time, when the ratings are bleak, it is easy to cut the episode in half and end the story quickly.
However, TBBT's second season has a lot of hot topics, and CBS has renewed its third season, so don't worry about not seeing four genius scientists in the second half of the year.
If you listen closely, you will notice that the laughter that plays after each laugh in the show will be slightly different, because TBBT does not use the "laughter can" commonly used in sitcoms. Repeating a pre-recorded laugh is always a dull thing, like the food in a can isn't fresh and tasty.
If nothing else, Carl's contribution should be heard in the May 4th episode next month, but it may have been cut, and I'm afraid even director Sendroski doesn't know whose laughter is left in this episode.
Naturally, while on-set filming allows an audience like Carl who has applied for admission to watch and motivate the actors to contribute laughter, they will not fully interact with the audience like a stage play. When the director arranges the shooting, he still shoots according to the scene, and after shooting one scene, he changes to the next scene, so the plot coherence is not good when watching it live, but Carl is still very happy and excited.
And this lightsaber and the so-called omnidirectional treadmill under his feet are also the unexpected gains brought by Carl's visit to the scene.
At Studio 25 Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, Carl saw Sheldon and Leonard wielding lightsabers at each other wearing the White Imperial Stormtrooper helmet and Darth Vader Black Knight helmet, respectively.
You must know that although the Imperial Stormtroopers are elite, they are naturally incomparable to the protagonist Darth Vader (the protagonist Anakin Skywalker who grew up), although they all wear huge and bulky helmets. And no matter how the color of the armor changes in the Imperial stormtroopers, they usually carry blasters and force you, and most of the Jedi who wield lightsabers wear cloaks and no helmets.
The plot of the stormtroopers vs. the Black Lord, on the one hand, is naturally for the sake of laughing fruit, and on the other hand, it is also for the product in front of him to do product placement.
The main component of this virtual reality game peripheral, called DreamWalker, is a monitor worn on the head, the standard version is just a giant blindfold that covers half of the face, and the helmet worn by the two protagonists is a limited commemorative edition specially tailored for Star Wars.
After returning from the Warner set, Carl searched the Internet for news of the Dream Rambler, and soon found it on Amazon. Although he saw that the product details said that it was produced in the red country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, he had doubts about the actual effect of the product, but he still willfully placed an order and ordered it, and refunded it if he was not satisfied anyway!
The DW Star Wars Special Edition includes a custom Star Wars helmet, omnidirectional treadmill, DW console, dedicated shoes and a dedicated belt, and a lightsaber of random color.
According to the style of the helmet, it is divided into three types: White Storm, Black Hole, and Black Lord, and what is placed on the sofa in the living room of Carl's house at the moment is a black helmet belonging to the Black Hole Stormtroopers. The Black Hole Unit is a special unit of the Stormtroopers that is responsible to the Imperial Intelligence Agency for stealth infiltration, and their armor is the same as that of a normal Imperial Stormtrooper, but is coated with black anti-detection paint.
Of course, this one in front of Carl is only made of black plastic, but fortunately, the structure is quite delicate, and it does not feel bulky and stuffy on the head, and if you feel stuffy, you can also remove the mouth respirator and only keep the core of the upper part of the eye mask.
Connect the USB cable, HD cable, and power cable on the DW host, and then position the host so that it is aimed at the omnidirectional treadmill in the center of the living room. Carl then ran the "Force Unleashed" game on his computer, and Carl saw that the β pattern in the lower left corner of the game's main interface that had been gray yesterday had now become colorful, flickering and dimming.
According to the instructions, Carl moved the mouse to click on the β pattern, and then clicked on a button on the top of the helmet in his arms according to the instructions, and soon the pairing was completed, and the light that surrounded the β pattern no longer flickered brightly and darkly, but became constant.
Carl clicked to start the game, and after selecting the level, he bent down and began to change his shoes. Changing into the shoes that came with it, Carl nodded with satisfaction that the size was quite standard, and it didn't look pinched or loose when worn, and he suddenly thought that most of the clothes and shoes he usually wore were madeinchina, and the shoes they made fit his feet were actually normal.
After changing his shoes, Carl took the matching belt of the Force Release placed next to him and tied it around his waist, and when the time came, the lightsaber from which he took off the "blade" was to be hung, and the lanyard should also be hung on the belt, and the lanyard that automatically retracted could pull the thrown lightsaber handle back after he used the "lightsaber throw" move. Moreover, the contraction mechanism located in the hilt of the sword has been exquisitely designed, and when Carl tried to throw the hilt out just now, he found that the speed of the hilt flying out was very slow, and the speed of flying back was also very slow, and there should not be a situation where the lanyard rebounded strongly and caused the hilt to fly back and slap the face.
Of course, according to the requirements of the manual, it is also necessary to clear the two-foot range around the omnidirectional treadmill, anyway, the helmet will be wirelessly connected to the DW host not far away through the WiFi signal during the game, and there is no cable constraint at all.
In fact, the Dream Walker that Carl saw was the Dream Walker of Atletico Madrid, but the official English name he set for Dream Walker was understood by Carl to be Dream Walker.
Under the banner of reducing costs and benefiting the people, Bee MONOCULUS has been trying to reduce the cost of Dreamwalker's motion sensing system, even at the expense of accuracy. The whole body sensory control system, which was originally realized by the omnidirectional treadmill laser measurement system and sensor gloves, has been completely removed from the latest version launched in April, and replaced by two infrared cameras on the Dreamwalker host.
The Dreamwalker host is actually the controller that was originally plugged in behind the waist, after the Dream Walker Eye Mask was redesigned to reduce the weight, the weight saved was left to the polymer lithium-ion battery, plus the screen and chip upgrade reduced energy consumption, the new version of the Dream Walker Eye Mask can work independently for more than half an hour without increasing the weight.
As for Carl, the Star Wars helmet they saw was naturally heavier than the standard eyepatch, but this was the price to be paid for hobbies and feelings, and no one would have an opinion.
Because of the use of infrared space coding technology for player action recognition, the Dreamwalker controller was taken down and placed on the desktop, becoming the Dreamwalker host, which can directly start surfing the Internet through wired or wifi networks, browsing the web and watching videos. Ordinary web pages, text files, and image files can be automatically converted into β formats that can be viewed on the Dreamwalker Blindfold, and they are also with 3D plus VR effects.
However, advances in hardware performance can only enable the real-time transformation of ordinary images and text, and videos and games still need to be processed specifically. Through the Dreamwalker console, you can only watch β format directly, that is, the video file that has been specially processed to present the left and right three-dimensional edges, and it still needs to cooperate with the PC when used to play the game, and the PC game itself is required to have a "β" patch, just like the PC version of "The Force Unleashed" that Carl bought a few days ago.
After walking a few steps on the ground, the special sole structure of the shoes under his feet made Carl feel a little unaccustomed. He stepped onto the omnidirectional treadmill and locked the protective railing around his waist, and Carl tried to take a few steps again, feeling much better this time. The smooth front half of the sole hits the equally smooth concave edge, causing the toe to slide down naturally, as if you couldn't walk up the bottom of a C-shaped ramp like one used to perform skateboarding stunts.
Feeling that he had adapted to it, Carl put on the black soldier's helmet again, and a huge game screen appeared in front of him, taking up most of his field of vision.
The obvious mosaic on the screen in front of him made Carl frown slightly, even if the hardware specifications were improved, the granularity of the display effect of the Dream Walker's blindfold was still obvious after all. But soon Carl forgot about the unhappiness. After following the tutorial to begin using their arms to control the prologue character Darth Vader emitted
After the three-stage lightsaber attack, defense, throw, Force grab, push, throw, throat lock, release, air wave and other tricks, he was completely immersed in the state of the real Force awakening to obtain the ability, and indulged in the pleasure of incarnating the Black Lord Darth Vader to block the killer and block the demon, crushing all the way until the end of the prologue.
Taking off his helmet and hanging it on a small hidden hook on the outside of the fence, he bent over the fence with his hands on it, and Carl gasped for breath sharply.
"Amazing!" Karl thought back to his experience in the minutes he had just had, and for a moment he could only think of that word to describe his feelings.
The Star Slayer, the protagonist of The Force Awakens, is a secret disciple recruited by Darth Vader, the popular protagonist of Star Wars, to help the Emperor carry out various evil secret missions, and the prologue tells the story of Darth Vader killing the protagonist's father and adopting the protagonist. This is similar to how some games offer premium demos to players to get them interested, and the game's creators have arranged for him to appear here with the intention of attracting players who love him.
Darth Vader in the prologue is very strong IMBA (unbalanced), there is basically no difficulty in passing the prologue, Carl has already played the third level on the computer before, but today after connecting to DW, the game allows him to re-establish the save and start all over again.
At first, Carl was a little unimpressed, but as soon as he got started, he couldn't stop, and he grabbed and slashed all the way to the bottom of the level, and once again killed the protagonist his father, and saw the protagonist when he was a child, and grabbed him with the Force to lock his throat and throw him.
In addition to jumping and rolling and other actions can not be fully somatosensory operation,Walking side flashing sword grabbing these actions can be accurately recognized by the DW host,This feeling of doing action and putting skills is much stronger than simply pressing the shortcut key,Coupled with VR glasses full of presence,It's no wonder that Carl will tremble and sweat with excitement at the teaching levelγ
After a short break, Carl didn't put on the White Storm helmet and continued to play the first level of the game, but instead walked down to the computer desk, picked up his mobile phone, flipped out a number, and dialed out: "Hey, Svensson, do you know DreamWalker?"
"You'd better come to my house and play with it yourself, you'll be scared by it! Chine is amazing, they make this thing as if it came from the future, it's a miracle!"
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