Night falls, and the moonlight fills the land.

In the hotel room, after checking the article he had just written, Wang Shan moved the mouse and clicked to send.

The article was successfully sent, and by the way, I looked at the time, and it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

"Whew, it's done!"

As he spoke, he walked off the work terminal, raised his hand to close his laptop, and then turned his head to look behind him.

After attending the bee autumn press conference, he and Yuan Yang did not return to the island city immediately, but found a hotel to stay. Beijing is the first choice for major enterprises to develop their research conferences, and there are a large number of technology companies in Zhongguancun, Yizhuang and other places.

On the bed behind him, Yuan Yang's guy was lying on it, turning his head and waist, reaching out and kicking his legs, if it weren't for the headset on his head and short-sleeved shorts on his body, it would definitely make people have bad associations such as taking medicine when he was sick.

With a blue mat under him and half-human-high poles in the corners of the bed, he is experiencing the latest VR technology.

At the autumn press conference this afternoon, Atletico Madrid, on behalf of Bee Mirage, officially released this set of VR positioning system in bed. The mat is embedded with a pressure-sensing sensor array, which can detect the movement of human limbs, and the pole is an infrared positioning base station, which can identify and track the movements of human limbs, and then reflect them on the game characters.

got up and walked to the bed, Lao Wang raised his leg and kicked the foot of the bed, "Are you okay?"

Feeling the vibration under him, Yuan Yang quickly turned his head to look over, "What's the hurry?

There is a camera on the headset, so you can switch between VR and AR modes, and you don't have to take it off to talk to people temporarily.

"Well, it's done," Lao Wang kicked the foot of the bed again, urging, "Okay, stop playing, aren't you hungry?"

"Huh?" asked subconsciously, Yuan Yang called up the built-in clock of the system by himself, and then couldn't help exclaiming: ", it's half past nine!"

"Hurry up, the restaurant will be closed in a moment. ”

Yuan Yang immediately responded, reached out and took off the headset, turned over and sat up to go out.

Because they were busy writing manuscripts and measuring machines, the two of them have not gone out since they entered the hotel room in the afternoon, and naturally they haven't had time to eat dinner. He didn't feel it when he was addicted to the game before, but he felt hungry at this time, but he didn't want to delay for a second.

Closing the door, Lao Wang asked curiously, "By the way, how does the new system feel?"

As he spoke, he also did a few elbow bends and kicks back, "There is a bed board in the back, will it be very unaccustomed?"

"It's okay, it's really a little unaccustomed at the beginning, and if you don't pay attention, you will crush a few villains to death, but then you get used to it a lot. ”

When it came to the "Lilliputian Travel" pre-installed in the machine, Yuan Yang seemed to have opened the chatterbox, and he couldn't stop talking.

"Lilliputian Travels" is adapted from the first volume of the famous British novel "Gulliver's Travels", which tells the story of the British surgeon Gulliver's voyage to the South Pacific, and is in distress and exiled in Lilliput (Lilliputia) on the way, and then because of the height difference.

Gulliver the "Giant" was captured and bound by Lilliputia, and later won the favor of the Lilliputians for his docile behavior and was liberated, and later participated in the war against another Lilliputian country, Brefsko, and made great contributions. Gulliver has a height advantage most of the time, relying on rolling feet to kill enemies, which is obviously a good fit for the operation mode of bed board VR, and then he was chosen as the protagonist of the first bed board VR game.

"Oh?" Listening to his wonderful speech, Wang Shan was also interested, and nodded: "That's okay, I'll try it when I come back after eating." ”

Bee released seven products at this press conference: Bee 9 operating system, Jet2 full-screen mobile phone, Next2 headset, BedVR virtual reality system, PowerMachine Bee miner, One Tree 2 air purifier, and FPS mobile game "ERNA", most of which are within his business scope.

Throughout the afternoon, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Wang was busy writing and reviewing manuscripts, but he didn't care to experience Next2 and BedVR, which were sent by Bee Mirage for testing.

"Well," Yuan Yang replied casually, "I have to say, the brain hole of Bee Mirage is very good, and the bed board VR is very promising, and I will definitely buy a set when it is officially launched." ”

Lao Wang listened, but shook his head slightly, expressing his disapproval, "I look at the suspension, after all, the somatosensory game is outdated, and Kinect has been discontinued." The control accuracy of bed board VR is not good, and I am afraid that it is difficult to be welcomed. ”

In 2006, the Nintendo Wii was unveiled with the Remote motion controller, which caused a major earthquake in the needle console industry with its fresh motion concept and home entertainment mode. In its first year of release, the Wii sold 20 million units, and by the time it was discontinued in 13 years, it had sold more than 100 million units, which was a huge success.

Seeing this situation, the other two competitors have also followed suit, Sony and Microsoft have launched motion control peripherals for their own consoles in 2010.

Among them, Sony's solution is the PS Eye camera plus the PS Move controller, but Microsoft has found the Israeli PrimeSense to create a Kinect somatosensory camera that can be controlled directly with the body and gestures without a controller. Since then, the more intuitive and simple Kinect has been hugely popular in the market, with more than 35 million units sold, and sales of the Xbox 360 console have also soared.

However, experience games attract only light gamers and early adopters, who don't mind paying for a cheap somatosensory device, but lack the motivation to continue to consume somatosensory games, coupled with the high cost of somatosensory game development, resulting in the rapid obsolescence of this game genre. Kinect, which used to be a sales booster, waited for the update to become a burden to restrict sales because of the bundle sales policy, and finally forced Microsoft to abandon the bundle and recently announced the discontinuation of this product.

Yuan Yang wrote a special article to "mourn" Kinect, so he naturally knew the news, but he disagreed with his old colleagues, "The main reason for the discontinuation of Kinect is Apple's pot, if it weren't for their acquisition of PrimeSense, let them develop the iPhone X's 3D face scanner instead, and force Microsoft to change the technical solution to launch Kinect2, there would be no later things." ”

"The somatosensory game is not dead, Bee You's 'Rio 2016' sold 20 million sets, can't you see it?"

"At that time, 'Wii Spports' sold 81 million units! Bee You's Olympic game only sold 20 million on the five major platforms at the same time, which is still a lot of regression. ”

"It's not interesting to compare like this, after all, the core platforms are different. ”

The numbers can't be faked, Yuan Yang shook his head helplessly and decided to change the angle, "The accuracy of the bed board VR is indeed not too high, but it is not unbearable." However, its convenience is a few streets away from other somatosensory systems, and I think it is very promising. ”

When a person is lying on the bed and playing somatosensory games, in addition to lying flat on the hips towards the front and pressing down with both arms, other kicking, punching and twisting the waist will be greatly restricted, which will have a negative impact on somatosensory control. The reason why Bee Mirage chose such a control mode with obvious defects was because of its convenience.

Somatosensory controls are more realistic and believable, which can improve the sense of substitution and immersion, and is of course the most suitable control method for VR games. Aside from those phone cases that use simple controllers, high-end VR devices have invariably opted for a more intuitive motion control mode, promoting the motion tracking system as their biggest selling point. However, this mode of control is not perfect, but there are two flaws that are not flaws.

First, there is the physical problem of somatosensory exercise.

Long before the advent of VR consoles, there were many music and dance, sports fitness, and action fighting games based on somatosensory controllers and cameras on the market. When PTVR and PSVR consoles appeared, most of these games have launched VR ported versions one after another.

However, there are only a few people who can obtain internal fibrin from sports, and then indulge in sports for physical and mental pleasure, and most people will eventually succumb to inertia, and can sit without standing, lying down without sitting, especially those who are light players.

Light gamers who were crazy about the Wii and Kinect and brought somatosensory games to the altar are now addicted to lying in bed and playing mobile games, and those core gamers who once tried the somatosensory mode also choose to sit back on the sofa and pick up the ordinary controller after a simple try. Although most of the new generation of controllers have built-in motion sensors, they are only used as auxiliaries, and the most used are buttons and joysticks.

The second is the issue of the area of the tracking space.

In order to achieve good motion tracking and ensure that you don't trip over clutter, players often need to free up an open space of 3 to 4 square meters dedicated to motion sensory games. Given the high level of housing prices in the world's largest cities, this demand is really "expensive".

You must know that the main consumer group of cultural and entertainment products is usually unmarried young people in large and medium-sized cities, who have just worked and have the ability to pay, and at the same time do not have to carry the three mountains of cars, houses and children, and can spend more income on hobbies and leisure and entertainment, such as electronic products, pop music, cinema movies, and console games.

Due to the rising housing prices in large cities, many young renters consciously excluded TV from their home appliance lists, and instead used mobile phones and cinema movies to pass the time. For this part of the people, TV is still unacceptable, and the somatosensory tracking system with a larger "footprint" is even more unacceptable.

It is precisely for this reason that Bee Mirage and Bee Game jointly developed this bed board VR system, hoping to attract light gamers who cannot afford to rent a large house and are not very fond of sports.

found a restaurant outside that was still open, sat down opposite the two and ordered, and then took out their mobile phones. Yuan Yang opened his mouth and proposed: "Come to Tutu?"

Lao Wang nodded happily, "Okay, double row?"

"Double row. ”

After the autumn press conference, Bee Games distributed a beta test place for the new game "Elna - Assault" to the media and player representatives in attendance, and in just one afternoon, this slightly strange game won praise from test players, and even had the nickname "Love Sudden Attack".

ERNA is the code name of an Estonian long-range reconnaissance team during World War II, and later Estonia became independent from the Soviet Union, and in 1994 a scout competition called ERNA RAID was established in commemoration. This competition requires reconnaissance teams to conduct long-distance, multi-topic reconnaissance and combat confrontation exercises in "enemy-occupied areas." At first, it was only a domestic competition, but later it began to invite countries from Europe and other continents to participate, and gradually evolved into an international competition.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been sending representatives to participate since 98, and in 1999 it won the special "Kalev Warrior Award", and in 2002 it won the top two. Someone created a drama of the same name based on the deeds of the participating teams, and the TV series "Soldier Assault" adapted by it was even more popular all over the country, and even "Erna-Assault" became popular for a while, and triggered a wave of reprinting of the truth on the blogs that were emerging at the time.

Unfortunately, Estonia is, after all, only a small Nordic country with a population of 1.3 million, and many people can't remember where it is, not to mention the "three Baltic states" and "adjacent to Finland". In addition, the limelight of this competition was also overshadowed by the "Warrior Competition" international special forces competition led by Jordan. The latter is hosted by KASOTC, a local special operations training center, and the so-called competition also has a strong commercial connotation, but in fact it is also not authoritative.

While the media's hype of "Elna-Assault" and "Warrior Race" is overrated, the truth-finding texts are not all true. As the public's attention shifted to entertainment stars, so did the interest of the media and the pickers, and no one cared which competition was more authoritative.

After all, military personnel are not athletes, and they cannot and do not need to expect a fair game. However, players can experience fair military competition in the virtual world, and then there is Bee Tour's "Elna Assault".

Wang Shan's previous guess was not correct, this game restores the format of the same name event as much as possible, players need to form a team in the forest, snowfield, grassland and other wild scenes to simulate the actual armed off-road race. Thanks to the powerful performance of the Bee Pt engine, as well as the rich materials and production experience accumulated over the years of planting trees and grasses, Bee Games is very familiar with creating this off-road racing game.

"Elna" is a mix of shooting, driving, parkour, catching, collecting, trapping, and many other elements, and the gameplay style and emphasis on survival confrontation are very different from Voldemort's rampant "chicken" game. While setting traps for other digging, the player must also work hard to complete the quest themselves, while being careful to guard against attacks and harassment by NPCs and other players. Through the scheduling and deployment of task points, there are encounters and collisions between different player teams, which greatly accelerates the pace of confrontation, which brings refreshing entertainment and "addiction******** the server was opened at noon, and most of the first hundreds of players did not go offline at this time, Lao Wang, they just clicked to join the double row, and they got the prompt of successful matching in less than 30 seconds.

The game soon began, a dense forest appeared on the screen, opened the map and looked at the combat target with a red circle, Lao Wang hurriedly controlled the character to run. As long as the speed is fast enough, make sure that you are always the first to reach the mission point, and you can completely ignore others and go all the way, which is also the origin of the name "Tutu".

(End of chapter)