Chapter 814: Weightlessness
Qi Linlin glared at Sun Yan with disgust, and finally took the helmet and stood on the platform.
Then, without accident, he fell from it and fell on all fours.
She sat up from the ground, took off her helmet and glared at Sun Yan next to her, "Sun Xiaoyan, you are so unrighteous that you didn't tell me that there was a mechanism below!"
She had long suspected that someone had tampered with the edge of the countertop, so she reached out and tried it again and again to make sure that there was no problem before standing up carefully, and even then her weight was always on the forefoot to prevent accidents. It's a pity that I was cheated in the end.
Vigilance is effective, when her attention is attracted by the beautiful scenery and selfie tasks, the defensive heart naturally fades, and then the hidden activity mechanism under the table is immediately activated, directly pit her down.
Accused, Sun Yan and Shen Mo glanced at each other and said with a smug smile: "That's what makes it interesting, this game is just caught off guard." Is there a sense of happiness for the rest of your life?"
"I thank you for being a pervert!" Qi Linlin picked up an inflatable sledgehammer and was about to jump up to chase and kill a certain woman.
The latter was not easy to get along with, bending down to pick up a large inflatable sword, awe-inspiring and not afraid to retaliate.
The two women shouted with their teeth and claws, but the weapon in their hands was not powerful, the hammer was too light, and the sword was too soft, so in the end, they couldn't help each other, so they had to pant and play with big eyes and stare at each other.
Shen Mo glanced at the staff pretending to be wooden people next to him, fingering at the inflatable toy on the mat, "You guys did this on purpose?"
These toys are transparent and colorless, and they are piled up on the ground like ordinary inflatable bags, and their different shapes can only be seen when you hold them in your hand.
The latter didn't admit it, but said: "Inflatable toys are cheap and the effect is not bad." ”
"Yes, it can not only absorb shock cushioning, but also use them to vent, it is really a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone!"
After saying this, Shen Mo turned to the two women and shouted, "It's almost enough, there are outsiders here." ”
The first Warriors to experience these devices were delegates who preferred other games, and the only outsiders present were the administrators. And his position was just right, so that the two girls subconsciously ignored him. However, when he reminded them like this, they also reacted, so naturally they didn't want to make trouble anymore, so they packed up their things and walked out.
At the same time, he pretended not to care and said: "This game is too simple, let's take a walk and see if there are any other fun games." ”
Of course, there are fun games, and there are quite a few of them.
The store in Modu is clearly arranged as a flagship store, with a business area of more than 1,000 square meters, and offers 50 enhanced VR games, all of which have highlights.
Ball games alone include golf, table tennis, badminton, tennis, polo, and the hugely popular soccer and basketball.
In the previous games, the player needs to hit the air with a simulated club/racket in his hand, but in the two big ball games, the player can only kick the empty racket directly, because it is technically difficult to integrate the ball machine well.
However, Bee has developed a special active omnidirectional treadmill for them, which greatly improves the comfort of running in place, and most of the game movements can be performed smoothly, and the overall experience is still good.
When Wu Pan found the crowd, he saw that the two of them were running in a row, their right hands still slapping the air from time to time, and at the same time subconsciously saying "Pay attention to No. 9! Be careful that he is going to surprise you!" and other warnings, obviously playing basketball in a team, as for whether it is a three-a-side or a five-a-side, it is not clear.
Shen Mo and the others didn't greet him when they left, Wu Pan thought they were all waiting to see the joke, so he had to grit his teeth and hang it on the wall. When he finally couldn't stay up and fell, he realized that the three had already run away. Although he secretly hated them for not saying hello, he was also glad that no one jumped out to laugh at him.
Standing up and handing over his gear, he came looking for the others with his headset.
The implementation here is a key with multiple locks mode, one headset per person, and other supporting equipment is bound to the game and replaced as needed.
Looking around, Wu Pan found a sofa and sat down, put on his headset, and chose to enter the spectator mode.
There are many games that can be watched from the sidelines, some people play table tennis, some people fight monsters, some people walk tightropes, some people pretend to be gods, and the game with the most participants is "SWAT Attack". It's normal to think about it, it's strange to be a soldier who doesn't love guns.
Wu Pan browsed it roughly, and finally entered the game room where Shen Mo was.
The three of them received the prompt of "Wu Pan entered the room" for the first time, and they all stopped their movements, and turned their heads to look at the audience who suddenly appeared on the sidelines.
"Why don't you fight?" the latter asked.
"Look at this score, how can you still play?" Qi Linlin answered, stretched out her finger and pointed to the suspended scoreboard above her head, the score of 56 to 11 on it was particularly dazzling.
"Haha," Wu Pan smiled, "I didn't pay attention just now, why did you fight so badly?"
"In addition to not being familiar with the equipment, what other reasons can there be?" Shen Mo said, he wouldn't say that he chose a powerful opponent only to find that he couldn't handle it.
Wu Pan looked in the direction of the away team and found that they were all black people with plastic surgery, and naturally understood what was going on, skin color was a guarantee of combat effectiveness in many events, and it was not surprising that they would lose.
"Then do you want to play, take me one!"
"What are you still playing, this game can't be played!" Qi Linlin snorted, and then quit the game directly.
With her taking the lead, the other three also withdrew, and then took off their headsets and looked at each other.
Wu Pan smiled, Shen Mo's basketball skills were average, and Qi Linlin and Sun Yan could only dribble and shoot free throws, so it was strange that such a three-person team could win. After thinking about it, he changed the topic and said, "By the way, I just saw that there is an advanced version of ODS here, let's go play that!"
ODS is the abbreviation of "Outdoor Sports VR", this collection of small games has beautiful content, rich gameplay, and very high popularity.
Bee Games not only used it as a giveaway for the Dreamwalker series of headsets, but also dumped the OEM pre-installed version at a low price to VR equipment manufacturers (mainly mobile phone boxes), making this game almost a must-have for installation, with an installation rate of more than 80% and millions of fans.
Although the honor of "the world's best-selling VR game" is very watery, the great fame and millions of active players are not fake, so Bee You decided to continue to dig deep and develop his value, and then there is the advanced version that Wu Pan just saw.
Compared to the regular version, the new version has better graphics, more scenes, and more sports, but the biggest improvement is the introduction of a variety of auxiliary equipment.
There are canoe simulators for rafting, automatic rock walls for rock climbing, special treadmills for walking, skiing and skating, six-axis simulation platforms for surfing and skateboarding, and even fishing with a reeling simulator, which can simulate the struggle of the fish by connecting the fishing line, and it is possible to be accidentally pulled on a horse's stomach.
Only the parachute simulator is the most hassle-free, with a metal shelf and a set of harnesses attached to the ceiling. When the player climbs up the shelf and jumps down with a harness, they will be hoisted in the air by the harness, and then the fans around them will blow wildly, which is used to simulate the airflow of parachuting.
While such a design is not perfect, something is better than nothing, and with the help of these devices, the immersion of the game can be taken up a notch. And the soldiers obviously liked them, and there were people lining up behind most of the equipment.
"Sure enough, the pears that no one eats are all sour and bitter, and all fun items have to be queued," Qi Linlin was very emotional when she saw the lively queuing scene here, "This is the case with Disneyland, and the same is true with VR parks." ”
"So let's line up honestly!" Sun Yan said as he walked straight to the cloth sofa in the waiting area.
"I can't say that," Wu Pan pointed to the front of him, "There are some projects that no one plays, just because it's too troublesome." ”
"Huh, what's there?"
"Weightlessness simulator. ”
"I'll take a look!" The tall name easily aroused Qi Linlin's interest, she decisively ran over to watch the black technology, and pulled Sun Yan away before leaving.
"Why don't you go?" Wu Pan asked Shen Mo, who was sitting next to him.
"Didn't you go either?" asked the latter.
"Hehe," the two men chuckled at the same time, and Shen Mo said: "There are only two methods for weightlessness simulation, the rappelling method and the buoyancy method, you just wait to be beaten!"
"I'm not exaggerating the publicity," Wu Pan shouted, "that's what the official sources say." ”
"You better explain this to your family Linlin. ”
said that Cao Cao Cao was here, and soon Qi Linlin ran back in a hurry, rushed to Wu Pan's side and reached out to grab the soft flesh on his waist, "Why do you want to lie to me?"
The so-called "weightlessness simulator" is actually a small swimming pool, which made her angry and immediately ran back to Wu Pan to settle accounts.
"Don't pinch, don't pinch, if you have something to say," Wu Pan hurriedly said to him, and then explained: "Astronauts use deep swimming pools for ground training, their pools are bigger and deeper, but the principle is the same, the buoyancy of water counteracts gravity, and people are suspended in the water, so that they can experience weightlessness." ”
"Didn't they experience weightlessness on a plane?" Qi Linlin wondered: "I remember that it was said on the news that someone went to Russia to experience weightlessness training?"
"There are both, the plane has a good effect and high cost, and the pool has a poor effect and low cost, and a tank of oxygen can soak for a long time," Wu Pan explained, "By the way, there is also an ordinary swimming pool next to it, which can be used to play swimming games." ”
"If you want to go into the water and go directly to the pool, why do you want to come here?" retorted, but Qi Linlin let go of her right hand.
"You don't see sharks or jellyfish in a normal pool. Ahh
In response, Qi Linlin leaned into the other party's ear, gritted her teeth and said, "Did you mean it, knowing that I couldn't get into the water today, and you specially used these to tempt me?"
"Wife, I'm wronged!" the latter hurriedly cried out, "I forgot you... Ahh
There was still a queue here, and Sun Yan simply pulled Shen Mo to play simulation diving, and the latter was also very curious about the waterproof version of the Dream Walker, so he just went to actually experience it. As for Wu Pan himself, he covered his waist and said that he wanted to stay and wait for skiing with his girlfriend.
Sitting next to her boyfriend, looking around, Qi Linlin suddenly said: "Hehe, take out more than a dozen new games in one go, such a big deal doesn't look like the style of a bee at all!"
"Isn't this attracting venture capital, of course it's not distressing to spend other people's money!" Wu Pan pointed to the screen on the wall.
"Didn't the bee say that there is no shortage of money and no need for financing? ”
"It's the space station internet café that finances it, not the bees. ”
"The space station doesn't seem to be short of money, right?"
"I wasn't short of money before, but now I'm not starting to engage in V, so I'm naturally short of money. ”
With its technological and cost advantages, the space station has developed smoothly and is now the sixth largest Internet café chain in the country.
However, at this time, the Internet café industry has long lost the good time of "people are stupid and money comes quickly" more than ten years ago, price reduction, broadband popularization, green dam escort, the rise of mobile phones, and the early disappearance of the demographic dividend, so that the whole industry is like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year, a large number of Internet cafes are closed, and the rest are also exploring transformation.
The space station chain can still maintain profitability due to its cost advantage, but they are also looking for new business growth points, and the VR experience center is the direction they have found.
They had previously tried to introduce VR to Internet cafes, but the results were not satisfactory, and the overlap between Internet café users and VR players was not as high as expected. Considering the large differences in the characteristics of their respective businesses, they simply built a dedicated VR experience center from scratch independently of each other.
The concept of virtual reality is booming, but the price of related equipment, especially professional equipment, is still a bit high, and then there is a new business that provides equipment timing services. It's not new, arcade halls and Internet cafes have been doing this for a long time.
This has been done for a long time, and many companies have stepped in, hoping to occupy a piece of the pie. And there is no doubt that Bee is undoubtedly the strongest of the many players.
The technology and content resources accumulated over the years have made it a well-deserved industry leader and the king of VR. However, this throne is not very stable, other companies are burning money to catch up, Bee You and Mirage have been poached, and the technical specifications and graphics of their products are constantly improving.
It is this increasing pressure that has forced the bees to abandon their previous independent business strategy and start trying to pull allies together.
However, they still have reservations, and did not open up the group's internal shares, but just took out the semi-independent space station company, and raised funds to set up a series of "future space VR experience centers" in major cities across the country.
The most valuable asset of Future Space is the cooperation agreement with Bee Mirage and Bee Games, which has introduced a large number of high-quality VR content, thus opening up a gap with other similar companies.
These VR games, which occupy a large area and have a high investment, but also have a better effect, are exclusive to the future space, and you can only come here if you want to play.
In the future, the space has a bright selling point, players have a better experience, bees have sold equipment, and investors have realized their long-cherished wish to invest in bees in disguise, which can be described as a win-win situation.
However, these are just good expectations, and everything has to be tested by the market, otherwise it is just a fantasy.