Closing the door, Atletico returned to the game room and waved the console on.

Without turning on the TV, he picked up the next2 on the coffee table, intending to try the VR virtual reality version.

Bee aggressively promotes the VR of consoles, and its own first-party games naturally want to show their support, and now they have fully realized VR.

Next2 is a high-end VR headset that just debuted at the Bee Autumn Conference, and belongs to the production version and concept successor of the N7E and NT two experimental products.

Traditional headsets are based on flat displays, relying on binocular parallax to produce stereoscopic vision, but rarely consider the human eye's own convergence focusing mechanism (the eye turns to the target point, and then the lens adjusts the focal length) mechanism, resulting in acmodation vergence conflict, not to mention the deterioration of the display effect, but also easy to cause eye discomfort.

In view of this, Bee Mirage has designed two products, N7E and NT, to try to solve this problem, the former is based on glasses-free 3D technology, introducing a 3D display screen to try to give the eyes a larger range of motion, the effect is average but the cost is low, and the latter uses eye tracking-eye compensation technology, which has better effect but extremely high cost.

Seeing that each has its own strengths and weaknesses, they tried to integrate the two technologies again, and the new NEXT headset achieved great results, but it was still stuck in front of the mass production threshold. Although the structure is simplified, the eye gaze compensation lens set used in the NEXT is still too complex and sophisticated, and the manufacturing requires the cooperation of a professional lens manufacturer. Because they couldn't find a capable and willing partner, Atletico had to "hand-make" a small number of samples and put them on the VR space station and the Beegame Player Center for people to experience, and collect player feedback by the way.

Fortunately, the rise of smart phones is greatly changing the rules of the game in the field of cameras, through mergers and acquisitions, the introduction of absorption, the bee optical industry has the corresponding production capacity, although the output is not large, but it can be regarded as a solution to the problem.

With the help of the same brothers, Bee Mirage finally came up with a high-end new product that can be mass-produced, that is, the next2 in the hands of Atletico Madrid.

Thanks to the use of a flexible screen to create a surround display, an eye-motion compensation lens group to shorten the distance, and a computing and wireless module overhead, the size and weight of the NEXT have been greatly reduced, making it look like a heavier ski goggles, which is more pleasing to the eye and significantly more comfortable to wear. The second-generation product naturally inherits this characteristic, and can be called a beautiful man in the field of VR headsets.

It's a pity that the "beautiful man" was soon turned into a pig's head by Atletico Madrid.

Looking at the scent simulator hanging under the headset, Atletico grinned: "It's really a pig's head!"

As the name suggests, VR scent simulators are dedicated peripherals that provide olfactory simulations, either by placing them next to TVs and computer monitors to create an ambience, or by hanging them under a headset for a more in-depth experience.

The next2 is much thinner than a normal headset, but it makes the cylindrical scent simulator stand out and look like a pig's nose. As early as after the autumn press conference, some netizens complained about this problem, and now he can be regarded as seeing it with his own eyes.

There is no solution to this problem for the time being, even Atletico can only wear this "pig's head mask" and plug their own in-ear headphones.

When he came to the specially prepared game bed next to him, he put on the headset and started the device, turned over and lay down.

This bed is a high-end peripheral specially customized for Bee Games, in addition to the surface pressure sensing function necessary for bedVR (bed board virtual reality), it also embeds an electronically controlled microtube system in the memory foam mattress, which can provide a certain physical simulation effect.

Feeling his body sink slightly, Atletico raised his hand to find the "Silk Road" game on the VR version of PTOS interface, and clicked to start.

The light and shadow flowed, and a simple roof appeared in front of him, and he was lying on the warm kang.

With a slight movement of his back, the figure sat up, and with the help of the light from the narrow window, he could vaguely see that this was a fire kang that ran through the whole room, covered with straw mats and bedding, and a slightly curved wooden pillow against the wall, but it was a single room.

Atletico lay still and raised his legs alternately, the figure immediately moved his feet to the table on the side, his right arm moved slightly, the figure stretched out his arm to pick up the weapons and equipment on the table, and then turned to the door and pushed the door to the courtyard.

Bed board VR can effectively reduce the physical consumption of somatosensory games, but it also brings the problem of too many interference signals, and the system needs to be able to distinguish the player's true intentions to avoid being disturbed by subconscious small actions. The idea has been around for a long time, but Bee Mirage didn't release the technology until this year, just to wait for the AI technology to advance.

The wind whined in his ears, the sky above his head was high, and the surrounding houses were brown and yellow, but there was a unique scenery of the Sili area.

After the morning's hard work, Atletico Madrid has gone far enough with the "Tianma Purchasing Group", and the location at the moment is a small city in the west of Yongzhou, not far from the east exit of the Hexi Corridor.

The Hexi Corridor is an alluvial plain belt located at the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, which is long and narrow and straight, resembling a corridor, and is named after the west of the Yellow River.

Because of the low altitude, the snow irrigation of the alpine glaciers, and the abundant soil water and fertilizer, the Hexi Corridor has a series of large oases suitable for agriculture and human settlement.

The game is set in 126 BC, and this choke point is still under the control of the Huns.

Zhang Qian and Ganfu were intercepted twice by the Xiongnu when they first crossed the Hexi Corridor, the first time they were arrested from east to west and placed under house arrest for ten years, and the second time they returned to the Central Plains from west to east and were arrested again and delayed for a year before they sought an opportunity to return to Han China.

Historically, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty waited for five years, until the second year of Yuanzhan (121 BC), Liu Che sent the hussar general Huo Qubing to break the Hugh Tu City, the Hun Hun Tu King's Hugh Tu City, and took away the Huns' holy relic "Sacrifice to the Heavenly Golden Man (Golden Buddha)", and the Hugh Tu City was renamed Wuwei. In the same year, the Xiongnu Hun Evil King surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and the area under its control, Guzang City, was renamed Jiuquan. Later, Liu Che divided the western part of Jiuquan into Zhangye County and Dunhuang County, and set up Yumen Pass and Yangguan Pass in the west as the west gate, which was known as "four counties in the column, according to two passes".

It was precisely because of this series of wars against Hungary that completely opened up the Hexi Corridor that Zhang Qian was able to go to the Western Regions in 119 BC, and the Western Han Dynasty was able to have two "bloody wars" with Dawan in Central Asia, and then put the vast Western Regions under his rule.

In the game, Liu Che's "Tianma Purchasing Group" set off several years in advance, but encountered a problem in the Hexi Corridor. The convoy carried two thousand catties of gold and a golden horse, which belonged to the absolute national gift and treasure, and they could not easily wade into danger, and then they were trapped in this small city in the west, living in the county government and waiting for reinforcements.

This is naturally an intentional act of game designers, and the theme of Treasure Hunt has always been a theme that literature, film and television games never tire of, and planners certainly won't miss it.

The "Tianma Purchasing Group" had just left the Guanzhong Territory, and the news that they were carrying Qianzhongbao to Dawan to purchase sweaty BMW leaked.

The wealth is moving, and along the way, horse bandits and gangsters continue to find the convoy, either snooping from afar or taking advantage of the opportunity to attack. Even if it was easily cleaned up by as many as 100 members of the group who had been prepared for a long time, there was still an endless stream of successors, like moths that saw the lights at night.

Obviously, the news was deliberately spread by the Han Dynasty, but the purpose was to fish out those guys who wandered in the gray or even black zone, and then either kill or subdue them, and clear the battlefield for the upcoming new round of Han-Hungarian war.

This trip out of the battle continues, as long as the NPC is lucky and does not hang up, the equipment and combat skills on the body have been improved, and the player of Atletico Madrid has made a fortune by relying on the "Horse Bandit Express", and the equipment has been updated, becoming the middle management of the team, living in a luxury single room, and the daily action is more free.

He went to the kitchen for breakfast, and went to the stable to serve his mount, and sat down in the cool courtyard in the morning in a sheepskin jacket, and began to arrange his weapons, first rubbing the sword in the whetstone, and then drawing the bow and arrow from the quiver and beginning to polish it finely.

In ancient times, there were no stamping machines, CNC machine tools, rod sharpeners, and engineering plastics, so they could only use hand-made arrowheads, arrow shafts, and arrow feathers to assemble them in turn, and the processing accuracy was naturally not very good.

Just as modern snipers and precision shooters treat bullets, excellent shooters in ancient times would also hand-select and polish arrows in order to exert their maximum combat effectiveness. Of course, "Silk Road" is a game for the public after all, and Atletico Madrid does not need to be carefully maintained and sorted like real arrows, and the arrows in the palm of the hand become sharp and straight, and the lethality and range are much improved.

After finishing the arrows, he took off the carpenter behind him and carefully maintained it. Whether it is the traditional compound straight-pull bow in the Central Plains or the recurve bow from the Western Regions, it is very troublesome to make, and it is also necessary to pay attention to a lot of use at ordinary times.

The shape of this bow has a Western atmosphere, and it is a trophy obtained by Atletico Madrid from exploring the ruins of a nearby grotto, and it is very useful to rejuvenate it when equipped with a bowstring.

After all was done, Atletico took out the bowstring and hung it, went to the stable to lead the horse out of the county barracks, and planned to go hunting outside the city.

Seeing that he was leaving, the other NPCs greeted him one after another, telling him not to run too far and remember to come back at night to participate in the vigil, and the latter naturally nodded yes.

Walking to the outside of the city, Atletico turned over and got on the horse, his legs slightly split into an O-shape, his left hand lightly lifted his right hand and slapped it continuously, and the black horse under his crotch neighed and trotted up.

His mount was a Hequ horse produced in the Yongnan grassland, which was both used for riding and harnessing, and was good at endurance, and was a trophy he stole from a bandit leader.

Outside the city, the sky was bright, and all kinds of animals were also showing their heads and moving, but it was a little lively.

At this time, it was early autumn in the north, the grass seeds were ripening one after another, and the animals were busy looking for food and accumulating nutrients.

According to studies, the Earth's temperature has fluctuated over the past few thousand years, sometimes one or two degrees higher than in modern times, and sometimes one or two degrees lower than in modern times.

Unlike the common fears of global warming and rising sea levels, global cooling has caused even greater harm to the ancients.

In ancient times, agriculture and animal husbandry were weak in their ability to resist disasters, and the decrease in temperature would inevitably lead to a decrease in grain and pasture yields, which would cause internal turmoil in agricultural civilization and invasion and plunder in the south. The Western Zhou, Western Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Northern Song Dynasty, all of which were in a warm period, while the turbulent and divided Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, were in a cold period.

The Ming and Qing dynasties encountered the "Xiaoice Age" that lasted for hundreds of years, and there were almost no warm times, but the influence of the climate had weakened. In modern times, with the popularization of improved fertilizers, pesticides, water conservancy projects, and agricultural machinery, agricultural civilization has evolved into industrial civilization, and its ability to resist disasters has been improved by several levels.

Around 100 B.C., the Northern Hemisphere was in the "Little Warm Season", the average temperature was about the same as in the 21st century, and the agricultural and animal ecotone and the distribution of flora and fauna were similar to those of contemporary times.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, a feeding prairie wildcat glanced up, then lowered its head to continue devouring its lizard breakfast. When the autumn breeze returns, these little things will find a place to hide and hibernate, and if they want to eat again, they will have to wait until next year.

As for the threat of the "centaur"?

This is of course true, and Atletico also turned a blind eye to the prairie wildcat and concentrated on finding the hare.

If he raises his bow and arrow against the wild cat now, he will see that the color of the crosshair is dark green for the friendly side, and there is a note next to it that reads "National Class 2 Protected Animals, Hunting is Prohibited".

It stands to reason that hunting animals in the game is completely air-to-air and should not be regulated by the Wildlife Protection Act or the Washington Convention (CITES). But the reality is that game manufacturers are being protested and sued by activist animal activists such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and not only are hunting games forced to become "deer hunting games", but other games with animals are also on their attack list.

Following Ubisoft and Nintendo, Bee Games, which vigorously explored overseas markets, were also targeted by them, and they had to admit it for the sake of reputation, referring to "Far Cry 4" to set a number of protected animals and endangered animals as friendly units that are prohibited from attacking. Unless the plot is triggered and the opponent attacks first, the player's side cannot attack first.

In order to create a realistic ecological landscape, "Silk Road" introduced hundreds of animals, but most of them are "green names" that prohibit active attacks. Not only the big and small pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, red-crowned cranes and other "business card animals" are among them, but even the carnivorous beasts such as tigers, leopards, lions, bears, and wolves are also listed. In the wild, the player can only hunt herbivorous and omnivorous animals such as deer, hares, voles, and wild boars.

Because the living space has been compressed, the number of terrestrial carnivorous beasts has been greatly reduced, and there are more or less population survival problems, and everyone is helpless when such a situation occurs.

Of course, these are just the restrictions that game companies impose on the game itself. If players find it troublesome, they can wait until the game is released to install a special mod package and replace the corresponding animal with a non-existent "fantasy creature", which can perfectly circumvent this layer of restrictions.