The Penguin Group's office building is a busy scene at the moment. The employees who occasionally walk through the corridor don't have very good looks on their faces. The continuous decline in performance made them faintly smell the crisis of layoffs.

Yes, QQ has not had a good time lately.

Since the launch of the Future People 1.0 chat function last year, the number of active users of QQ has been showing a weak trend. The person in charge of the QQ project department was almost white, and he didn't come up with any good way to get back the city.

That's right, when your family, friends, and even netizens all use QQ, you really don't have a good time changing chat tools. But when your relatives, friends and netizens basically have the Future Man 1.0 installed in their mobile phones, and it happens that the Future Man 1.0 comes with a chat function, then QQ is really irreplaceable?

In particular, the future technology has made a very "yin" move, friend synchronization technology!

WeChat and QQ are able to synchronize the contact list of mobile phones, while Future Man 1.0 is very domineering to synchronize the friend list of WeChat and QQ. That is, any user who has downloaded FutureMan 1.0 and QQ and WeChat at the same time can synchronize friends with one click in the list of FutureMan 1.0 and intelligently group them according to user habits.

This trick is simply angry The person in charge of the QQ project department scolded his mother, but he couldn't help it. Futureren Technology has not violated any laws, and unilaterally copied it with the consent of the user, which has not had any impact on the normal operation of QQ, and has not violated the relevant laws restricting vicious competition.

At least the market share of communication software on the mobile phone side has been robbed of most of it by Futureman Technology. Fortunately, QQ is still supported by the PC side, but WeChat, which has always had a good performance, is miserable.

The foundation that supports the edifice of the Penguin Empire is the QQ number. Any of its products is built on this foundation.

And now. Future Man 1.0 has begun to extend its hand to the building itself.

"Boss, there is a new move in Future Technology. A secretary with square-rimmed glasses walked into the office. A document was gently placed on Ma Huateng's desk.

The old horse sat at his desk with a heavy face, his eyes never taking off the screen of his notebook.

It was an article that was reprinted by a news network.

[The closed beta of the virtual reality masterpiece "God-level Continent" has begun, and Futureman Technology invites 2,000 players from all over the world to board a luxury cruise ship. 】

These days, Futureman Technology has been building momentum for virtual reality. Ma Huateng is very skeptical that Future People Technology is so overwhelmingly publicized, and in the end, it will be able to earn back the cost of publicity.

He still knows something about virtual reality technology. Although China has made some achievements in the field of virtual reality, there is still a big gap compared with Internet giants such as Microsoft and Google.

Even foreign virtual reality online games are in their infancy, so why bother to get up to them in a hurry? Take back other people's leftover rice and stir-fry it, isn't it different and fragrant? Why do you have to research, innovate, and invent? Anyway, in this 1.3 billion market, copyright is a fart.

It's just stupid, tsk, won't do business.

Ma Huateng shook his head.

Having said that, Futureman's initiatives have still caused a lot of trouble for Penguin. If the virtual reality online game that has entered the beta stage is really as mysterious as they blow, this will undoubtedly be an unprecedented rush for any "traditional online game" on PC and mobile.

What is distressing is that the test site of "God-level Continent" was chosen in the Panu Islands. No media interviews, no photos leaked, and the penguins have too little information.

Whether it's a traditional somatosensory VR device or a legendary immersive VR device is a big debate even on the Internet. Many people who claim to be beta test players (water army) post that they are actually somatosensory devices. But there are also people who claim to be beta players. What Visionman Technology has developed is a legendary immersive device.

The so-called no picture hanging, because there are no photos outflowing, makes everything in the god-level continent seem confusing.

"Boss?" the secretary asked tentatively.

"Are there any well-known virtual reality companies in China?" Ma Huateng said with a sigh.

"Wanghai Lexiang Technology Company. The deepoon virtual reality device, launched last year, uses Samsung's AMOLED-1080P-Full HD screen. WITH A REFRESH RATE OF UP TO 75HZ AND A WIDE VIEWING ANGLE OF 120 DEGREES, IT PERFORMED WELL AT CES LAST YEAR. ”

"Send someone to discuss the acquisition. Ma Huateng waved his hand and said.

"Yes. The secretary nodded. Turn around and walk out the door quickly.

The difficulty of acquisition should not be very large, and the domestic virtual reality industry has been tepid, and tepid means that there is little capital to chase. If someone is willing to pay for their idea, they will happily monetize their technology.

Ma Huateng stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of his office.

Overlooking the street scene of the deep city, and his own reflection on the floor-to-ceiling windows, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Very good, since you Future People Technology has announced that it has entered the era of virtual reality, then I will come to play with you!

The so-called Icarus paradox refers to the fact that enterprises with monopoly positions are afraid of change and are unwilling to update their management, technology, and business models. This can make it difficult for them to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and lose their edge in the new competition.

So what is the Icanos effect? That is, companies that already have a monopoly position in the current market will spare no effort to use their own resources to prevent this change from happening. Just like energy giants withdrawing from new energy development, hostile takeovers of new energy vehicle companies, etc.

However, the shareholding structure of Futureren Technology is stable and the operating conditions are extremely good, which makes many Internet giants feel like they can't speak.

At the moment, far away at Microsoft's headquarters in Seattle.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was sitting at his desk, staring at the coffee on the table in silence, listening to his assistant's briefing with some distraction.

"HoloLens sales were up 27% overall in July. ”

When he heard this, he came to his senses.

HoloLens。 It is a holographic glasses based on the Windows 10 framework designed by Microsoft. The market response has been good since its release in '16, but there has been such a significant fluctuation in sales. It's a bit rare.

"By the end of the day, the Nasdaq's virtual reality sector was up across the board. Our company's stock also rose 3% due to the virtual reality business launched last year. ”

The 3% increase on the day is already a very objective increase for Microsoft, which is a behemoth.

Nadella closed his eyes.

"Establish a subsidiary to operate the HoloLens project, and immediately make an announcement about the development of HoloLens2. ”

The assistant's eyes widened and he looked at Nadella in disbelief.

"But HoloLens has just been launched—"

Nadella glanced at his assistant and said nothing.

He knew what he wanted to say. The shell was built, the announcement was made, and the subsidiary was listed. This is the rhythm of preparing to find the pick-up man.

But the future of virtual reality is smooth, why do you want to do it?

"The board will not agree. The assistant cautioned.

"Don't think too much about it, I'm just preparing for both. Nadella stood up, "I'll explain it to the board, and I need to ask Gates for his opinion." ”

With that, Nadella left the office, leaving his assistant with a shocked face.

Holding the papers, the assistant stood in place for a long time.

He did not understand the strength of Microsoft. Why you need to do both

Inside the office building of the 361 Group.

"God-level continent, virtual reality online game, heh, interesting. ”

While browsing the web page on the laptop screen, Zhou Hongwei was amazed.

"Boss, you don't seem to be in a hurry?" Standing next to his desk, his right-hand man Zhang Jianfeng smiled bitterly.

"What's the hurry?" Zhou Hongwei glanced at him. Leaning back on the office chair, "Is this thing in a hurry? It's been more than half a year, and everyone in the future is about to update to 2.0." The project department responsible for cracking has not come up with any results, and it is really a bunch of waste. ”

Come to think of this. Zhou Hongwei was angry.

Although there is cooperation between 361 and Futureman Technology on the project, it is a crack for Futureman 1.0. Zhou Hongwei has never stopped.

However, just some time ago, he completely gave up cracking the Future Man 1.0 and disbanded the project department responsible for cracking the Future Man 1.0. He knew very well that it was definitely not just his own company that made this choice, and the confidentiality measures of Future Man 1.0 were as hard as a turtle shell, so that he had no idea what to say.

I remember that at the beginning of the year, he also found an old friend who worked in the patent office and asked him to help him copy the patent documents applied for by Future Technology from the reference room. However, his old friend said very helplessly that the people in their patent office have repeatedly persuaded Futureren Technology to submit detailed technical information as soon as possible, what are the benefits of applying for a patent, etc., but the answer of the CEO of Futureren Technology is still so unkind.

- No, I don't need to.

Good one doesn't need it.

How much does this look down on those code farmers who are conscientiously facing the wall of the future man 1.0.

But now, Future People Technology has thrown out a smoke bomb of virtual reality. Zhou Hongwei couldn't help but scolded in his heart: Can't you TMD throw out new technology slowly? With such a big step, I'm not afraid to pull the egg!

"Boss?" Seeing that the boss's face was blue for a while and white for a while, Zhang Jianfeng asked tentatively.

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Hongwei recovered from his wandering.

"I'd like to hear what you think. ”

Zhang Jianfeng nodded, obviously he came prepared, and when he saw the boss asking about his opinion, he immediately stated it.

"There are probably two ways in front of us now, one is to acquire ready-made virtual reality technology companies and see if we can take advantage of the virtual reality boom set off by future technology. The second is to let go of this opportunity, after all, there is still a lot of room for development in the market in the field of mobile phones and PCs. If all the capital runs to chase the virtual reality industry, it will be a good opportunity for us to expand our market share in the field of mobile phones and PCs. ”

Zhou Hongwei closed his eyes and thought for a long time.

After a while, he sighed.

"I prefer the second option. ”

Zhang Jianfeng breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's what I thought, too. ”

Regardless of the frenzied efforts of future technology to build momentum for virtual reality online games, will it be a drag on the egg if it takes such a big step, but if 361 also takes such a big step, there is almost no doubt that it will pull the egg.

It's better to be steady.

Even if the virtual reality is magical, it is impossible to replace the mobile phone. Compared with the Big Three, there is still a big gap in the strength of 361. Even if Zhou Hongwei wants to fight with them, I'm afraid that the odds of winning will not be very high. Funding is one thing, technology is also another, and 361 is not dominant in either of these aspects.

At this moment, the most important thing it should do is not to follow the trend, but to take advantage of the influx of capital into the virtual reality industry to do the opposite and expand its market share on the mobile side. Isn't 361 search now gradually shaking the market share of Baidu search?

After all, because of the Lingyu Technology incident last time, the cooperation between 361 and Future People Technology is still close.

Zhou Hongwei sighed.

To be honest, he was really unwilling to make such a choice, but he was helpless.

What he didn't know, however, was that just a few months later, he would be glad he had made his choice. (To be continued.) )