In the scorching heat of June, a science and technology exhibition hall in the demon capital was crowded with people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Bang bang.

Looking at the scene of the fierce human-making activities in front of him, Xia Xuan looked confused.

There is no male protagonist in the picture, he is the male protagonist of this action movie, a tall blonde Yanma with a large skeleton and a tall figure walks over with a smile. Ha Hyun's gaze moved from top to bottom, and his throat couldn't help but roll.

"Damn, it's so real!"

Backbite.

The woman was about to untie his wide clothes, but the screen suddenly went black. Xia Xuan took off his blindfold with a puzzled face and looked at the staff in the VR experience area next to him: "...... You just showed me this as soon as I took off my pants? ”

The male staff member who wore glasses pushed the frame of his glasses, glanced at the slightly protruding lower body of the guest without a trace, and coughed: "Because of national policy reasons, the latter part has been cut, we recommend that you experience games, such as roller coasters, zombie fighting, and so on." ”

"Okay......"

Xia Xuan agreed with the staff's statement, no matter how it is said, this is also a VR exhibition that has attracted great public attention, and of course discordant things cannot appear.

VR, VirtualReality, i.e. Virtual Reality.

This concept was proposed by Americans in the 80s of the last century, and later in 2014, Facebook, a well-known social networking platform in the United States, announced that it would spend $2 billion to acquire a virtual reality technology company, which caused heated discussions again.

Last year, in 2015, Ha Hyun had the honor to participate in the Mobile World Congress (MWC2015) in Barcelona, Spain, as a game practitioner, when HTC released a virtual reality headset product, the HTC.Vive.

Now in 2016, HTC. Vive has been on sale and officially distributed,This virtual reality headset is priced at 6888 in Xia Xuan's opinion, it is very cost-effective,But he is a moonlight family,The computer that he has assembled for a period of time GTX980+4790K can bring this VR device,But the wallet is shriveled,Xia Xuan can only look forward to the timely arrival of the next month's salary,He doesn't have to pay attention to VR exhibition information all day long,Specially go to the scene to experience it。

"Ding Dong"

After walking around the exhibition hall, Xia Xuan still seemed to be happy, but at this time, the mobile phone suddenly rang, a text message popped up, and he looked at the sender and said with a wry smile: "King Yama is here again!" ”

Today is a working day, and Xia Xuan also came out under the pretext of visiting the exhibition, and the boss personally sent a text message, and he could only take a taxi back to the company in a hurry.

Speaking of the company, maybe it should be called a small mobile game production team of more than a dozen people, Xia Xuan was favored by their boss when he just graduated, and was recruited to do some chores, such as copywriting, planning and market research, etc., in short, he wears many hats, when he is busy, he is dizzy and spends a week in the company eating instant noodles and fast food, and when he is free, he wanders out for three days and two ends, and he gets a good salary as usual.

The atmosphere of the company in the afternoon was very strange, and there was no usual laughter.

Repression.

Xia Xuan noticed that something was wrong as soon as he entered the door, his colleagues were sorting out the things on the table, and the things that should be packed were packed and put into the cardboard box, which looked like he was going to move.

He didn't ask much, but sat in his place, and had a faint premonition in his heart.

Soon after, the head of the gaming company came out of the office and called all the employees for a meeting.

The content of the meeting was simple.

The company is scattered.

The staff, including Ha Hyun, accepted it very calmly, and no one shouted excitedly. The mobile game industry is bloodier than you can imagine, and the popularity of a major game can determine the fate of a small company.

Syllable.

After the meeting, the boss put a professional newspaper on Xia Xuan's desktop, pointed to the title of the cover and said with a wry smile: "The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has a new policy, and unreviewed mobile games cannot be put on the shelves in the future." ”

"I found out yesterday." Xia Xuan sighed, yesterday the relevant news spread all over the portals and forums of all sizes.

This tightening of the policy means that in the future, the publishing and listing process of mobile games will become as strict and complex as online games, and the mixed mobile game industry will face a bloody reshuffle.

In fact, even without this tightening of policies, Ha Hyun's game company is facing the dilemma of going bankrupt.

Recently, the company's main Jin Yong martial arts mobile game has been cold, not only the R&D program apes have been hit hard, but I am afraid that even the boss, who is usually known as the king of Yama, has lost confidence in the company's prospects.

In the past two or three years, the company has also dug a gold mine in the complex mobile game circle, and the money is enough, and the boss wants to wash his hands with the policy basin Xia Xuan understands very well.

Otherwise, the company will not be hung alive, and the monthly salary and other expenses will be millions of funds, as well as the operating expenses of the mobile game, which is a pure deficit, of course, many projects of small companies are outsourced, and Xia Xuan himself will definitely wash his hands if he is the boss.

"Brother Chen, what do you want to do after washing your hands?" Ha Hyun asked as he sorted out his things.

"The golden age of the mobile game industry is over, but isn't the VR era coming?"

Everyone else left, and there were only two people left in the company's office area, but Boss Chen, who was previously known as King Yama, was like a generous elder in front of Xia Xuan, and patted Xia Xuan on the shoulder, which made him lean over to pack his things.

"We don't make VR equipment, and we don't have the technology and conditions...... But we can be content providers, can't we? Although it is a little late to enter the market, if we can launch a popular VR game, we can cut a big cake in the VR market......"

Boss Chen is quite optimistic about the VR virtual industry.

Now VR equipment is extremely lacking in content, yes, the VR ecosystem has not really been built, but adult action content and game content are booming, and many people's original intention to buy VR equipment seems to be difficult to say. What is the reason for the strong desire to buy, it is estimated that only the customer himself knows best.

Of course, there must be a detailed survey of purchase intentions in the current marketing departments of the three giants of VR equipment, Sony, HTC and Oculus. The Big Three talk about rejecting discordant content, but in fact, there are no clear regulations at all, and they turn a blind eye.

"Brother Chen, it's not so easy to make VR games...... Xia Xuan shook his head, "If you want to develop a VR game, the premise is to develop a 3D game...... Our company has been focusing on making mobile games, and there is no technical accumulation of 3D games at all, and it is ......"

Ha Hyun pursed his lips and said that this was interrupted.

"And what?"

"Funding. VR development is a big hole. Xia Xuan sighed, "Brother Chen, you must know how cruel the competition in the mobile game industry is, many R&D companies work hard to make things for half a year, but the success rate after promotion is less than 5%. ”

"The VR environment can be even more brutal than that."

"First of all, to choose one of the three major platforms of Sony, HTC and Oculus, targeted research and development, not to mention funds, this industry has just started, if you want to stand firm, you must cooperate with the three major platforms, they will give the team some technical guidance, which is very important......" Speaking of this, Xia Xuan paused, "As far as I know, the content research and development team that has won the favor of the three VR giants in China does not exceed five fingers." ”

Boss Chen was stunned for a long time when he heard this, before patting Xia Xuan on the shoulder and walking back to his office in silence.

Xia Xuan sighed secretly.

He had to pour cold water on his boss and elder who treated him well.

The new industry starts all of it, and the capital that the other party gets from mobile games may not be able to make a splash.

The pioneer is not so easy to be, and from the analysis of various conditions, Xia Xuan does not feel that his boss has the potential to become a pioneer of VR content.

Over the years, he has also figured out the character of the boss, is in a hurry, has a strong sense of utilitarianism, VR is not a mobile game, and it can be put into promotion and operation in one or two months or at most half a year.

Think about the R&D cycle of 3D masterpieces on the market, just stepping into the VR circle is bound to go very slowly, the technical conditions are not up to standard, and even have to take a lot of detours and wrong roads.

Ding dong.

Tidying up his things in a chic manner, Xia Xuan walked out of the office building with a cardboard box weighing more than ten pounds, and as soon as he walked out of the revolving glass door of the lobby, the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrated and received a text message.

Without a car, Xia Xuan took out his mobile phone and called a special car through Didi, and then flipped through the text messages.

"Your bank account balance is 22,049 yuan......"

, get paid?

Xia Xuan couldn't help but open the company's prestige group when he saw the number, and more than a dozen colleagues also received last month's salary and celebrated in the group, and some people were still giving out red envelopes.

"I wish you all the best for the future." Xia Xuan also silently sent out a red envelope, looking at the text message to remind him that there was a thousand yuan missing in the card, and his heart hurt terribly.

"Thank you, Brother Chen." Ha Hyun sent a private message to his boss.

The boss settled two months' salary for him, and it was only the 10th of this month until today, so he didn't have to pay a full month at all.

"Come on! Touch base! ”

"I'll think carefully about the VR content company." The boss replied with a cheering fist expression.

Syllable. Taking back the mobile phone, the special car that called also arrived at this time, Xia Xuan stuffed the cardboard box full of miscellaneous items into the trunk of the car, and then took the car back home.

As a native of the demon capital, Ha Hyun has always been grateful for the house left to him by his parents who died in a car accident.

Although it is a small building in an urban village, it has been built for some years, and it looks dilapidated from the outside, but the location is always good, some time ago, it was rumored in the neighborhood that the urban village in this area has been acquired by a famous real estate company, and is ready to be demolished to build a high-end residential community, but Xia Xuan did not receive a notice, so he put the matter on the back burner, how to live or how to live.

"Brother Xia!"

Perhaps hearing his footsteps and the sound of the door opening, Xia Xuan just took out the key to open his suite on the second floor, and a young man on the third floor hurriedly ran down, holding the express carton in his hand.

"Brother Xia, half an hour ago, I saw a courier box dropped at your door, so I'll help you put it away first." The young man said with a smile.

This is a tenant on the third floor, just graduated, and shared a suite on the third floor with two other classmates, Xia Xuan usually plays a few League of Legends with them when he is free, and one of the guys has the rank of the king of the suburbs, which is a good thigh.

Xia Xuan took the express box and it was quite heavy to start.

"Alas, wait, Ye Quan, when are you going to pay last month's rent?" Xia Xuan played with the taste, "Your landlord and I are almost out of rice." ”

When it came to the rent, the young man ran upstairs with a cigarette, and his apologetic words came from the stairwell, "Brother Xia, let's give it another ten days, or pay it together next month." Our college dogs are hard, the internship salary is so little, give a way to live. ”

"These guys." Xia Xuan shook his head, closed the door and entered the house, changed his slippers and stared at the courier box placed on the floor of the entrance, inexplicable for a while.

"I haven't been shopping online lately!"

"Besides, what kind of bullshit courier is this, no one runs away at home at the door? Look at labor and management and don't complain about him! ”

Hey.

At the mention of the courier company, Xia Xuan squatted down in shock, flipped over the box but couldn't find the courier list.