Chapter 7: Repercussions (Part I)

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Ge Fan sat at his desk and watched the live broadcast on the computer screen, his eyes widened.

At the same time, in a state of unprecedented excitement, his fingers crackled on the keyboard, quickly outputting strings of long barrages.

He is popularizing science, after all, VR has not yet been popularized, and many young people who chase fashion may not know the composition of VR equipment, so Ge Fan is happy to play the role of a teacher. He is the editor of Tencent's VR area, like other big platforms in China, in the first year of VR this year, the giant Tencent also opened an independent VR section to deepen the layout.

"Let's start by analyzing the accessories of the VR device...... Needless to say, the helmet itself is the best ham sausage vive for virtual experience at present, for example, there are 2 wireless VR control handles, 2 base stations, that is, spatial positioning sensing devices......"

"I won't say much about headphones and cables." Ge Fan stared at the camera screen at the bottom right of the live broadcast page, and his attention was completely focused on Xia Xuan and Shenying VR headsets.

"Hoo ......"

After typing a bunch of words, the barrage floated by, and the audience reacted coldly to it. Ge Fan smiled helplessly, leaned his head back on his ergonomic chair, shook his head and muttered: "There are still too few people who know how to do it." ”

Yes, only the insiders know the horror of the VR headset in the picture, it is simply a product of fantasy!

There will never be a fake live broadcast.

VR live streaming is not yet like the fake proxy fight like League of Legends.

If it weren't for the fact that he inadvertently opened this Tianxuan's live broadcast room, but heard about the existence of this kind of helmet from other channels, Ge Fan believed that he would definitely scoff at it, and he wouldn't believe it.

But for today's incredible level of technology, there is an incredible helmet, a user is wearing a helmet and playing happily in the camera screen, he can't help but believe it!

With trembling hands, he took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from his trouser pocket, and lit a cigarette for himself with trembling hands.

Then, Ge Fan abruptly stood up from his chair, and under the stunned eyes of other colleagues, he went straight to the office of their editor-in-chief without knocking.

……

The live stream is over.

During the broadcast time of about an hour, Ha Hyun played three different games in a row, from the exploration adventure "Time Machine" to the futuristic sci-fi "EVE: Valkyrie", and finally the more casual game "Laboratory", which is a hit on the STEAM platform!

"Whoosh"

"Whoosh"

Standing on the tower, the audience can see Ha Hyun bending his bow and arrows in the picture, shooting arrows at intruders one by one, accompanied by a beautiful strike sound effect, and the enemies who were hit by the arrows fell to the ground and died.

"It's cool!"

Xia Xuan took off his helmet and stretched his body in front of the camera, "One arrow and one orc, this tower defense game is a bit interesting." ”

"Okay, that's all for today's live broadcast......"

"You can look at the sweat stains on my body, it turns out that playing games can be so tiring!" Xia Xuan is not only tired, but also has a soreness in his limbs from excessive exercise, he has only been able to get the Shenying helmet for a day, and he has not really adapted to the way this helmet plays, and he may collapse if he continues to fight.

The audience was retaining, enthusiastically brushing up the gifts, and a rocket popped up from the information bar and soared into the sky!

"Flandor gave a [Rocket] to the anchor Tianxuan!"

it!

Xia Xuan, who was just about to close the live broadcast, shook his hand and looked at the camera helplessly; "Flandor Bai Fumei don't want to be like this, you look at my current state, I really can't go on...... BY THE WAY, I WILL UPLOAD SOME VR GAME EXPERIENCE VIDEOS ON STATION B RECENTLY, WHAT VIDEO YOU WANT TO SEE CAN BE SENT TO ME ON WEIBO, I WILL GO TO STEAM TO BUY BUY! ”

Sorry to the audience again, Xia Xuan waved his hand and turned off the live screen.

"The anchor is on his way ......!"

The page screen went black, and then a reminder popped up that the audience was familiar with.

The editor-in-chief's office was silent.

Ge Fan and his boss squeezed in front of a 24-inch LCD screen, and after the picture went black, they reluctantly withdrew their gazes, glanced at each other, and could find the excitement and shock in each other's eyes.

"W-This is incredible!" Editor-in-chief Zhou Zhiheng's lips trembled and muttered.

Ge Fan couldn't help but smile when he saw his boss's reaction.

Everyone is pretty much the same. It is difficult to be calm in the face of black technology products, especially a group of insiders in the VR industry, who know better what kind of social changes will be triggered in the world after the development of similar VR equipment!

It didn't take long to calm down. Zhou Zhiheng stared at Ge Fan and said, "...... Do you have a deep understanding of the VR industry, do you know which giant company has made a major breakthrough in VR technology recently? Is it Sony, HTC, Samsung, or Oculus, which is controlled by Facebook? ”

"I'm sure it's neither!" Ge Fan gritted his teeth and said, "HTC, Sony, Samsung and oculus all have relatively mature VR products and have been listed, if there is a breakthrough in their technical research, then they should postpone the launch time of the product, instead of rushing to make money with the product that is not yet perfect, and rush to occupy the market!" ”

"And, Brother Heng, you have also seen that the Tianxuan anchor is already using the VR headset himself, which shows that the technology of the helmet is stable and can be mass-produced! If the giants were the developers of helmets, then the whole world must have their hype, but they are quiet now! ”

"Then what do you mean......" Zhou Zhiheng's eyes widened slightly.

"Yes!"

Ge Fan said excitedly: "Brother Heng, more than 90% of the probability is a domestic VR helmet product!" ”

Zhou Zhiheng was incredulous.

Domestic, or mainland, is not that there is no VR helmet equipment production company, but it is too chaotic, mixed, among which the more famous ones are Dapeng VR, 3Glasses, Ant Vision VR, Xuanlong VR, etc., the sales price of these domestic VR helmets is about 2000 yuan.

As an industry insider, Zhou Zhiheng knows that domestic VR equipment is not just about the level of hardware technology.

IF THE INTERNATIONAL VR EQUIPMENT IS CRITICIZED FOR "VERTIGO", THEN THE DOMESTIC VR IS MORE PROMINENT IN THIS, GENERALLY LOWER THAN 75HZ REFRESH RATE, THE PICTURE DELAY IS LESS THAN 20MS, USERS MAY JUST PUT ON THE HELMET FOR A FEW MINUTES AND CAN'T STAND THE INTENSITY OF VERTIGO.

At the same time, the lack of core technology makes domestic VR equipment manufacturers can only follow behind other giant companies, such as oculus, and can only use other people's algorithms and development software, which is passive everywhere and lacks the right to speak.

The most important thing is that the domestic VR equipment has not built the ecosystem it should have!

Apple's success comes from the model of mobile phone hardware + content ecology, and VR giants are now following this model, increasing R&D of VR technology while generating and aggregating content.

However, domestic VR equipment can only rely on cooperation with several major platforms to carry other people's content to their own platforms for user consumption, and the level gap is not a little bit.

No matter what the era, content is king!