Chapter 133: Virtual Reality
And then there's the focus on the rich country and Meng Qian, the "tech madman," who is low-key, yellow, and easily ignored in white Western societies – but his current shine is so dazzling that many whites can't help but be convinced.
After a secret (Wells Fargo Group) and open (Wells Fargo Power) financing, although Wells Fargo Group is not a listed company, the outside world has a valuation of 50 billion US dollars, and it is speculated that Meng Qian still holds at least 40% of the company's shares and is worth 20 billion.
Coupled with his other investments, such as pharmaceuticals, holdings, etc., the wealth will be even higher.
China's new richest man?
More attention has been paid to his young age than to his young age, which is far from the young billionaire Mark Murphy, according to non-authoritative valuations. Zuckerberg is already close. In terms of age and achievements, he has such wealth at the age of twenty-four, which is even more fierce than Zuckerberg!
He is still engaged in industry and playing high-tech, leading the battery technology for ten years (estimated by the media), amazing biopharmaceutical technology, each of which affects mankind - although Zuckerberg is also the same, but in terms of importance, Meng Qian's achievements are obviously more dazzling.
A magazine of "Iron Man from China" commented on him.
The foreign media rarely did not have black this time, and gave Meng Qian a lot of high praise, of course, there were also concerns about the skyrocketing value of his enterprise and the later development - if it was white, I am afraid that this would already be a song of praise, all kinds of superiority...... Minorities are destined to suffer injustice.
But the whole world has seen that even if there is a deliberate weakening of people of color and deliberately looking for blackness, it is like that "more than a little bit will attract jealousy; Beyond countless steps, it will turn into worship"—no matter how much he likes to ignore and like black, he can't hide the light on him.
Meng Qian who went abroad. began to be noticed by the mainstream media.
Time magazine even sent an invitation to do an interview with him on the magazine's cover.
But the current Meng Qian didn't want to stand too tall - he wanted to be happy for a while before taking on the responsibilities of these mainstream figures, so his assistant refused. When he will achieve more amazing things in the future, and when there will be no more black words, he will stand up again.
Now Meng Qian is standing behind the scenes. Silently watch things unfold.
After the second financing of Fuguo Power, the battery business does not need to worry about it for the time being, and he cares about his own business.
Among his current major projects, stem cells and artificial intelligence are long-term projects, which are highly rewarding but time-consuming. The new battery project, from both strategic and technical perspectives, will also take three years. But the question is, is he going to waste these three years doing nothing?
He's only in his twenties, and he's about to retire at such a young age?
He also wanted to take advantage of the fact that he still had the energy. A few more steps forward...... So he traveled to Onyx.
Purely to find inspiration, there are many areas in the AI laboratory that he can learn from, he watched an experiment of remote control TV through brain waves, the user frees his hands and only uses his mind to go. Control.
The brainwave remote control is similar to a headset with antennae attached to the forehead and ears. Down, the tester concentrates, and can control the TV channel change, sound increase or decrease. Turn off the test such as on.
Meng Qian asked out loud, "Can I do it too?" ”
The staff knew his identity and was very happy: "It takes special training to use it. Depending on the ability to comprehend, it takes five minutes to half an hour. ”
"Let me try." Meng Qian was interested.
After the other party taught him for three minutes, Meng Qian had already mastered the method, and he also wore this remote control, relaxed down, and tried to control the sound increase of the TV.
It was a little difficult at first. But after a few successful accumulations of hands. Feel...... It should be a brain sense. After ten minutes of continuous operation,Change up and down、Increase or decrease sound、It's no problem to turn on and off the TV,It's just in terms of digital input,There will be some interference occasionally。
"I want more precise control," the staff said. The first is to start from the hardware aspect to increase the sensing sensitivity; The second is to change from the operator, targeted training. ”
Meng Qian took off the remote control: "Very good, since they are already able to input numbers by brain control, then there is no problem in controlling remote control cars and airplanes, right?" ”
"Theoretically, it doesn't involve too complicated brain logic, it can be parsed and fed back." The team members of this technology are confident.
"Very good." Meng Qian had some idea about it.
What exactly? I couldn't catch it for a while, so I said goodbye to these people and went to the staff leisure area to hang out.
I sat down on a couch and thought: a combination of fashion and technology as cool as brainwave manipulation can pay off in the short term......
"That's right!" Meng Qian suddenly grabbed it. lived.
The people around him turned their heads and looked at him who had suddenly made a commotion. Meng Qian smiled apologetically and hurried away. The elevator went upstairs, went straight to an office, knocked on the door, and said to a dozing guy wearing an eye patch, "Jim! Wake up! Hey Jim! ”
"What?" Jim. Johnson took off his blindfold.
"What about the VR device you got last time?" Meng Qian asked him, because he often came here to mingle and was a shareholder of the company, his popularity was still good.
"What do you want to do?" Jim was still confused.
"I have a plan for improvement." Meng Qian said excitedly, "Quickly pack up your things and follow me to the downstairs department to try." ”
“OK! OK! Jim got up and rummaged.
Just a few days ago, Jim. Johnson somewhere got the virtual reality equipment that Oculus was testing, and improved it for a bunch of tech nerds to use for amateur games, Meng Qian also experienced it a few times, and the overall performance was not bad, of course, for him, there were many flaws.
How to improve, he suddenly had an idea.
VR (virtual reality) is the most important thing about the "immersion" of the virtual world, which requires the realism of the picture, good feedback of smell and touch, and the operation of integrating into the environment.
The first two points will slowly improve as technology advances, but they will be much slower in terms of the way they operate. If your eyes are already immersed in the virtual world, but your hands are grasping the controller and keyboard, reminding yourself that "the scene is fake", the immersive experience is greatly reduced.
Meng Qian saw the bright spot from the brainwave remote control just now.
After a brief explanation, he took Jim and the equipment to the department just now, explained his intentions, and then asked Jim to try this completely hands-free, brainwave control charm. After some experience, Jim also praised: "It's a wonderful solution to use it instead of operation." ”
"That's right." Meng Qian nodded, and his thoughts were suddenly clear. He has dug up a lot of technologies in his mind, including the improvement of the brainwave remote control, the improvement of VR (virtual reality) equipment, the experience of the environment, the system software, etc., and it is undoubtedly a good project.
The key to virtual reality technology is two things: equipment and content.
devices, such as lightweight headsets; high-tech eyepieces; Interactive devices (haptics, haptics), etc.
Content, such as application software, and real graphics in the game, this novel 3D experience mode will definitely capture the hearts of countless fans.
The above points happen to be the focus of VR technology.
And today's flash of inspiration has allowed him to bring out a lot of future plans.
Since Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus a few months ago, "virtual reality" has come in. It has entered people's attention and is also known as an entertainment field with great potential in the future. The research of major enterprises and people's expectations are destined to be huge in the future market.
Let's not talk about the farthest afar, the short-term investment projects that plagued Meng Qian have eyebrows.
The research in this may be fruitful in a year or two, and if he had started it, it would have been even earlier - although it was not a breakthrough in all technologies in one fell swoop and reached the pinnacle. But as long as you seize the opportunity and become a giant, after you have the funds to return, you still need to worry about the follow-up research and development not keeping up?
Scratch. Live the opportunity to create a giant in a new field.
And its market, in the case of explosive technology, will double every year, and some people expect that in ten years, the VR market will reach tens of billions of dollars. This is not an exaggeration, it is equivalent to snatching users of traditional games and entertainment movies, coupled with the attraction of new technology, it is endlessly charming.
But after the excitement of inspiration, Meng Qian calmed himself down first, he was not yet a master who could burn money casually. In addition to the optimistic side, VR is still in the initial stage of development, the market and users are unknown, and some people expect that VR will mature in five or ten years.
What about his strengths?
He has advanced technology, and if the maturity period of VR technology is ten years later, he will be able to master it!
He quickly filtered through it and dug deep into the technology, equipment, and software aspects of VR...... He was able to grasp every aspect of next-generation technology slowly. In terms of technical difficulty, the gap of ten years is not too big, and it can be done with existing technology.
It is not difficult, and the prospects are considerable.
After calming down, he decided to take some time and turn on virtual reality.
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PS: 120 commuter passes are added. (To be continued.) )