Chapter 297: Game Game
Since Qi Fei is willing to try, Yang Lin will not stop him, after experiencing the display effect of holographic glasses, he knows very well that if he can really combine "Jianghu OL" and holographic display, I am afraid it will cause a global sensation, and this game may not be the beginning of the era of Internet holographic display.
Subsequently, Yang Lin asked Qi Fei and Cheng Haoqian to convene their technical backbones to conduct a technical discussion in the matrix electronics laboratory.
Sure enough, when Cheng Haoqian told everyone what he thought, it immediately caused a lot of sensation.
You must know that after more than a year of in-depth study of matrix language, whether it is matrix digital or matrix electronics software engineers, it can be said that they have been at the forefront of microelectronics technology and software engineering.
Although in some aspects, they may still have a certain gap with companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but they have led the world in artificial intelligence technology, virtual reality technology, etc.
Of course, this also needs the support of Yang Lin's brain matrix system.
At the meeting, everyone offered suggestions on the combination of "Jianghu OL" and matrix mobile phones and holographic glasses.
For example, in the mode of holographic display, how to set the gameplay of the game, whether the matrix mobile phone can support the operation of this game, whether the power consumption of holographic glasses in the game mode can meet the long-term operation of the game, etc.
These problems need to be solved by the engineers of Matrix Electronics and Matrix Digital.
Some people even proposed that since holographic glasses can meet the display needs of mobile phones. So is it possible to connect the holographic glasses to the computer, so that the players of the computer version of "Jianghu OL" can also experience the visual effects of the holographic display.
This proposal is an exit. It sparked a heated discussion among everyone.
Here I have to mention the version of "Jianghu OL".
When this game was first developed. Yang Lin took into account the problems of the computer board and mobile version of "Jianghu OL".
As we all know, there is a huge difference between mobile phone CPU and computer CPU, the chip used in mobile phone is generally a reduced instruction set CPU, while the computer generally uses a complex instruction set (such as the most representative X86) CPU.
The characteristics of the reduced instruction set CPU are that the structure is relatively simple, the function is relatively weak, and some functions are not well programmed and must be controlled by real circuits, and the advantage is that the cost is low. Small heating point, power saving, etc.
Complex instruction set CPU features a complex structure and powerful functions, and most of the functions can be realistic through programming.
Therefore, if you want to port a large-scale online game that can only run on a computer to a mobile phone, the current technology is basically impossible to achieve. ,
After all, neither the CPU nor the GPU of a mobile phone can meet the computing needs of large-scale online games.
Qi Fei was in the early stage of developing "Jianghu OL". I ran into this problem.
He once suggested that Yang Lin only develop the computer version of "Jianghu OL", and in his opinion, it was almost impossible to run "Jianghu OL" on the MatrixII. mobile phone.
In the case of a situation where the level of hardware is far from that of a PC. No other phone can easily run this game.
However, Yang Lin did not give up, in addition to the mobile phone MIX instruction set chip is more suitable for artificial intelligence in the game, the current prosperity of the mobile game market is also an important reason.
To know the last few years. With the popularity of smartphones, the mobile gaming market has taken over the gaming market. It has attracted countless game companies to join.
Therefore, in Yang Lin's view, if "Jianghu OL" wants to truly achieve the goal of global promotion. The PC version alone is not enough, and you must also attack the mobile phone market.
Therefore, Yang Lin simply did not stop doing two things, and developed the computer version of "Jianghu OL" and the mobile version of "Jianghu OL" at the same time.
But the progress in this is not smooth, "Jianghu OL" wants to run smoothly on mobile phones, it has to simplify and set a lot of settings, after all, the mobile version is visually incomparable with the computer version.
Thankfully, the game's main selling point is the artificial intelligence technology, and the player's interaction with NPCs in the game is far more important than the visual experience of the game.
Therefore, it is not unacceptable for the mobile version of "Jianghu OL" to be abridged.
However, the emergence of holographic glasses has made up for the biggest shortcoming of the mobile version of "Jianghu OL".
Although there are still problems such as the lack of exquisite visual effects and the lack of CPU computing power, there is no doubt that it will bring a revolutionary gameplay experience to "Jianghu Online", and it is also an unprecedented breakthrough in the game field.
The technical seminar was held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and everyone's lunch and dinner were solved in the conference room, and all kinds of whimsical ideas emerged one after another.
Some people even proposed the use of high-performance supercomputers and cloud computing technology to further alleviate the computing pressure of the mobile version of "Jianghu OL", an idea that sparked heated debate in the conference room.
You must know that because the world view of "Jianghu OL" is extremely huge, involving many maps and NPC characters, just the big world of rivers and lakes and the fourteen small worlds of "flying snow shooting white deer in the sky, laughing book gods leaning on blue ducks", there are tens of thousands of important NPCs and millions of side plots, and the structure and development difficulty of the game can be imagined.
Because of this, with the existing PC computing power, it is already a bit difficult to run this game, let alone a mobile phone.
In order to reduce the configuration requirements of the game, Yang Lin thought of cloud computing technology, by improving the server configuration of the game and strengthening the computing, so that the low-configuration computer can also meet the running requirements of the game.
However, a computer is a computer, and even the computing level of the low-configuration version of the computer is countless times more powerful than that of an ordinary smartphone.
Now if you want your phone to run your game, you need a game server.
According to calculations, in order to achieve the goal of smooth operation of the game on the mobile phone, at least five to ten petaflops or one to two exascale supercomputers are required to be computed in parallel.
This means that the cost of this game will be greatly improved.
You must know that since the establishment of the R&D team last year, the investment in "Jianghu Online" has exceeded 500 million US dollars, and the total number of team members has exceeded 2,000.
If you add the investment of supercomputing, the total cost of this game may easily exceed one billion dollars, and if it is placed in the United States, it is possible to spend two billion dollars, which is an unprecedented production in history!
At the end of the discussion, everyone was taken aback by the huge cost, and their eyes involuntarily focused on Yang Lin. (To be continued.) )