Chapter 375: The Sinister Capitalist

"The Pandora helmet has become a new economic growth point? It's all a joke, you know, when you can't eat in an economic crisis, who is going to buy a helmet that you can watch movies online? "When the mainstream media began to hype up and promote the so-called new hardware era according to Pandora's caliber, claiming that the combination of wearable smart devices and the Internet in the new hardware era will form a new economic growth point, thereby driving the world's precarious economic situation, there are naturally rational media voices of their own thinking. These economists, unlike those who are completely superstitious about Schumpeter's theories, believe that the cause of the current socio-economic crisis is the excessive disparity between the rich and the poor, rather than the lack of new economic growth points. In other words, it is not because the cake is not big enough, but because the cake is not evenly divided. Of course, their voices are ignored by the mainstream propaganda media, intentionally or unintentionally, but the issues they talk about will not be denied by people who have a clear understanding of reality, and the value of their value depends on the amount of their value. Of course, from the reports of some mainstream media, it can be vaguely seen that in fact, mainstream politicians and economists agree on the same issues at a deep level.

At the very least, when talking about the current state of the American economy, President Ma Oba in the United States clearly mentioned that Pandora only has factories in the United States and Chinese mainland in the world, and if the factories in the United States can be completely supplied by American manufacturing companies, they can create at least 15,000 jobs. But in fact, the spare parts of the American factory are also purchased from all over the world on a large scale, and even the chips of the Internet or AMD are not produced in the United States, which means that the production line of Pandora actually created only 1,200 jobs. He was not embarrassed to mention the fact that the cost of assembly plants in the United States is much higher than that of production lines in China. But he still shouted the slogan of reindustrialization in his speech.

In fact, the labor cost in the United States is not strictly speaking much higher than that in China, especially the production line of Pandora's automated assembly line. But the combat power of the IRS is too strong. Compared with China's policy of three exemptions and two halves, it is normal for the United States to lack competitiveness, so Obama can only pay lip service. One or two star companies alone will not have a saving effect on the economy, even Apple and Pandora, and Obama is well aware that he wants to save the American economy. The most important thing is to guarantee full employment, which is the basis for economic normalcy. Just as when China's economy is in a downturn in the future, people are encouraged to start businesses on a large scale, you have to find something for them to do, and then you have to make sure that they can make money, otherwise the unemployment rate will come up in vain. In a sense, encouraging entrepreneurship is a drink to quench thirst, and if there is no guarantee, it is not an accident that the policy will cause some kind of collapse. But. And just like Nick. Anderson used Pandora's success to fool that the technological development of society has reached a point where technological accumulation requires creativity to be transformed into productive forces, and new economic growth points actually grow from creativity, and the basis of growth is the current accumulation of science and technology itself.

What he didn't say was another negative thing, that is, the new scale generated by new models and new ideas had a certain impact on the original traditional industry, forming a certain replacement or offset. There are actually examples of this at the moment: for example, the impact of Ahri e-commerce on traditional retail businesses, the impact of ride-hailing software on traditional taxi industry, and even Pandora itself is an example, once it adds a communication module. Even it doesn't need to add a communication module, it only needs to add a software for instant messaging. It doesn't even need to increase itself, as long as users take the initiative to use this kind of instant messaging software, it is enough to have a great impact on the mobile phone manufacturing and communication operation industries. In fact, Penguin's QQ and the upcoming WeChat, as well as similar software to WeChat, will have the same impact, the difference is that the impact of the Pandora helmet directly impacts the hardware.

Google and Apple have teamed up in a rare fit under this pressure. Google originally put the bet on Google Glass, but after seeing the actual impact of Pandora, they turned to feel that the form of glasses was not strong enough in terms of competition, so this time Google had to shamelessly copy the shape of a helmet as an important backup solution, of course. They also have some other alternative ideas, such as scarves, briefcases, etc., and they have also considered separating the components, and the glasses are connected to a host computer via guò Bluetooth, which is equivalent to separating the display from the main unit, which is also an important alternative.

Apple almost realized the threat to itself when it saw the launch of the Pandora helmet, especially Pandora itself. As far as the system is concerned, Pandora's system and Android system are of the same origin, and Google's leading Android mobile phone system platform has begun to bear fruit, and it is foreseeable that it will be the biggest competitor of Apple mobile phones and Apple systems. But given the greater threat of Pandora, Apple and Google unexpectedly moved closer at this time because of a unified enemy position. Google wants to be able to develop devices that surpass, or at least reach the level of the Pandora system, and Apple wants to build its own software ecosystem on the same hardware, and both sides have their own intentions, but their actions are fairly unified, and they work together on hardware development. They even announced that they would launch a Pandora-like product by the end of 2011.

But obviously, not all people can afford to wait that long. In Hollywood, the six major companies have joined forces to reach a more favorable share with Pandora on the copyright issue. At this time, Kasuga's acquisition of Colombia became a clever move in hindsight, especially since its CEO was still Angela. Mason this Nick. Anderson's relatives watched Columbia and Kasuga take advantage of the opportunity to re-sell the film around the world, and the major Hollywood companies simply couldn't sit still. They want to unite and mobilize the government to coordinate the negotiations with Pandora, but every day the negotiations drag on, they are forced to become more and more anxious by the sales of movies in Columbia and Kasuga, and the feeling of watching others make money but they are stuck and have no chance is simply crazy.

Columbia and Kasuga have already made a template that the six major Hollywood companies do not want to comply, they are larger and want more favorable conditions. But Nick Anderson just stood up. This even went so far as to end up with a conspiracy theory circulating among Hollywood executives. The purpose of Anderson's approach is to drag out time, so that Columbia and Kasuga can maximize their benefits first, and do not see that Kasuga has even bought black and white films from Chinese mainland and Hong Kong movies have begun to release Pandora versions, and because of the current scarcity of films, Pandora's users are almost not picky to buy a Qiē Pandora format movie that they can buy. Hollywood's major companies have ghosts in their hearts, and the alliance broke up in an instant with the passage of time. The first to defect was not Sony, but 20th Century Fox, who first announced that they would cooperate with Pandora to launch a Pandora version of "Avatar", and there are two versions, director's cut and release. Fox, who was frenzied with cheating money, accepted the same treatment as Columbia and Haruhi, and because of the heavy work of the Avatar transformation, the prices of the two versions were $79 and $69 respectively. The Cameron cut version is longer and has more shots. Fox proudly announced that in a month, Avatar would be on sale.

Fox took the lead, and other companies followed suit, all of which came up with their own company's best and hottest works to cooperate with Pandora, which can be regarded as basically acknowledging Pandora's pricing power, but major companies still conservatively signed short-term agreements with Pandora. The term of the agreement is basically one or two years, and the number of copyrights of the film does not exceed ten. Sony contributed its own Resident Evil as a pilot. However, instead of working directly with Pandora, they signed an agreement with Haruhi instead. The news that has spread is that Kasuga has made a lot of concessions in cooperation with Sony, and other companies will naturally be tempted, but the relationship between Kasuga and Sony is quite complicated, at least, Sony's sale of Columbia to Kasuga is one of the biggest reasons why Kasuga is not good at rejecting Sony. Furthermore. In view of Sony's influence in Japan, Kasuga had to cooperate with Sony if he wanted to better develop his business in Asia.

Other companies in Hollywood were a bit of an afterthought, and at this time, they suddenly realized. It may be possible to directly negotiate some form of authorization with Pandora, and grasp the distribution rights of Pandora-format films in their own hands.

It seems that God is trying to satisfy the ** of these big capitalists, and soon, someone posted a technical post on the Internet, claiming that he had cracked the so-called Pandora format of the movie. Of course, professionals from various countries have professional judgments about Pandora's technical level, and it is not too difficult to crack it in the real room, but public publicity is another matter. The technical post enjoyed the treatment of being promoted by the people behind the scenes, and quickly spread on the Internet in countries around the world.

The Pandora format doesn't seem complicated to say.,It's just a seamless connection of the 3D format in the scene under the control of a certain algorithm.,With the movement of the viewer,The configured image is temporarily generated.,The principle is clear.,It's not too difficult to implement in the real room.,But there must be a standardized process for large-scale production of this film format.,After the software framework is built, the rest is the body lì live。 And then the difficulty is the optimization of the algorithm, the implementation, the fluency, and so on. From this, the industry also judged that Pandora was definitely not created on a whim in a short period of time, it was definitely the accumulation of many years, even if it was not specifically for this project, it was also a derivative of a certain project for a long time.

This technical post on the Internet explains the principle and breaks down the Pandora format movies that have appeared on the market technically. The content of the stored text is intercepted and demonstrated, and the large sections of code are parsed, what the purpose of each piece of code is, and how to implement it on the operating system, which is technically clear. Although there is still a black hole in the specific way of how to transform the system, the technical post also points out the method - of course, it is how to burn money. The post then gives an example of how to convert a normal movie format to 3D - not Pandora, of course, but the camera doesn't move the perspective as the viewer moves their eyes, but this 3D format is perfectly sufficient for watching a movie - and it can be perfectly implemented on a Pandora helmet. If the format itself is 3D, it is effortless to rewrite.

For the more demanding, the Pandora format is obviously ideal, but if the price is too high, the 3D format seems to be okay - although the immersive feeling is a little weaker, far less than the meditation Pandora format, which can make people feel immersive.

Naturally, the post went viral, causing a huge impact. Although the poster claims to be out of personal will and can't get used to Pandora's monopolistic behavior, but to make the capitalists believe that this is completely out of personal behavior without the instruction of others, they will never believe it, such a technical force is not impossible for individuals to do, but it is obvious that almost all of what can be done are famous and well-known in the world, otherwise they are engaged in confidential work.

While many people are wondering if this is a stumbling block for Pandora's competitors, Nick Anderson is working with Shen Zhenghui, Mitsumi Fukuda, and Angela. Mason celebrates the completion of the first installment of the Apprentice of Magic prequel.

"Are you laying it out?" Shen Zhenghui asked, "You want to promote the Pandora format first, so that others can't hit you on this?" ”

"There's a little bit of meaning in there." Nick Anderson smiled, "Didn't they say I had a monopoly?" I'm always going to give them some chance, a little hope. ”

"I don't think they've mastered the core of the Pandora format just like that."

"You always have to give them a little time." Nick Anderson replied.

"When they've completely cracked the Pandora movie, it's time for your Pandora online game to go live." Shen Zhenghui shrugged his shoulders.

"I'm in a hurry!" Nick Anderson spread his hands, "The capacity expansion can't keep up, I can't go and say to Google and Apple, you don't want to research, I'll license my patent to you, right?" ”

"They're going to come to you?"

"As far as I know, their progress is not very smooth. In terms of stability, even if Apple's system is used, it is difficult to meet the requirements. Nick Anderson replied, "I'm going to find an excuse to back down." He licked his lips, "Who do you think would be better for me to partner with in China?" (To be continued......)

PS: It's better to fix the update time, I will gradually move the update to around 11 o'clock in the evening, so that it will not affect my rest. Please monitor my procrastination.