Chapter 1064: Virtual Future (Second Update)
Chen Mo looked at the technology points on the virtual bracelet.
The phrase "technology changes the world" is of course correct, but here in Chen Mo, it should be "technology changes the game".
In many fields of literature, art, and entertainment, games are probably the cultural industries that are most restricted by technology.
Anime、Almost completely unrestricted by any technology。
Movies and TV series will have some limitations, but they are less limited than games, and their top-notch effects tend to be ahead of the game.
A lot of times, some games are not done perfectly, or have to make some compromises, often because the technology is not up to standard, and the designers have to choose the lesser of two evils.
A game like Bloodborne would never have been possible without neural connection VR technology and black technology to dispel players' panic without neural connection VR technology and awareness implantation to dispel players' panic.
At most, it's put on sitch, so that everyone can suffer in a different way.
Obviously, the greater the designer's ambition, the more support for black technology is needed.
Chen Mo has unlocked the last technology point of the third layer, that is, "Storage Capacity Expansion (Level 2)", and the storage capacity and reading speed of the matrix game cabin have been improved by leaps and bounds.
In fact, the storage capacity expansion of Level 1 is more than enough for many current open-world games, and large-scale open-world games like GTA have reduced the time to switch protagonists and read disks to a very short time.
And after the upgrade again, it is likely that even the 3A masterpiece with an open world theme will be able to completely kill the loading bar like "Uncharted".
This feeling is probably when playing GTA, switching from one protagonist to another, the two are far apart, but the camera is directly pulled up and then dived, and the loading is completed, and the whole process is only one second, and the players may not even react.
After this technology point is out, there should be no need to pursue greater storage space and read speed in the short term.
The fourth layer is a separate tech point.
[Hardware Cost Reduction (Level 1)]: After activation, the current cost of virtual reality gaming equipment will be significantly reduced by 30%.
Chen Mo was taken aback, this was what he had been waiting for!
Although everyone is ridiculing: "Expensive is not the disadvantage of the matrix game cabin, it is your shortcoming", but after all, with the current level of economic development and the consumption level of residents, the price of the matrix game cabin is still too high.
Chen Mo was even willing to sell it for his own money, but he only reduced the price to about 200,000.
However, for those players who are very entangled in buying a 10,000 mobile phone and 15,000 computers, how can they pay 200,000 yuan to buy a pure entertainment device?
Of course, the gaming experience of the matrix game cabin is unique, 200,000 is not expensive, but no matter what, for many people, it is not a question of whether it is expensive or not, it is a problem of not being able to afford it at all, and there is not so much money.
In fact, Chen Mo has always believed that the ordinary class, even the poor class, is the mainstay of the future virtual reality world.
Recently, the new games on the matrix game pod are basically single-player games. The reasons are complex, but overall, this strategy is in line with the current state of the market.
Most of the people who can afford the matrix game pod are well-off families and above, and players don't have that much time to play, and they may spare up to two or three hours a day to play.
Stand-alone games can ensure a certain degree of continuity and freedom in time, without the need for time competition with other players, and at the same time, selling by the share is very in line with the consumption habits of this group.
But what about the future?
Obviously, only pleasing the high-end market and making the matrix game cabin just enjoy the rich people, it is indeed possible to live a very nourishing life, but how can Chen Mo be the kind of person who is a little rich and peaceful.
Promoting the matrix game pod to the world, and even to everyone, and creating an incomparably huge virtual reality world in the future is the ultimate goal that Chen Mo wants to see.
Some people may think that this is just a game, as for it? Although the game is good, it still has to be separated from reality, and the current game is good for recreation, and it's OK to continue to maintain this level.
However, Chen Mo would definitely not agree.
It's not just Chen Mo who disagrees, probably all players who are really enthusiastic and fanatical about the game will not allow the game to stop there.
What is the ultimate form of the game? Maybe it's just the reality. If you can't work towards the ultimate form of the game at any cost, then the entire history of the game will become meaningless.
Just like the invention of nuclear energy, mankind brought an apocalyptic crisis to the world, but this is the only way on the human technology tree.
Even if this world is really the world of the Cthulhu Mythos, people will inevitably go further and further on the road of exploring the unknown and gaining knowledge.
As for why the poor and the ordinary class are the future of the virtual reality world?
Because at present, virtual reality technology and a brain in a vat are the only way for mankind to achieve communism.
It may be a bit absolute, but it's one of the easiest, if not the only, ways to get there.
Many people ridicule that the real world is a hard+ model for most people, whether it is the gap between the rich and the poor, the hardships of life, or unfair competition, these things may not find any solution within a few hundred years.
Since the birth of human civilization, inequality has always run through the entire history of civilization, and although the improvement of productivity has allowed the poor in modern society to live with relative dignity, "trying to survive" has never been an option for them to feel comfortable.
It's all tears.
Obviously, for a long time to come, it is a very illusory thing to count on the development of the productive forces to complete communism. Because wealth is always converging to the top, the rich have limited spending power, but most of them will never give a penny to the poor.
In this case, for the poor, the only way they can escape the real world and live in an equal world is virtual reality technology, which is a brain in a vat.
After all, compared to the real world, which is extremely resource-scarce, the resources of the virtual world are almost endless.
The richer the people in the real world, the weaker the yearning for the virtual world. On the contrary, the more poor people feel that reality is hopeless, or even give up completely, the more loyal they will become the most loyal fans of the virtual reality world.
Therefore, for Chen Mo, if you want to further promote virtual reality technology, price reduction is a must, and this technology point is also a must.
After this large-scale cost reduction, the price of the game pod is expected to be reduced to 150,000 yuan, which is by no means a painful figure for most middle-class families, considering the strong allure of next-generation VR games.