Chapter 284: The Performance Ladder of Virtual Reality Helmets

The question of price, that's quite critical.

After all, most people are short of money.

Just like the comparison between low-end mobile phones and high-end mobile phones, it must be that the low-end mobile phone market is large and the sales volume is large.

After all, there are only a few people who buy a mobile phone that is thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.

However, this is not a big problem, just like the mobile phone is divided into youth version, flagship version, plus version, or most products, virtual reality headsets are also divided into grades.

According to the technical and classification indicators given by Tang Chao, each virtual reality helmet can ensure the success of the user's nerves, but the success of the dive is the success of the dive, and its data exchange and haptic feedback are also very important indicators.

0% touch, just to say that you have completed the neural infiltration, you can enter the virtual world, you can also enter the main network to learn all kinds of knowledge.

But when it comes to interaction, it's more troublesome.

Like console games and general VR games, they use the joystick vibration to reflect the interactive state, while 0% of virtual reality, it uses "hard" to reflect the interactive state.

You touch things with your hands, you can feel that you are touching things.

For example, if you touch a wall with your hand, you can feel that hard touch.

But when you touch a ball of cotton, the tactile feedback you get is as hard as a wall, like holding a billiard ball.

Anything you touch is the same hard touch when you're in the 0% state.

At the same time, you don't have all the senses of smell, taste, pain, etc.

You can hear and touch, but only in the hands, and the rest of the body doesn't even feel the touch, because the hands are equivalent to the "handles" at this time, and they are functional.

In the virtual world, or in specific games, you can also squat, prostrate, lie on your back, jump and even fly, which is about the same as a luxury VR device equipped with a gimbal treadmill, lifting robotic arm and vibrating gloves.

Such a virtual reality headset is the basic version, and the price is 4999 yuan.

This price is basically equivalent to the price of VR glasses on the market, but it will definitely not let you hit your leg in use, because it includes the price of a full set of equipment such as a gimbal treadmill, lifting robotic arm, and vibrating gloves.

Those things are added to tens of thousands, and the most important thing is that some devices have not been researched or introduced to the market, and even if they are on the market, their experience is definitely not as good as that of virtual reality headsets.

Because using VR equipment, your physical strength is those, and you will be tired of becoming a dog after playing for a while, and with virtual reality equipment, your physical strength can be set, and you can even pull a knife like Grandpa Kirito!

So compared to the technology and experience it contains, this price is simply explosively cheap.

And those who really have a neural access virtual reality experience should start from 1%.

However, 1% is about equal to none, so Tang Chao used 10% to divide it.

The second level is 10% safe to infiltrate, which is called the experience version, because you can basically experience the magic of neural access virtual reality technology with it.

In this state, the body is palpable in all directions, and you can feel your body.

It has a sense of smell and can smell a wide variety of smells.

There is a sense of taste, and everything in the mouth can be tasted.

It's just that 10% of the safe infiltration state is still relatively shallow, the whole body has a sense of touch, and there is different tactile feedback when encountering different things, and it is no longer hard for all members, but it is still far from their true state.

For example, when a user touches their own skin, they can feel a certain amount of softness, but the touch may be more like a soft eraser than real skin.

You can smell the floral fragrance, but it is not as recognizable as the real floral fragrance, basically the floral fragrance is a smell, and the feedback it gives you is "this taste is a floral fragrance", but you can't tell what the specific floral fragrance is.

It's still that ball of cotton, and when you hold it in your hand, it finally doesn't look like a billiards, but like a ...... The ball is up.

Well, that's probably a solid ball of cotton.

But in any case, virtual reality technology in 10% state can already allow users to perceive a new world, which is absolutely enough for the average user.

And its price is set at 12,000.

It is expected that it may sell about the same as the base version of the 4999, and may even be the most sold in the entire series.

Because despite the fact that its price is more than double that of the basic version, but considering that it has various "feel" characteristics, its value for money can be said to be very high.

After that, the price takes off.

The price of 20% of the safe infiltration state soared directly to 50,000, 30% of the price soared to 150,000, and 40% broke through to 500,000.

In particular, the virtual helmet with 50% of the safe infiltration state, its price is 5 million.

For every 10% increase in the safe diving state, there will be a lot of improvement in various perception states, as far as the current technology is concerned, the upper limit of the helmet version of safe diving is 50%, and it is called the professional version, which is the "astronaut training equipment" claimed to the outside world.

The virtual reality headset in this state is the same helmet used by the company's top management in the past.

If the user uses a software that supports the full perception mode, then the grass they touch is the feeling of grass, whether it is grass leaves, grass stems, grass roots, as long as they are not people who deal with these things all year round, the touch is almost the feeling in their impression.

The reason why this model of virtual reality headset is called the professional version is that in addition to its high enough price and high safety and submersion status, it also requires the software to be "soft" enough.

Just like if you spend a lot of money to upgrade your computer in order to play games, you install i9-10980XE and RTX3090, install large memory, kilowatts of power supply, 8K display and other advanced equipment, but not all games can open 4K, 8K resolution, and not all games support ray tracing, most games are still in an ordinary ultra-clear state and do not support ray tracing, or even minesweeper or something, not to mention.

As a result, many players shouted: "My i5 and GTX980 can fight for another five years!" ”

So the same is true for the professional version of the virtual reality headset, if the hardware is available, there must also be a matching software application.

The astronaut training program experienced by the company's senior management before is an extremely professional application, and the technical difficulty in it is quite large, and ordinary companies may not be able to do it.

After all, it's not just about typing code, it's about bioengineering, especially the human brain.

After listening to Tang Chao's detailed introduction in terms of price and grade, everyone felt that it was not bad, and the boss was very thoughtful.

In terms of cost, the basic version of 4999 almost does not make money, and the trial version of 12,000 has only begun to make money, and the higher it goes, the more profitable it is, but the higher it is, the less it is sold.

This is also no way, this kind of technology and the current stage of social development are a bit inconsistent, the technology content is too high, the cost of hardware manufacturing can not be reduced, and you can only make some hard money.

And as a conscientious enterprise, there is no need to buy helmets separately between different versions, and those helmets can be upgraded.

They have the same internal framework, and can achieve different stealth states as long as different psychic stealth modules and other modules are added.

The most valuable stuff in the helmet is those things.

In contrast, it is possible to make money doing virtual reality software applications.

After all, they don't have to worry about the cost of hardware, that thing can't be controlled if they want to, and every penny of cost drops needs to be spent on tens of millions of dollars.

Of course, there are "time acceleration" and "super scientist" cheats.