However, even in the stage of weak artificial intelligence, Cortana's application scenarios are already quite rich, and the first is to apply to the "virtual idol" project, the core of Hatsune Miku is part of the source code of Cortana's agent, which is used in the virtual concert held by Hatsune Miku, and realizes cross-dimensional interaction and communication between virtual singers and fans on the scene through virtual singers.

It was definitely a surprise for the fans, and it eventually translated into considerable commercial value.

The second is the intelligent voice assistant application of the next generation of Azure mobile phones being developed by the Cote d'Azur company, including the future 5G Internet of Things applications, all electrical equipment will be digitized, and the application scenarios under the smart home life, people only need to control all electronic devices through a smartphone.

That's convenient, right? Yes, that's right, but it's still not convenient enough, it's still a hassle.

Because you also have to operate on your phone.

But if there is an intelligent voice assistant hosting, it will become the best virtual housekeeper, and you only need to fool the mobile phone to say to turn on and off the lights, air, TV, etc., and you can achieve it.

Even if Cortana's current level of intelligence is still weak artificial intelligence, she has no problem at all in being competent for these jobs.

The fool is convenient, and the purpose of scientific and technological progress is to make everything simple and convenient, which is an inevitable trend.

Whoever can do this can make a lot of money by providing customers with such quality solutions.

At this moment, after Luo Sheng completed this round of hardware upgrades for Xiao Na and connected to the security system of the science and technology complex building, the building has achieved the most basic digital control.

He has already completed the other hardware transformations.

Now, Luo Sheng wants to turn on the lights and turn on the TV, he doesn't need to do it, he only needs to say a word, and he can do it with voice input to Xiao Na.

Cortana's current capabilities enable a huge variety of application scenarios, which means unimaginable benefits.

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As time passes, the arrival of October 2008, another thing also made Luo Sheng quite concerned, that is, the first WRPO World Number One Player Championship came as scheduled, which is the first bullet of Bluestar Technology Group's layout of the e-sports industry, and the e-sports industry is like a fuse, detonating virtual reality games in the future, and virtual reality games need brain-computer interface hardware.

People can't understand why he attaches so much importance to a small industry like e-sports, but they will always understand it in the future, and when they first wake up from a dream, they look back and see that Luo Sheng is already standing in the tuyere.

The e-sports division of the group company has been preparing for the holding of the first event for more than a year. Originally, the WCG World E-sports Competition, which was recognized as the first event in the industry, was held in October every year, but after Luo Sheng entered the e-sports field in a big way, the e-sports brand "WPRO" suddenly became the top brand in the industry, and its proper debut was the peak.

In the past, if you ask which event is the most valuable event in the industry, e-sports practitioners will say WCG without hesitation, but since Luo Sheng's big foray into the e-sports industry, industry insiders have changed their tune and changed from WCG to WRPO.

In order to avoid tournament conflicts, even the WCG World Esports Championship, which has been successfully held for seven consecutive years, has to avoid its edge, and this year's eighth WCG has been adjusted to the summer.

That is to say, the 8th WCG event has been held around May this year, and it is still a relatively successful third-party e-sports event, and the WRPO division has not forced other third-party events to a dead end, and even cooperated, and the participation of major e-sports clubs and professional players does not seem to have decreased.

Obviously, this is thanks to the rules of the WRPO competition system, because of the point system, the top 16 professional players or teams in the standings of major events every year can be promoted to the WRPO, and the way to obtain points is to compete in the major divisions, WRPO is divided into China Division, South Korea Division, European Division, North America Division and Wild Card Division.

Professional players in each major region of the division will earn points according to the ranking obtained by playing in the division where they are located, and the source of points includes official events under the WPRO division system, including events operated by major competitions themselves, and third-party competition regions.

The number of points is calculated according to the scale and influence of the third-party event.

For example, large third-party events such as WCG are now also cooperating, and before the emergence of WRPO, WCG was hailed by industry insiders as the Olympics of e-sports, and the weight ratio of points obtained was also very high.

The player or team that won the WCG World Championship will be directly guaranteed to the top 16 of the WRPO, which means that they can directly compete for the championship trophy of the "Ready Player One" in the finals of the year.

The rules of events like WRPO are to encourage e-sports players to play, and at the same time, they are also the foundation for the e-sports field to present a hundred flowers, WRPO events are particularly inclusive, this event brand of course replaces the original WCG's status and influence in the field of e-sports, and there is no WCG to crowd out.

Luo Sheng is the overall market of the entire industry, only when the major e-sports events are in full bloom, the ecology of the overall e-sports industry can be done, and the ecology will be healthy due to species diversity.

It's best that more and more people get involved, as long as I'm the boss, respect me and listen to me, everyone has meat to eat, and if you don't listen, of course you'll die.

There is no doubt that WRPO is standing at the top of the food chain in this ecosystem and eats the biggest share of the cake, but Luo Sheng is also actively making the cake bigger, and others can also get a share of the cake.

If you don't make a big cake, someone will definitely be hungry, let alone eat meat together.

Once a system like WPRO is established, there will basically be no third-party events that can challenge its position, because the ecology has been formed and the tuyere has been closed.

From now on, WPRO will become an evergreen event, and major e-sports projects will continue to be updated, and the current mainstream e-sports projects are indisputably "StarCraft", "Warcraft", "Half-Life" and other projects.

However, the lifespan of each esports project is closely related to the game it is in, and its life cycle is basically about ten years.

Often when the game declines and no one plays, the esports project will decline.

"StarCraft" and "Warcraft" will one day retreat from the mainstream to the niche, but "League of Legends" and "Dota" will carry the banner of e-sports, and similarly, "League of Legends" These events will also have a life cycle and a day when they weaken.

But if the commercialization of the entire e-sports industry is done well, the life cycle of these events will definitely be extended, and the life cycle of the original ten years may last to fifteen years.

Any specific esports competition will decline and change as the game is no longer popular with players, but esports itself shows no signs of decline at all, and will only grow in glory, accompanied by the growth of the entire industry.

Then the WPRO brand that is tied to it will not weaken, if it weakens, it will happen that the entire e-sports industry will go downhill.

Since 2008, e-sports competitions have begun to form a consensus, and the biggest purpose of professional players participating in these e-sports competitions every year is to grab WRPO points, and the ultimate goal is to take home the WRPO trophy and win the honor of the number one player of the year.

For an esports player only, his crowning honor is undoubtedly to be able to leave his name in the WRPO Hall of Fame.

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Entering October, Shencheng, the venue of the first WRPO World Number One Player Tournament, switched its theme element to e-sports.

A large number of players have come from all over the country to the most modern city in the country, and there are also players from all over the world who have come to Shencheng to support their professional players' clubs.

It's like traditional sports like football, basketball, and volleyball.

Shencheng also attaches great importance to this large-scale e-sports event and actively assists the event to ensure the success of this event. The afterglow of the Olympic Games has just begun to recede, and this kind of large-scale event has a very obvious effect on the local economy.

As long as people come, they must consume.

Although the world is now shrouded in the haze of the financial crisis, we still have to live a good life, and we can do what we have to do.

It is worth mentioning that there is an interesting rule that often when the economy is in recession, the entertainment industry represented by film and television is particularly prosperous at this time.

In October, the first single that ignited the global e-sports popularity was the single "Ready Player One" released by the popular rock band linkin Park on October 3, which translates to "Ready Player One".

That's right, the WRPO event team invited the lead singer of Linkin Park, this single is the theme song of the first WRPO competition, according to the planning of the WRPO operator, the future event will be held in the run-up stage of the competition will release a theme song.

As soon as "Ready Player One" was released, the MV was also uploaded to BluestarVideo, the most popular streaming video site at the moment, and it exceeded 2 million views on BV video in just one day.

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WRPO Division.

In the conference room, Wang Qiwei, who was sitting in the first place, looked at his subordinates and said solemnly: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, the first WRPO event is the top priority, the group company has tilted a lot of resources, and Mr. Luo will also come to the scene on the opening day. ”

At this moment, there are more than a dozen heads of major departments such as the secretariat, the media department, the event coordination department, the logistics department, and the investment promotion department in the conference room.

For them, everyone is under a lot of pressure, and they only have one thought, to complete this activity according to the task indicators, as long as there are no mistakes, thank God.

At this time, the director of the investment promotion department said: "In terms of investment, the sponsorship fee of the German mechanical keyboard manufacturer Cherry has increased a sum of money, with a total sponsorship fee of 8.2 million US dollars, in addition to other sponsors including Samsung Display, Intel, NVIDIA, Dell and other 28 well-known manufacturer sponsors have added about 20% of the sponsorship fee, the revenue of this WRPO in the sponsorship area reached 68.9 million US dollars, and the WPRO event brand has earned 100 million US dollars in sponsorship fees throughout this year. ”

This has to say that before the WRPO World Number One Player Tournament, the competitions in the major divisions were outstanding, and the sponsors realized the advertising benefits here and then increased their investment, and the WPRO event brand operation department also had bargaining power, so the major ones increased the sponsorship costs.

One of the most typical cases is the German mechanical keyboard manufacturer Cherry, e-sports has made this dying mechanical keyboard manufacturer Salty Fish turn over, at present, the company sticks to the mechanical keyboard business all over the world, and with the end of the WRPO division, Cherry's mechanical keyboard sales have skyrocketed by about 105% in the past two quarters.

Mechanical keyboards have met the goddess of luck in this era - e-sports.

Finally renewed its vitality, the Cherry company that tasted the sweetness saw the advertising effectiveness of mechanical keyboards in the field of e-sports, and did not skimp on a small amount of money, not only sponsored the WRPO event brand, signed a 5-year contract in one go, but also spent money on the endorsement of well-known e-sports clubs and star players at home and abroad.

The sound of the mechanical keyboard Parala is the embodiment of the high speed, and the hand speed is a manifestation of the strength in the e-sports game, plus the cool shape and lighting and other designs are full of force, and the back of such a set of peripherals goes to the Internet café to show off the proper focus of the wood, well, this is afraid of being a master, and the success of hitting the players' G-spot is woody.

Then you can also give them the illusion of becoming an e-sports master after buying a mechanical keyboard.

Pretending to be compared, this is the rigid demand of human beings, when, what field will never be outdated, grasping the pressure point is indirectly equivalent to grabbing a small amount of money.

Anyway, even rookies have to have such a set of equipment, plus professional players use mechanical keyboards, and rookies with super player dreams have also bought them.

Mechanical keyboards have begun to change gorgeously from gradually being ignored to meeting the goddess of luck in e-sports, and manufacturers have seen the benefits and are trying to make mechanical keyboards a popular subculture fashion in e-sports.

Of course, the biggest name among the sponsors is undoubtedly a sister paper.

She is the virtual idol of Bluestar Technology - Hatsune Miku.

Although they are both the same parent company, the brothers have also made it clear that Hatsune Miku, a virtual singer brand, is now also being promoted, and this time it is linked with the WRPO and paid $10 million in the form of a sponsor.

This time, the WRPO event is linked to Hatsune Miku, and it also appeared in the theme song "Ready Player One", with two ponytails, headphones, and a new costume as an e-sports girl.

E-sports + secondary yuan + otaku + players + games, etc., these elements have strong linkage attributes, basically a little flowering can drive multi-point linkage, and the economic benefits it produces are also amazing.

After all, there is not a saying in the circle that ridicules: a dead house with a wall, a suite in the capital.

It can be seen that the consumption power of the happy fat house is so strong, if he is still a game nerd, he is still at the fever level, and he will be eaten to death properly.

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