Chapter 90: $2 Billion Orders (Two Chapters Combined)

At the same time, the Western Hemisphere of the three poles of the righteous day.

United States, Pentagon.

A black sedan drove into the government-controlled area, and the driver showed the license plate and evidence, and was immediately cleared through, and the black sedan finally drove steadily into the Pentagon's control area. Several white men in black suits and black sunglasses entered the interior of the Pentagon silently.

The white men arrived at an office in the building, and a few moments later, the female staff members of the building arrived at an office on the fourth floor with one of the men carrying a silver lockbox. A middle-aged man over the age of forty was in the office, wearing a military uniform and carrying a rank on his shoulders indicating that he was a serving colonel officer.

The staff then left, and the man in black entered the office and shook hands with the colonel, and the two talked briefly for a while, and the man in black handed him the silver lockbox in his hand, and the two sides nodded successively, and the man in black finally left.

The colonel watched the man in black leave the office, and his final gaze focused on the silver lockbox, which he opened according to the code obtained, and inside was a few paper archives.

He opened the file and browsed through it one by one, and the file listed the details and proof of personal identity, as well as eleven high-definition color pictures of people, all of whom were yellow faces, ten men and one woman, and from the photos, these people were all young faces.

The Colonel seemed to be looking for something in the files, and eventually, he saw a striking seal of authority in a document that represented a clear authorization directive, and he immediately entered his desk, facing one of the computers, with an unusually prominent desktop icon - the Navy SEAL badge.

Not only did strangers come to the Pentagon with information and a directive, but a similar scene was happening at the CIA in the United States. These U.S. government agencies with gray event signs have been visited by a number of personnel in recent times, and the internal staff of these agencies do not understand the exact things, but the orders and authorizations from above are beyond doubt.

Their goal is the same, straight to a technology company in the China Sea region, which is XlouS!

The reason why gray activities are called "gray" is because these activities are always carried out outside the public view, and organized and purposeful activities, and the fact that the public cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

No matter what, the earth is constantly rotating, and people's lives will not stop.

These days, driven by the news effect of Hollywood's outbreak, panoramic vision PV has been hyped, and it has become a hot topic recently, although there are few people who have really experienced panoramic vision PV, but that video of about 6 minutes has been watched and reproduced by countless people.

Panoramic vision PV, augmented reality AR, virtual reality VR, the three popular technologies represented by visual impact, are known as the most cutting-edge visual experience equipment delta. The former is the latest concept proposed by China Matrix Technology, and it is the first and only company with a mature technology system. The latter two are currently involved in most of the world's technology companies, and the competition is extremely fierce, and the two major fields of augmented reality AR and virtual reality VR are currently led by Magic-Leap in the United States and Facebook subsidiaries respectively.

Matrix Technology XlouS Headquarters.

Less than three days after Cameron returned to the United States, he came to Matrix Technologies, and he not only came, but also brought a small team with him. Obviously, Cameron is here to learn more about the panoramic vision PV, which is crucial for his upcoming sequel to "Avatar".

It is not so easy for the sequel to "Avatar" to catch the first shuttle bus of the panoramic vision PV, especially for Cameron, this is a new visual effect, the picture and scene are no longer limited to a flat or curved giant screen, but a multi-dimensional stereoscopic vision.

This will mean using a new shooting technique, which is a real stereo visual impact, the audience is integrated into it, not limited to a giant screen, the editing technique and scene replacement are particularly important, the use of long shots may be more frequent, in short, "Avatar 2" is enough to shoot once, but there will be two different editing videos, one is shown under the regular screening hall, and the other is shown under the panoramic vision PV.

Screen projection and stereoscopic viewing are necessarily different, and the expression form of the giant screen will not be suitable for projection under panoramic vision PV, which means that the same film will be presented in two different forms of editing, and it must be edited in the panoramic vision PV screening hall because of its particularity.

In this way, the post-editing process of a film will be doubled, which will also mean that the production cycle of a film will be longer, and it will also test the director's skills more.

At this moment, Cameron, Ren Hong and several other people sent by the cinema chain are surrounding a miniature panoramic vision PV screening hall model, and there is a huge high-definition display screen hanging on the wall in the room, and the three-dimensional modeling of the panoramic vision PV screening hall is presented on the screen.

"A screening hall will accommodate about 300 audiences, the impact of too many people is inevitable, the audience is an outsider based on the movie, too many audiences will inevitably affect the viewing experience, and a small number of people will inevitably affect the income of the theater, this is a rather contradictory problem, we can't just play a two-and-a-half-hour movie for a few audiences and the price is a normal ticket price, that will be lost." Said the representative of the theater side.

"This contradiction must be resolved." He emphasized.

"Is there any way to hide the audience? Or technology? Cameron looked at Ren Hong and said.

In this way, this contradiction is naturally resolved.

"Nope!" Ren Hong replied decisively, he said: "And, even if it can be done, then the audience may be able to wear special hardware clothing every time they enter the screening hall to watch the movie, but this is obviously too troublesome and not a good idea, what we want is that the audience can watch the movie normally without bringing any peripherals after entering the PV screening hall." ”

The crowd also nodded approvingly, and it was definitely not a good idea to add other questions in order to avoid this problem.

"So, we have to start with the arrangement of the seats in the screening room." Ren Hong added.

Obviously, Cameron's arrival is a discussion of Panorama Vision PV, and this discussion will be a process of setting standards for PV screening halls, and once the standards are established, the basic standards will be followed in the future for theaters and film shooting and editing methods that want to be settled in Panorama Vision PV.

As long as it is a panoramic view PV screening hall for the public, its hardware layout cannot be arbitrary, and the negative effects brought by the multi-person viewing experience must be considered, after all, too many outsiders will appear very inconsistent in the "movie world", which will also affect the viewing effect.

After two days of deliberation on the layout of the public screening hall, the result was finally reached, and everyone basically agreed.

The layout of the PV screening hall is not much different from the traditional 3D-iMax screening hall, and the formulation of such basic standards also follows the existing objective factors, after all, it is impossible for only a few people to watch the movie in the public screening hall, so the cinema does not have to do business, and only the local tyrants in Dubai and the rich in the world can enjoy a 360-degree audio-visual experience without dead ends. Therefore, the objective issue of profitability is unavoidable, and PV screening halls must be able to accommodate more audiences in order to achieve commercialization.

In the process of developing standards. Based on the objective factor of the wide angle of vision of the human eye, the wide angle of human eyes is usually about 160 degrees, and the wide angle can theoretically reach the range of 180 degrees. This standard is also crucial to the director's shooting techniques and lens presentation.

By establishing this standard, the director can shoot and edit effectively.

The final basic criteria were established as follows: the PV Screening Hall will accommodate up to 330 spectators, and the audience seats will be distributed in a standard 37-degree angle. Unlike traditional screening halls, there is no screen in front of the audience's field of vision, or there are screens in the field of vision. Another point is that there is a very important feature in the audience seat, that is, the audience in the upper echelon of seats is completely invisible to the audience in the next echelon, such an arrangement will cause an illusion of visual deception to the audience, that is, an audience can be regarded as the first row position regardless of the actual seats, so that the sense of disobedience is greatly reduced, but the space occupancy of the screening hall should also be expanded, but it is also acceptable.

At the beginning of the movie, the audience's vision is integrated with the film world, and the objective factors brought about by the distance of the seats are almost negligible.

Because, the audience is in the world of cinema.

It is worth mentioning that the concept of the audience looking forward and the wide-angle factor of the horizon based on the objectivity of the human eye, the director only needs to make a scene horizon that theoretically fluctuates up and down at 180 degrees and is actually based on the theoretical wide-angle. In this way, the director also has a lot easier on editing and shooting, after all, the difficulty of 360-degree panoramic display and 180-degree panoramic display is not as simple as dividing by two.

However, the audience's head cannot be constant, and the horizon will always expand with the head swaying from side to side, and for this reason, the angle of the film world must be 180 degrees higher than theoretically.

It took three days to set the standard for the PV screening hall of Panorama Vision, and after the standard was established, Cameron had no reason to stay at Matrix Technology, and he left China with his team first.

The heads of several major cinema companies in the United States did not leave immediately, and the reason why they did not leave was naturally about the construction of the panoramic vision PV screening hall.

In the end, despite the negotiation between the two parties, Emperor Cinemas first signed the first PV order contract with Matrix Technology, and the 30 venues that Emperor Cinemas originally wanted to build the iMax screening hall will become the construction address of the panoramic vision PV screening hall, and 10 additional venues were added, and the price of a panoramic vision PV projection equipment sold by Matrix Technology was $4.35 million, plus other purchased seats, renovation and on-site layout, the final cost of adding a PV screening hall to the cinema company was about $4.9 million.

This time, Matrix Technology signed contracts with these major U.S. cinema companies for a total of 116 PV theaters, totaling $500 million.

According to the contract, one year later, Matrix Technology will send a team to the United States to set up a PV screening theater.

With the group of people leaving China satisfied, it didn't take long for Emperor Cinemas to announce the news of building a PV screening hall in a year, and another group of people also came to Matrix Technology five days later. The heads of major cinema companies around the world are rushing to the PV of panoramic vision, among which Wanda International Cinema Company, the world's largest cinema company, is also on the list.

These people's approach is the same as that of Emperor Cinemas, they all did not hesitate to abandon iMax and Chinese giant screens, screening halls of the same level and price, and only chose panoramic vision PV, which is the mainstream trend in the future, and it is obvious that it is obvious.

To promote these theater companies to come collectively "teamed up", we have to say that 21st Century Fox Film Company, CEO Lachlun became a salesman of Matrix Technology for free. After all, the number of PV screening halls in the future will affect the box office data of "Avatar 2", as the first film released by PV of panoramic vision, Laklun can smell the smell of money every time he thinks of it, and the more PV screening halls, the higher the box office of "Avatar", there is no doubt about it.

A win-win-win situation, why not?

According to Laklun's vision, on the day of the release of "Avatar 2", PV theaters around the world must have more than 700 screens to have enough impact on the box office.

This time, the team led by Wanda International Cinema Company came to Matrix Technology and finally successfully finalized a large order.

Wanda International Cinema Company, which is backed by Wanda Group, is indeed wealthy, signing 150 pieces of PV projection equipment in one go, and other theater companies from all over the world have also placed orders. Matrix Technology has not even set up a PV production line, and a total of 503 pieces of PV projection equipment have been successfully finalized.

503 pieces of PV projection equipment, Matrix Technology has obtained a huge revenue of 2 billion US dollars. These cinema companies are not afraid, because the high liquidated damages in the contract are guaranteed, and Matrix Technology is a technology giant company worth $500 billion, so there is no need to question its reputation.

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(To be continued)