The advertisement says that 10,000 game testers will be recruited in several major European cities for three months.

During this period, the company will give a small nominal remuneration, but the personnel participating in the test will choose any of the various equipment they participate in the test as a reward for participating in the test.

It turned out to be a game!

Many people immediately lost interest, but in the computer world, especially among game fans, it immediately made huge waves.

Do you still need to guess? What can cause disputes within the computer alliance is certainly not an ordinary game.

According to the advertisement, you can choose any device as a reward, as long as you have a little brain, you can quickly guess that the alliance launched this time, it is likely to be a virtual reality game!

Virtual reality games, technically speaking, have a certain feasibility, but it is estimated that they are only virtual to a certain extent.

A closed head-mounted display, coupled with a special data processing equipment, can achieve basic virtual visual effects and initially meet the feasibility of virtual reality.

However, there are still many key issues that need to be solved in order to fully achieve practical application and promotion.

First of all, the price of the equipment is too high, coupled with a dedicated processor, each set of virtual gaming equipment is as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of euros.

The average game lover is simply not willing to spend so much money to buy it.

This is not the main reason, after all, for veteran game lovers, tens of thousands of euros can still be taken out by gritting their teeth.

The reason why virtual games cannot be promoted is that the degree of virtuality is too low, and the simulation effect that players can participate in is limited, let alone any degree of freedom.

To design a highly realistic game, you need to process a large amount of data, and if you want to involve physical and chemical changes such as collisions and explosions, you also need sufficiently high-quality image processing equipment.

Of course, the most difficult thing to do is to simulate human movements.

Ships, airplanes, vehicles, mechanical movements, are all set in advance, nothing more than front, back, left, right, up and down, fixed and rigid movements, but a little more complex control, the difficulty rises sharply.

Airplanes, for example, involve actions such as turning and rolling, which must be simulated by specific large-scale equipment.

Human movements, on the other hand, are driven by muscles and joints.

With the existing virtual technology in the world, it is not possible to simulate the freedom of human movements under the condition of retaining the degree of freedom of human movements, and every action still needs to be carried out in accordance with a fixed program and manipulated by a joystick.

If you can't flexibly integrate people's movements into the game, without touch, smell and other sensory stimulation, such virtual reality is nothing more than playing games in front of an ultra-luxurious screen.

This level of virtual reality technology still costs tens of thousands of euros to buy equipment, and no one wants to be the one who is wronged unless there is a lot of money and nowhere to spend.

The ultimate goal of business is to make money.

For a game with a very narrow expected user base, which game manufacturer is willing to invest in research and development?

Therefore, although virtual reality technology was widely spread in the early 90s, it has never been popularized on a large scale, except for the practical application of some military training equipment.

Although game lovers are eager to see through it, they can only continue to bury their desire for virtual technology in the bottom of their hearts, occasionally complaining on Internet forums and looking forward to the future.

As soon as the Eurasian Computer Union advertisement was published, it immediately caused a huge sensation among game enthusiasts around the world.

From the information revealed in the advertisement, everyone knows that it is Infinity that proposes this plan and leads it.

Infinity, on the other hand, has never bounced tickets so far, as long as the products they decide to launch are all civilian and at a fair price.

So, does this mean that virtual reality games are finally going to be launched to the majority of game lovers?

Game fans rushed out of their homes and offices one by one, hurriedly throwing down their work and rushing to the registration point, hoping to be the first to enjoy virtual reality technology.

Even if you lose your job for this, you don't hesitate to do it!

It's just three months of testing time, and if you don't work for three months, you won't starve to death, and after the test, you can find a job again.

But if they can't catch up with the game test, in case Infinity finds that the virtual device is not perfect enough and cancels the promotion plan, I am afraid they will not be able to forgive their hesitation for the rest of their lives.

Less than 10 minutes after the advertisement was published, dozens of game enthusiasts rushed to the registration points in Berlin, Paris, London, and Rome out of breath.

After just one hour, the line had grown to hundreds of meters!

By the evening of the same day, the long queue had reached several kilometers, and the number of people had already exceeded hundreds of thousands!

The official registration time is still two days away.

Edward stared blankly at the long queue that stretched across several blocks, wondering how to complete the task assigned to him by his superiors.

"Damn, I'm just a few hours late, how can there be so many people! Are all these people crazy? Don't they know that they are going to spend two nights here? ”

He knew that it was useless for him to emphasize any difficulties, and his superiors would only look at the results.

In any case, he must also be one of the 10,000 people who participated in the test, and get a first-hand report on Infinity's virtual reality technology.

If he couldn't see this, he wouldn't get any sympathy, even if he said it.

At the Paris registration point at this moment, hundreds of police officers are maintaining order, they don't care how many people are in the back line, they only care if anyone cuts to the front.

They were notified from above that the people behind them were already out, and the number of people had long exceeded the requirements of Infinity Corporation.

The policemen kept the front line from chaos and went to the back to persuade those people to hurry home, but to little avail, only a few people looked at the long line, recognized the reality, and left the team.

The vast majority of people still stubbornly lined up in the line, saying nothing and refusing to leave.

In order to prevent others from cutting in line, they also hugged the waist of the person in front of them one after another, forming a human chain that was several kilometers long.

The TV station's interview car drove nearby, set up a camera dozens of meters away from the team, and the yellow-brown haired female host held the microphone and launched the live broadcast endlessly.

Edward tried to get closer to the registration point, but was immediately targeted by several French policemen, who were staring at him and planning to throw him out if he took another step.

"Boy, my son is at the front, he finally grabbed the front position, if you dare to disrupt the order and cause him to not be admitted, I will stuff you into the sewer next to you!"

"Immediately, immediately! Stand back! Tell you, I'm nervous right now and have the potential to make tough moves! ”

A policeman spoke viciously at him, and demonstratively touched the baton on his waist.

Edward smiled wryly and took a few steps back, his hands in his pockets.

He touched a few bills in his trouser pocket, and suddenly he had an idea, quickly left the registration point, and took out a large stack of euros from a nearby ATM.

Back at the registration point, he waved the money in his hand through the fence and shouted to the team: "Is there anyone willing to give up the place, I am willing to pay 1,000 euros to buy the top spot!" ”

The police heard his shouts, looked at him, and did not stop.

In the team, several people mockingly shouted at him, "Are you a pig?!" I lost my job for this position! What is a thousand euros? ”

The team let out a loud laugh.

The TV truck quickly turned its cameras on him, and tonight, Edward would be one of the background characters who would set off the excitement of the registration point, appearing in front of the TV audience.

In order to grab the position, they all came after seeing the advertisement, regardless of anything, and in three months, their wages were tens of thousands of euros, and it was really stupid to want to buy them with a mere 1,000 euros!

"Ten thousand euros! I'll pay 10,000 euros! ”

Edward's heart was dripping blood, and he could only shout a price ruthlessly, he didn't know if the CIA would repay him for this money.

If he doesn't get reimbursed, then he loses a lot.

"Thirty thousand euros! I paid 30,000 euros for a place! ”

He was still in heartache, and suddenly there was a well-dressed middle-aged man beside him, waving several stacks of thick bills and shouting loudly at the team.

Looking at his dress, it is obvious that he is a white-collar worker, and his whole body is worth about tens of thousands of euros.

Unexpectedly, such a senior white-collar worker with an annual income of no less than 100,000 euros turned out to be an avid game enthusiast!

One of the young men in the team hesitated for a moment and shouted in this direction: "Fifty thousand euros!" Give me 50,000 euros and I'll give you the spot! ”

"Deal!"

Without hesitation, the senior white-collar worker in a suit and leather shoes immediately took out five stacks of gray-green bills, showed them to the police, and then walked quickly to the line, handed the money to the young man, and happily lined up in the line.

Edward angrily scolded, "Damn it! I finally came up with a solution, but this bastard preempted it! ”

"10,000 euros, I'll pay 10,000 euros!"

He looked at the line pitifully, trying to shake the money in his hand, if he hadn't bought a new car last month, he wouldn't be so embarrassed, and he could only use 10,000 euros to be embarrassed here.

"Fifteen thousand euros!"

"I'll give 20,000, 20,000 euros!"

“.”

Edward's competitors grew, and the success of the senior white-collar worker led others to see another way out, and they joined the role of bidders, using money to buy places from those at the front of the line.

The police moved in to separate the bidders from the queue.

The people at the front of the line agree to sell their positions, that's their freedom, and as long as they don't mess with them, they don't care.

Poor Edward waved the 10,000 euros in his hand, and saw that there were people around him from time to time, and he ran over happily, and was put into the refusal by the police, and exchanged places with people with money, but he was never paid attention to because the bid was too low.

At this time, the mobile phone in his pocket rang, Edward took it out and glanced at the number, pressed the answer button, and said in a hoarse voice that had been shouting for more than an hour: "I am Edward!" ”

"You idiot! Why are you still waving money outside, I see you on TV! The TV host said you came two hours ago, and in order to buy a top position, you went bankrupt, and I was going to cry when I watched it, damn it! ”

On the phone, there was a scolding from the boss who cut his head and covered his face.

"BOSS, I only have 10,000 euros, I knew that this position is so difficult to grab, I pressed the car too, it should be almost able to buy"

Edward took the phone away from his ear and said weakly.

There was silence on the phone for a while, and the superior asked, "What is the current price?" ”

Edward changed his mobile phone to one ear, and said with a wry smile: "Those who are willing to give up their positions have already changed, and now a position has risen to more than 70,000 euros, and those who remain are hardcore game fans." ”

"In another hour, maybe 100,000 euros won't be able to change a place."

"Wang Defa! It's too easy to earn! Let's just do a virtual reality test with the CIA, we only recruit 1,000 people, sell 30,000 euros per position, and then we have funding for this year's event. ”

The superior was on the phone, half-truths and half-truths indignant.

Edward couldn't laugh or cry.

People are so fanatical because they believe in the technical prowess of Infinity, and does the CIA have this appeal?