Chapter 442: Immersive Experience
"B0SS, when are you going to send the money over?"
"Why don't I go back, I just want to take a hot shower and get some sleep right now." Edward struggled to tear open his neckline, his expression pained.
Tens of thousands of people gathered here, the heat was unbearable, and he felt sweating profusely, and he was almost uncomfortable to death.
"Hold it off for me! The news came from Berlin, London, Rome, and it was even crazier there! Our people, not a single spot has been grabbed, you wait, I'm on my way! ”
There was a cacophony of voices on the other side of the phone, accompanied by the sound of running footsteps, and the boss complained, "Damn! Cars are not allowed to drive in here, I have to walk here, and I have brought you 100,000 euros, which is the fund of our Paris office this year, all for you! If that's not enough, I'll have to sell the house! ”
Luckily, the head of the Paris intelligence station didn't have to sell the house, and 100,000 euros allowed Edward to buy a fairly high position.
Moreover, the other party saw him shouting hoarsely for two hours, and was very sympathetic to his obsessive enthusiasm as a "game maniac", and charged him 10,000 euros less.
However, buying a position does not mean that the ordeal is over, and for Edward, this is just the beginning.
The people in front of him and behind him are all game enthusiasts.
He thought that with his experience of playing games since the eighties and nineties, he should have a common language with them.
But the facts tell him that his game level is no different from Xiaobai compared to these avid game lovers!
Hearing them discussing the plots, strategies, and operations of various games with great interest, Edward could only listen like a fool, and could not interject half a sentence.
Listening to what they discuss is like listening to a book from heaven.
It's not like Edward hasn't played all the games they're talking about, but after listening to what these players have to say, he understands what it means to be a true game lover.
The plot background and special easter eggs of the game, they all know it well, and they are like a stream.
even showed sincere joys, sorrows, and different emotions for the ending of the plot.
Watching them burst into tears over the death of a plot character, holding each other hostage and crying bitterly, Edward thought he was in the middle of a group of childish Boy Scouts.
Hearing them talk about what it takes to trigger the hidden level, Edward knew that with his level of game control, he would never want to beat the hidden mission for the rest of his life.
Fans of the game talked about the stance and tactical play with such relish, but Edward listened to it but was drowsy, and his eyes were straight.
Hell, am I going to be with these gamers for three whole months?
My God!
Despite this, Edward was a very dedicated informant, and it only took him a short time to mingle with these game enthusiasts.
After all, they are in this profession, of course, they have studied psychology.
Game enthusiasts love to brag about their achievements in front of others, and they are more than happy to give him detailed guidance on his shameless questioning.
However, when night came, he slipped into the sleeping bag sent by his boss and lay on the side of the streets of Paris, feeling the gust of autumn wind, and his good mood disappeared, leaving only shivering desolation.
After two days of queuing, Edward's originally handsome cheeks were already full of scruffy beards, his hair was unkempt, and his suit of several thousand euros had become wrinkled, like a homeless man on the side of the road.
But to his consolation, his image is no worse than what others seem.
The kilometer-long queue of two days ago is now gone, and after counting the queues from the Paris office of the Eurasian Computer Union, they have persuaded others to dissuade the queues, finally relieving some of the pressure on the police.
Berlin, Paris, Rome, London, 2,500 testers in each city, exactly 10,000.
The test site was provided by various enterprises of the Eurasian Computer Union.
For the next three months, they could only stay inside, under the guidance of technicians, experience virtual reality games, and try to find out the bugs in them, improve the game equipment and game program defects.
The conditions are not too good, not too bad, six people in a room, each person has their own bed, no longer have to drill sleeping bags.
In the shower room shared in the queue, Edward took a comfortable hot shower, shaved his beard, and changed into a clean shirt.
It's just that the food is too monotonous, all of which are junk foods such as burgers, hot dogs, and coffee that the company bought from the nearest fast food restaurant, and it's okay to fill the stomach, but the nutrition can't be talked about at all.
Those game otaku can not care, but Edward can only fantasize about the steaming veal steak every meal, which is difficult to swallow.
For those who are anxious and in a hurry, they are calling for a trial of the game right away, and for them, they are here to experience a high-fidelity game, not a vacation.
Seeing their enthusiasm, of course, the computer company will not be polite.
The players who signed up for the test only after half a day of freshening up and tidying up, the staff of Infinity began to give them a large cardboard box one by one by room, asking them not to open it for the time being, and then to try it out according to the instructions.
These game fans don't have that much patience, and as soon as the staff leaves the house, they open the cardboard boxes in front of them.
There were quite a few things in the box, including a pair of instruments that looked like diving goggles, a silver metal box, a tight-looking tights, and a few connecting wires.
"Ha~ This thing that looks like a diving goggle should be a virtual display device!"
A game fan named Isar, who looked experienced, whistled and picked up the pair of virtual video glasses, fiddling with them up and down.
Edward also picked up his video glasses unceremoniously, and quickly found a flat data jack: "It seems to be an interface to connect to the image input, but why doesn't there seem to be a power jack?" ”
"Of course, you see the use of famous books."
A game fan named Leo looked at the manual found in the box very sophisticatedly, and said: "This is an OLED flexible screen, which only needs two No. 7 batteries to drive, you can find if there is a data cable, just insert one end into the data slot, and connect a set of rotating headsets to the glasses." ”
When the others heard this, they quickly found the special data cable in the box and quickly connected it.
"The other end is connected to the crossover data processor um. It's the silver metal box, which needs to be powered by power."
A group of people quickly connected all the relevant equipment, and there was a multi-function power plug-in board against the wall.
Leo doesn't need to explain it below, except for Edward, everyone here has many years of experience in the game, and they immediately found a new cable.
This is a monitor cable with a standard VGA jack on the other end.
"This is a multi-monitor crossover!"
A player who works in a computer company looked at the monitor cable in his hand, was stunned for a moment, and then exclaimed, "Could it be that the two screens of the video glasses are used to receive different display signals?" ”
"Multi-monitor. It seems that the image signal received by both eyes is not the same! ”
Isar let out a look of surprise and looked up at the others.
Two eyes on the left and right, two independent monitors.
"Stereoscopic image!"
Everyone thought of something and cried out in unison.
They were instantly excited, and it was so cool!
They originally thought that this video glasses, at best, simulated a full-field image of a large-size screen, which was enough, after all, this was a product to be used for commercialization, and businessmen needed enough profits and could not expect too much from the quality of the product.
This is also the easiest way to implement virtual reality as they envisioned.
But now it seems that Infinity has clearly adopted 3D display technology!
They made full use of the distance between the human eyes and the slightly different viewing angles they received, so that after the two images were fused in the brain, the distance judgment of consciousness was generated!
"It's just amazing! I'm going to try it out right now! God, I can't wait a quarter of an hour! “
Sure enough, Isar found two display signal sockets on the crossover, and with trembling hands, he quickly connected the plugs, and then looked around for the source of the video signal.
"What is this tights for?"
Edward picked up the tights and stroked the material of the garment, revealing that there seemed to be something else lining the tights.
"Don't care about that tights! I'm looking for a computer now, a computer! Otherwise, how to control it? Isar frantically turned his head around the room, looking for the computer.
Edward pinched the tights suspiciously, confirming that there were indeed other things in the tights, as well as a few flat lines pinched like data lines, extending from the shoulders to the back collar and then from the back.
At the edge of the corner, he found a data jack.
He searched the box and found a flat data cable with a jack at the corner of his clothes.
"Edward! You're still fiddling with that tights, we're about to start playing! ”
One of the game enthusiasts laughed when he saw Edward looking for a switch in his tights and boasted to him.
Edward put down the tights in his hand, saw all the people crowded in front of the TV at the door of the room, stunned for a moment, pointed to the TV in disbelief and said, "Wouldn't it?" This is our computer? ”
Isar squatted on the ground, took off the video glasses on his head, and sneered all over his face: "Who said this is a computer? It's just a signal interface, and there's a wireless keyboard. ”
"I kind of understood, the computer is not in the room where we live at all, we are just connected to the server through the internal network, and the server is not turned on yet, so there is no signal."
As soon as Edward plugged his video signal connector into the optical transceiver under the TV, the TV suddenly turned on automatically, and the screen slowly lit up.
A crowd of game fans quickly gathered in front of the TV and sat down on the floor.
Edward took a few steps back and sat down on the bed near the door.
Soon a scientist in a lab coat appeared on the screen, with his back to the camera, looking at the data on his computer.
As you can see, the computer screen is covered with dense numbers, most of which have turned green, and only a few of them, still red.
The scientist turned around, and as expected, it was an Asian, needless to say, it must have been a scientist from Infinity.