As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 182 The Future Development Direction of VR

"Junior brother, let me ask you another question first, what do you think of the future development of brain-computer connected VR?"

Lei Jun suddenly mentioned another matter.

Zheng Li said without hesitation: "We must develop in the direction of virtual reality. The brain-computer connection is now a single transmission. After two-way transmission is achieved in the future, it will not be far from virtual reality."

Now it is equivalent to only converting brain nerve signals into electrical signals, but electrical signals cannot be converted into brain nerve signals.

That is to say, the sense of taste and smell in the virtual world cannot be perceived by the player, and the player can only perceive the sense of sight, hearing, and a small part of the sense of touch.

Half of the five senses are missing.

Lei Jun laughed and clapped at the same time: "Hahaha, your business sense is no less sharp than mine."

"That's right, the long-term future development direction of brain-computer connected VR is definitely virtual reality, and only virtual reality."

"In the three main industries of Sci-Tech Biology, innovative drugs need to be planted for a long time to wait for the results, and now they can only rely on endorphins."

"Lithium metal cathode materials, I don't think Kechuangbio intends to expand horizontally in this field, but only focuses on the vertical development of existing technological advantages."

"The above two development directions are very good. When I started my business back then, don't talk too much with you. You have done a good job."

Zheng Li listened quietly. Entrepreneurs who don't like to express themselves are not good entrepreneurs.

Zheng Li defines himself as a mage, who lives in his own world most of the time.

Lei Jun continued: "The only development direction with the broadest future is the brain-computer connection, which is a technology that can expand to the entire industry."

"It can become the basic technology of the future society and be embedded in all aspects of society."

"And the current direction of brain-computer connection of science and technology innovation is exactly the same."

"VR, mobile phones, medical devices, and now the brain-computer connection has mainly entered these three fields."

"I am looking forward to the combination of brain-computer connection and whole-house smart home. It is still difficult to find a balance between function and portability in current technology."

"The evolution of brain-computer connection VR into true virtual reality must not only be a matter of breakthroughs in brain-computer connection technology, but also include breakthroughs in the entire chain of the industrial chain."

"At this time, we can only promote breakthroughs in the entire technology industry chain by cooperating with the country."

"Kechuangbio sells some of its shares this time. Although it is only a small part, in the future we will be able to participate in the support and shareholding of enterprises in the entire industrial chain."

Most state-owned investment institutions in Huaguo have strong compliance requirements and low risk tolerance.

However, there are also investment institutions that are completely close to market-oriented operations, have patience, money, and the ability to identify, and can select high-quality technology companies for investment and support.

For example, Huaguo's large semiconductor fund has done a good job in this regard.

And brain-computer connected VR has now sold over one million in the first week, and it can be preliminarily estimated that this is an industry with an annual output value close to [-] billion, and the ecology that indirectly affects more than [-] billion.

If virtual reality can really be realized, then if most of the upstream and downstream enterprises in this industry are located in Huaguo, Huaguo can gain a lot.

With virtual reality technology, Zheng Li can use biotechnology to realize virtual reality.

But this requires modification of the human body.

At the same time, this virtual reality product is only a personal handmade product, and does not have large-scale industrial production capacity.

If you want to achieve the virtual reality technology imagined by Blue Star, you need a helmet, and you can enter the second world by wearing it.

Want to achieve this effect, Zheng Li's technology can not do it.

This involves technological breakthroughs in many subdivisions, including display, materials, communications, and more.

The current bandwidth is obviously unable to support the bandwidth capacity required for networking in virtual reality.

Zheng Li's eyes lit up after hearing this: "Can I cooperate with the country in my own name to set up a dedicated investment company in the VR field and participate in investment in the entire industry?"

Lei Jun nodded: "Of course."

"As far as the country is concerned, they are eager for your participation. You are the top technical expert, and your understanding in the field of brain-computer connection VR must be the best."

"If you communicate your ideas to the country, they will even let you be the final decision maker of investment intentions."

"But the workload is obviously not a star and a half. You have to weigh whether you can do it."

Lei Jun also wanted to get involved, but he didn't intend to bother Zheng Li.

Originally, Lei Jun thought that he would never have the chance to see the real virtual reality technology landed in his life.

But after getting to know Zheng Li, he changed his opinion. The existence of Zheng Li will greatly promote the progress of related technologies.

Lei Jun planned to go directly to the official to see if he could get involved before the investment company was established.

As for why this kind of investment should be combined with the government level, it is because only the government level can get in touch with the most related companies.

The information in their hands is the most complete and detailed.

You can't realize the investment of the entire industrial chain all by yourself, because you can't see too many projects, and it's not so easy to pan for gold in the sand.

Zheng Li nodded: "Okay, I will ask Miao Miao to talk to the official later."

Due to the great success of brain-computer connection VR, at least for now, it is successful.

In the past three months, the sales volume of brain-computer connected VR has exceeded 500 million.

This sales volume is enough to support the long-term development of a platform if the positioning of the brain-computer connection VR is only a game console device.

Ren Yu was also commended by the goose factory for being the first executive to bring up the matter and promote the cooperation.

He is already the chief operating officer, and then there is Brother Xiao Ma.

Xiao Ma obviously has no plans to retire to the second line so early.

"Pico wanted us to port Last Hero to their platform."

After the release of "The Last of Heroes", it has lived up to the hard work of Goose Factory's massive investment.

It has become a phenomenon-level online game on the VR platform, and its popularity is comparable to that of the early LOL.

Of course, considering that the holdings of VR and PC are not of the same magnitude, the comparison here is only a comparison in proportion.

Back then, nine out of ten machines in Internet cafes were playing LOL. Now the brain-computer is connected to VR for the same reason. Nine out of ten devices are playing "The Last of Heroes".

Ren Yu was noncommittal: "What conditions can Pico offer?"

Although Goose Factory is the second largest shareholder of Kechuang Future, the ownership of the games is in the hands of Goose Factory itself.

It is not developed and issued by the joint venture company.

"Pico expressed its willingness to sell a part of the shares to us."

Prior to this, all the major Internet giants in China have deployed in the hardware field.

Goose Factory acquired Black Shark Technology, a company specializing in gaming phones.Ari became the only investor in the C round of financing of a well-known domestic manufacturer of AR glasses.

But Byte is still the largest, spending 70 billion RMB to acquire pico.It also appears to be their most successful attempt at metaverse concept hardware.

It’s just that I didn’t expect Goose Factory to reach a cooperation with Kechuang Bio to launch an epoch-making VR product.

Willing to sell pico's shares is also a strong man's wrist for Byte.

Zhou Hongwei spent a lot of effort to persuade Zhang.

Ren Yu said with a smile: "Zhou Hongwei is really persistent. He knew it was impossible and still insisted on coming to us."

The fundamental contradiction between Byte and Goose Factory is that everyone's energy is limited, and every app wants to seize user time.

What Byte needs to do is to limit the software of Goose Factory to death, and WeChat will do its own communication service well. Why do so many additional functions?

It’s a circle of friends and a small program.

Byte-based products occupy the user's time, and the product matrix of Goose Factory can get less traffic.

The essential contradiction between the two parties is to seize the user's time and traffic.

As early as Q2022 of 1, in the daily usage time of mobile Internet apps per capita, short videos surpassed instant messaging for the first time.

This was a landmark event, and the gap between the two sides gradually narrowed in the follow-up.

The short videos here are not only byte-based products, but also Bilibili, Kuaishou and so on.

Therefore, if the usage time of the product is counted alone, Goose Factory is still above the byte, but the gap is already very small.

The strategic space of the goose factory has been greatly squeezed.

Before 2016, if someone said that Goose Factory and Ahri would face fundamental challenges.

Everyone will think that the person who said this is crazy.

But in fact, Goose Factory and Ahri have indeed been prying their foundations over the years.

Ali is worse than Goose Factory. Goose Factory only surpasses instant messaging with short videos, not the byte system surpasses Goose Factory.

Ari is particularly fierce in terms of market share being squeezed by Pinduoduo. As a new player, Douyin is also engaged in e-commerce, and JD.com is eyeing it.

Players new and old are all staring at the meat in Ahri's bowl.

The subordinate heard the string and knew it: "Then I just reject them?"

Ren Yu shook his head and said: "Don't rush to reject them, I have an idea, I need to sort it out."

"After I finish the internal meeting and discuss it, I will give Pico feedback."

Brain-computer connection VR is an attempt of Goose Factory. After the experiment achieves results, it will increase investment.

In this case, cooperating with Pico is not in line with Goose Factory's behavior.

Not to mention that Byte is still the enemy of Goose Factory.

The subordinates have a lot of puzzles in their hearts.

At 06:30 in the afternoon, when he was eating in the goose factory cafeteria, Ren Yu called him over:
"Tell Pico that the operation of "The Last of Heroes" is too complicated, and the adaptability to their products is too poor."

"However, "The Last of Heroes", including all VR products of Goose Factory, can be broadcast live on the Pico platform."

"Permissions including personal editing videos are also simultaneously open to Byte-based products."

It is rare for Goose Factory to be so generous. As early as 16, when Byte was not as prosperous as it is now, Goose Factory initiated the first round of lawsuits against Byte for copyright infringement.

In the next five years, Goose Factory and Byte have sued each other about 40 times in the field of copyright.

One of the more well-known cases is that Goose Factory requested that Douyin be prohibited from disseminating the short video "Glory of the King".

Including "Sweeping Black Storm", which was popular all over the Internet at that time, Goose Factory also requested that all related videos on Douyin be removed from the shelves.

Although Pico is not Douyin, as a company under Byte, it is no different from Douyin.

"Mark, I'm curious why you are willing to give Pico permission this time."

Ren Yu said seriously: "It's not for Pico, it's for all VR devices."

"We will not specifically transplant other ordinary VR, but we need to allow all VR players to see the live broadcast of "The Last of Heroes."

"Not only "The Last of Heroes", but also "Assassin's Creed", "Legend of Zelda", etc. These live broadcast content must be seen by all VR players."

"When they often watch the live broadcast of VR players connected to the brain and computer, their next product will most likely be Futureverse."

Equivalent to a nurturing market, Pico users can see brain-computer connected VR players live broadcast "The Last of Heroes".

When he likes to watch the live broadcast of this game, he naturally wants to experience it himself.

After discovering that Pico does not support the game, and his economic conditions are sufficient to support him to buy a brain-computer connected VR, the next VR device is only Futureverse.

"Our move is called Yangmou. It depends on whether Pico needs traffic or living space."

The operation of Goose Factory is beneficial to Pico in the short term, but in the long run, Pico is equivalent to turning its own users into potential users of brain-computer connected VR.

After a little thought, the subordinates understood the power of this move: "What if Pico doesn't want to?"

Ren Yu: "If you don't want to, you don't want to. It's not their turn to do what we want to do."

"Communicate with its major live broadcast platforms, let them develop special ordinary VR version applications, and then encourage its anchors to live broadcast brain-computer connection VR content."

"Pico is not willing, so we will directly promote traffic and let users download the live broadcast software directly. They will not be able to stop users from spontaneous behavior."

After Pico received the reply from Goose Factory, Zhou Hongwei saw the viciousness of Goose Factory at a glance.

They are all thousand-year-old foxes, who doesn't understand who.

He knew exactly what the goose factory was thinking: "Having authorization is better than not having one."

"What we have to do is not to give Goose Factory even a little bit of traffic at the official level."

"Goose Factory's live streaming software can be used on Pico's platform, but we won't promote it for them."

"Goose Factory wants to spread the news at the user level, and the only way is to drain."

Zhou Hongwei's logic is that Goose Factory only needs to develop a live broadcast platform specifically for VR.

If Goose Factory wants to promote it aggressively, it needs to tell users that although they can’t play Brain-Computer VR games such as “The Last of Heroes” with ordinary VR, they can watch the host play.

In this way, it also indirectly plays the role of helping Pico to drain and promote.

Zhou Hongwei also thought very clearly that if he wanted to stop it, he would definitely not be able to stop it. It is technically impossible to stop players from downloading spontaneously.

Then I might as well sign a cooperation agreement, but not promote it to you.

If the agreement is not signed, Pico users will get used to watching VR live broadcasts after Goose Factory promotes it.

At this time, Goose Factory took another drastic step, saying that you violated copyright.

At that time, Pico was the only one who couldn't watch the VR live broadcast, and it was very painful to lose what he once had.

That would be fatal to Pico.

This kind of thing, the goose factory can really do it.

So Zhou Hongwei would rather sign the copyright agreement first.

But the problem is that Goose Factory not only wants to promote their own games, the main purpose of Goose Factory is to create an ecology of VR live broadcasting.

Relying on futureverse alone, the domestic holdings are only a few million units.

But including other VR devices, VR live streaming can have tens of millions of potential customers.

Other VR devices can also broadcast live, but the content of live broadcast is not as rich as that of futureverse.

Create a VR live broadcast ecology first, and then promote the "Doomsday of Heroes" e-sports competition.

Ren Yu has already made a tactical plan for this year in his heart.

(End of this chapter)