Restart the Gaming Era

At the dinner table, the three talked while eating.

"Mr. Zhong, what has the Microlight Studio been doing recently? Why doesn't it seem to have been moving for a while?" Tang Ying asked.

"Oh, a new game is being developed recently." Zhong Ming added, "fps games."

Tang Ying was very interested: "Oh? Is it the kind of" Resident Evil "or" The Way of the Gun Gods "? Is it a stand-alone game?"

Zhong Ming shook her head: "No, this time is an online game similar to" The Road to the Gun Gods ", and the gameplay is not the same."

"Ready to send the PC? Gameomni?" Tang Ying asked.

"There must be on the PC side, but gamemoni is not going to be released, and we are also doing hardware ourselves." Zhong Ming said.

"Do your own hardware?"

Tang Ying feels a little surprised. Will Micro Studio also start making hardware?

The threshold of hardware is not low!

Huaxia's technology manufacturers do not have much hardware. A company as large as Moya Technology has almost become a cool handheld. If it is not for the "Zodiac Guardian" of the Micro-Light Studio, can the mgc2 handheld be strong? It's hard to say.

In Tang Ying's impression, Weiguang Studio is currently only a research and development group focusing on high-quality games. I did not expect to have started to develop its own hardware.

"What kind of hardware are you going to make? Handheld, or what?" Tang Ying asked.

"An emulator device similar to gameomni, I have an engineering machine at home, just delivered yesterday, but currently only a simple demo of the game installed, just barely play, you can check it out if you are interested." Zhong Ming said .

The engineering machine is also a sample machine that is still under development. It must have many problems, but at least it can be played.

Tang Ying nodded: "Okay, let's go to Teacher Zhong's house to see the new equipment after dinner! Will it bother you?"

"Oh, no."

Tian Yuan gave Tang Ying a white look: "Sister, your internet addiction really needs to be cured. When you come all the way to Ming'an, the first thing is not to go out and go shopping, but to play games first?"

Tang Ying grinned: "Do you have the face to say me? After playing mobile games for four or five hundred, you should be taken to the Institute of Technology and Defense Specialization Electrotherapy."

Tian Yuan: "..."

These two internet addicted girls are almost the same, no matter who they are. Otherwise, they will not all be engaged in game-related industries.

After three people had lunch, Tian Yuan drove to the neighborhood where Zhong Ming lived.

"The environment is okay." Three people were walking in the community. Tang Ying looked at the surrounding environment and felt pretty good.

Although it is winter and the trees in the community have fallen leaves at the end of January, the layout of the entire community is quite high-end. If it is summer, all the leaves of these trees will grow, it should be gloomy. very nice.

"The earliest choice here was to serve as the office location of Weiguang Studio, so I chose a better neighborhood, and I feel better at work every day," Zhong Ming explained.

"Office location?" Tian Yuan was a little surprised.

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes, Weiguang Studio was the first to work here. The small studios are like this. At the beginning, they had no money, and there were three or four employees. It is not cost-effective to rent out office space. Rent a room. But after Weiguang Studio moved to Huanyu Grand View, everything here was packed away, and I was too lazy to move, so I have been renting here. "

"It sounded miserable at the time," Tian Yuan mumbled.

Zhong Ming smiled: "It's not miserable. In fact, working in this kind of place is quite good. It's almost like working from home. You can usually cook and eat by yourself, which is much more convenient than outside."

At the door of the house, Zhong Ming opened the electronic lock with his fingerprint and pushed in.

"Come in."

Tang Ying followed Zhong Ming into the room, looked around, and was quite neat.

In the living room, sofas, TVs, coffee tables, and other furniture are readily available. There is also a driving simulator, two game consoles, a high-end computer, and some hand-held devices. There is a simulator similar to gameomni in the corner. The equipment should be the shooting simulator that Zhong Ming is developing.

Tang Ying's first reaction was: "Mr. Zhong, don't you have a smart module in your house?"

"Yes. Chanel."

Zhong Ming shouted, and a voice answered, "I am here."

"Reception mode," Zhong Ming said.

Chanel quickly responded, "Yes, the reception mode is on."

I only heard Chanel talking, but I couldn't see the holographic projection. Tang Ying deliberately looked for it and found that it did not. It should be that Zhong Ming did not turn on the holographic projection function.

"Why don't you show Chanel's holographic image?" Tang Ying asked.

"Usually I don't need it at home."

Similar intelligent modules are very popular among many young people. Many people stay at home all day long and need this kind of artificial intelligence from time to time to chat and play games with themselves, or even if they do n’t chat, just look at a virtual The image there also greatly reduces one's loneliness.

But for Zhong Ming, he is not very cold with this kind of intelligent module, so he did not turn on the holographic projection at all.

Tang Ying hung the thin down jacket on the hanger, and the two sat down on the sofa.

"What to drink?" Zhong Ming asked.

Tang Ying: "Coffee."

Tian Yuan: "Ice Cola."

The so-called "reception mode" does not mean that there is really an artificial intelligence robot coming to receive guests, but the appliances in the room automatically change to the mode of receiving guests.

For example, the beverage machine next to the coffee table automatically starts working to warm or cool the drinks inside.

Soon, two cups were raised under the automatic beverage machine, and automatically came under the categories of "coffee" and "cola", and took a cup of coffee and a cola.

Tang Ying and Tian Yuan sat on the sofa and got them as soon as they reached out.

Most of the appliances in the room are also voice-activated, and you can complete the corresponding operation with a single chat with Chanel. For example, if you want to watch a certain program, say "I want to watch a certain program" directly, the TV will turn on and automatically skip turn.

"Mr. Zhong, do you live here alone?" Tang Ying asked.

The layout of the living room is very simple. Except for a lot of game equipment, everything else is basically necessities, such as sweeping robots, beverage machines, etc. The door of the master bedroom is hidden, and the door of the second bedroom is completely shut down.

From any angle, it is not obvious that there is a second male or female residence in this place.

"Second occupant, but he was in high school, he will only come back on weekends, and usually live in school. Called Wei Yong, I was rescued from the Academy of Science and Technology Defense. His parents were temporarily deprived of custody, so Live with me. "Zhong Ming said.

"Ah? Anything else?"

Tang Ying and Tian Yuan were very surprised, because they did not stop Zhong Ming mentioning these things, and asked about the details of the matter, Zhong Ming explained briefly.

"You don't have to be too restrictive. You can play whatever you want. My game equipment is quite complete." Zhong Ming pointed to the pile of equipment.

Tang Ying stood up from the sofa: "I'll play with your new device first. This thing feels a bit like gameomni, what's your name?"

"Gs1, gamespace, game space. It's a bit like gameomni, because the mainstream shooting simulator is basically like this, but there are a lot of small changes, you can feel it."

Tang Ying entered gamespace, and soon discovered that this game is very different from the previous gameomni.

There are two most prominent differences. One is that the bottom of the foot is no longer a disc for pedaling only, but has become a configuration of a universal treadmill plus "skating shoes".

This pair of "skating shoes" can be worn directly. The straps on them can be fastened, and they will not slip when put on. The sole has two rotating beads similar to a balance car, which can slide to any angle.

"How do I play this? Do I have to go skating myself?" Tang Ying looked at it and felt that it should be helpful, but there was no power cord on it.

Zhong Ming explained: "No, this is the same as a balanced car. You can tilt your body. It is wirelessly powered. The bottom of the universal treadmill is a huge wireless charger that can directly charge these shoes. No power ... "

Tang Ying put on these special pair of balance shoes, and buckled the support around her waist. After buckling, the waist support emits a flowing blue light, which makes a circle around the whole waist support, and then the support that the belt is connected to the base is automatically activated, with a gentle boost of Tang Ying's body.

The 360-degree surround screen began to slowly descend and an image appeared.

"Wait a minute, Teacher Zhong, what is this on my chest? And ... I always feel my feet are slipping?"

Tang Ying took a look. She had an arc-shaped baffle on her chest, and two guns hung on it. The guns were used directly in her hands, but the baffle was obviously not a decoration, and there were three concaves on it. Slots should also look like they have special uses.

"Specific gameplay After entering the game, there is a simple tutorial. As for the slipping of the feet ... is your illusion. This thing is the same as a balance car and will sense the degree of tilt of your body. If you are upright, the two wheels are It won't move. "Zhong Ming said across the display.

Tian Yuan watched eagerly from the outside, because the big screen was 360-degree full-circle, so she couldn't see what was going on inside Tang Ying.

Tian Yuan: "Is there a camera or something in it? I want to watch."

Zhong Ming said, "Can the camera inside be opened?"

Tang Ying: "Oh, yes."

Zhong Ming said: "There are a few buttons on the stand, you just look at the button marked with a camera pattern on it, just click it."

Tang Ying clicked the button and the system prompts that the camera capture function is turned on.

According to the previous settings, these images are automatically projected onto the large TV in the living room. The main screen is the game screen that Tang Ying is currently seeing, and the sub screen is the image captured by a movable camera behind Tang Ying obliquely, and the back of Tang Ying is captured to form a standard over-shoulder perspective.

Tian Yuan was pleasantly surprised: "Well, this camera can pull out portraits and mix reality with game pictures?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes, this is also a small feature different from gameomni."

"Is it amazing? Unfortunately, I can't see the picture on TV. What does it look like?" Tang Ying asked inside.

Tian Yuan described it: "It is to buckle out your whole person, keep only one back, and at the same time combine the game image with you, instead of directly shooting the screen of the device. Oops, in simple terms, with some VR games You can combine portraits with vr game screens through the green screen. "

Tang Ying: "Ah, it feels quite fun, I will check it out later."

This is also a different function from gameomni. After the camera mode is turned on, a camera will pop up behind the player's oblique rear. This camera will also rotate with the player and always remain at the oblique rear of the player. It is always an over-shoulder perspective.

The image captured by this camera will be cut out by the player through a special algorithm, all other screen images, equipment and other elements in the screen will be erased, and then this cut out image will be directly output with the game. Video and audio signals together.

In this way, when watching on TV, it is as if the player has messed up into the game from an off-shoulder perspective. Whether the player shoots, slides, or performs some tactical actions, he can perfectly integrate with the picture in the game.

Tian Yuan lamented: "This is really a good thing. The only pity is that the characters in the game are all wearing mech exoskeleton, but now I see a real person, a little play."

"There is also a solution to this. We have also customized a special tight suit, which has the same effect as the green screen, but will collect the player's actions in real time. If you wear this clothes to play the game, the system will automatically generate according to the player's actions Character action, so you will see a game character in the live broadcast screen. "Zhong Ming said.

"Do you have it now?" Tian Yuan asked cheerfully.

Zhong Ming shook his head: "No, this kind of clothes was commissioned from another manufacturer and no samples have been obtained. And the price of this kind of clothes is not cheap. After all, it also comes with a relatively basic motion capture system. It is estimated that it will be sold. The price may be 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, which is a custom made by the anchor, and there is no need for ordinary people to buy this thing. "

The motion capture system shown is actually just capturing in a few key parts. It does not need to accurately capture the subtle expressions of each finger and face, so this system is not expensive. The price of the clothes itself will not be high.

But even so, this thing has to be bought for 10,000 or 20,000. Generally players will definitely not buy it, just to provide better live broadcast effect for the anchors.

If you don't buy this suit, the camera can only capture the original appearance of the player, and the effect will definitely be worse. An ordinary person scrambles around the world of "Xuanjia Project" with a firearm simulator.

But ... if it's a host like Tang Ying, the audience may prefer to watch real people instead of game characters.

Tang Ying has entered the game.

The name of the game is "Xuanjia Project", but this game is currently only in the development stage, the game content is extremely incomplete, and even the main map battlefield in the game has not been completed.

The current playable content of the game only includes a short section of novice guidance and a training ground. And the firearms module in the training ground is not complete, only a part.

Fortunately, there are still ai enemies that can be called in this game. Although these enemies are all mentally retarded, they are better than shooting.

This version is obviously developed for testing the gs1 device ~ www.readwn.com ~ so many functions are not perfect.

Tang Ying began to be prompted on the screen to perform related operations, such as leaning forward, tilting and sliding, firing, throwing objects, picking things, marking, and so on.

For Tang Ying, learning to move took five minutes.

Gameomni's movement is very simple, just stepping on a specific area, but the movement of gs1 is the same effect as a balance car, and requires the body to lean forward. Doing it with peace of mind will never fall, so it's a lot bolder.

Moreover, the two feet are not kept straight and straight, but they are moved separately.

For example, the operation of "sliding" requires the player to keep the left foot as the axis during the forward movement, while the right foot is extended forward, and the body is turned slightly to the side. At this time, the character in the game will move forward. Skid shovel can quickly pass through terrain such as ramps.

I was a bit uncomfortable when I first started, but as long as I am familiar with it, I will feel quite a bit.

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