Cultivate a black technology god

Chapter 166 Alice and Robert

As the distance from the burning stone house got closer, Xia Zhi found that the surrounding environment became blurred.

He stopped and noticed another phenomenon: his character trajectory stopped recording.

The last record was before he entered this weird dungeon.

This copy of the game was indeed not registered.

Xia Zhi continued to investigate the burning stone house, but found that the characters couldn't get close.

He wanted to call up the source code to see what was going on, and suddenly noticed a blond girl walking out from beside the stone house.

He is not tall, and his grade is about the same as his.

The girl introduces herself:

"My name is Alice."

Xia Zhi responded calmly:

"My name is Xia Zhi, what are you doing here?"

Alice smiled and said:
"Just like you."

Xia Zhi took a few glances at Alice and felt that this guy was a bit weird, so he pointed to the stone house not far away:

"Do you know what's going on with this stone house?"

Alice replied:

"This stone house explodes every once in a while. If you come here often, you will get used to it."

Xia Zhi became even more curious:
"It explodes every once in a while? What's the situation?"

Alice shook her head:
"Perhaps someone is doing some dangerous experiments inside. What's interesting is that after the explosion, the stone house will be repaired quickly and become what it was before."

Xia Zhi saw that his game character could not enter the stone house, so he prepared to open it, and entered the stone house program from the server background to see what the hell was going on in the stone house.

He suddenly realized.

If the game plot is not recorded in the database, the server terminal on my side does not have a root interface at all.

Xia Zhi found it even more interesting, so he waited here to see how Shiwu reacted.

He put his account online and wrote a monitoring program at the same time. If the data showed that the stone house was restored, he would be prompted.

After doing all this, Xia Zhi saw Alice standing beside her all the time, and he couldn't help asking:

"Are you a platform player or an NPC?"

Alice responds:
"you guess."

Xia Zhi rolled his eyes, he had no interest in this Alice, so he went offline.

The character exits the game instance, and Xia Zhi sees a new message in his account.

He opened it and saw that it was a request to add a friend.

Clicking on the request, it turned out to be Alice.

It seems that Alice is a platform player.

No NPC would add gamers as friends, right?

Xia Zhi clicked on the friend's request, and finally the friend list was no longer empty, and Alice's profile picture appeared.

The avatar shows that Alice is still online.

Xia Zhi logged out of the account and waited for news from the stone house.

dong dong dong.

There was a knock on the office door.

Xia Zhi took off the earphones and looked outside:
"come in."

Secretary Xiao Mo reported to Xia Zhi:
"Director Jin Jingxian of the Metaverse Department wants to see you."

Xia Zhi nodded:

"Let her in."

After a while, Jin Jingxian came to Xia Zhi's office and apologized to Xia Zhi straight to the point, pointing out that her poor management had caused illegal use of internal channels on the Yuanverse's internal love and dating platform.

Xia Zhi knew what Jin Jingxian was talking about just now when someone used beauty software to pass the platform certification in violation of regulations.

he asked:
"These are all trivial matters. Just find the relevant person in charge and deal with them. Now there are more serious things than this."

Jin Jingxian was startled, and hurriedly asked:

"What's the matter?"

Xia Zhi said:

"I won't be able to tell for a while. In a few days, I will organize a meeting with the senior management of your Metaverse."

Jin Jingxian nodded:
"Okay, Mr. Xia, I'll get to work first if there's nothing else to do."

Xia Zhi waved his hand, indicating that Jin Jingxian could leave.

After Jin Jingxian left, Xia Zhi called up the system panel in his mind and took on a new task:

[Mission in Progress: VR Technology—Electronic Age]

【Investment time: 0】

[Energy input: 0 points]

[Investment funds: 0 points]

[External assistance: 0 points]

[Total mission points: 0 points]

[Note: The minimum points required to enable system assistance: 100 task points. 】

Just now, through the company's VR equipment connected to the Metaverse platform, Xia Zhi found that although the equipment is more mature than previous years, it is still far from fully immersive game playing.

This extreme experience still needs to be provided by the black technology of the system.

Xia Zhi noticed that the task he accepted this time also brought an electronic age behind it.

It seems that this VR technology, like artificial intelligence, has various versions.

What I am using now is the VR technology of the electronic age.

After accepting this task, Xia Zhi began to gather manpower, preparing to do a big job in the VR industry.

The upgrade of VR technology is inseparable from the commercialization and popularization of 5G.

Because 5G has three major characteristics of high speed, wide connection, and low latency, it can be described as a "match made in heaven" with VR/AR.

As early as the 2019 World VR Industry Conference, Guo Ping, Huawei's rotating chairman, predicted that the arrival of the 5G era will bring the VR industry back to "renaissance".

Previously, Zhixia Technology cooperated with Huawei to build more than 60 5G base stations, and the SA core network covered all cities above the prefecture level in 31 provinces.

"The 5G era has kicked off, and the construction of relevant infrastructure is more conducive to the deployment of the '5G+cloud network' model, which will escort the user experience of VR and AR."

At the same time, the sudden COVID-[-] epidemic has also promoted the development and popularization of AR/VR technology.

During the epidemic, hundreds of millions of netizens performed VR "cloud supervision" on Leishenshan Hospital.

"Application scenarios such as AR temperature measurement are also showing their talents in the fight against the epidemic, becoming a new bright spot in the fight against the epidemic."

In addition to the blessing of 5G and the promotion of the epidemic, VR/AR technology itself is also rapidly iteratively upgrading.

With the rapid development of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, cloud storage, 5G, optical broadband, WIFI6, and edge computing, the functions of terminal devices such as 5G mobile phones and VR all-in-one machines are also increasingly optimized.

此前，高通针为XR（包括AR及VR）设备打造了骁龙XR1以及XR2 5G两大专用平台，其中后者支持七路并行摄像头、8K 360度全景视频、语音UI和3D立体声。

Xia Zhi learned that the largest supplier of VR technology chips is still Qualcomm, so he connected with the person in charge of Qualcomm.

Because in the previous project to build a smart city, Zhixia Technology and Qualcomm cooperated very happily.

Received a call from Zhixia Technology, and heard that Xia Zhi was looking for the person in charge here, and the president of Qualcomm personally made time to talk to Xia Zhi.

After some pleasantries, Xia Zhi asked Qualcomm President An Meng:

"Is the bottleneck of VR technology in the market still a chip problem?"

Anmen responded:

"In the early days, the high resolution did require high computing performance, but now there is a functional algorithm for fragmented decoding, our chips are still sufficient, and now we are helping OEMs to speed up the next generation through the Snapdragon XR2 5G reference design. The development and commercial progress of XR headsets."

Xia Zhi asked An Meng again:

"If Zhixia Technology enters the field to develop VR technology now, where do you think is the best place to start?"

If it was someone else, An Meng might drop a sentence:
"I have a few million dollars an hour, and you want me to analyze the development prospects of VR with you?"

But for his partner Xia Zhi, Anmeng seemed very patient. He called his secretary and signaled that the subsequent meeting would be postponed as his phone call might take a little longer.

"It is no longer appropriate to start from the hardware equipment. Whether it is research and development, testing and marketing, the battle line is very long."

"My suggestion is that Zhixia Technology should do it algorithmically:
Zhixia Technology has always been at the top of the industry in terms of software algorithms. In fact, there are still many algorithmic difficulties in VR technology, such as the fragmentation decoding algorithm I mentioned before. This algorithm can relieve hardware pressure. A good algorithm can greatly optimize the user experience. ;
There is also anti-vertigo. In addition to motion sickness, there are many other problems that can cause users to be dizzy, including but not limited to: screen refresh rate, optical distortion, display delay, positioning accuracy, etc.In the current market, the vertigo problems encountered by users are more caused by these factors.Fortunately, these are "solvable", and Zhixia Technology can do a lot of work in this area. If it is done well in this area, it will definitely be a big killer for promoting VR and seizing the market;
In addition, there are extensions of VR equipment. At present, most of the manufacturers on the market are VR glasses and helmets, and there are basically no manufacturers of somatosensory gloves and force feedback devices. If VR glasses are paired with these devices, the effect will be improved. "

Xia Zhi felt very reasonable after hearing what An Meng said.

He thanked An Meng, and reached a verbal cooperation with An Meng: If Zhixia Technology makes VR equipment in the future, all chips will be purchased from Qualcomm.

Zhixia Technology is now doing VR, with money and resources, and it is going smoothly.

According to An Meng, Xia Zhi intends to establish a complete VR product line.

It includes not only projection equipment such as glasses and helmets commonly used in the market, but also force feedback devices.

He found Sun Shiliang and asked Sun Shiliang to organize a meeting and call all the senior officials of relevant departments to discuss how the VR department should carry out its work.

The meeting is scheduled for seven o'clock in the evening.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Zhi had dinner and was relaxing on the sofa when a reminder came from the computer.

Xia Zhi suddenly sat up from the sofa and came to the desk.

The notification sound just now is the monitoring program he set up in the platform game. If the source code of the stone house changes, it will send him a reminder.

Xia Zhi glanced at the time and saw that there was enough time, so he put on the VR device and entered the metaverse platform.

Entering the game, Xia Zhi couldn't load the last game progress, his character was initialized on the city road, not the copy of the game.

Fortunately, Xia Zhi was careful. When setting up the monitoring program, he recorded the interface through which the program entered.

He connected the interface and directly accessed the copy of the game.

When Xia Zhi appeared in front of the stone house, he found that the stone house had been restored.

Even the surrounding trees affected by the explosion were 'righted'.

It was as if the previous explosion had never happened.

Xia Zhi was about to enter the stone house, but no accident, he did not have permission to enter the stone house.

Xia Zhi then switched his game ID and used the Zhixia Technology CEO certified account to enter the game copy.

If even this identity id does not have the authority to enter the stone house, then he will call the game department and hold a meeting to talk about it.

Ding.

A notification of approval came from the door of the stone house, and the stone house opened the door to Xia Zhi.

Xia Zhi smiled knowingly.

This stone house looks retro, but it is still quite smart.

Enter the stone house, pass through a screen, and inside is a glass-enclosed room.

The room is well-equipped, with a sofa in the living room, a kitchen refrigerator, and a bathroom.

Xia Zhi is a little strange, who is this small room for.

At this time, the sound of a flushing toilet came from the bathroom, and a person came out from inside.

Seeing the other party, Xia Zhi was taken aback.

It turned out to be Robert.

That is, the president of Incite Company.

In cooperation with Zhixia Technology, based on the source code of the western world, this Zhixia Technology Metaverse was developed.

In an unremarkable stone house, the president of Incite Company lived.

Xia Zhi originally thought that the other party was an NPC, but after observation, he found that the behavior of Robert in the glass wall was no different from ordinary people, not like an NPC, but more like Robert himself.

"Strange, what the hell is this Robert doing?"

Xia Zhi also noticed that the outer glass wall allowed him to see the inside of the room, while the inside of the room could not see the outside.

This is one-sided glass.

Xia Zhi couldn't help being curious, stepped forward and rang the doorbell.

The doorbell rang in the room, and Robert turned his head to look at the door with a puzzled expression. In his memory, he should have no visitors today.

He hesitated for a long time, and finally stood up and walked towards the door.

The glass wall was opened, and Xia Zhi stood at the door, looking at Robert and saying hello:

"Mr. Robert, it's me, Zhi Xia."

Robert groaned, smiled, stretched out his hand and said:

"It's Mr. Xia, please come in."

Xia Zhi controls the character to enter the room surrounded by glass walls.

When I saw the room and glanced around, I saw that the surrounding walls were white, and I couldn't see outside.

Robert prepared a glass of wine for him, and the two sat on the sofa, facing each other.

Robert asked Xia Zhi:
"Mr. Xia, why do you have time to visit me?"

Xia Zhi smiled and said:

"I was passing by, but I didn't expect you to live in this small stone house."

Robert froze for a moment, with a confused and stiff expression on his face.

Xia Zhi stared at Robert's trembling face, and noticed something weird.

At the same time, he was also surprised that Robert's character modeling on the opposite side was done too well.

The expression management is simply at the level of an actor.

Robert reacted for a while and then said:
"Sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean."

Xia Zhi changed the way of saying it and asked:

"Mr. Robert, why are you staying here?"

Robert's expression became normal again, and he smiled broadly:
"I'm not in good health. I had a little problem some time ago. My family told me not to work too hard. My health is the most important thing, so I promised them that I will recuperate here during this period. But I will return to the company sooner or later. There are too many things waiting for me to deal with."

Xia Zhi was stunned.

Is this Robert telling the truth or a joke that fits the plot of the game?

It doesn't sound right no matter what.

Seeing that Xia Zhi fell silent, Robert took the initiative to chat with Xia Zhi about the cooperation project between the two companies.

Xia Zhi chatted with Robert and felt that Robert was back to normal.

At this time, the system sounded an external prompt, and it was the secretary reminding Xia Zhi that he was going to a meeting.

Xia Zhi said goodbye to Robert, saying that he had something to do.

Robert waved goodbye to Xia Zhi.

Xia Zhi was about to disconnect the game directly, but found that in this stone house, his platform options were gone.

He thought it was a bug, so he walked out of the stone house, and saw that the menu options next to the character had returned to normal.

Just as he was about to leave, a familiar face appeared in front of Xia Zhi.

"Alice? Why are you here?"

Xia Zhi looked at the person coming.

It was the blond young woman Alice that I met in front of the exploding and burning stone house before.

Alice glanced at the stone house where Xia Zhi came out, and said with a smile:

"I've been here all along."

Xia Zhi was taken aback:
"Huh? You live here too?"

Alice shook her head:

"It doesn't count, I work here."

Considering that Alice is also a player, Xia Zhi understands that the other party is doing tasks here.

He looked at Alice and asked:

"Do you know who is in the stone house?"

(End of this chapter)