In the corridor of the Penguin Company building, a project manager wearing a suit and leather shoes walked quickly. He was holding a document in his hand. Judging from his expression, he must have encountered something good.
Standing in front of Ma Huateng's office, Du Ze took a deep breath, straightened his tie, then raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Please come in."
Hearing the sound coming from the office, he immediately opened the door and walked in eagerly.
"The boss's acquisition has been negotiated. The people at Huhai Lexiang Technology have already received news. With the support of our injection of funds, the virtual reality equipment they are currently developing has been updated to be directly connected to the laptop data line.
It has the ability to connect and solve the original compatibility issues. It just passed the test yesterday and can already perfectly run Microsoft's systems and games that have logged into the virtual reality platform such as EVE Valkyrie."
The former is quite well-known in the country. Since the launch of the virtual reality promotional trailer in September 2015, it has also attracted much attention in the country. Although the latter is not well-known in the country, it is because EVE chose the wrong agent.
Business reasons.
"Discuss the agency rights with Iceland CCP Company and be sure to win it." Ma Huateng said solemnly.
Without a good game, it is very inconvenient to promote the virtual reality business. It is impossible for people to spend money to buy a VR device just because QQ can log in to the VR device.
"But EVE's partner, Century Tiancheng, is also talking about Valkyrie. They have already represented EVE. We don't have an advantage when it comes to competing for the sequel to Valkyrie!" Du Ze said with a look of embarrassment.
Ma Huateng smiled mysteriously: "We have money and a better user base."
In the past, it was because I didn’t pay much attention to the niche game EVE, but now that I think about it, since it is a virtual reality, what could be more fascinating than freely flying in the star space?
Confirming the boss's determined attitude, Du Ze breathed a sigh of relief and continued.
"Then Microsoft's..."
Is that a stand-alone game?" Ma Huateng frowned slightly.
"The content of the game is mainly single-player. But it can also carry out community cooperation." Du Ze replied.
"In other words, there is no need to use a large server as the server, and the private bridged LAN can also be connected?" Ma Huateng said with a smile.
"That's the theory." The project manager nodded.
"Don't worry about it, we only do online games. The spirit of the Internet is sharing. Those gamers will naturally crack it." Ma Huateng waved his hand.
The project manager was stunned and suddenly realized.
“The boss is wise!”
Do you need to say this? Ma Huateng glanced at him sideways,
However, flattery still sounds very comfortable. Ma Huateng leaned on the boss's chair with a little pride. This sudden rise of Ming technology is indeed a bit difficult to deal with. But fortunately, the foundation of the Penguin Empire is here, and it wants to enter the virtual world.
Reality realm is a breeze.
The reason why we have been standing still is because the mobile market has not yet been saturated. How dare you, a mere emerging company, to compete with the three BAT giants for market share? It is simply a dream.
It's just that this war has been provoked after all, and what he pays more attention to is the actions of the other two giants.
"You should also pay attention to the trends of Alibaba and Baidu. I feel they may be involved in this area of business."
The door suddenly opened, interrupting the conversation between Ma Huateng and Manager Du.
The man at the door was panting and holding on to the door frame, holding a crumpled document in his hand.
Ma Huateng frowned slightly and said to the employees
He was very dissatisfied with the rude behavior of coming in without knocking. Du Ze, who was next to him, glanced at the man with schadenfreude, and soon returned to his serious expression.
After taking a few breaths, the man finally stood up straight, and without bothering to apologize, he walked to Lao Ma's desk in two steps and placed the document on the desk tremblingly.
"Old boss, Daming Technology, has made a new move. This is the contract I copied from the Internet cafe that we have a cooperative relationship with. Phew!" The man finally breathed.
Ma Huateng glanced at him and turned his attention to the documents on the table.
"Virtual Reality Experience Agreement?"
Ma Huateng flipped through the documents and frowned slightly.
For some reason, Daming Technology's actions made him feel a little uneasy.
"Xiao Du."
"Hey." Du Ze immediately stood up straight and waited for orders.
"You are in charge of the company's virtual reality. After get off work, why don't you drop by this experience store for me to try it out." Ma Huateng said casually.
"Yes! Boss."
"Okay then, you two go and do your work first."
Du Ze immediately walked out of the door. The man who ran in hastily hesitated for a moment and wanted to say something. But when he saw the unhappy look on the boss's face and realized that he was being reckless, he immediately closed his mouth and followed.
Du Ze left the office together.
In the center of Shanghai City, Xingyue Internet Cafe is crowded with people. There are many empty machines, but the counter is still crowded with people.
When these people enter an Internet cafe, the first thing they say when lying at the front desk is usually
"Network administrator, help me set up a Phantom helmet machine."
"I'm sorry, sir, the only four phantom helmets in the store are already being used by others," the waiter said in a dumbfounded voice.
She has repeated the same rhetoric at least fifty times.
"What? It's full?" The man's eyes widened: "Hey, no, why do you only have four here?"
This rhetoric obviously did not satisfy the man. If it weren't for the fact that the waitress was a beauty, he would have cursed her.
As a loyal fan of Daming Technology, he has been paying attention to the official website of God Level Continent, looking forward to the promotional short films updated every other month. In addition, those anchor players who were selected to participate in the internal beta,
He also paid attention to it.
Although these anchors often remain silent about the content of the game, when talking about whether the game is fun or not, even a certain anchor with facial paralysis showed a smile like an Internet-addicted teenager.
This game has been warmed up for almost half a year since it was launched on the official website. Now that he can finally play it, how can he not be impatient? As soon as he saw the experience store news pushed by Daming Technology 1.0, he immediately put down what he was doing and locked it on the map.
I rushed over to the nearest cooperative Internet cafe.
But now, the person who visited Xingyue Internet Cafe actually told others that he was full?
Are you kidding me? This is the largest Internet cafe in the area. There are only 4 "Phantoms" among thousands of machines?
"How long do you have to wait?" the man said impatiently.
Seeing the man's unkind expression, the new waitress almost burst into tears.
"Gotta... get in line."
"Of course I know about the queue. I'm just asking how long it will take?" the man asked aggressively.
Unable to stand it any longer, the waiter who had finished what he was doing immediately pulled the newcomer behind him, then went into battle himself and said politely.
"Sir, do you need to log in normally or experience the virtual reality service? If you want to experience the virtual reality service, please register and queue on our computer. There are 51 players in front of you in the queue. Please wait until 102 hours
Come and experience it when you are waiting. We will remind you via text message five hours in advance. In addition, if you have time at night, you can also choose to join the night queue. There are currently 23 players."
As soon as he heard that the queue would last for five days, the man immediately became furious and slapped the counter table and shouted.
"Fuck, there are so many crappy Internet cafes, and you have to queue up to get online, so I'm done with it."
Although he said this, the man did not leave. Instead, he stared at the waiter, waiting for him to show a compromising expression.
However, the waiter was obviously a veteran and looked at him with a smile, showing no signs of demeanor.
Seeing that this man had been stuck in the queue, the people behind him were beginning to become dissatisfied.
"Can those in front please hurry up and get out of here if you don't want to play anymore? You're wasting a lot of time."
"That's it, don't whine like a fucking sissy."
Hearing the voice coming from behind, the man blushed for a while. He wanted to leave, but looking at the long queue behind him, he was afraid that if he left, he would not have the chance to experience it.
"Who, who said I don't want to play, just wait and see how much it costs!"
"Isn't that what you said?" There was a burst of booing from behind, but the man obviously planned to ignore it.
Say whatever you like, I'm quite thick-skinned.
"6 yuan an hour." The waiter smiled and pointed to the sign at the door.
The price was not expensive, and the man felt a little more comfortable. It only cost 12 yuan an hour to try out an Apple computer, so Daming Technology was quite conscientious.
The same scene also happened in big cities such as Jinling City, Shenzhen City, and Shangjing, and gradually moved inland. In a few days, "Phantom" helmets will also appear in international cities such as New York, London, and Paris.
When the first player reluctantly put down his virtual helmet and excitedly picked up his mobile phone to share his shock with netizens, it had already announced the beginning of the first intimate contact between human civilization and the virtual world.
According to the consumption products and tax rates of each country, the pricing of virtual reality experiences is different. The domestic Internet cafe price is 6 yuan an hour, while in the United States it is almost 2 US dollars, and in Europe it is basically 2 euros.
All player accounts are linked to iris information and can be bound to Daming Technology 1.0 accounts.
In order to enable everyone to play the game, Daming Technology also has clear restrictions on everyone’s experience time. That is, each person’s single game time can only last up to 2 hours, and they can only log in once within 72 hours. According to
The idle rate of helmet use, this time limit will be gradually relaxed.
But that last one is obviously redundant.
Just now, it was the first to launch a virtual reality experience server and the Internet has exploded. Many forums, bbs, and scarfs have been flooded with the keyword "phantom". Players who were lucky enough to experience it first expressed their opinions in words.
The shock in my heart.
"It's an immersive virtual helmet! The previous rumors turned out to be true! In my lifetime!"
"It's incredible, I can't imagine, my body doesn't move at all... It's hard to describe the feeling, it's like traveling to another world!"
"Don't call it Daming Technology Group. It's more appropriate to call it Black Technology Group. If you support the name change, give it a thumbs up!"
"Direct mail from abroad, only played for two days, sold at half price, buy quickly, contact information is here..."
"..."
Words alone are no longer enough to describe the excitement of the players.