The time soon came to September 10th, which was the day when Blacklight Technology’s first electronic product for the general public, the V.1 virtual reality series, was released.
In the early morning of this day, the physical stores of major retailers around the world were already crowded with people. Thousands of people lined up, waiting for the stores to open, because in these business halls, there will be V.1 series physical machines for sale. This kind of retail The best choice for those who don't want to wait for online mail order.
Of course, after seeing the long queue, most people would rather choose the more comfortable online shopping service. Although the arrival of the goods is a little slow, at least they don't have to wait in a long queue for several hours.
There are at least tens of millions of people waiting in front of computers. Originally, there would not be so few potential users, but the price of the V.1 virtual reality series has stopped most people from buying it. The price in Zhongzhou District is the cheapest. The V.1 touch set also costs 4,500 yuan.
But this set is only an auxiliary after all. Without the V.1 visual impact helmet or visual impact chair, it can be said to be useless. The price of a set of helmets is at least 13,000 yuan, and the visual impact chair costs 60,000 yuan. above.
The most important thing is that these products are not as urgently needed as mobile phones and cars, so not many people are willing to buy them immediately, and most people are still waiting to see.
However, even if most people are still waiting and watching, as the world's first devices with brainwave control technology, the number of orders for the visual impact helmets in the first batch has still reached 3.3 million units, while the V.1 touch suit also has 2 million units, while the visually impactful chairs are 800,000 units.
As for the most expensive HP3D simulator, it also received 5,000 orders.
Calculating that the cost is half of the price, Chen Chen earned nearly 10 billion US dollars in the first wave.
And when the first batch of V.1 series enters thousands of households, just like the popularity of computers and mobile phones in the past, it will become a general trend of the era. This trend is irresistible.
Nowadays, this piece of market cake in the field of VR can be said to have been completely controlled by Blacklight Technology. After more than ten years of competition among the VR heroes, Blacklight Technology has quickly unified the market in a crushing manner, and has conquered the market more than ten years in advance. VR equipment has ushered in a new era—the era of brain wave manipulation.
In North America and Europe, in order to suddenly arrest Chen Chen in December, it can be said that there were no restrictions on Blacklight Technology's products at this time. Both quality inspection and tariffs were given the green light, and they even started to pretend to be fake. dispatched a negotiation team to contact the Blacklight Technology team to discuss the purchase of brainwave control technology.
As for Blacklight Technology, it is natural that they are being conciliatory and do not know what the other party is thinking.
Therefore, in this seemingly harmonious atmosphere, the sales of the first batch of products were completely successful, and the buyers who got the goods began to happily try this unprecedented black technology product.
Zhongzhou District, Shangdu City.
Two young men who had just been promoted to freshman walked out of a VR store sweating profusely. At the same time, each of them was holding two cardboard boxes in their hands. One of the two cardboard boxes was flat, and the two were walking quickly holding the cardboard boxes. Walking towards the parking lot, a look of joy appeared on his face at the same time.
"It's a good route, Zhang Wei. You can get the supply of only 300 units in the city offline."
One of the handsome young men said happily, "I thought there was no chance today."
"hehe."
Another tall and thin young man’s nostrils went up to the sky when he heard this. A flash of ridicule flashed in his eyes, “Yang Jian, you don’t know, the owner of this store was my father when he was living on the street with no money to eat. Saved."
As he spoke, a flash of reminiscence flashed in the tall and thin young man's eyes, "More than ten years ago, my father gave him two cakes. He ate one, tore the other one in half, and gave half to my father. He said that when he gets rich in the future, as long as my father’s descendants come to him with this half piece of cake, he will do something for my father’s descendants.”
"So when this store said it was out of stock, you just took out half a piece of cake?"
The handsome young man asked in surprise, "Isn't this a waste of favor?"
"No, that half piece of cake has gone rancid long ago, and I fed it to the dog."
The tall and thin young man sneered, "The reason why he sold it to me was because he was still underdeveloped, so my father invested several million in him and let him open this electronic store."
“…”
As they spoke, the two came to the parking lot, put both cartons in the trunk, and then drove back to the campus.
Half an hour later, the vehicle returned to Shangdu Jiaotong University. The two of them happily ran to the door of dormitory 404 with the carton in their hands. The tall and thin young man originally wanted to use his body to open the door of the dormitory, but there was only a bang. With a sound, the dormitory door didn't move at all!
"oops!"
The tall and thin young man was thrown to the ground by the force of the shock, but even so, he still held the two cartons firmly in his hands.
"My day, what are you doing? Where are the people inside? Open the door for me quickly!"
The tall, thin young man suddenly cursed.
"signal!"
A loud voice came from inside the door of dormitory 404.
"What a code, open the door quickly!"
The handsome young man also came over and frowned.
"No, you have to say the secret code. If you don't say it, you won't be allowed in!"
There was no mercy at the door, "Start from you!"
In desperation, the handsome young man looked around, and when he saw that no one was paying attention, he lowered his voice and said, "I am Dachang City, No. 7 Middle School..."
"No energy, start over!"
"can not hear!"
Two people suddenly shouted from inside the door, and their voices penetrated through the door.
The handsome young man could only raise his voice, "Dachang City, student of No. 7 Middle School, Tianzun Yang Jian!"
"Very energetic, next one!"
The shouting continued from inside the door.
"Dachang City, student of No. 7 Middle School, your grandfather Zhang Wei!"
The tall, thin young man on the side yelled, "Hurry up and open the door!"
"You still want to drive a warship after being so quiet?!"
“If the big brother in our dormitory says he can’t hear it, he just can’t hear it!”
The shouting continued from inside the door.
"That's almost it."
The handsome young man urged again, pushed hard, and finally pushed the dormitory door open, and the two people in the dormitory hurriedly hid in the toilet and locked the toilet door.
"Where's the mop? I'm going to hold up the toilet door and suffocate them both."
The expert young man cursed.
"Then you look for it slowly, I'll turn on the phone first."
The handsome young man ignored this and started unpacking the box, taking out a helmet and a black jumpsuit.
"My day, did you really buy it back?"
A gap opened in the toilet door, and the two people inside saw the handsome young man starting to unpack the cartons. They immediately said in surprise, "Two wealthy brothers, please accept our little brother's respect!"
"Go, go, go, you didn't let us in just now, now you're the big brother?"
The tall and thin young man made a driving gesture.
"Viagra, don't be like this, we were joking just now... You must borrow it from us to play with, we also want to try the visual impact helmet... "
"Viagra, can I come to your house to celebrate the New Year? Viagra, can you order some takeout for me?"
The two roommates kept joking around cheekily.
Ignoring these treasures, the handsome young man took the helmet out of the box and saw that the helmet was dark gray in color and full of streamlined structure. Although it was a full plastic shell, it was made of oil control. It's very good, and there won't be a fingerprint on many plastic items when you touch it.
The interior of the helmet is also in line with human anatomy, especially the internal sponge pads are removable, and there are air outlets in the four directions of the front, rear, left and right of the helmet to circulate the air inside the helmet and prevent it from being worn in the summer. The helmet affects the wearer's senses and is very user-friendly.
The handsome young man then found the manual and read it silently. After understanding everything, he connected the power cord to the computer and pressed the power-on button on the helmet.
According to what the manual says, if you don't connect the power supply to the phone for the first time, it won't work.
Sure enough, after connecting to the power supply, the helmet turned on completely.
At the same time, the computer begins to automatically install the driver for the Vision Impact Helmet. After the installation is completed and all computer permissions are given, the helmet will be in officially enabled mode.
The handsome young man excitedly opened his eyes and leaned against the bedside, then put on the helmet. Suddenly, his eyesight went dark at first, and then quickly brightened up. His entire sight was completely occupied by the three-dimensional image projected by the VR of the helmet.
From the perspective of the handsome young man, he only saw the logo of Blacklight Technology flashing past, and then a huge and empty room appeared in front of him.
This room is about fifty square meters. You can see the end of the room at a glance, and in the center of the room floor, a small red ball is quietly stopping there.
This feeling is very strange, as if he is standing in this room at this time, and the angle of the picture he sees is almost the same as the line of sight of his eyes, reaching 180 degrees, and if he turns his eyes, even You can also see the side of the room, which is very natural.
"Dear user, I am Little
A crisp prompt sounded from his ears, and the handsome young man knew that this little X was equivalent to Microsoft's Cortana, the voice of a new operating system.
But now it was the teaching part. The handsome young man honestly tried to move the little ball with his imagination. Suddenly, the red ball moved slightly and rolled dozens of centimeters towards his position.
"Um?"
Although he knew it was controlled by his thoughts, when the ball in front of him actually moved with his thoughts, the handsome young man still felt an indescribable wonder.
You know, he doesn't have any hardware like a mouse at this time. He just relies on a thought. Can such a ethereal thing really control this helmet
An indescribable sense of excitement and freshness came over him. The handsome young man continued to control according to the other party's prompts. After finally setting everything up, his helmet was completely connected to the computer.
The handsome young man knows that the positioning of this helmet is actually a third-party computer input device like a watch keyboard. However, compared with the first two devices, the function of the visual impact helmet is to directly use brain waves to control the computer. , and freed up his hands.
In this way, both typing and control will be much faster, even playing various games. All operations only require one thought.
None of this mattered. The handsome young man quickly became familiar with everything. After learning to use the visual impact helmet, even surfing the Internet became much easier than before.
Of course, the real purpose of most people buying this type of equipment is not only for the novelty of pictures, but also for the VR games promised by Blacklight Technology. After all, experiencing games is like experiencing another game. Life, and online game novels also make people full of daydreams about devices such as consciousness helmets.
It can be said that one-third of the reason why VR helmets sell so well is because of the brainwave control gimmick, and two-thirds of it is because of online game novels.
So, impatiently, after getting familiar with the operation, the handsome young man relied on his imagination to open the store application software that comes with the helmet system in the lower right corner. Just like Apple's app store, the V.1 Visual Impact series also has its own independent application platform. After opening the platform, he just scanned and found the menu of the game software.
With a thought, the game menu was suddenly opened, and a row of games automatically came into view, such as "Tiansha Stone Sculpture", "Great Swordsman", "Rogue King", etc., from simple first-person shooting FPS to real-time There are all kinds of strategic RTS games. Although the number is small, only a dozen or so, these games make the handsome young man's heart move.
Because he has never heard of any of these games...
Just click on a game and see the following introduction:
["Tiansha Stone Sculpture", a first-person design game, game level, 3A level, game introduction: Late one night in the future 2045, suddenly, all human beings lost consciousness at the same moment, as if they were controlled by some unknown existence He has become ordinary and transformed into a living dead, and Phoenix is the only survivor in the world. All he has to do is break through the endless terror and investigate the truth about the extinction of human civilization... ]
After briefly recalling it, the handsome young man suddenly had a thought in his mind. He took off his helmet and asked the tall and thin young man who was also wearing a helmet on the bed next door, "Impotent, you have played more games than me. Have you ever heard of a game called "Impotence"? Is it a stand-alone game of "Tiansha Stone Sculpture"?"
Within two seconds, the tall and thin young man replied, "No, but have you forgotten? Blacklight Technology promised to design more than a dozen AAA-level masterpieces for us, otherwise we would buy this? Now it seems that these games are what they promised It’s a 3A masterpiece.”
"I see. In that case, I'll add them all to the download list."
The handsome young man nodded and immediately put on his helmet again.
This similar scene has appeared in every corner of the world. As the first batch of V.1 devices enter thousands of households, the influence of Blacklight Technology in the electronics industry has officially begun to emerge.