Chapter 179 If there is demand in the market, there will inevitably be supply
The first to enter and occupy the pit will be able to seize the opportunity. It is impossible for major Internet manufacturers not to understand this truth.
Gain market share and gain first-mover advantage. One step ahead will lead to a step-by-step lead.
Referring to the historical context of technological development in the past, every time a leap-forward technological node appears, it will be accompanied by the birth of an emerging giant.
In the PC era, the rise of the three BAT giants was born. In the era of mobile Internet, the rise of WeChat and short video track.
At the same time, there will also be the sad demise of old giants, such as Yahoo in the PC era, and Baidu, which is increasingly declining in the mobile Internet era. These are all cases of failing to keep up with the times and being gradually abandoned by the times.
With the advent of brain-computer terminal equipment and the arrival of the metaverse digital world era, there will also be the rise of new giants, and at the same time, the old giants will inevitably fall, just like the metabolism of living things.
Obviously, no one of the major Internet companies wants to be the one that falls, so they will inevitably rush to connect to the digital world of the Metaverse under the brain-computer terminal.
At the meeting, Yang Yicheng looked at Lu An and said: "What is the autonomy rate of key components of brain-computer terminal equipment? For example, do graphics cards need to use the most advanced products and processes?"
Lu An immediately corrected him and said: "No, no, the brain-computer terminal equipment we are going to make is very different from the so-called cutting-edge concepts today. Scene interaction in the digital world of the metaverse does not require graphics rendering or graphics cards at all."
Users do not need a display screen to immerse themselves in the digital world.
What the human consciousness sees, hears, knows, and feels in the digital world are all just the exchange and transformation of digital signals and brain electrical signals.
The essence of a brain-computer terminal lies in the conversion of EEG signals and the storage of digital information. The technical difficulty is to build a metaverse digital world constructed of 0s and 1s, and to enable people to communicate and interact in this digital world.
The human brain has the ability to self-complement images. This ability stems from the brain's integration and compensation mechanism for visual perception information.
When you blink or your vision is briefly interrupted, your brain ensures visual continuity by integrating the previous and next images.
For example, when blinking, the brain activates areas such as the prefrontal cortex to seamlessly connect visual information before and after interruptions to form a coherent picture.
In addition, there is a connection between memory and imagination. The brain generates simulated images in the brain through sensory experiences in the memory bank, such as vision, hearing and other perceptions. For example, when recalling past experiences, relevant neurons will be activated and produce images similar to sensory experiences.
This ability enables humans to quickly construct virtual scenes. For example, when describing the appearance of another person, an image of that person will be automatically generated in the brain.
The brain-computer terminal equipment developed by Luan analyzes this compensation mechanism of the human brain. Through the input and output of EEG signals, the user's brain can sense visual and auditory information.
This is also one of the core exclusive technologies of brain-computer terminal equipment.
When the user uses a brain-computer terminal device, the picture he sees is virtual and does not exist at all. So of course there is no need to display it on the real screen, and of course there is no need for graphics rendering. Without these requirements, there is definitely no need to install hardware such as a graphics card.
In short, the brain-computer terminal device developed by Lu An is not another more advanced computer.
Lu An’s game is even bigger than this. He wants to enable cross-platform interconnection between the digital world of the Metaverse in the brain-computer terminal and the current Internet.
For example, user A is using a personal computer, and user C is using a brain-computer terminal. These are two completely different usage scenarios.
Two people can still interact and communicate across platforms using their own devices. For example, user A sends a QQ message to user C, and user C who is using a brain-computer terminal to swim in the digital world of the Metaverse can receive it.
Vice versa, user A can also receive messages from user C from the digital world of the Metaverse.
In essence, it is the input and output of information, the decoding and transformation of digital signals and EEG signals.
However, the premise is that the QQ software needs to be adapted to the application in the digital world of the brain-computer terminal metaverse, including other applications.
In other words, the images in the digital world of the Metaverse can also be transferred to the computer.
The bridge between the two is digital information.
For example, a scene in the digital world of the Metaverse needs to be transcoded into digital information first, and then converted into EEG signals before it can be received by the user of the brain-computer terminal.
The digital information is sent to the computer and output as a specific scene, and finally displayed on the computer screen, so that it can be seen by the user using the computer.
If it is a scene rendering that is too high-definition, it will be more demanding on the computer side. At this time, there will be high requirements on the computer's GPU graphics card.
This is a computer problem and has nothing to do with the brain-computer terminal.
The digital information has been sent to you, but your computer configuration is not good enough to render it. Of course, it is a problem with your computer.
While the computer terminal is reversely input to the Metaverse digital world, the brain-computer terminal does not require GPU configuration.
Because what is sent is not the actual picture that people see physically, but binary code digital information composed of countless 0s and 1s.
· When the computer terminal device receives this digital information, it will not convert it into an image. Instead, it will analyze the digital signal into an EEG signal and feed it back to the brain. Combined with the brain's compensation mechanism, the user can "see" the exact same picture.
In the same way, the same principles apply to perceptions including auditory information, tactile information, taste information, etc.
The lack of graphics rendering can greatly save computing resources, and Luan will optimize it at the algorithm level to further save computing resources.
At this moment, Lu An, who was sitting at the head of the meeting, looked at Yu Changle and said: "The first generation of brain-computer terminal products are on the market. The core of the initial application scenarios is games. If you can play games, they will become popular quickly."
Yu Changle nodded and responded: "Understood, I will personally contact some game manufacturers when the time comes."
Lu An added: "It is also possible to acquire some game developers, but if you want high-quality game IP and high-quality manufacturers, money is not an issue, just invest."
The most indispensable thing for Yuanjie Intelligent Control nowadays is money.
Yu Changle nodded again: "I understand."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Xuan, who was attending the meeting, looked at Lu An and said: "If it is mainly aimed at the consumer group of gamers in the early stage, the price of the brain-computer terminal cannot be too expensive, but this product should not be cheap, right?"
Because the omnidirectional motion platform requires various peripheral aids to achieve the desired effect, the brain-computer terminal device is used by people to lie down in the cabin. It mainly analyzes the interaction between brain electrical signals and digital signals, and the self-compensation mechanism of the human brain helps a lot.
Lu An thought for a while and said: "The unit price should be around 30,000 yuan, and the brain-computer terminal should be sold for 50,000 yuan."
This number was much lower than what the people present expected. Everyone thought that this thing would cost hundreds of thousands.
Jingxuan said solemnly: "It's much cheaper than expected, but having said that, as a personal terminal consumer product, the price of 50,000 yuan is still very expensive."
Another participant responded: "Indeed, there are not many players even with a personal computer worth 10,000 yuan, let alone 50,000 yuan. The sales ceiling for this price may be in the millions. The user scale cannot be increased, and the creation of the digital world ecosystem of the Metaverse will be restricted."
Hearing this, Lu An said with a smile: "Don't worry about not being able to scale up the user base. Aren't personal computers too expensive in the era around the millennium? Ordinary families simply couldn't afford them, but it didn't hinder the explosive growth of netizen users in our country and the booming development of the PC Internet."
"Most netizens at that time couldn't afford personal computers, but they could go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet."
"Similarly, the first generation of brain-computer terminal equipment will be released this year. Although most ordinary consumers cannot afford it at a price of 50,000 yuan, there will definitely be many bosses purchasing brain-computer terminal equipment to open stores and operate."
Everyone suddenly understood. Jing Xuan immediately nodded and said: "That's right, I ignored this scene."
Lu An looked around the crowd and said, "Just treat this as turning back the time. By the turn of the millennium, brain-computer terminal equipment was the personal computer of the time, and the place where the brain-computer terminal was operated was the Internet cafe at that time. It is correct to understand the digital world of the Metaverse as the virtual Internet. "
After the brain-computer terminal equipment was put on the market, many Internet cafe owners now, including those who no longer work in this industry but have worked in the past, will definitely plunge into this track again.
The unit price of the equipment is RMB 50,000, which is unaffordable for many ordinary people.
But everyone wants to play, and the market demand is there, which contains huge business opportunities. It will inevitably lead to the prosperity of the Internet cafe industry because most people cannot afford personal computers at the turn of the millennium.
If there is demand in the market, there will inevitably be supply.
Moreover, by the time we reach the point of 2017, Internet cafes have already begun to decline.
In recent years, the popularity of games such as League of Legends, Overwatch, and Battle Royale has given the Internet cafe industry a lifeline, but the decline of this industry is an irreversible trend.
The advent of brain-computer terminal equipment has provided these Internet cafe owners with a good opportunity for transformation.
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