Chapter 269: Various industries are undergoing reshuffle and reshaping
A family of three exited the digital world of the Metaverse, returned to reality, and felt the soft padding in the brain-computer terminal equipment cabin again.
Xiao Lin closed his eyes tightly, as if he was still retaining the light and color he saw for the first time in his mind.
After a while, Lin's mother got up from the brain-computer terminal and came to her son's side. A store employee next to her also stepped forward to help Xiao Lin get off the brain-computer terminal.
·Everyone who witnessed this scene could not help but smile kindly and applaud the family.
Father Lin's eyes glanced at his wife and children. He took a deep breath, then turned to look at the store manager next to him and said, "There shouldn't be a purchase limit on this product, right? We want to buy three units, and we'll pay the full price."
Hearing this, the store manager smiled and said: "The company does not have a purchase limit, that's okay."
Lin's father made this decision without any hesitation. In the past seventeen years, they have sought medical advice and tried many methods and auxiliary equipment, but they have never been like what they are today.
What he bought was not just a product, but a window to a complete world for their children who were lost in darkness and radicalness, and a second chance at life.
Now, their family of three are loyal users of Yuanjie Intelligent Control. The family had already purchased a Xiaoyuan robot last year.
The scene of a family of three hugging each other and crying in the digital world of the metaverse was not ignored. The reporter who watched from the perspective of God at the scene recorded the tense moment with his camera.
Xiao Lin’s shocked and confused expression when he “saw” the world for the first time, his parents’ excited tears, and the final embrace that crossed the boundary between reality and virtuality.
This reporter selected a very appealing photo from the material, and then quickly wrote an article to report it, using this angle as an entry point to report on the launch of the brain-computer terminal.
At the end of the article, the reporter wrote this comment:
【This is the meaning of scientific and technological progress. The true meaning of science and technology is not always cold parameters and subversive fantasies.
When computing power and neuroscience come together to form a bridge, a blind and deaf boy can "see" his mother's smile and "hear" his father's call for the first time. Great technology is the needle and thread that can stitch up the flaws in fate, and is the beacon that can illuminate the island of life.
What the brain-computer terminal presents is not only the grand blueprint of the second world, but also the warm core of science and technology for good.
What it measures is the dimension of happiness; what it reaches is the human heart.
·Technology, for the first time, has shown the world its majestic power to transcend business and heal people’s hearts in such a concrete and warm way. 】
After the article was published, it also caused great repercussions and heated discussions in the society.
Xiao Lin’s family is not an exception.
At almost the same time, families of people with disabilities such as deaf-mute, blindness, paralysis, etc. learned about the brain-computer terminal product and chose to buy it without hesitation.
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At the same time, among the consumer group, Fu Ge has already bought it without hesitation, and has bought the 75,999 yuan top version. Although Fu Ge has no productivity needs, it is uncomfortable not to buy the top version.
The brain-computer terminal is also an undoubtedly powerful productivity tool.
One of the first groups to smell business opportunities includes e-commerce practitioners who are very close to consumers.
Shop owner Li Jing is an original fashion designer with millions of fans. She was also one of the first people to dare to try something new. Not only did she purchase a brain-computer terminal, she also decided to move the entire design and core sales team to the Metaverse digital world.
At this moment, Li Jing is standing in her dazzling store, personally welcoming the first batch of customers who have accessed through the brain-computer terminal.
“Welcome to Nishangyunge”! She smiled and said to the young couple who came in.
This couple is obviously novices. The product has just been launched today, and everyone is a novice. They are looking at this virtual store built entirely from data and imagination with novelty.
White jade is used as the pillars, and glazed tiles are used as tiles. The air is filled with a faint cold plum fragrance simulated by the system, and the background music is the ethereal Guqin.
“This is completely different from the online store!” The girl exclaimed, feeling amazed by this new shopping experience.
She reached out to touch a pleated skirt on the display rack. The moment her fingertips were about to touch the hem of the skirt, the skirt seemed to be given life, automatically levitating from the hanger, as if being put on by an invisible model, slowly spinning in front of her.
This kind of scene-based, full-sensory experience is beyond the reach of any picture, text, detail page or video.
"You can try it on and see." Li Jing guided the girl.
The girl selected the pleated skirt, and the next moment after confirming the try-on, the skirt instantly appeared on her body.
A huge "magic mirror" appeared in front of her, which not only reflected every angle of her dress, but also allowed her to switch the trying-on environment with one click.
From the sunny beach to the neon-lit party scene, the performance of the skirt under different lights and shadows can be seen at a glance.
"It's so beautiful! It's like I'm really wearing it!" The girl was spinning in circles, her skirt flying, and she could even "feel" the gentle touch of the fabric across her calves. This was an effect based on basic tactile simulation.
The couple browsed in the store for a while and bought a lot of clothes.
In the digital world, what excites Li Jing the most is the design process. She creates and designs directly in the digital world. Instead of facing cold drawing software, she directly controls the virtual fabric with her thoughts, kneading its softness and hardness, adjusting its drape, and giving it a dynamic light and shadow display.
This can shorten the product cycle from design to shelf display by more than 90%, and can present customers with a nearly "physical" experience.
Major brands and top sellers on e-commerce platforms such as Dabao, Pinxixi, and Jingdong have chosen to enter the Metaverse digital world as soon as possible.
Equipment prices start at 50,000 yuan. Faced with the foreseeable upcoming reshuffle of traffic distribution and consumption experience upgrades, major brands and sellers must pay this amount.
The advent of brain-computer terminals has set off an upgrading competition around online retail "sensory e-commerce", and it has quickly begun in the digital world of the Metaverse.
Without the support of brain-computer terminal devices, it is impossible to enter the digital world for personal business and experience, which means falling behind in the next generation e-commerce ecosystem.
· These brands and sellers have become buyers of Metaverse Intelligent Control. They buy brain-computer terminals to make money, and regard this device as a necessary tool for productivity, not an entertainment product.
Almost at the same time that the e-commerce market was experiencing turmoil, the field of content creation was also experiencing a nuclear explosion-level impact.
The brain-computer terminal has become the ultimate productivity tool for “imagination realization”.
In a messy but artistic studio in a second-tier city in China, an illustrator nicknamed "Miao Jun" is famous in the circle for her imaginative fantasy creature designs, but she has fallen into a creative bottleneck.
She had a magnificent scene in her mind: a giant whale condensed with starlight, swimming in a sea of clouds with crystal mountains floating on it, its scales reflecting the aurora, and countless light dust scattered with every swing of its tail.
But the digital tablet and various 3D software in her hands always seem to be separated by a layer of frosted glass, unable to perfectly interpret the surging imagination in her mind.
Until today, this situation has reached a breakthrough.
She had watched the launch of the brain-computer terminal three times yesterday. Today, when the product was launched, she became the first batch of individual buyers.
Hong Kong's personal space in the digital world.
She set this place to an endless starry sky, and she "stood" in the void. She no longer needed to stare at the screen or hold a pressure-sensitive pen.
She only had to think about the starlight whale.
With the thought, the shape moved, and the stardust in front began to gather and shape.
The outline of the giant whale emerged at an astonishing speed, and the details continued to be improved.
She stretched out her hand and sketched shapes in the void with her bare hands, including the curvature of the giant whale's spine, the stretched posture of its fins, and the majestic yet gentle eyes on its head—
She is not "painting", but "shaping", even like "calling".
Wherever the thought comes, the form is formed.
She can also quickly switch to adjusting the skin texture of the giant whale, imagining "cold", "smooth", and "energy flowing inside". After these brain electrical signals are output and converted into digital signals, the system renders corresponding visual effects and tactile feedback.
You can add luminous properties to the scales, imagining "a star that flickers like breathing", and the light effect will be generated.
You can even "feel" the surging air currents in the sea of clouds around you when the giant whale swims.
In just three hours, a three-dimensional creature that in reality would have taken her weeks of modeling, texturing, and rendering to barely come close to what she had in mind was already swimming and humming in front of her in a lifelike way.
It is no longer a cold model, but a work of art with a "sense of life" that carries all her creative passion and imagination.
"This - this is creation -" Meow Jun looked at his "creation" and was excited.
Brain-computer terminals smooth the gap in skills, allowing the shortest path between imagination and the final product.
Of course, this kind of productivity behavior of content creation still requires a lot of computing resources.
Lu An has achieved maximum optimization at the algorithm level, and the brain's output of EEG signals does not require human resources.
Because the computing power of the brain is weak, but the algorithm of the brain is incredibly strong. People can imagine a clear scene in the brain, and the imagined world can be presented in the brain in seconds.
What really takes up computing resources is the digital rendering that is converted into digital signals. For users who regard brain-computer terminals as productivity tools, they have to purchase this computing resources themselves.
The stronger the computing resources, the greater the efficiency.
This is not what Metaverse Intelligent Control has to do, but the task of other third-party developers and also their business opportunities.
They develop content creation platforms for creators to use, and they also have providers that rent computing power resources to provide computing power services to these creators and earn money from content creators.
Also shocked was an independent film and television production team from Shanghai.
They are preparing a science fiction short film, one of the key scenes is a giant ruins in an alien desert.
In the traditional production process, this requires expensive on-site shooting, complex green screen shooting and a large amount of CGI synthesis in post-production.
Just today, the team is trying to connect the director, art director, photographer, and actors to the digital world of the Metaverse for collaborative creation.
They were "teleported" directly to the alien ruins scene pre-built by the art team in the virtual world.
The digital world is not bound by the laws of real physics, allowing directors to observe and compose the scene through behaviors such as "flying" and "blinking" from any angle, and provide real-time adjustments to the scene's light, shadow, and sand and dust effects.
The photographer can directly hold the virtual camera, find the best camera position in the scene, and feel the weight of the viewfinder and the inertia of movement.
· The actors were placed in that desolate and strange alien landscape, with rough sand and stones under their feet, and the strange skylight brought by the binary star system above their heads. The touch of the strong wind blowing through their bodies was so real. Their performance was no longer a non-physical performance against a green screen and marked points, but an immersive experience full of feedback from the real environment.
Furthermore, for some dangerous shots that may lead to accidents when shot in reality, the digital world no longer has these concerns. You can do any shot without worrying about killing people. If you don’t like it once, you can do it again.
「Action!」
The director gives instructions in the shooting scene built in the digital world.
The actor was running and looking back in the ruins, and the fear on his face was extremely real, because he was "really" running and looking back at the magnificent alien creation.
All materials, including actors' performance data, environmental light and shadow information, and camera movement trajectories, are recorded by the system. The post-production process is greatly simplified, and many lenses can even be used directly.
"The cost has been reduced by more than 90%, and the effect has been improved by more than 600%, my God!"
Hours later, the producer exited the digital world and returned to reality, looking at the preliminary synthesized samples and calculating in disbelief.
This all shows that the brain-computer terminal is simply a "creation artifact" in the hands of content creators, which greatly releases productivity and allows wild imagination to become perceivable and disseminating wonderful content at an unprecedented speed and fidelity.
How could the capital market panic and flee so quickly, destroying the listed film production giants? This is the reason.
A small and medium-sized independent film and television production studio team of thirty to fifty people can produce super science fiction blockbusters by relying on brain-computer terminal equipment.
This was absolutely impossible to do in the past, something that was unthinkable.
Hence, established film studios are bound to face huge competitive pressure.
One or two such small and medium-sized independent film and television studio teams may not be able to compete with major studios.
But the quantity cannot be tolerated. One or two companies are not many, but what about one or two hundred, one or two thousand, one or two hundred thousand or even more~-
As a quantitative change brings a qualitative change, there will always be explosive sales.
Under the traditional production model in the real world, A-level large-scale productions often cost hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.
But in the Metaverse digital world, the comprehensive cost can be reduced to tens of millions, and the currency unit is still RMB. The sudden drop in costs means that A-level large-scale productions are no longer exclusive to major studios.
This is why investors abandon the stocks of production giants. Capital always reacts faster than the public.
Investment is about investment expectations. The future trend is already foreseeable. You must run fast. If you run slower, you will be beaten by others.
In the future, the largest cost expenditure for film and television production will become computing resources.
Hence, companies related to computing power services and industrial chain concept stocks also experienced surges after the press conference.
Because of the general trend in the foreseeable future, whether it is on the enterprise side or on the individual side, people's demand for computing resources will usher in a super blowout and will show exponential explosive growth.
On the first day that brain-computer terminals were released and launched, many industries were already shaken.
Although it was not immediately apparent, the capital market, which reacted the most quickly, has already shown the dramatic fluctuations in stock prices of listed companies in various industries.
Investors are betting real money on what they think will be the future, abandoning industries or scenarios they think will be impacted and declining as a result. This is a precursor to a reshuffle and reshaping of various industries.
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