Chapter 1176 VR Technology Is Underdeveloped in North America, We Must Introduce It

It's clearly not just consumers who are crazy.

Far away in Silicon Valley on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, watching this "carnival" that took place on the other side of the ocean, I was so hungry that I was about to cry.

I don’t know how many American consumers flew to Huaguo to attend the press conference. In the past two days, almost three out of every ten messages on Facebook and Twitter were discussing this HV-1.

There is almost no doubt that if this thing is introduced to the United States, it will inevitably set off a new round of Internet industry revolution. More than 90% of Internet users will be willing to pay for this technology that is not particularly expensive!

Inside the building at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg's heart pounding as he reads a report from his secretary.

On the one hand, it was because of stimulation, and on the other hand, it was naturally jealous.

At the end of last year, they had just completed the division of the virtual reality equipment development business of its VR company Oculus, and the entire virtual reality business fell into their hands a little later.

As for jealousy, of course, there is no need to say much. Seeing the sensation caused by this immersive virtual reality technology in the Huaguo market, and the envious eyes of North American consumers, it is impossible to say that you are not jealous.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

After closing the report in his hand, Zuckerberg nodded to his secretary, motioned her to go outside to pour him a cup of coffee, then cleared his throat and said.

"Please come in."

The door opened, and a middle-aged man with thinning hair and gold-rimmed glasses walked in.

"I don't quite understand what you mean," the man walked straight in front of Zuckerberg, put his hands on the table, and said in a slightly excited tone, "The HV-1 helmet has already achieved success across the sea, Proves that there is a huge market for immersive virtual reality devices, yet you cut our R&D department! I don’t understand what you’re thinking?!”

Standing in front of Zuckerberg and complaining is none other than Dr. Sanjadi, chief technology officer of Oculus. As early as nearly ten years ago, he led the R&D team of Oculus to lay out the future for Facebook.

However, what happened these days almost pissed off his heart disease.

The entire R&D department was cut off, and Oculus was left with an empty shell, except that the entire company structure remained intact, holding a few poor patents, and occasionally selling a few "old-age" VR glasses There is nothing left to satisfy users' hunger.

"Don't get excited yet."

Facing Sanjadi's questioning, Zuckerberg smiled slightly, handed the doctor a glass of water, watched him breathe calmly after taking a sip, and then continued slowly.

"If I give you a year, how likely are you to defeat Xingkong Technology, bypass their patent barriers, and use the neuro-connected VR device you originally developed to occupy the North American market before them?"

Hearing this sharp question from Zuckerberg, Sanjadi's momentum froze slightly.

Although he wanted to bluff, but facing the eyes of the boss, he finally didn't bring up the courage. He was silent for a long time, and barely squeezed out a word from his mouth.

"... Difficult."

Even if he doesn't want to admit it, it's the truth.

If the gap is not big, there is still the possibility of catching up. However, the current situation is that no company in Silicon Valley has mastered the core technology of the phantom system launched by Xingkong Technology, and has not even touched the door.

In fact, there is no way to grasp it at all.

In addition to hardware, they don't even need to register patents in terms of software, and all calculations are done on the cloud. If you want to copy a similar system, you can only hack into other people's servers.

Enterprises that want to make virtual reality hardware now have only two choices, either to give up this idea completely, or to be honest, to join the standards they set, to produce VR helmets that are fully compatible with the phantom system, and to be honest Put a "star tax" on every VR headset.

"But... are we just watching those Chinese people snatch the entire market away from our noses?"

The secretary who happened to go out to make coffee came back.

Hearing the question from his subordinates, Zuckerberg just smiled, took the coffee from his secretary, took a sip before speaking.

"It's impossible to steal the entire market, and they won't be able to enter at all. Sooner or later, they will have to enter the US market, and we can seize this opportunity to take a share from them. Although I understand your anxiety, we Too far behind in VR technology, it is not wise to go head-to-head with them now... After all, Facebook is our core business, isn't it, Mr. Sanjadi."

Sanjadi's throat moved, trying to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

The reason why he and other partners sold the equity of Oculus to Zuckerberg was because he believed that this visionary technology leader would lead them to the future.

Unexpectedly, their opponent had just bared his fangs, and this respected president turned around and slashed at his own people, abandoning the technical route they had been studying for many years.

Although he also knows that this is understandable, and he has not produced convincing results and has his own problems in it, but this ending still makes him feel heartbroken like bleeding.

Not paying attention to the heartbroken expression on Sanjadi's face, Zuckerberg continued to pick up the report on the table, glanced at it, and suddenly said.

"I heard that the phantom system has a great dependence on the speed of the network?"

"...It seems that there is such a saying. After all, the phantom system is mainly implemented based on cloud computing technology." Sang Jiadi hesitated, "As far as Huawei's HV-1 helmet is concerned, the general solution they use is mainly based on their own Huawei The communication baseband produced by Weihaisi realizes the connection with the virtual reality network. In terms of compatibility, it is mainly optimized for their own routers, communication base stations and other hardware devices.”

Zuckerberg touched his chin, and his eyes suddenly shone with a different light.

"If we can help their equipment get into North America."

"It's impossible!" Sanjadi looked at Zuckerberg with a strange expression on his face. "Communications hardware has always been the most sensitive piece. The Ministry of Commerce will not agree to it. If you take a step back and agree, the White House and Congress will also agree to it." Do everything you can to keep them out."

"I know it's difficult, but...it's not hopeless, isn't it? This is an opportunity to keep up with the pace of the world. Are you willing to watch our network fall behind an era?" The index finger tapped on the table , Zuckerberg said to himself, "we can't do it alone, so we need allies."

At this time, he suddenly thought of a phone call.

That phone belonged to a young billionaire.

Of course, unlike other rich men, in addition to being simply rich, he is also the new head of the Boston consortium,

While low-key enough, Zuckerberg is well aware of that man's energy. Whether in the financial world or the political world, that guy can be regarded as a big man with a head and face, and the huge network resources he has mastered are incomparable to ordinary rich people who are simply rich...

Although he and that person only handed over business cards at a reception, judging from the person's interest in new technologies, they seemed to have a chance to cooperate.

And this is a good opportunity.

Thinking of this, Zuckerberg's heart suddenly became hot.

"In short, just leave this matter to me, and you just do your own thing well."

"In the future, Oculus' business will focus on the production of virtual reality access equipment, and we will directly adopt the technical standards of Xingkong Technology..."

"As for how to cooperate specifically, I will discuss with them personally."

...

One million helmets were sold out within one day, and the single-day turnover of 12 billion even shocked Wall Street in North America.

However, if someone thinks that the turnover of 12 billion is amazing enough, it can only be said that he knows nothing about the business of Huawei Group.

In fact, the HV-1 helmet is only a part of Warwick's layout around virtual reality technology. Although it has shown enough to make money, it is not even the main source of profit.

What they really make money is the carbon-based communication baseband used in HV-1, and the neural modem compatible with the phantom system, these key hardware.

Now the only place in the world that can produce these hardware is Jiangcheng Semiconductor Industrial Park. Even the rice helmet that has not yet been put on sale, many things that cannot be produced in it are purchased from their factory.

In the future, these industries will bring them more than 100 billion market shares. Even if they have to pay Xingkong Technology a small amount of patent fees, the profits are enough for them to make a lot of money...

When the whole world was crazy about the launch of the Phantom System, Lu Zhou, the "father of virtual reality technology", was quite calm and low-key.

Although I can receive a lot of reminders or private messages from Aite on the scarf every day, this Professor Lu who is always willing to share his joy with fans, this time it seems that he didn't see anything and didn't respond to a message .

In fact, it's not that he deliberately avoided the news, it's just that he didn't see it.

He's been in the lab these days, tinkering with a little gadget...

Although this thing may not be as amazing as virtual reality technology.

But when it comes to its technological content and impact on the global information industry, it is probably not worse than virtual reality technology at all, even worse...